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By KAY TAT EI細
TOKYO.—ま"ne years ago,ゅortly after U;30 P.I no 11 Dec. 23»1948» seven Jap&nese —wartimelea-dersmounted theg屈(nVBat Sugamo卵ll(msaiid were hanged.
The seven had been found guilty of cdnspir"i^ to Wな跌
nゃぉin preventipg, war xrimes an4 crimぉagaiiist iiu?ii$nity by a trihun&lof Alllie,<>wers, including: tJ^^e Uniteriきta,esjりlii)nia/ tiゅ tain, Au8ti:aH& and the
The tJrialbeganゃtt Mayみ charged wもre War IIおrime' MiitisteivHideki To jo , who bungled asuicide attempt when he was about io be arrested; Saisho Itagaki, KenjlDoihara, H[eitがo Kim"ra, Iwarie Matsui andAidra乖to; andKoklHi rota, the only civilian.
Their deaths came two years after10 major Nazi Germanleaーs were sentenced and hanged hi the early h6urs of Oct1(5,1946, following the Nuremberg trials.
Among the Temainingお defendants, Shumd Okawa was declared insane. The U.S.• educated fonrter foreign 取inisteもYosufce Mkぉ-uoka, alid Adni. Os^imi Nagano died of illneぉwhile
thij trials were in progr棚.
Five died wjiile狄rving prison terms and otiier)veir必 paroled afteiv争ving part of their sentences. They in-cludeき一!e鹏jd M效moni Shigemaぉi1,wholater serv-e'd as fordgiir minister in
ThゃJajjainese \Var criitii-n&isザei"e Sentenced on Nov. 12,194$ and 、 r"咖ed to
arrest shbrtly after : tfee
began in Septemberま5, Mみnyニwe:re soぶold they hardly knew what 4|ie sentences meant. :
On Dec;. 21,1M8, the commandant of Sugam? prison
the sゃVeii ciHidi^inived men, who had been kゆt - under close wa(ch, at 0001hours or as so 611もhere after as practicable on Dec, 23,1948.
At11:30 pmづTo jo ap-p eared iれthe prぉon c haおel. Buddhist priぉt Shinso Hanay卿a wlio メerVedisi chapi础,attended Tojo,s lastBtiddhist service.
To jo Was dressed in drab khaki clothing,hぉfeet in socks fitted to ,dodep —son dogs and handcuff, fid. P, gave a/ slight smile Andlie sぽhe wぉhもd he had soinething clean to weれ.H"きa id JTapanもse like to die in clefan dothes.
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Asked if there was anything the priest卿ld do for hinvTojo said, "Yes, jplease take care or my glasses ahd deiitur粉."
、To jo, Matsui, Doihara Wnd Mu》o were theぉrst to 柳ter tもe execu;tion chamber. Before moiintihg飾 fhial13 steps IVfaisuilもd thもinih thーbゅzai cheき forthfc eniiperor apd thも japaneseゃinpire.
i^hey "re followed by flirotaj;tagald&nd Ki輔r瑪 \ylioheard"banzai" cheere as thfiy headed for the
Hirota asked Ha肌yaim^ ばtheliien werもdoing "itmzai," & kind of comic
Ja]panese yさi^eti^ hous".'
"lMfaria"" Jianay"nmー-ed. The 11 he reがizeさit was Hirota,slast wiy joke. "You mean 'banzai., Yももthey did'ri you waAt tひさo J the sajtne, go ahead." But Hi rota shook his hもad. Itagiki1" thenv in three "banzM" (iheers, but Hi rota did not join in.
After the bodies of the
seven condemned man were transferrej in a U.S. Amy truck to a cremat^gliiin in Yokohama a part ofゅe ashes were reportedIj^ scooped up by a Japanese defenselawyer who ha梦pen-ゃd tolive dose by. The ひcciupatlon authoritiies had rejぉ"dareqii粉t firpm thゃ
whfch the U.ぇmilitaiy さa id, were dumpもd iiitd the sea from a U.S. miUtary
Qn April22,:19^5ト:化も lawyer formally turned over therasliestothejijivゃn f ah lilies.
Two year8laterもliもy were buried辨ar At;aini, ^^hゅa cenotapトwas placed with the words "Grave of Seven Qentlemen, written by the Prime Minister Shig狄u Yoshi(ia, the掘n To jo humiliぉfed duringr the war.
A controversy irose last Apiilwhen it waslearned that on Oct17,1978, the ,ett major war criminals and seven others were sec-retty enShiried in Yasuni Jinja, Japan's top Shiiito
shrine w旨もihe nation's war deadに^nぉe1879 are
Th-rnahi扭Wもireihscibもd 加tii[iy t^bletsandpl&ced in沐fe咖iiw,s inner sanc-tumalotijg: witli tl^ni "souls" soifte 2.45 milHoiiきむW to s at id dvilians.
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