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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.
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.
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 commander in chief of the Japanese forces in Java at the time was lieutenant-general Hitoshi Imamura. Imamura and his troops were detained by the Australian Army in Rabaul for committing war crimes including the execution of Allied prisoners of war. Imamura wrote to the Australian Commander in Rabaul to ask that his own trial be expedited ...
v. t. e. Hideki Tojo (東條 英機, Tōjō Hideki, pronounced [toːʑoː çideki] ⓘ; 30 December 1884 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese politician, military leader and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association from 1941 to 1944 during World War II.
Executions of German POWs during World War II. In 1945, the United States Army executed fourteen German prisoners of war by hanging at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The 14 POWs, members of the German armed services, had been convicted by general court-martial for the murders of fellow Germans believed by ...
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 ...
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.