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In December 1937, during the Japanese invasion of China, two officers of the Imperial Japanese Army — Lieutenant Toshiaki Mukai and Lieutenant Tsuyoshi Noda — turned mass killing into a grotesque game.
They competed to see who could behead 100 people first using their swords, a so-called “friendly contest” that Japanese newspapers proudly covered like a sporting event.
Their victims were not soldiers but defenseless Chinese prisoners and civilians captured during the advance toward Nanjing.
By the time the city fell, both officers claimed to have surpassed their goal. Their names became forever linked to one of the most infamous atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre, where over 300 000 men, women, and children were slaughtered.

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You can watch the full documentary about Mukai and Noda on World History TV, in the film 'Race to Kill 100: Mukai & Noda’s Deadly Japanese Contest’ 👉LINK in BIO 👈

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00:00When on the 13th of December, 1937, the Japanese army entered the city, the reporters who caught up with Mukai
00:07and Noda didn't report on the massacres committed by the Japanese, but they did note that both men, Mukai and
00:13Noda, had already passed their goal.
00:15According to a 13th of December, 1937 article by the journalists, Tsuyoshi Noda had killed 105 people, while Toshiyaki Mukai
00:23had killed 106.
00:26However, because the two did not know who was the first to reach the 100 milestone, with the permission of
00:31their superior officer, they decided to continue their contest to see who would first reach 150 kills.
00:38The headline of the newspaper was, Incredible Record in the Contest of Ahead 100 People, Mukai 106 and Noda 105.
00:55The headline of the newspaper was, However, it was an accident in the last two weeks, and they didn't source
00:55up no ground.
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