EXECUTION of Hisao Tani - BESTIAL Japanese GENERAL Reponsisble for the Nanjing Massacre

Hisao Tani was born on 22 December 1882 to a farming family in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. In 1903 at the age of 20, Tani graduated from the 15th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy placing 16th in his class. On 8 February 1904 the Russo-Japanese War began which was fought over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The war ended on 5 September 1905 with the complete victory of the Japanese military, which surprised international observers and transformed the balance of power in both East Asia and Europe, resulting in Japan's emergence as a great power and a decline in the Russian Empire's prestige and influence in Europe. Russia's incurrence of substantial casualties and losses for a cause that resulted in humiliating defeat contributed to a growing domestic unrest which culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution, and severely damaged the prestige of the Russian autocracy. Tani saw combat during that war as a second lieutenant in the Guard's First Infantry Ba