Reports that Pedro Lopez, former head of the Philippines United Nations Organization delegation, will join the prosecution team at the IMTFE. Includes a brief biography.
Reports that Colonel Genji Matsuda is on his way to Shanghai to stand trial. He was the commander at the Hoten camp near Mukden where prisoners included Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and many survivors of the Philippines invasion who went through the Bataan death march.
Reports that eight men from SCAP's legal section will form the team to supervise the interrogations of roughly 9,000 former POWs for information that could be used as evidence against war criminals in Japan and the Philippines. They are led by Lieutenant Edmund M. Sweeny.
Announces that Koe Mikami was sentenced to hang while 12 other Japanese officers and men were sentenced with terms ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment.