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Frank Fujita (October 20, 1921 – December 11, 1996) was a Japanese American soldier of the US Army who, during his service in World War II became one of only two Japanese American combat personnel (the other being Richard Sakakida [1]) to be captured by the Japanese. [2]
After World War II, many Japanese officers who carried out mock trials and illegal executions under the Enemy Airmen's Act were found guilty of war crimes. At the trial of Lieutenant-Commander Okamoto by a British military tribunal in December 1947, he was accused of ordering the execution of captured American airmen in Singapore. Sub ...
On 19 April 1996, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and his wife, Nicky, made a personal pilgrimage to Changi Prison, to see the cell his father was kept in as a prisoner-of-war during World War II. His father, Sir Alexander Downer, was interned in Selarang Barracks from 1942 to 1943 and then in Changi Prison from 1943 to 1944.
According to The New York Times, the execution of Tsutomu Miyazaki after the Akihabara massacre was claimed to be a similar case. [54] Supporters say that capital punishment acts as a deterrent and has resulted in Japan's having one of the lowest murder rates in the world, after only Singapore, which also practices capital punishment. [55]
After a four-year moratorium, executions resumed in 1993 and up to 15 have taken place almost each year since then. Thirteen of those executed in 2018, under former Minister of Justice and former think tank researcher Yōko Kamikawa , had taken part in the Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995.
After a formal surrender ceremony, all the men were retrieved. [23] The Japanese occupation of the island inspired the 1953 Japanese film Anatahan [11] and the 1998 novel Cage on the Sea. In 1955, four Japanese airmen surrendered at Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea: Shimada Kakuo, Shimokubo Kumao, Ojima Mamoru and Jaegashi Sanzo. They were the ...
White is set to become the sixth man executed in the U.S. in an 11-day period and the fifth inmate put to death in Texas so far this year. Texas set to execute Garcia Glenn White, who confessed to ...
Hirohito as an infant in 1902 Emperor Taishō's four sons in 1921: Hirohito, Takahito, Nobuhito, and Yasuhito. Hirohito was born on 29 April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, [2] the first son of 21-year-old Crown Prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taishō) and 16-year-old Crown Princess Sadako, the future Empress Teimei. [3]