Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not Much Milk. For execution as "friends of Americans," Communist spies picked out government officials, civil servants, factory managers and foremen, shopkeepers. In all, some 75 civilians were shot, clubbed or burned to death. Many people hid by standing up to their necks in the icy streams over which their...
On the day after the execution, many Japanese went to shrines to pray. It was hard for a Westerner to learn what they really felt. Some said the Japanese were not praying for the dead war lords, but for peace in the world. It was no less difficult to learn...
The U.S. Supreme Court, after voting 5 to 4 to hear argument on whether to review the legality of the eleven-nation Tokyo tribunal, decided 6 to 1 that it had no jurisdiction to review the verdict. The Japanese-and many Americans-were somewhat bewildered by these final hesitations. There...
Thirteen Steps. It had been unseasonably warm in Tokyo, but on the last day it turned cold. The seven were notified of the execution time 15 hours beforehand. Tojo said, jokingly, in English: "Okay, okay." He thanked the prison warden for decent treatment, and said he had been afraid that...
In the execution chamber, the four mounted 13 steps to the gallows. All stood unaided while G.I.s adjusted black hoods and arranged the knots upon their necks.