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The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) were responsible for a multitude of war crimes leading to millions of deaths. War crimes ranged from sexual slavery and massacres to human experimentation, starvation, and forced labor, all either directly committed or condoned by the Japanese military and government.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East ( IMTFE ), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during the Second World War. [1]
This case was investigated in 1947 in a war crimes trial, and of the 30 Japanese soldiers prosecuted, four officers (including Lieutenant General Tachibana, Major Matoba, and Captain Yoshii) were found guilty and hanged. All enlisted men and Probationary Medical Officer Tadashi Teraki were released within eight years.
Kalagon massacre. 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). / 16.54917°N 97.72944°E / 16.54917; 97.72944. On 7 July 1945, the Kalagon massacre was committed against inhabitants of Kalagon ...
e. The Nanjing Massacre [2] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [note 2]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and the retreat of the National Revolutionary Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army.
The Yokohama War Crimes Trials was a series of trials of 996 Japanese war criminals, held before the military commission of the U.S. 8th Army at Yokohama immediately after the Second World War. The defendants belonged to class B and C, as defined by the charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East . [2]
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East Charter (IMTFE Charter), also known as the Tokyo Charter, was the decree issued by General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Allied - occupied Japan, on January 19, 1946 that set down the laws and procedures by which the Tokyo Trials were to be conducted. The charter was issued months following the surrender of ...
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 ...