General Matsui Iwane (jap. Matsui Iwane; * 27 July 1878 Aichi prefecture; "† 23 December 1948) was a kommandierende officer of the Japanese troops, which were responsible to 1937 for the massacre of Nanjing.

Matsui Iwane attained the rank of a general of the Japanese army in the year 1933. It separated however 1935 from the active service. In the summer 1937 it was however re-activated after the outbreak of the second Japanese-Chinese war and appointed on 15 August 1937 of emperor Hirohito personally the kommandierenden general of Japanese expedition armed forces in Schanghai. It received probably from Hirohito personally the order to take the Chinese capital at that time Nanjing. When it left the imperial palace after the ceremony, it expressed itself as follows opposite the Japanese prime minister at that time Konoe Fumimaro: "There is no other solution to break except power Chiang dock sheks by conquest Nanjings. That is what I have to do."

Matsui planned to accomplish its attack on the city in November and let already its troops from Schanghai in the direction of the city advance. It was replaced however for unknown reasons by Hirohitos cousin prince Asaka Yasuhito and received instead of its command over the entire Japanese armed forces on the Chinese theater. On 10 December the federations led now by Asaka began the attack on the city, which on 13 December after the surrender of the remaining Kuomintang troops successfully ran. After the military success of the Japanese armed forces the war crime began itself to play immediately, which admits later than the massacre of Nanking become should. Cruelties were interrupted only on 17 December, when Matsui Iwane drew triumphalisch into the city. Although Matsui was not present, when cruelties committed of the Japanese soldiers began, it is very probable, which it had known nevertheless of it. By member of the Japanese foreign intelligence service the message of the massacre arrived at the Japanese yard and the Japanese public. The Japanese government saw itself finally 1938 forced to relieve prince Asaka and general Matsui from its posts to.

To its dismissal from the army Matsui returned to its place of residence Atami and let with others a statue of the Japanese goddess of the grace Kannon establish there, whose face showed exactly toward the city Nanjing. For its military achievements it was distinguished on 29 April 1940.

he was accused of 1948 during the Tokioter of processes of the war crimes committed in Nanjing, found for guilty and finally executed on 23 December 1948 in the Sugamo prison.

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