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Last week, in a musty military courtroom in Yokohama, 27-year-old Satano rose to be sentenced by a five-man military tribunal. Just before the sentence was pronounced, the defendant's mother presented the embarrassed U.S. prosecutor with a bouquet of flowers. The court had decided that there were mitigating circumstances in Satano's case-mainly the fact that he had killed under orders. The sentence: five years' imprisonment. The defendant sighed happily with relief...
Congratulations on your article on Japan [TIME, May 9]. It presents a vivid and wellbalanced picture of conditions as I observed them on a recent educational mission, which included Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Kobe and Yokohama. I heartily concur in the praise of General MacArthur's leadership...
...agency of any government has an exact record of all the cases, convictions and sentences. The following tabulation is probably fairly accurate. It includes the major German cases at Niirnberg and the "minor"* cases at Dachau; the major Japanese cases at Tokyo (TIME, Nov. 22) and other cases at Yokohama and in China; other cases in the Pacific and Mediterranean theaters...
Almost all of the occupation forces' top brass were at the dockside in Yokohama one day last week as Lieut. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger walked slowly up the gangplank of an Army transport. There were few dry eyes among the generals and colonels. Many an Eighth Army G.I. was in the dumps. Said one hard-faced sergeant: "There goes the best goddam man the Army ever raised." At 62, Bob Eichelberger was going into retirement...
...appreciation of General Eichelberger. The Emperor invited him to lunch-a rare courtesy. Prince Takamatsu, the Emperor's brother, came to tea with the general and his wife Emma (who through the war, and after, got a letter a day from her husband until she joined him in Yokohama). The governor of Tokyo and the governor of Yokohama got into a squabble over which would commission a sculptor to do a "kind bust" of the general-to supplant a stern-faced "mean bust" made of him when he first arrived in Japan...