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Collier's Year Book * Post-War Japan

Tokyo War Crime Trials

• Collier's Year Book, 1946 •

“The main Japanese war trials started with the indictment on April 29 of twenty-eight political and military leaders on fifty-five counts charging crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and ‘conventional’ war crimes… The twenty-eight accused war criminals were formally arraigned before an eleven-nation tribunal presided over by Chief Justice Sir William Webb of Great Britain on May 3 and 4.

Pictured above is General Hideko Tojo on trial. Click here to of his capture.

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Chief Justice Sir William Webb presided of 11-nation tribunal prosecuting 28 Japanese war criminals 1946Japanese Baron Sado Araki former War Minister and Japanese Education Minister 1946Japanese General Kenji Doihara indicted as war criminal 1946Japanese Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto indicted as war criminal 1946Japanese Field Marshal Shunroku Hata indicted as war criminal 1946Japanese Admiral osami nagano indicted as war criminal 1946japanese foreign minister admiral shigetaro shimida indicted as war criminal 1946Japanese Chief of Naval Affairs Takasumi Oka indicted as War criminal 1946Shigenori Togo Foreign Minister when WW II began was indicted as war criminal 1946