11/20/45

[Dan Caviness]

Nemesis/Montana:

While not as well known in the States, there was a protracted effort to bring Japanese war criminals to justice as described below:

Soon after the war, the Allied powers indicted 25 individuals as Class-A war criminals, and 5,700 individuals were indicted as Class-B or Class-C war criminals by Allied criminal trials. Of these, 984 were initially condemned to death, 920 were actually executed, 475 received life sentences, 2,944 received some prison terms, 1,018 were acquitted, and 279 were not sentenced or not brought to trial. These numbers included 178 ethnic Taiwanese and 148 ethnic Koreans.[70] The Class-A charges were all tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as "the Tokyo Trials". Other courts were formed in many different places in Asia and the Pacific.

It seems the initial trials and the death sentences, unlike what happened at Nuremberg, were rarely commuted and many of the lower class convicted were executed immediately.

Dan