Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda
Second Lieutenant Toyshiaki Mukai and Second Lieutenant Tsuyoshia Noda were two Japanese officers during World War II. They took part in a contest to see which of them could kill 100 people with a sword during the Nanjing massacre. After the war, they were extradited and executed by the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal.
Rape of Nanking edit
According to the Japanese newspaper the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, two soldiers named Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, both officers, took part in a competition shortly before the Rape of Nanking. Allegedly, the competition was to see which of them could kill 100 Chinese people first. According to Noda in a speech he made after returning to his home town "We'd face an enemy trench that we'd captured, and when we called out, 'Ni, Lai-Lai!' (You, come here!), the Chinese soldiers were so stupid, they'd rush toward us all at once. Then we'd line them up and cut them down, from one end of the line to the other. I was praised for having killed a hundred people, but actually, almost all of them were killed in this way." Reportedly, the final score was 106 - 105, with Mukai winning the contest.