Defendants - Charges Against

Reports on the arrival at Sugamo prison of 41 war suspects accused of executing American pilots and "torturing, beating and starving American prisoners of war." Included in the group were Lt. Col. Kikuji Ito and Sgt. Maj. Hidekitsu Tanakadate.

Briefing document on the responsibility of commanders for actions taken by their subordinates. Specifically in relation to "the prospective trials of the Japanese generals Yamashita and Homma."

Analysis of handwritten notes "Questions and Answers, (Privy Council)" on Tri-Partite Pact from Foreign Office telegram files. Persons implicated: OIKAWA; TOJO; MATSUOKA; KONOYE, Teiichi, MINAMI; HIRANUMA, Kiichiro; HARA, Kado. Crimes to which document applicable: Conspiracy and preparation for aggressive warfare.

Reports on the testimony given by Ryukichi Tanaka, ex-Major General and Chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, regarding his conflicting opinions with Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Tanaka also states that he had asked Shigenori Togo to lead a political movement to oust Tojo. This article covers the third day of Tanaka's testimony on the witness stand. He went into detail on the reasons that led to his resignation, including his belief in "Japan's inadequate war preparedness, friction between the Army and Navy and fear of subordinate officers to report to their superiors of the actual preparation conditions." The article discusses the mental and physical state of Tanaka stating that "previous speculation that the defense in its cross-examination would attempt to prove that the prosecution's star witness was mentally unbalanced failed to materialize yesterday morning."

List of possible defendants submitted by the evidence and defendants committee. Contains 34 individuals including: Araki, Doihara, Hashimoto, Hirota, Hoshino, Itagaki, Kido, Matsui, Matsuoka, Nagano, Oikawa, Oshima, Shigemitsu, Shimada, Shiratori, Suzuki, Togo, Tojo, Umezu, Minami, Arita, Nakamura, Hiranuma, Koiso, Muto, Masaki, Hata, Stahmer, Ott, Uemura, Kimura, Sato, and Tsukada.