Word: shigematsu
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Just before the verdict was read, sharp-nosed Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara, who had ordered the mass murder, had a request to make of the court. He asked "that the people who planned and carried out the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan should be regarded in the same light as we." The court ignored his plea. The sentence: death, by hanging, for Admiral Sakaibara and ten other Japanese naval officers under his command...
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