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Sugamo Prison was originally built in 1895, using the prisons of Europe as a model. By the 1930s it became known for housing political prisoners, including many communists and other dissenters who fell foul of the Peace Preservation Laws in the 1930s and 1940s. Allied spies were also incarcerated there, including Richard Sorge who was hanged in ...
Okiku Well in Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle. Believed to be haunted by Banchō Sarayashiki. [6] Mount Osore. Believed to be a gateway to the underworld. [19][page needed] Gridley Tunnel. Located on a naval base in Yokosuka, Japan. Between midnight and 1:00 am on rainy nights, a samurai appears to solo explorers.
A group of former Japanese World War II soldiers, interned in Sugamo Prison as Class B and C war criminals, memorise their past.Yamashita had shot an Indonesian civilian by command of his superior Hamada and, after violent interrogations by U.S. military personnel following his arrest, was blamed by Hamada for acting without instructions at his trial.
Jose P. Laurel. Jose Paciano Laurel y García[e] CCLH KGCR (March 9, 1891 – November 6, 1959) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and judge, who served as the President of the Japanese-occupied Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. Since the administration of President Diosdado Macapagal (1961 ...
Sugamo prison. At the end of the war, Sasakawa entered the occupation-run Sugamo prison and spent more than three years there as a suspected war criminal. [20] While until a short time before his arrest, there was little possibility of his detainment, much less as a Class A war crimes suspect, [21] from October to November, 1945, he launched a campaign of twenty or so speeches in Osaka ...
Hitoshi Imamura (今村 均, Imamura Hitoshi, 28 June 1886 – 4 October 1968) was a Japanese general who served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, and was subsequently convicted of war crimes. Finding his punishment to be too light, Imamura built a replica of his prison in his garden and confined himself there until his death.
The Yokohama War Crimes Trials was a series of trials of 996 Japanese war criminals, held before the military commission of the U.S. 8th Army at Yokohama immediately after the Second World War. [1] The defendants belonged to class B and C, as defined by the charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. [2]
Yotsuya Kaidan. Utagawa Kuniyoshi 's portrait of Oiwa. Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, [a] is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on Japanese horror today.