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Kōsō Abe (1892-1947), Japanese Admiral convicted and executed for war crimes he committed during the Battle of Kwajalein Atoll; Kenji Doihara (1883–1948), Japanese general; Shimpei Fukuye, commander general sentenced to death for his role in the Selarang Barracks incident; Shunroku Hata (1879–1962), former Japanese Minister of War
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Japan. In practice, it is applied only for aggravated murder, but the current Penal Code and several laws list 14 capital crimes. Executions are carried out by long drop hanging, and take place at one of the seven execution chambers located in major cities across the country.
Kragujevac massacre: This was a Nazi war crime and partially an act of genocide in which Serbs, Jews and Roma men and boys in Kragujevac, Serbia, were murdered by German Wehrmacht soldiers on 20 and 21 October 1941. The crimes during the 1944 Warsaw uprising such as the Wola massacre or the Ochota massacre.
Pietro Caruso – sentenced to death by firing squad and executed on 22 September 1944. Guido Buffarini Guidi – executed 10 July 1945. Pietro Koch – sentenced to execution by firing squad, sentence carried out 4 June 1945. Japanese. Masaharu Homma – convicted of war crimes, sentenced to death, then executed on April 3, 1946.
The prison was also the execution site for 51 Japanese war criminals who were condemned in the Yokohama War Crimes Trials. The last 7 executions were carried out on April 7, 1950. Mug shot of Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose, taken at Sugamo Prison in March 1946. The original compound was only 2.43 hectares (6.0 acres) in size.
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment: 198 and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945 ...
Japanese officers then ate parts of the bodies of four of the men. Trials. Tachibana, alongside 11 other Japanese personnel, were tried in August 1946 in relation to the execution of U.S. Navy airmen, and the cannibalism of at least one of them, during August 1944. Because military and international law did not specifically deal with ...
Pacific War. Tomoyuki Yamashita (山下 奉文, Yamashita Tomoyuki, 8 November 1885 – 23 February 1946; also called Tomobumi Yamashita [2]) was a Japanese convicted war criminal and general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yamashita led Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya and Battle of Singapore, his conquest of ...