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Masaharu Homma (本間 雅晴, Honma Masaharu, November 27, 1887 – April 3, 1946) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Homma commanded the Japanese 14th Army , which invaded the Philippines and perpetrated the Bataan Death March .
Masaharu Homma – convicted of war crimes, sentenced to death, then executed on April 3, 1946. Hitoshi Imamura – sentenced to imprisonment for ten years. Kiyotake Kawaguchi – imprisoned from 1946 to 1953. Tomoyuki Yamashita – sentenced to death, executed on February 23, 1946.
A post-war trial would find the Japanese commander in the Battle of Bataan and the man responsible for the troops that carried out the Death March, Gen. Masaharu Homma, guilty of war crimes. He ...
After the war, the Japanese commander, General Masaharu Homma and two of his officers, Major General Yoshitaka Kawane and Colonel Kurataro Hirano, were tried by United States military commissions for war crimes and sentenced to death on charges of failing to prevent their subordinates from committing atrocities. Homma was executed in 1946, and ...
General Masaharu Homma was convicted by an Allied commission of war crimes for failing to prevent atrocities from occurring, including the atrocities of the death march out of Bataan, and the atrocities at Camp O'Donnell and Cabanatuan that followed. He was sentenced to death and executed on 3 April 1946 outside Manila.
SCAP conducted more than a hundred trials of Class B and Class C war criminals in Manila, resulting to 90% conviction and 69 executions, including those of Gen. Yamashita and Gen. Homma. [ 4 ] Meanwhile, President Sergio Osmeña established the National War Crimes Office (NWCO) in August 1945 to do parallel and complimentary investigation and ...
A scar on the face and ear of a young Filipino boy, the result of mutilation inflicted by Japanese soldiers. During the invasion of the Philippines in December 1941, the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army headed by Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, and the Imperial Japanese Navy's 3rd Fleet swept through the Filipino main island of Luzon.
The Philippine Army consisted of 120,000 men, of which 76,750 were on Luzon. On 24 December, as Masaharu Homma's Japanese Fourteenth Area Army advanced and General Jonathan Wainwright's North Luzon Force retreated, MacArthur ordered his Far East Air Force headquarters south towards Bataan.