Press - Response to Trial

(The 21st Year of Showa). No. 16,884. Nippon Times full edition for Thursday, March 21, 1946. Includes some highlights on the first column of the first page on an article title "Nippon Efforts to Negotiate War Cessation End in Failure, Konoye Memoir Discloses. Move for Peace Started in February 1945 - Hirota-Malik Talks Futile." Article concluded on page 3. Also includes news about China, the U. S. Stock Market, military movements, the execution of Hungarian Nazis, reforms to be enacted by the Japanese Education Minister, and general world news.

Reports that Gen. Kumakichi Harada has been imprisoned at Sugamo prison. States that the British want to try him in Singapore "in connection with the execution without trial of three Australian fliers."

Reports that Keenan is upset with Homma's defense counsel position that "a procession of judicial lynchings without due process of law may now follow" in the wake of the U. S. Supreme Courts decision to reject Homma's appeal of his death sentence from the Manila trial. Also reports that Tatsuo Tsuchiya was convicted in the Yokohama trial by the Eighth Army commission for atrocities committed against prisoners.

Reports on the charges against four former Japanese military men at the Yokohama trial.

Reports on the sentencing of Harushige Kawakami and Naozo Shimdairo at the Yokohama war crimes trial. Also reports on the sentencing at the Burma war crimes trial.