Defendants - Charges Against

Reports on the death of Yosuke Matsuoka, former Japanese foreign minister, from tuberculosis and complications. "Sir William Webb announced that Matsuoka's name would be stricken from the indictment and all charges removed." Gives biographical information regarding Matsuoka as well as a description of his death bed.

Reports on the testimony of Yasushi Marushima during the war crimes trial for Lt. Gen. Haruki Isayama in Shanghai. He described the capture of fourteen American fliers at Taihoku, Formosa in 1945.

Reports on the capture of Kenneth Yunone, a "Japanese naval interpreter who boasted in a diary he beheaded an Allied prisoner." He was later accused by a Dutch missionary of killing the other three Americans who were captured with the American he beheaded.

Reports that "Lt. Gen. Takeshi Kono was convicted by a U. S. military commission for responsibility in the estimated 25,000 to 30,000 civilian deaths on Panay island, and sentenced to hang."

Newspaper photograph from the Signal Corps with the caption: "Study in Emotion. Hearing an Eighth Army tribunal's guilty verdict against their son and husbands, convicted as war criminals, these women are not entirely successful in the Japanese practice of masking true emotions. Spectators in the Yokohama District Court as the commission hands down the sentence are, left to right: The mother-in-law of Tarao Sato, civilian guard at Camp Kawasaki, sentenced to eight years imprisonment on charges of beating and kicking prisoners of war; Sato's wife; and the wife of Keizo Suzuki, former medical aid at the camp, given a 16-year sentence for beating prisoners and failure to provide proper medical attention to the sick."