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...military tribunal in Manila did something even more questionable in the case of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, commander of Japanese forces in the Philippines near the war's end. Yamashita was found guilty of failing to stop his army from committing various atrocities, including the killing of 25,000 unarmed civilians. In fact, he had been holed up in northern Luzon, unable to control or even communicate with most of his men. Even so, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction on the dubious assumption that he had had power to stop the atrocities and therefore, as commander, he had been...
Aboard the ship also went 17 black wooden boxes containing the ashes of war criminals whose death sentences had already been carried out. Conspicuously missing: the bodies of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaya," who was hanged unceremoniously in February 1946, and Lieut. General Masaharu Homma of Bataan death march notoriety, who was shot by a firing squad. Their bodies could not be found in a sugarcane field where they were thought to have been buried...
KURIL ISLANDS (also given to Russia at Yalta): two infantry divisions, one composed largely of interned Japanese soldiers, under Major General Ryuji Sejima, formerly a lieutenant colonel on the staff of Lieut. General Tomoyuki ("Tiger of Malaya") Yamashita. The Russians have also heavily reinforced the intricate underground airstrip and ground force installations on Shumushu, northernmost of the Kurils, which have 300 fighters and bombers. From the Kurils and Sakhalin, a steady stream of Red agents is pouring into Japan...
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...