Word: tomoyuki
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Retribution. Tomoyuki Yamashita, "Tiger of Malaya" and conqueror of Singapore, climbed down from a Philippine mountaintop on Sept. 2, 1945 to surrender to the Americans. From Tokyo, Supreme Allied Commander MacArthur ordered his immediate trial as a war criminal. Some 60,000 Filipinos and Americans had suffered and died in Japanese atrocities during the eleven months of Yamashita's command in the Philippines. Their fate cried for retribution...
...Major Eugene P. Boardman, U.S.M.C., an official interpreter at last winter's trial of Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, reported later in the Marine Corps Gazette: "[A military commission] was directed to follow rules of procedure created specifically for the trial of war criminals. . . . Acceptable as evidence was hearsay and sworn statements unsupported by witnesses. Further, the commission was both jury and judge...
Your statement concerning Yamashita [TIME, March 4], "Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit-the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur," was a terrible reflection on the millions of men who wore the fatigue uniform performing honorable duty, and a reflection on General MacArthur's judgment in ordering it that...
...rude scaffold stood in a Philippine cane field near the old Japanese torture camp of Los Banos. In the early morning (3:02 a.m.), under the glare of three floodlights, Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit -the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur...
...vote of 6 to 2, the Supreme Court refused to save General Tomoyuki Yamashita from death by hanging. The majority's routine opinion held merely that the Manila military court which sentenced Yamashita had been legally set up, that it did not violate any military rules, laws or the Constitution...