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...Government needed a heavyhanded, blue-blooded officer to rope in some of its maverick commanders in China. It chose Prince Higashi-Kuni. He dressed down his notorious relative, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, who stood by at the rape of Nanking and subsequently at the "Death March" from Bataan. In 1941, Higashi-Kuni was put in charge of the important home defense command. In that post he is said to have threatened the execution of U.S. airmen after the famed Doolittle raid on Tokyo...
This was Nanking in December 1937. If a military tribunal were to seek out the responsibility for this tragedy, it would find guilty the man who was directly responsible for the discipline of the first Japanese troops to enter the city: their commander, Lieut. General Prince Yashuhiko Asaka. Without recourse to tribunal, the Japanese High Command withdrew him from Nanking...
Last week it was reported that Prince Asaka had arrived in Manila, to "administer" the conquered portions of the Philippines...
...highest Japanese officer in China's former capital Nanking, His Highness Lieut. General Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, this week expressed to Third Secretary John M. Allison of the U. S. Embassy his apologies...
Died. Princess Nobuko Asaka, 42, aunt of Japan's Emperor Hirohito. eighth daughter of the late Emperor Meiji, wife of Prince Yasuhiko; of nephritis; in Tokyo...