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Kalagon massacre. Coordinates: 16°32′57″N 97°43′46″E. Kalagon massacre. Part of the Burma Campaign. of World War II. Japanese prisoners in the dock during the first war crimes trial to be held in Rangoon, Burma. These men were charged with the murder of 637 civilians in the village of Kalagon (1946). Location.
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. He assumed several more ...
During Hirohito's reign, Japan waged a war across Asia in the 1930s and 40s. His involvement in military decisions, particularly in the Second Sino-Japanese War and Pacific Theater of World War II, has been a subject of historical debate regarding his responsibility for war crimes. Despite initial successes, Japan's strategic miscalculations ...
Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (慰安婦), which literally means "comforting, consoling woman".
This is a list of war apology statements issued by Japan regarding war crimes committed by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The statements were made at and after the end of World War II in Asia, from the 1950s to present day. Controversies remain to this day about the nature of the war crimes of the past and the appropriate person to ...
t. e. The hundred man killing contest (百人斬り競争, hyakunin-giri kyōsō) was a newspaper account of a contest between Toshiaki Mukai (3 June 1912 – 28 January 1948) and Tsuyoshi Noda (1912 – 28 January 1948), two Japanese Army officers serving during the Japanese invasion of China, over who could kill 100 people the fastest while ...
Nonetheless, Simon Wiesenthal, Hugh Thomas and Reinhard Gehlen refused to accept this. Gehlen further argued Bormann was the secret Russian double agent 'Sasha'. Karl Dönitz – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. Hans Frank – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging. Wilhelm Frick – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
Mutsuhiro Watanabe ( Japanese: 渡邊睦裕, 18 January 1918 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed " the Bird " by his prisoners was a Imperial Japanese Army soldier in World War II who served in multiple military internment camps. After Japan's defeat, the US Occupation authorities classified Watanabe as a criminal for his mistreatment of prisoners of ...