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Hisao Tani (谷 寿夫, Tani Hisao, 22 December 1882 – 26 April 1947) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War and a convicted war criminal as well as crimes against humanity. Forces under his command committed the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. Tani was tried in the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal and executed.
The Balikpapan Massacre involved the killing of 78 unarmed Dutch civilians and prisoners of war by the Japanese 56th Division near the seaport city of Balikpapan on 24 February 1942.
Alfred Saalwächter. Enzo Savorgnan di Brazzà. Andrew Sawyer (murderer) Gideon Scheepers. Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov. Vincenzo Serrentino. Andrei Shkuro. Jesús Sosa Blanco. Ferenc Szálasi.
After the war, Abe was arrested by SCAP authorities and charged with war crimes, largely based on witness testimony regarding the Makin Raid Incident. Abe was extradited to Guam, [citation needed] where a military tribunal convicted him on May 23, 1946, of "violation of the law and custom of war and the moral standards of civilized society." [3] Abe was executed by hanging on Guam on June 19 ...
The " Double Tenth incident " ( 双十節事件 Sōjūsetsu jiken) or " Double Tenth massacre " occurred on 10 October 1943, during the Second World War Japanese occupation of Singapore. The Kenpeitai —Japanese military police—arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on ...
During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis powers. At the end of World War II, many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo Trials. In Europe, these tribunals were set up under the authority of the London Charter, which only ...
Bruno Peter Gaido (March 21, 1916 – June 15, 1942) was an American sailor who served in the United States Navy as an Aviation Machinist's Mate during World War II. While flying as a gunner on a Douglas SBD Dauntless during the Battle of Midway, he was shot down and captured by Imperial Japanese Navy. Gaido, along with pilot Frank O'Flaherty ...
Under international law, war crimes were formally defined as crimes during international trials such as the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials, in which Austrian, German and Japanese leaders were prosecuted for war crimes which were committed during World War II .