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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
Between 1947 and 1949, 73 trials were conducted by the newly independent Republic of the Philippines against 155 members of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy who committed war crimes during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. This resulted in the conviction of 138 individuals and the death sentence of 79 by December 28, 1949.
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.
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 ...
Yoshio Tachibana (立花 芳夫, Tachibana Yoshio, 24 February 1890 – 24 September 1947) was a lieutenant general in the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.He was commander of the Japanese garrison in Chichijima, Ogasawara Islands, and was later tried and executed for the Chichijima incident, a war crime involving torture, extrajudicial execution and cannibalism of American prisoners ...