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REPORT WITHHELD ON JAP WAR CRIMES
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 3 September 1945, page 2
News 71 words(Mr. Justice Webb's report on Japanese atrocities will not be made public until all Australian prisoners of war have been recovered by the ... -
REPORT DUE SOON ON JAP WAR CRIMES
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 3 February 1944, page 2
News 61 wordsThe Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) said to-day that the report of the Australian Commission, appointed to inquire into Japanese war crimes ... -
JAP WAR CRIMES REJECT OPJKIONS EXPRESSED IN BOOKS
TOKYO, Thursday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 28 February 1947, page 1
News 75 wordsThe President of the War Crimes Tribunal (Sir William Webb) rejected a defence move to introduce opinions, expressed in books by the former ... -
PROOF OF JAP WAR CRIMES
' NEW YORK Monday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 10 April 1945, page 1
News 62 wordsJapanese troops in the Philippines were given orders direct from Tokyo to destroy Manila and kill its inhabitants. ... -
COMMISSION TO PROBE JAP WAR CRIMES
Dr. Evatt Charges Breach of Obligations TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS CITED
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 1 February 1944, page 2
News 963 wordsThe Minister for External Affa[?]rs (Dr. Evatt) announced yesterday that the Commonwealth Government had appointed a special Commission of ... -
JAP MASSACRE OF AUSTRALIANS IN MALAYA IN 1942
ALLEGATIONS AT TRIAL; ONE SURVIVOR OF 150 MEN SHOT, CREMATED LOS NEGROS, (Admiralty Island), Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Shoichi Nonaka Takuma Nishimura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 20 June 1950, page 1
News 922 wordsAn Australian Army lieutenant, in a statement read at the Japanese War Crimes trials here to-day, told of the massacre of [?]0 Australians and 35 Indian prisoners of war in Malaya in 1942. The officer, Lieutenant Ben Charles Hackney, formerly of ... -
FORMER JAP AGENT ON AUSTRALIAN STAFF IN SINGAPORE
SINGAPORE; Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Johnny Fujii ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 28 June 1946, page 1
News 234 wordsUnder the heading "Former Jap agent free in Singapore," the Malaya "Tribune" publishes the story of Johnny Fujii, a former ... -
Jap Sentries Beat British Officers for Trivialities
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 3 December 1946, page 1
News 340 wordsGeneral Wainwright, the hero of Bataan, and other high-ranking Allied officers, held in Formosa prison camp, were often beaten up by ordinary Japanese sentries, either for no offence or an offence so trivial they did not ... -
Strong Plea Against Leniency In Jap War Crime Sentences
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 29 August 1952, page 1
News ILLUSTRATED 469 wordsIn an impassioned plea to the Government to stand firm, Mr. A. R. Downer (Angus) last night opposed the release of Japanese war criminals now serving sentences. Mr. Downer was applauded from both sides of the House. ... -
"For the cause that lacks assistance, 'Gainst the wrongs that need resistance For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do." The Canberra Times
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1946 JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL TRIALS.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 19 March 1946, page 2
News 451 wordsPUBLIC resentment has been aroused at the apparent leniency of sentences imposed on Japanese war criminals tried at Darwin. Public feeling is particularly sensitive because the offence for which the Japanese soldiers concerned were facing trial was the torture of Australian ... -
TOJO CITED AS MAIN WAR OFFENDER
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 11 November 1948, page 1
News 358 wordsThe International War Crimes Tribunal declared that Japan's aggressive war against the Western Powers began, not at Pearl Harbour, but at Kohta Bahru in Malaya, where the beaches were shelled at 2.40 a.m. on December 8, ... -
WORLD SHOCKED AT REVELATIONS OF JAP ATROCITY
LONDON, Tuesday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 12 September 1945, page 1
News 180 words"The effect of the Australian revelations on the conscience of the civilised world will be profound," declares "The Times," which added ... -
AUSTRALIA HAS LIST OF JAP WAR CRIMINALS
MELBOURNE, Wed.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 11 October 1945, page 2
News 118 wordsThe Army Department announced that 66 Japs in Dutch Borneo against whom evidence had been collected, are to be charged as war ... -
MacARTHUR TIGHTENING REINS
ALLIES CANNOT AFFORD TO DROP GUARD Dark Undercurrents TOKYO THE INCREASINGLY SEVERE ATTITUDE ADOPTED BY GENERAL MacARTHUR IN THE LAST FEW DAYS HAS ANSWERED MANY CRITICS WHO WERE BEGINNING TO CONTRAST HIS POLICY WITH THE STERN HAND OF ADMIRAL MOUNTBATTEN IN MALAYA. It should be understood, however, that General MacArthur's position is infinitely more difficult because of the enormous disparity between the occupation and the conquered forces on the Japanese home islands. Most observers here, including those who have been the sternest critics of General MacArthur's cautious policy, now seem satisfied with the new turn in events.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 1
News 650 wordsWith the round-up of the first, list of Japanese war criminals almost completed, it is expected that a second list will be issued ... -
JAPS WHO EXECUTED NAURU STAFF
Authorities Instructed To Identify And Apprehend
[ tagged as Australian Nurses Massacred Japanese War Crimes Nauru massacre ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 22 September 1945, page 3
News 795 wordsMilitary authorities who took the surrender of the Japanese at Nauru have been instructed that all possible action is to be taken to identify ... -
"TRIAL OF TOJO IS NOT NECESSARY"
From Our Own Correspondent in London
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 7
News 123 words"It is a little hard to understand why such strenuous efforts are being made to save the life of Tojo," says Daily Mail in a leader. ... -
WAR CRIMES COURT "SHOCKED" BY JAPANESE CLAIM
TOKYO, Tuesday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 3 July 1946, page 1
News 114 wordsThe president of the War Crimes Court (Sir William Webb) declared that the court was shocked when it had heard ... -
TIME WASTED AT JAPANESE WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL
TOKYO, Thursday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 9 May 1947, page 1
News 115 words"Justice; William Webb, of Australia, told the defence that he was concerned at the slow, laborious presentation of their case. ... -
JAP WAR CRIMES TO BE HEARD IN CHINA
HONGKONG, Wednesday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 11 September 1947, page 1
News 73 wordsBecause of American "obstructionism" all Japanese war crimes cases involving Australian nationals and scheduled to have been heard in ... -
Jap. Defence Team
LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 16 June 1950, page 1
News 77 wordsMore than 200,000 yen worth of Japanese, rayon and silk goods and a number of fishing rods have been taken from the ... -
JAP APOLOGIES NOT WANTED
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 25 September 1945, page 1
News 53 wordsNo official advice had been received of a report that a party of Japanese envoys,would come to Australia to apologise on behalf of the Japanese ... -
Webb Inquiry Not Newly Appointed
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 2 February 1944, page 2
News 84 wordsThe Prime Minister, (Mr. Curtin) made it clear yesterday that the appointment of the Chief Justice of Queensland (Sir William Webb) to ... -
JAPS ACCUSED OF CRUELTY TO WAR PRISONERS
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 3 January 1947, page 1
News 83 wordsGiving evidence before tne war Crimes Tribunal, Major George Vicks of Hawthorne, Vic, said in September, 1942, he found the bodies of six ... -
JAP CRUELTIES TO WAR PRISONERS
TOKYO. Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Pow ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 30 November 1946, page 1
News 71 wordsBrigadier A. Blackburn, of Australia, told the War Crimes Tribunal that during 1942 Japanese officers had told him that Japan only ... -
AMERICAN TRIALS OF JAP SUSPECTS
(A.A.P.-Reuters.) TOKYO, Monday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 19 October 1948, page 1
News 48 wordsGeneral MacArthur's headquarters announced that of 1,000 Japanese war crimes suspects tried 916 were convicted by ... -
JAP APOLOGY MISSION NOT WANTED
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 25 September 1945, page 5
News 50 wordsNo official advice had been received that a party of Japanese envoys would come to Australia to apologise on behalf of the Japanese ... -
JAPS SENTENCED IN OCTOBER
(A.R.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 15 July 1948, page 1
News 39 wordsReliable sources to-day stated that the verdict and sentences on General Tojo and other Japanese, accused of war crimes, will not ... -
FILIPINO APPEAL FOR LIFE OF JAP SUSPECT
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Lieut Col Nobushiko Jimbo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 24 September 1946, page 1
News 122 wordsThe presiaent of the Philippines (Roxas) has appealed to Chiang Kai-shek for clemency for the Japanese war crimes suspect, ... -
CHINESE LIBERATE JAP SOLDIERS
TSINGTAO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 19 July 1947, page 1
News 48 wordsChinese Press despatches from [?]sinan, the capital of Shantung Pro[?]ince, stated, that Chinese had ac[?]uitted 14 Japanese officers charged ... -
Rebuff At Tokyo War Trials For Prosecution
TOKYO, Wednesday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 20 June 1946, page 4
News 93 wordsThe prosecution at the Japanese war Crimes trial received a mild rebuff when an attempt was made to show that the schools had been used ... -
TRIALS OF JAP WAR CRIMINALS BEGIN NEXT WEEK
BRISBANE, Wednesday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 8 November 1945, page 1
News 80 wordsJustice Mansfield indicated that the first of the trials against Japanese, accused of war crimes, will begin in Borneo, possibly on November ... -
STRONG MOVE TO GET RELEASE OF WAR CRIMINALS
NEW YORK, Saturday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 8 September 1952, page 4
News 161 wordsThe former head of the Japanese War Crimes Parole Board, Mr. George Hagen, yesterday said that a Japanese group with ... -
MR. MENZIES SAYS AUSTRALIA SHOULD ARREST WAR CRIMINALS
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 21 September 1945, page 1
News 153 wordsAustralia should be responsible for the arrest and bringing to trial of Japanese guilty of war crimes in our area, said the Leader of the ... -
WAR CRIMES TRIALS COULD BE HELD IN PACIFIC ISLANDS
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 21 September 1945, page 1
News 140 wordsI Although the matter has not been discussed on an official plane, it was stated on the highest authority yesterday that there would be nothing to ... -
Japs Sent to N.E.I. For Trial
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 6 August 1947, page 1
News 49 wordsTwenty,-seven Japanese, suspected of war crimes have been sent from Japan to the Netherlands East Indies for trial, by a Dutch Military ... -
JAP EMPEROR HOPES FOR WORLD PEACE
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 26 November 1948, page 1
News 127 wordsYesterday Emperor Hirohito received Mr. J. B. Keenan, American prosecutor of the Japanese at ... -
GUILTY JAPS MUST NOT ESCAPE
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 5
News 391 words"If those responsible for these outrages are allowed to escape punishment, it will be the grossest defeat of justice and a travesty of ... -
JAP CAMP OFFICERS FACE TRIALS
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Hainan Island Hassho Camp Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 15 January 1948, page 1
News 84 wordsThe piteous conditions to which Australian prisoner's were reduced through starvation and ill-treatment in Hassho camp, Hainan Island, ... -
FIENDISH CRUELTY BY JAPANESE
Drenched with Petrol and Set Alight SINGAPORE, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 14 September 1945, page 1
News 137 wordsOne of the most repulsive of all Japanese atrocities was revealed in an account released by British headquarters of ... -
TOJO UNREPENTENT SAYS JAPS FORCED TO WAR BY ALLIES
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 27 December 1947, page 1
News 201 wordsMaking no attempt to prove his own innocence when he took the stand at the Far Eastern International Military Tribunal to-day to testify on his own behalf, the Japanese war-time Director (General Tojo) bitterly ... -
NO ESCAPE FOR BESTIAL JAP WAR CRIMINALS
KANDY, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 19 September 1945, page 1
News 345 wordsDetermination, that no Japanese, responsible for inhuman and bestial practices, shall escape silce, was expressed by Lord Louis Mountbatten, Commander-in-Chief of Southeast Asia, on his return from Manila. ... -
AMBON MASSACRE TERMED "GRISLY CARNAGE"
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes Sub Lieut Takahiki Tsuaki W O Keigo Kanamoto ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 20 March 1951, page 5
News 239 wordsThe Australian War Crimes Court to-day sentenced to death a former Japanese naval officer for his part in the massacre of ... -
JAP. GIVES REASON FOR EXECUTIONS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes Lieut Kunito Hatakeyama ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 4 August 1950, page 1
News 117 wordsA Japanese war criminal gave evidence before the War Crimes Court to-day in defence of six fellow Japanese on trial for a ... -
JAP CAPTAINS BEWILDERED AT BRITISH JUSTICE
DARWIN, Wednesday.
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 7 March 1946, page 4
News 204 wordsTwo Japanese captains were acquitted by the war crimes court on one of the charges preferred against them without being called to give ... -
FIENDISH CRUELTY OF JAP SCHOOLMASTER
HANKOW, Wednesday?
[ tagged as Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes Malacca ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 25 October 1945, page 1
News 303 wordsA- Japanese schoolmaster, who wanted to create the impression that he was a "strong task master," is blamed for indescribable atrocities ... -
Jap War Crime Suspects For Trial At Manus Island
(A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 3 February 1950, page 4
News 77 wordsAbout 130 Japanese war crime suspects are expected to leave Yokohama for Manus Island where they will be tried by an ... -
War Criminals Reach Japan
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 20 February 1951, page 3
News 47 wordsTOKYO, Mon.— Nineteen Japanese, including convicted and acquitted war criminals, arrived at Yokkaichi from Manus ... -
Cabinet to Decide on Jap War Criminals
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 19 September 1952, page 1
News 62 wordsCabinet will shortly consider the question of whether or not Japanese war criminals serving sentences on Manus Island will ... -
JAP. CRIMINALS TO BE RELEASED
SINGAPORE, Friday. (A.A.P.-Reuter)
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 9 May 1953, page 1
News 61 wordsAustralia has told Japan 22 Japanese war criminals are available for release from their Manus Island prison camp. ... -
Jap War Leaders Seek trial In Homeland
(A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Sugamo prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 4 February 1950, page 1
News 110 wordsJapanese war criminal suspects at Sugamo prison have petitioned the Australian authorities for clemency. ... -
WAH CRIMINALS FOR JAPAN
[ tagged as General Hitoshi Imamura Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Sugamo prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 8 July 1953, page 4
News 232 wordsJapanese war criminals, serv[?]ng sentences on Manus Island will be transferred to Japan for the remainder of their term of ... -
Jap. Prisoners
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 22 February 1952, page 2
News 106 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. McMahon) yesterday denied suggestions to the Japanese Diet by a ... -
JAPS ADMIT MANUS TRIALS FAIR
SYDNEY, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 25 September 1950, page 1
News 108 wordsChief prosecutor at the Manus Island war crimes trials (Mr. C. V. Rooney, K.C.) said on his return to Sydney by [?] ... -
FUTURE OF JAP. WAH CRIMINALS
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 26 February 1953, page 1
News 69 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, said [?] [?] House of Representatives yesterday that the Government was still ... -
JAP WAR CRIMES TRIALS ORDERED AT MANUS
BRISBANE, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 20 January 1950, page 1
News ILLUSTRATED 131 wordsThe trial of about 100 suspected Japanese war criminals now held in Japan, will probably begin at Manus island this month. Many of the prisoners are accused of haying ... -
WAR CRIMES COURT ANNOUNCED
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 31 March 1950, page 4
News 145 wordsThe president and members of the Australian War Crimes Court will leave for Manus Island in May to prepare for ... -
JUDGE RELEASED FOR JAP WAR CRIMINAL TRIALS
BRISBANE, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 29 March 1950, page 4
News 104 wordsThe Prefnier (Mr. Hanlon) announced to-day that Mr. Justice Townley would be released by Queensland to conduct the ... -
DELAY IN JAP WAR CRIMES TRIAL TO END
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 12 January 1950, page 4
News 171 wordsThe Commonwealth will proceed in February with outstanding trials of suspected Japanese war criminals, the Minister for ... -
Suspected Jap. War Criminals in Flight
(A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 16 January 1950, page 2
News 180 wordsJapanese war criminal suspects are fleeing Japan, following the Australian announcement that criminals will shortly be ... -
No Early Release Of Jap War Criminals By Australia
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 11 December 1952, page 4
News 894 wordsThe Australian Government will not reach any decision on the future of Japanese war criminals held at Manus Island until next year, at the earliest. ... -
JAPANESE IN SUGAMO PRISON TO BE TRIED
ADELAIDE, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 5 December 1949, page 1
News 142 wordsAbout 90 Japanese, now held in Sugamo prison, Japan, are to be tried, on Manus Island for alleged war crimes against ... -
JAP WAR CRIMINALS HANGED
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 23 August 1948, page 1
News 44 wordsTen Japanese war criminals were hanged at Sugamo Prison yesterday. They were convicted by the ... -
War Criminals Freed
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 6 June 1953, page 4
News 43 wordsTokyo, Fri.—Sugamo prison authorities today released 31 Japanese war criminals, whose sentences have been commuted by ... -
RELEASE OF JAP CRIMINALS
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 11 March 1952, page 2
News 47 wordsTOKYO, Mon.—Eleven more Japanese, war criminals will be released from Sugamo prison on parole next Friday,. Supreme ... -
TOJO NOT TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN PRISON
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYOS, Friday.
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 20 November 1948, page 1
News 108 wordsGeneral Tojo promised his lawyer to-day that he will not attempt a Samurai's death on follow the precedent set by ... -
Jap. Criminals On Parole
(A.AP.-Reuter) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 28 March 1951, page 4
News 47 wordsRelease of nine more Japanese war criminals on parole from Sugamo prison has been ordered by General MacArthur. ... -
SUICIDE WEAPONS RECOVERED FROM JAP PRISON
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 14 February 1947, page 1
News 82 wordsUnited States Army officials at Sugamo prison, reported the seizure of thousands of suicide and potential suicide weapons ... -
BRITAIN WANTS YAMASHITA FOR WAR TRIALS
LONDON, Friday.
[ tagged as General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Shigeo Suzuki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 26 January 1946, page 1
News 266 wordsIt was announced that if the Supreme Court of the United States allowed the appeal of General Yamashita, who was ... -
JAPS ORDERED TO MAKE ARRESTS FOR ATROCITIES
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 10 November 1945, page 1
News 99 wordsGeneral MacArthur has ordered the arrest of approximately 300 Japanese, mostly guards of prison camps ... -
26 JAPANESE CHARGED WITH MURDER
A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 18 February 1950, page 1
News 133 wordsTwenty-six Japanese war criminal suspects, held at Sugarmo prison in Tokyo, have been charged with the murder of Australian servicemen. This was learned to-day from defending ... -
EXECUTION OF JAP CRIMINALS LIKELY THIS MORNING
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 29 November 1948, page 2
News 130 wordsGeneral MacArthur's headquarters indicated that the executions of Tojo and other war leaders may take place at any time after 1 a.m. (Sydney time) Monday. Colonel M. P. Echols, General ... -
RELEASE OF JAP. WAR PRISONERS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 17 February 1950, page 1
News 52 wordsAbout 100 Japanese war criminals will be released from Sugamo prison this weeK, General MacArthur's headquarters ... -
NETHERLANDS RELEASES WAR CRIMINALS
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 30 December 1954, page 2
News 42 wordsTOKYO[?] Wednesday.—Fifteen Japanese war criminals sentenced by the Netherlands were released on parole from Sugamo ... -
SEVEN JAP. WAR CRIMINALS HANGED
(A. A.P.-Router) TOKYO Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 8 April 1950, page 1
News 127 wordsSeven Japanese war criminals were hanged at Sugamo Prison early to-day for participation in torture and decapitation of three ... -
EARLY EXECUTIONS ARE EXPECTED IN TOKYO
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 22 December 1948, page 1
News 253 wordsGeneral MacArthur is expected to order the execution of General Tojo and six other major Japanese war fords, as soon as he rece[?] formal notification that the United States Supreme Court ... -
EXECUTION OF TOJO IMMINENT
(A.A.P.-Reuters.) TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 30 November 1948, page 1
News 97 wordsAn execution tension swept Tokyo to-night. The Buddhist priest (Hanayama), who will perform last ... -
Mr. Casey In Talks On Release Of Japanese
WASHINGTON, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 13 October 1954, page 1
News 152 wordsUrgent consideration was being given in Washington to the politically explosive question of parole of Japanese war ... -
HOSTILE JAP WITNESSES AT WAR TRIALS
SINGAPORE, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Matsuoka Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 24 January 1946, page 1
News 88 wordsSo far, only two Japanese have been called to give evidence at the south-East Asia war trials and both were treated as hostile witnesses. ... -
Xmas Amnesty To Release Jap. War Criminals
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 27 December 1949, page 2
News 184 wordsA Christmas amnesty, resulting in the immediate release of 46 minor Japanese war criminals, has been announced by ... -
JAP. WAR CRIMINALS RELEASED
(A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 29 December 1949, page 1
News 100 wordsForty-five Japanese war criminals were released from the Sugamo prison in Tokyo, to-day after the Christmas amnesty ... -
JAP WAR CRIMINALS MAY BE RELEASED FROM GAOL THIS MONTH
(A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 21 December 1949, page 1
News 371 wordsOne hundred Japanese war criminals, suspected of atrocities against Australians, may be released from Sugamo prison, Tokyo, at the end of this month, A.A.P.-Reurer reliably learned. ... -
JAPSDEMAND RELEASE OF 318 WAR CRIMINALS
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 5 September 1952, page 1
News 400 wordsForeign correspondents who interviewed Japanese war criminals in Sugamo prison heard a demand that the 318 ... -
THREE JAPS GUILITY OF TWO MURDERS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Ambon Captain Kaneki Kagiyama Japanese War Crimes Kiyomi Sakemi Takao Sasaki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 10 October 1950, page 3
News 156 wordsThree Japanese were to-day found guilty by the War Crimes Court of having murdered two R.A.A.F. flight sergeants at ... -
JAPANESE NOW DECIDE TO "APOLOGISE" TO CHINA
From Australian Associated Press, New York
[ tagged as Field Marshal Sugiyama General Kenji Doihara Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 20 September 1945, page 1
News 115 wordsTokyo newspapers say Prince Higashi-Kuni, Prime Minister, has decided to send an "envoy of apology" to China because ... -
ORDER FOR ARREST OF JAP C-IN-C
[ tagged as General Kenji Doihara Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 22 September 1945, page 32
News 30 wordsGeneral MacArthur has ordered the arrest of General Doihara, new C-in-C of the Japanese 1st Army, states Associated Press of America ... -
TOJO SHOUTED BENZAI PRIOR TO EXECUTION
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as General Kenji Doihara General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Matsui Muto Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 25 December 1948, page 1
News 210 wordsIt is revaled that General Tojo and three of his warmaker companions gave lusty "Benzai". shouts before they were hanged in Sugamo prison. The cry, which means "Blood for the Emperior, was shouted by thousands of ... -
WAR CRIMES COURT CHECKS JAPANESE DOCUMENT
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Haruo Watanabe Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 10 November 1950, page 2
News 195 wordsThe War Crimes Court sent a message to Tokyo seeking verification of the authenticity of a document submitted in the trial of former Caotain Haruo Watanabe. Watanabe is charged with ... -
HOW AUSTRALIANS WERE EXECUTED
(From A.A.P, Special Correspondent.) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina General Hitoshi Imamura Itsui Japanese War Crimes Rabaul Tavoy ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 16 June 1950, page 3
News 374 wordsA former Japanese army officer charged with murder told the War Crimes Court here today that he had the execution ... -
INTERPRETERS MISTAKE AT WAR TRIAL
LOS NEGROS, Wednesday.
[ tagged as General Yamashita Itsui Japanese War Crimes Saito Noboru ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 15 June 1950, page 4
News 279 wordsTwo Japanese words, "Kongo" (hereafter) and "Tomo" (meaning "and including the present") to-day became very important in ... -
TWO JAPS ARE GUILTY; GAOLED
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina Itsui Japanese War Crimes Tavoy ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 20 June 1950, page 1
News 124 wordsMajor 'Hiroshi' Itsul and Captain Hirayasu Shina were both found guilty by the War Crimes Court here to-day. ... -
JAP. DEFENCE IGNORANCE OF GENEVA LAW
(A.A.P.) LOS NEGROS, Sunday.
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina General Tojo Itsui Japanese War Crimes Tavoy ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 19 June 1950, page 1
News 197 wordsGeneral Tojo completely. deceived the Allies about Japan's application of the Geneva Convention, counsel for Major ... -
JAPS AND P.O.W.'S "VERY FRIENDLY" SAYS ITSUI
LOS NEGROS, Friday. (A.A.P.-Reuter)
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina Itsui Japanese War Crimes Tavoy ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 10 June 1950, page 4
News 629 wordsAt a farewell dinner party given him when he left Tavoy (South Burma) for Singaport, a Major Cousens, of the Australian ... -
JAP. TRIALS MAY BE PROLONGED
LOS NEGROS (Admiralty Is.) Thursday.
[ tagged as General Hitoshi Imamura Itsui Japanese War Crimes Tavoy ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 9 June 1950, page 1
News 221 wordsExtremely slow progress was made to-day with the defence cuse in the first case of an allegod war criminal. ... -
JAP ALLEGES PARTY FOR AUSTRALIANS AFTER EXECUTIONS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina General Yamashita Itsui Japanese War Crimes Tavoy ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 14 June 1950, page 1
News 1159 wordsAn Australian army officer had been entertained at a farewell party by Japanese officers only a short time after the execution of eight Australian prisoners of war Major Hiroshi Itsui told the War ... -
WAR TRIALS AT MANUS IN JUNE
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina Itsui Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 27 May 1950, page 4
News 109 wordsThe Minister for the Army (Mr. Francis) said yesterday that the trials of Japanese war criminal suspects would begin at ... -
Surviving Witness Of Jap. Murders Not at Trial
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina General Hitoshi Imamura Itsui Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 8 June 1950, page 1
News 888 wordsSome surprise has been occasioned in unofficial circles in Canberra by knowledge that although the one surviving witness of the execution of eight Australian soldiers, which is now the subject of the current trial of ... -
JAP SOLDIERS SAY KONOYE WAS WAR CRIMINAL
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as China Incident General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Prince Konoye Suicide ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 18 December 1945, page 1
News 202 wordsThe correspondent of "The New York Times" "declares that former' Japanese soldiers consider that Prince Konoye and ... -
JAP SUICIDES TO CHEAT HANGMAN
BATAVIA, Sunday
[ tagged as Hiroshi Shutara Suicide Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 7 October 1946, page 1
News 22 wordsThe Japanese war criminal, Hiroshi Shutara, hanged himself on Friday at Macassar after the prosecution at the court martial had demanded the ... -
MAJOR OF VICTIMS' OUT OF WAR CRIMES COURT
LOS NEGROS (Admiralty Is.) Sunday.
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina Itsui Japanese War Crimes Takuma Nishimura Tavoy ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 5 June 1950, page 1
News 523 wordsAn Australian Army officer has asked to be relieved of duty as a member of the War Crimes Court which opens here to-morrow, so that there can be no suggestion of partiality. ... -
ANOTHER JAP. TO BE HANGED FOR MURDER
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Ipachi Miyamoto Japanese War Crimes Seamen Taheshi Sasaki Sub Lieut Yutaka Suauki Takuma Nishimura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 22 August 1950, page 2
News 323 wordsThe War Crimes Court to-day sentenced former Japanese naval ensign Ipachi Miyamoto to death by hanging for shooting a sick ... -
MEISINGER DENIES CHARGE OF BEING "BUTCHER" OF WARSAW
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Josef Albert Meisinger ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 2
News 164 wordsJosef Albert Meisinger, the former, Gestapo Chief in Japan, who is under American detention pending inquiries in Europe to determine whether or ... -
Warsaw "Butcher" Captured In Japan
LONDON, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Josef Albert Meisinger ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 8 September 1945, page 1
News 67 wordsIt was announced that Josef Meisinger, the "butcher of Warsaw," has been captured in Japan. ... -
Japanese War Prisoners Released From Gaol
(A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Capt Ken Ukai Capt Toru Oyama Isac Magata Japanese War Crimes Kane Yoshiwara Kesso Kijima Maj Gen Ryoichi Shoge Sadahiko Miyake Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 2 March 1950, page 1
News 196 wordsAustralian war crimes officials have authorised the release of 47 Japanese—previously held as suspected war criminals on Australia's behalf—from Sugamo prison. ... -
JAPANESE WAR MINISTER SERVED THREE YEARS GAOL
Wanted by Australia TOKYO, Sunday.
[ tagged as Fusataro Teshima Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 30 January 1950, page 1
News 377 wordsAn A.A.P.-Reuter correspondent last night located Lieut-General Fusataro Teshima, senior war crimes suspect, wanted by Australia, at his home in a Tokyo suburb. Teshima has already served three ... -
U.S. PERSECUTION AGAINST JAP TREACHERY
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 12 February 1948, page 1
News 168 words"If treachery of the Japanese accused in the major war crimes trial remained unpunished, there would be an implied invitation to world anarchy," the chief prosecutor (Mr. Joseph Keenan) said in his final address to the tribunal. ... -
IN PARLIAMENT
HOUSE OF REPS.
[ tagged as Child Endowment Cream Ban Japanese War Crimes Prime Minister Menzies ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 25 February 1950, page 4
News 681 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) made a statement on Japanese war crimes trials, He said it was proposed to establish ... -
HUMAN "BEARS STOMACH" WAR TRIAL EVIDENCE
(A.A.P.-Reuter). LOS NEGROS, Friday.
[ tagged as Fusataro Teshima Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison Tadao Taura Taniguchi Yoshihiro Kitamura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 1 July 1950, page 1
News 304 wordsA JaPanese medical officer told the War Crimes Court here to-day that he had been ordered by a senior Kempei Tai officer to make him a human "bear's stomach" from the bodies of two Australian prisoners of war ... -
"BLOOD FOR OUR BLOOD"
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 2
News 597 wordsIf any further evidence had been required of the need for civilised people to steel their hearts against any suggestion ... -
Heated Charge Of Failure in Duty In Jap. Trials
[ tagged as Ben Chifley Japanese War Crimes Prime Minister Menzies ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 17 March 1950, page 4
News 601 wordsThe Ministor for the Army (Mr. Francis) yesterday produced in the House of Representatives a copy of a Cabinet ... -
JUSTICE ON WAR CRIMINALS
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 9
News 144 wordsSir: It is pleasing to hear the statements of Dr Evatt with regard to dastardly crimes committed by the brutal Japanese on POW personnel ... -
Murder of Nurses
Worst Atrocity Yet Perpetrated SYDNEY, Monday.
[ tagged as Australian Nurses Massacred Banka Island Hirohito Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 2
News 376 wordsTwo of the worst atrocities ever perpetrated in the history of the world, was how the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) to-day ... -
JAP NEWSPAPERS ORDERED TO TELL OF ATROCITIES
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Lieut Gen Chikkaiko Kiozumi ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 1
News 187 wordsAt the beginning of a programme to "educate the Japanese about the acts of their military leaders," all Japanese newspapers have agreed to ... -
JAP COMMANDER FACES ATROCITY TRIAL AGAINST CHINESE AT RABAUL
RABAUL, Thursday.
[ tagged as General Hitoshi Imamura Japanese War Crimes Major General Hirota ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 21 March 1947, page 2
News 254 wordsMajor General Hirota, who is on trial for his life on war crimes charges, pressed for the killing of all prisoners of war held by Japan in 1945, and General Imamura, who will be tried later, was quite agreeable. ... -
VOLUMES OF EVIDENCE AGAINST YAMASHITA
MANILA, Monday.
[ tagged as General Yamashita Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes The Tiger of Malaya ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 9 October 1945, page 1
News 315 wordsBefore the trial commenced this afternoon ot General Yamashita, "the tiger, of Malaya," as a war criminal it was revealed by the prosecutor (Major-General Kerr) that a pile of evidence he could produce which ... -
"SERIOUS INCIDENT IN MALAYA"
Jap. General is Stubborn At Trial (From A.A.P. Special Correspondent) LOS NEGROS, Friday.
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina General Hitoshi Imamura Itsui Japanese War Crimes Tavoy The Tiger Of Malaya ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 17 June 1950, page 1
News 477 wordsJapan's senior officer in the South-West Pacific during the War, General Hitoshi Imamura, refused to tell the War Crimes Court to-day the name of the staff officer who, he said, was responsible for a "serious incident" ... -
HELPLESS PRISONERS BURNT ALIVE BY JAPANESE
MANILA, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 9 March 1945, page 1
News 196 wordsDocumentary evidence [?] that 2,500 civilians were bayoneted, shot or burned alive in Intramuros, the old walled city of Manila ... -
LONG LIST OF CHARGES AGAINST YAMASHITA
MANILA, Tuesday.
[ tagged as General Tomayuki Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes The Tiger of Malaya Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 10 October 1945, page 1
News 336 wordsSpecific cases of beatings, rape, torture, mutilation and massacre of more than 25,000 non-combatant men,'women and children in the Philippines are among the charges listed gainst Japanese soldiers under the command of General Tomayuki ... -
ONE JAP TO WANG, OTHERS GAOLED FOR WAR MURDERS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes P O Shimkichi Shimohama W O Kakutaro Sasiki Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 3 October 1950, page 3
News 430 wordsThe War Crimes Court to-day sentenced a Japanese to death by hanging, and two others to gaol terms for the mass murder of Australian and Allied war prisoners at Laha airfield, Ambon Island, in February, 1942. ... -
BESTIAL SADISM BY JAP GUARDS ON AMBON ALLEGED
AMBON, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 4 January 1946, page 2
News 172 wordsA systematic policy of bestial sadism was pursued by the Japanese guards at Tankoei camp, at Ambon. said Captain J. Williams, of ... -
JAP CRIMINALS SMILE IN COURT
AMBON, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 10 January 1946, page 1
News 105 wordsAccused of being identified as responsible for the beating of Australian prisoners of war at Ambon, Japs smiled broadly before the War Crimes ... -
JAP. WAR CRIMINALS FACE CHARGES OF TORTURING P.O.W.
(A.A.P.Reuters) HONGKONG,Tuesday.
[ tagged as Admiral Tahara Susumu Hainan Island Japanese War Crimes Matsukawa Chuzo POW Shigetaa Otsuki Tajuma Tanaki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 7 January 1948, page 1
News 145 wordsThe story of "Puss and Boots" and of 16 other Japanese was told in the Australian War Crimes Court yesterday. ... -
MAJOR ARRESTS ORDERED BY MACARTHUR
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Prince Konoye suicide ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 18 December 1945, page 1
News 111 wordsGeneral MacArthur has ordered the arrest of 69 additional offfcials, guards and civilian employees at prisoner of war camps for atrocities against Allied prisoners.The camps involved include several in Manchuria ... -
10 YEARS GAOL FOR JAPANESE COMMANDER
RABAUL, Friday.
[ tagged as General Hitoshi Imamura Hirota Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Adachi ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 17 May 1947, page 1
News 113 wordsFound guilty of failing in his duty as a commander, General Hitoshi Imamura, former G.O.C. of the ... -
3,255 Japanese On Wanted List
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 9 May 1946, page 4
News 56 wordsAccording to the latest "Facts and Figures" bulletin, issued by the Department of Information, 3,255 (Japanese Were listed by the Australian ... -
DEATH FOR JAPANESE MURDERERS
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Moulmem ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 6 September 1947, page 2
News 44 wordsRANGOON, Friday.—Ten of 18 Japanese, charged with the murder of 26 Burmese at Moulmein in 1945, were sentenced to death by the War ... -
FINAL PLEA BY TOJO AT WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Hideki Tojo Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 10 April 1948, page 1
News 83 wordsHideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime dictator, made his final plea before the International War Crimes Tribunal which is trying ... -
JAP COMMUNISTS LIST HIROHITO FOR WAR CRIMES
TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Emperor Hirohito Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 14 November 1945, page 1
News 46 wordsThe Japanese Communist Party announced that Emperor Hirohito heads its list of war criminals. ... -
TRIAL OF JAP WAR LEADERS DEFERRED
TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 16 May 1946, page 5
News 45 wordsThe International war crimes tribunal, which was trying General Tojo and other Japanese war leaders, adjourned indefinitely to study ... -
40 YEARS' GAOL FOR WAR TORTURE.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Yoshio Komioe ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 3 September 1948, page 1
News 42 wordsYOKOHAMA, Thursday. The War Crimes Commision sentenced Yoshio Komioe, a Japanese prison guard to 40 years hard ... -
SLAVE CONDITIONS AND ATROCITIES IN ANDAMAN IS.
Fate Under Japanese Occupation LONDON, Saturday.
[ tagged as Andaman Islands Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 9 November 1942, page 2
News 192 wordsLooting, wrecking, atrocities on local population, the setting free of dangerous criminals, and forced labour from dawn to dusk at slave ... -
EURASIQN TO DIE FOR AIDING JAPS IN MALAYA
SINGAPORE, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Andaman Islands Itsuki Toshio Japanese War Crimes Tamura Shinji ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 13 March 1946, page 1
News 149 wordsA British military court has imposed the death sentence on Cloves Osborne Woodford, 51, a Eurasian, for collaboration during the ... -
JAPANESE RAPED AND PLUNDERED
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Nanking ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 31 August 1946, page 1
News 66 wordsA former German Embassy clerk from Nanking told the War Crimes Tribunal that drunken Japanese troops had raped 20,000 women and ... -
PUNISHED FOR WAR CRIMES
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 31 August 1946, page 1
News 35 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The U.N.O. War Crimes Commission announced that of 1673 persons accused to July 31 of war crimes 554 had been ... -
JAPANESE GENERAL CONVICTED.
[ tagged as Hainan Island Japanese War Crimes Tahara Suzumi ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 23 June 1948, page 2
News 36 wordsHONGKONG, Tuesday. Admiral Tahara Suzumi and 15 associates were convicted to-day by an Australian War Crimes ... -
JAP TRIALS AT RABAUL
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 13 February 1946, page 1
News 42 wordsThe Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) announced that Japanese who were being held in the various islands for trial on war crimes will be ... -
UNCLE SAM AIMS TO KILL BLACK DRAGON
WASHINGTON, Friday.
[ tagged as Chikahiko Koizumi Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Teiichi Yoshimoto ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 1
News 776 wordsThe United States is hoping for quick and vigorous action against Jap war criminals, paralleling the measures taken in Germany, and whole organisations, such as the Black Dragon Society, may be placed on trial. ... -
Japs Used War Prisoners for Bayonet Practice
CHUNGKING, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Bataan Chemulpo Prison Camp Japanese War Crimes Zentsuji Prison Camp ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 28 June 1945, page 2
News 203 wordsThe Japanese compelled inexperienced Korean troops to bayonet to death 154 British and American troops in a camp near Zentsuji on ... -
VICTORIAN IS FIRST BACK FROM TOKYO
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes POW's Recovered Zentsuji Prison Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 3
News 117 wordsThe first liberated Australian to reach Australia from Tokyo is Lieutenant Gordon Braden, of Victoria, who arrived in Sydney by air ... -
JAP POLICE CHIEF ATTEMPTS TO MISLEAD COURT
DARWIN, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kempei Tai Lieut Col Yutania ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 26 March 1946, page 1
News 199 wordsIn the third day of his trial, LieutColonel Yutania Commander of the Fifth Field Police at Koepang denied that the Kempei Tai ... -
Jap Officer Says Security Police An Exemplary Force
DARWIN, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kempei Tai Leit Col Yutani ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 27 March 1946, page 1
News 87 wordsDescribing his Kempei Tai unit in Timor as an exemplary police force, which never beat anyone, Lieut.-Colonel Yutani declared at the war ... -
KEMPIE TAI CAPTAIN SENTENCED TO DEATH
SHANGHAI, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Harfyoshi Kanimura Japanese War Crimes Kempei Tai Wolf of Changshu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 8 January 1947, page 1
News 51 wordsA Chinese military tribunal has imposed the death sentence on Harfyoshi Kanimura, former captain in the Japanese Kempie Tai. ... -
DEATH PENALTY FOR CANNIBALISM
Wewak Trial
[ tagged as Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Lieut Takehiko Tazaki Muschu Island Wewak ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 3 December 1945, page 5
News 191 wordsSentence of death by hanging was passed on First-Lieutenant Takehiko Tazaki by an Australian military court at Wewak on Saturday. ... -
"For the cause that lacks assistance, 'Gainst the wrongs that need resistance For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do." The Canberra Times
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1946. ALLIES MADE LAUGHING STOCKS.
[ tagged as Emperor Hirohito Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 18 October 1946, page 4
News 387 wordsNO single act since the conclusion of hostilities is more calculated to encourage the German resistance and deflance of Allied plans for the regeneration of Europe than the manner in which Hermann Goring was able to set Germans laughing at the Allied Control. This was an ... -
BATAAN "MARCH OF DEATH" WILL GO ON TO TOKIO
From Our Own Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 7 February 1944, page 12
News 104 words"You have watchea the Japanese spread on the pages of history's great Judgment Book one of the most terrible indictments ever written by ... -
"MARCH OF DEATH" ON BATAAN
U S Officer's Story AAP and Our Own Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Sunday
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 31 January 1944, page 12
News 470 wordsA story of cruelty inflicted by the Japanese on American fighters after the fall of Bataan is related by Capt Samuel Grashio, US Army Air Force ... -
JAP P.O.W. SUICIDED
MELBOURNE, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 25 May 1946, page 4
News 50 wordsAt the inquest into the death of Private Shigehi Ujokota, 20, from hanging at a P.O-W. camp at Murchison on Wednesday, it was stated ... -
JAP OFFICERS SENTENCED FOR P.O.W. DISSECTION
(A.A.P.—Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sourabaya Tamao Shinohara ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 13 March 1951, page 1
News 218 wordsTwenty Japanese watched three Japanese naval officers dissect an Allied P.O.W. s corpse and remove the gall bladder from ... -
EXECUTION OF FIFTH JAP. WAR CRIMINAL CONFIRMED
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kikumatsu Tanaka Lieut Sakurada Makota Manus Island Miyachika Katsumi Seamen Sato Kichiji Shinjiro Senno Tamao Shinohara Tsuruoka Ikuzo W O Faito Choji ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 1 June 1951, page 1
News 125 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) announced last night that the Government had confirmed the death sentence on a fifth ... -
Jap. Admiral And Captain To Hang For War Crime
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS; Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kikumatsu Tanaka Sourabaya Tamao Shinohara ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 15 February 1951, page 1
News 214 wordsThe Australian War Crimes Court to-day sentenced former, Rear Admiral Kikuniatsu Tanaka and former Navy Captain Tamao Shinohara to death by hanging. The courty found them guilty of having murdered ... -
HEAVY TOLL OF POW's IN BORNEO
Hundreds Died In Death Marches
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kuching POW's Sandakan Death March Ranau ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 17 September 1945, page 9
News 416 wordsThe grim story of the fate of British, Australian, and other prisoners of war at Sandakan, on the northwest coast of Borneo, from August, ... -
JAP OFFICERS HELD FOR TRIAL AS WAR CRIMINALS
(From Our Correspondent, Graham Jenkins) LABAUN, Monday.
[ tagged as 9th Division Japanese War Crimes Kempei Tai Sandakan Death March ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 16 October 1945, page 2
News 194 wordsAbout 150 Japanese, including members of the dreaded Kempei Tai, secret police, are expected to be tried as war criminals as the result of ... -
JAP. PRISONERS OUT
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 7 March 1952, page 4
News 47 wordsTOKYO, Thurs.— General Ridgway's headquarters yesterday ordered 19 Japanese war criminals to be paroled from Sugamo ... -
JAPS APPEAL TO U.S. SUPREME COURT FOR CLEMENCY
(A.A.P.-Reuters.) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March General Kenji Doihara General Minami General Tamashita General Tojo Hirota Homma Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 1 December 1948, page 1
News 418 wordsIn a last-minute bid to cheat the gallows general Doihara, commander, of the Japanese Seventh Army in Singapore, and the former Premier, Hirota, have appealed to the United States Supreme Court ... -
Parole For Japanese War Criminal
TOKYO, Sunday.
[ tagged as Field Marshall Hata General Araki General Minami General Minami Paroled Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 4 January 1954, page 2
News 140 wordsThe Western Allies have agreed to parole a major Japanese war criminal, General Jiro Minami, 79-year old former ... -
MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1944 ALL WILL BE REPAID
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 31 January 1944, page 2
News 594 wordsAny lingering doubts in the mind of anyone as to the inhuman character of our Japanese foe must have been ... -
JAP PLAN TO READJUST RELATIONS WITH USA
Disclosures in Memoirs of Prince Konoye From Australian Associated Press, New York
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Matsuoka Prince Konoye Prince Konoye Suicide ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 19 December 1945, page 24
News 751 wordsThe memoirs of Prince Konoye, former Prime Minister of Japan, who committed suicide on Sunday, are now in possession of the US war ... -
Judge to Investigate Murder of Three Australians
BATAVIA, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 23 May 1946, page 5
News 69 wordsThe Australian Government is sending a judge to Batavia to investigate the murdar of three Australian war crimes investigators near ... -
War Crimes Court Imposes Sentence On Three Japs
LOS NEGROS, Friday.
[ tagged as Ambon Captain Kaneki Kagiyama Captain Seizo Hara Japanese War Crimes Serg Maj Yoshimatsu Kuratani Yoshiyasu Koga ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 2 September 1950, page 1
News 130 wordsThe War Crimes Court to-day acquitted one Japanese of murdering Australian and Allied prisoners of war at Ambon in 1943, ... -
Two Japs Given Life Sentences For P.O.W. Murder
LOSS NEGROS, Friday. (A.A.P.-Reuter)
[ tagged as Iwo Shimada Japanese War Crimes Kakumi Miyachika Kikuichi Noguchi Koepang Seaman Masaru Higaki Seaman Schichiro Makano Shinjiro Senno Tatsuo Dan Yoshinora Watanabe Yoshitako HiJikuro ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 4 November 1950, page 3
News 146 wordsThree forrner Japanese sailors were today found guilty of murdering Australian and Allied prisoners of war at an airfield ... -
DEATH OF EX-JAPANESE NAVY CHIEF
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Admiral Nagano Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 7 January 1947, page 1
News 55 wordsAdmiral Osami Nagano, who was Chief of the Japanese Navy General Staff at the time of Pearl Harbour, died yesterday in Sugamo prison ... -
JAP WANTS TRIAL TO CLEAR HIMSELF
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Black Dragon Society General Araki Japanese War Crimes Yoshihisa Kuzuu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 24 November 1945, page 1
News 57 wordsGeneral Araki and Yoshishisa Kuzuu, leader of the Black Dragon Society, surrendered to the Allies and were imprisoned as suspected was ... -
Accused Jap. Pleads Ignorance Of Execution
(A A.P.-Reuter) LOS [?] Monday.
[ tagged as Babaoe Iwo Shimada Japanese War Crimes Kpshiro Kakasawa POW Seaman Genhachiro Matsumoto Senno WO Shinkiro ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 19 September 1950, page 3
News 209 wordsA former Japanese marine, charged with the murder of Australian prisoners of war on Timor, said to-day he had known ... -
MORE JAPS. FACE WAR CHARGES
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Babaoe Iwo Shimada Japanese War Crimes Koshiro Nakasawa POW seaman Genhachiro Matsumoto Wo Shinjiro Senuo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 15 September 1950, page 1
News 73 wordsJapanese had bayonetted and shot Australian prisoners of war with them when the tide of battle turned against them in Dutch ... -
Attempted Murder; Woman Charged
KATOOMBA, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Iwo Shimada Japanese War Crimes POW Seaman Genhachiro Matsumoto ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 20 September 1950, page 4
News 167 wordsMrs. Dorothy May Johnson, 33, of Mount Street, Leura, was committed for trial on a charge of wounding with intent to ... -
JAPS MUTILATED MURDERED AIRMEN WAR TRIALS CHARGE
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Fusataro Teshima Japanese War Crimes Lieut Col Tsugio Ryokai Major Jiichi Kitamura RAAF Tadao Taura W O Mitsugi Shirakawa Yoshihiro Kitamura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 30 June 1950, page 4
News 867 wordsInternal organs of a murdered Australian prisoner of war were removed by two Japanese medical officers in an effort to provide a medical remedy for one of their fellow officers at [?] ... -
WAR CRIMES COURT FINDINGS; JAPS SENTENCED
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Fusataro Teshima Japanese War Crimes Lieut Col Tsugio Ryokai Major Jiichi Kitamura Tadao Taura W O Mitsugi Shirakawa Yoshihiro Kitamura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 12 July 1950, page 4
News 183 wordsThree Japanese were to-day sentenced to gaol terms ranging from two to eight years for murder of two Australian, airmen at ... -
PERJURY ALLEGED AT WAR CRIMES COURT HEARING
(A. A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Fusataro Teshima Japanese War Crimes Lieut Col Tsugio Ryokai Lieut Gen Tashima Major Jiichi Kitamura Tadao Taura W O Mitsugi Shirakawa Yoshihiro Kitamura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 11 July 1950, page 1
News 201 wordsSix Japanese, accused before the War Crimes Court, had designed an obvious pattern of perjury to rescue two senior officers ... -
MacARTHUR ORDERS 100 MORE ARRESTS
TOKYO,Friday.
[ tagged as General Tackaji Wachi Japanese War Crimes Saburo Watanabe ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 19 January 1946, page 1
News 41 wordsGeneral MacArthur has ordered the arrest of an additional 100 war criminal suspects, including the former Chief-of-Staff ... -
JAP DESTROYED P.O.W. MAIL
SYDNEY,Tuesday.
[ tagged as Cpl Watanabe Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 19 September 1945, page 1
News 73 wordsBurning letters from home before then eyes was a favourite method of torture ptactised on Australians by the infamous sadist, Cpl. ... -
JAP SERGEANT BOASTS OF BRUTALITY
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Honshu Japanese War Crimes Matushiro Watanabe Nagoy POW Red Cross ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 8 September 1945, page 1
News 210 wordsAllied' prisoners of war, pouring into Yokohama from liberated camps, are building up a terrible case of sadistic brutality against Sergt. ... -
JAPS FACE TRIAL FOR MURDER OF BURMESE
SINGAPORE, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Andaman Islands Baba Ikuo Col Kaiyomoto Takauchi Japanese War Crimes Lieut Ishida Tadashi Lt Col Tuzuo Keizo Sato Tamanori ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 7 March 1946, page 4
News 61 wordsThe trial has opened of MajorGeneral Sato Tamanori, Colonel Kaiyomoto Takauchi, Lt.-Col. Tuzuo Keizo and Lieutenants Ishida, Tadashi, ... -
COUSENS DENIES ANY FRIENDSHIPS WITH JAPANESE
SYDNEY, Monday.
[ tagged as Bunka Camp Japanese War Crimes Major Charles Cousens Major Itsui Tavoy Prison Camp ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 17 September 1946, page 3
News 594 wordsDuring his cross-examination today Major Cousens denied at the Central Police Court where he is being, tried on a charge of treason, ... -
U.S. NAVY OFFICER DESCRIBES JAP CRUELTIES
SYDNEY, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Bunka Camp Japanese War Crimes Major Charles Cousens POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 2 October 1946, page 2
News 244 wordsGiving evidence in the Cousens treason trial, Lieut-Commander Henshaw, of the U.S. Navy, who had been assisting at the Tokyo trials in ... -
COUNSEL CLASH AT COUSEN'S TRIAL
SYDNEY, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Major Charles Cousens Radio Tokyo Watanabe ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 27 September 1946, page 4
News 117 wordsThere was a sharp clash between opposing counsel at the Central Court to-day, following a suggestion by Mr. Dovey, K.C. (for the Crown) ... -
Heated Clashes Between Counsel At Treason Trial
SYDNEY, Thursday.
[ tagged as Bunka Camp Japanese War Crimes Major Charles Cousens POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 23 August 1946, page 2
News 894 wordsHeated clashes occurred between counsel at the Cousens treason trial to-day during the cross-examination of Foumi Saisho, a Japanese woman ... -
DECISION TO-DAY ON COUSENS TREASON CHARGE
SYDNEY, Thursday.
[ tagged as Bunka Camp Japanese War Crimes Major Charles Cousens Tavoy Prison Camp ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 4 October 1946, page 1
News 216 wordsThe evidence in the Cousens treason trial was concluded to-day and the Magistrate (Mr. Farrington) announced that he will give his ... -
U.S. Officer Says Japs Accused Cousens of Sabotage
SYDNEY, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Bunka Camp Japanese War Crimes Major Charles Cousens POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 3 October 1946, page 5
News 154 wordsContinuing his evidence to-day in the treason trial of Major Cousens, Lieut.-Commander Henshaw said that Cousens. had written the most ... -
Jap. Woman Gives Evidence Against Cousens on Treason
SYDNEY, Tuesday.
[ tagged as 8th Division Bunka Camp Changi Japanese War Crimes Major Charles Cousens ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 21 August 1946, page 1
News 1550 wordsThe treason trial of Major Charles Hughes Cousens, formerly of the Eighth Division, opened in the Central Police Court to-day and was adjourned until to-morrow. The principal witness was Miss Foumi Saisho, a Japanese ... -
"For the cause that lacks assistance, 'Gainst the wrongs that need resistance For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do" The Caberra Times
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1945 THESE CRIMES DEMAND JUSTICE.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 2
News 534 wordsIN the dreadful catalogue of war horrors and the frightful excesses of bestiality, this country has never known within reach of its shores anything comparable to the atrocities to which the mutilated bodies of the dead and the tortured Ups of the living have given witness'. ... -
INQUIRY INTO JAP ATROCITIES
Details for War Crimes Commission
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 1 February 1944, page 1
News 154 wordsCANBERRA, Mon: A special commission of inquiry under Sir William Webb, Chief Justice of Queensland, is investigating ... -
U.S. SUPREME COURT DECLINES HEARING OF WAR CRIMES APPEALS
WASHINGTON, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 5 January 1949, page 2
News 85 wordsThe Supreme Court to-day refused to reconsider its decision that it has no authority over the International Military Tribunal ... -
'DEATH MARCH"— JAP VERSION
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March General Susumu Morioka Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 9 May 1952, page 4
News 171 wordsThe Bataan "death march" was "American propaganda," ex-Lt.General Susumu Morioka, who commanded the Japanese 12th ... -
JAPANESE SCALDED PRISONER BEFORE SHOOTING HIM
NEW YORK, Tuesday, AAP
[ tagged as Hong Kong Japanese War Crimes POW Stanley Prison Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 22 March 1944, page 16
News 129 wordsThe Japanese had poured boiling water over a 19-year-old Canadian soldier suffering from 15 bullet wounds before they shot him after ... -
JAP BAN ON MacARTHUR'S LIST OF WANTED PERSONS
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 14 September 1945, page 1
News 53 wordsAccording to a Tokyo broadcast the Japanese newspaper Mainichi said the Japanese Government without ... -
JAPS ARRESTED FOR MURDER
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 23 July 1948, page 4
News 43 wordsThirty former high-rankingJap, army officials, including the former Vice-Minister, of War (Tasakazu Wakamatsu) were ... -
COUSENS TELLS HOW JAPS FORCED HIM TO BROADCAST
SYDNEY. Monday.
[ tagged as Changi Chinese Japanese War Crimes Kempei Tai Major Charles Cousens POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 10 September 1946, page 4
News 892 wordsEvidence was given by Major Cousens, when the treason trial was resumed to-day at the court that he was taken to Tokyo and directed to make broadcasts. Mr. Shand, who appeared for, Cousens, asked that an order ... -
HONG KONG PRISON CAMP CONDITIONS
LONDON, Monday, AAP
[ tagged as Hong Kong Japanese War Crimes POW Stanley Prison Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 25 May 1943, page 12
News 151 wordsDetails of Stanley prison camp, in Hong Kong, given by Sir Arthur Blackburn, former British Counsellor at Chungking, who has been ... -
TOJO'S FINAL APPEAL FOR PAN-ASIANISM
(A. A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as General Kenji Doihara General Tojo Hirota Japanese War Crimes Keitaro Kimua Matsui Muto Seishiro Itagaki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 24 December 1948, page 4
News 1639 wordsFinal pleas for Pan-Asianism were made by General Tojo in his last message to the world. The message, which Tojo handed to the Buddhist priest (Hanayama), asked "right thinking people of the ... -
GRIM STORY OF HONG KONG PRISON
Pathetic Messages Written on Walls HONG KONG
[ tagged as Chinese Hong Kong Japanese War Crimes POW Saito Sgt Matsuda Stanley Prison Camp The Tiger ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 27 September 1945, page 5
News 330 wordsPathetic messages written by prisoners of war before their execution can be seen on the walls of several of the cells in Stanley prison, Hong ... -
TOJO ATTEMTS SUICIDE
TRIES TO EVADE TRIAL AS WAR CRIMINAL Arrest Had Been Ordered By General MacArthur TOKYO GENERAL TOJO, FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, SHOT HIMSELF AT 4.15 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WHILE SECURITY OFFICERS WERE ABOUT TO ENTER HIS COUNTRY RESIDENCE TO ARREST HIM AS A SUSPECTED WAR CRIMINAL. His condition is not yet certain. First reports said that he was still alive at 6.30pm, but that death was certain, but later it was stated that he had been given a blood transfusion, and that he had a fiftyfifty chance of survival.
[ tagged as Changi General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Josef Albert Meisinger Saito ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 12 September 1945, page 1
News ILLUSTRATED 718 wordsGeneral MacArthur had notified all military units under his command to look for Tojo, the Japanese warmonger, who had ... -
ARREST OF JAPS IN MALAYA
SINGAPORE
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kempi Saito ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 14 September 1945, page 1
News 196 wordsThe round-up of Japanese war criminals is in full swing. One of the earliest to be taken into custody was General Saito, ... -
WAR GUILTY MEMBERS OF JAP DIET Asked to "Reflect On Past Deeds"
From Australian Associated Press, New York
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 3 December 1945, page 20
News 190 wordsThe Japanese House of Representatives rejected a motion demanding the resignation of those mernbers of the Diet (Parliament) who ... -
RETURNED MEN NAME THREE MORE JAP CRIMINALS
BRISBANE, Wed.
[ tagged as Horio Sujop Camp Japanese War Crimes Toyama-Korean Guard ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 27 September 1945, page 1
News 80 wordsThe names of three more Jap. war criminals was given by liberated Dutch and Australian P.O.W.'s who reached Sydney to-day. ... -
JAPS. KILLED AUSTRALIANS IN "DRUNKEN ORGY"
(A. A. P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS; Thursday
[ tagged as Iwo Shimada Japanese War Crimes Katsumi Miyachka Kikuichi Noguchi Koepang Masaru Higaki Shichiro Nakano Shinjiro Senno Tatsuo Dan Yoshinori Watanare Yoshitake Hijiguro ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 20 October 1950, page 4
News 231 wordsJapanese killed and mutilated Australian prisoners of war in a "drunken orgy" in Timor in 1942, the War Crimes Court was told ... -
Korean, Guards Re-Enact Japanese Shooting Of British Prisoner
SINGAPORE, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 24 May 1946, page 1
News 267 wordsTwo Korean guards were the principal witnesses in the trial of Major Mizutani on a charge of shooting a Northumberland Fusilier, L. W. Wanty. They dramatically re-enacted the scene showing how the shooting took ... -
JAPAN USED AS CATSPAW BY RIBBENTROP
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Oshima Ribbentrop ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 27 September 1946, page 1
News 185 wordsHow the German Foreign Minister (von Ribbentrop) tried to persuade Japan to make a sneak attack on Singapore in the spring of 1941, ... -
BURMA COMMOS REALLY ACT AS GANGSTERS
SYDNEY, Monday.
[ tagged as Burma Communists Burma-Siam Railway Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 16 March 1948, page 2
News 204 wordsThe conduct of Communists, who had set up a Government in Pyinmana, Central Burma, was little better than that of ... -
10 YEARS' GAOL FOR JAP OFFICER.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kuroda Keiichi ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 3 August 1948, page 1
News 39 wordsHONGKONG, Monday. An Australian War Crimes Court to-day sentenced Kuroda Keiichi, former Jap. Sergt.-Major to 10 ... -
VISCOUNT BRUCE TO DEFER CHOICE OF TITLE
WASHINGTON, Fri.
[ tagged as General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Kuroda ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 18 January 1947, page 2
News 156 wordsIt is learned the Viscount Bruce will not choose his full title until, he returns to England in February. TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL TO ... -
Jap. Admiral Ordered Murders, Says Witness
LOS NEGROS, Wednesday. (A.A.P.-Reuter)
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Laha airfield Rear Adm Koichiro Hatakeyama ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 28 September 1950, page 5
News 112 wordsRear-Admiral Koichiro Hatakeyama had ordered the mass executions of Australian and Dutch war prisoners on Ambon ... -
JAP. WAR TRIALS ENDING; NO EXECUTIONS
(A.A.P.-Reater) LOS NEGROS[?] Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 4 April 1951, page 1
News 139 wordsTrials of alleged Japanese war criminals by the Australian War Crimes Court will end within a week. ... -
Japanese Released
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kiichiro Hiranuma ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 17 June 1952, page 2
News 47 wordsTOKYO, Mon.—Kiichiro Hiranuma, 85-year-old former Japanese Prime Minister, sentenced in 1948 to life imprisonment for war ... -
KONOYE FAILED IN GREAT TRUST
[ tagged as Hashimoto Japanese War Crimes Panay Prince Konoye Suicide The Bluebird ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 17 December 1945, page 2
News 848 wordsA BEWILDERED Japanes? Prince has died by his own hand. The manner of atonement he selected was in the best traditions of ... -
JAP TO HANG FOR MUNDER OF EUROPEANS
RABAUL, Thursday.
[ tagged as Hiromi Nakayama Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 17 May 1946, page 1
News 95 wordsLieutenant-Commander Hiromi Nakayama, who had confessed to the murder of five Europeans, was to-day sentenced to be hanged, ... -
MURDERED MAN DISSECTED
(A.A.P.-Reuter). LOS NEGROS, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Seaman Kumeo Nakayama Yaichiro Shibata ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 6 December 1950, page 4
News 78 wordsA Japanese sailor charged with murder said to-day that Japanese medical officers had dissected the body of his victim after the ... -
EXECUTIONS OF JAP WAR CRIMINALS TODAY
LOS NEGROS (Manus Island), Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Mr Choji Nakayama ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 11 June 1951, page 3
News 432 wordsFive Japanese war criminals will be hanged here to-morrow. The first criminal will be executed at dawn. ... -
JAPAN "QUALIFIED FOR PEACE TREATY" TOKYO DECLARES
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Mr Choji Nakayama ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 2 June 1950, page 1
News 271 wordsThe Japanese Foreign Office to-day declared: "It is unfortunate that circumstances existing among the Allied Powers have prevented the conclusion of a formal ... -
JAP. WAR TRIALS END: COST £100,000
(A.A.P.—Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Mr Choji Nakayama ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 10 April 1951, page 1
News 190 wordsTrials of Japanese war criminals by the Australian War Crimes Court ended to-day. No complete estimate of the ... -
JAP. GENERAL IS ACQUITTED
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Gen Masataka Yamawaki aquitted Japanese War Crimes Mr Choji Nakayama ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 19 October 1950, page 4
News 142 wordsThe War Crimes Court to-day dramatically ended the murder trial of ex-General Masataka Yamawaki, former Japanese Vice ... -
JAP TRIBUNAL REJECTS PLEA BY JOSEPH GREW
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Hirota Japanese War Crimes Kiichiro Hiranuma Shigemitsu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 25 September 1947, page 1
News 79 wordsThe International Military Tribunal for the Far East to-day rejected an affidavit by Mr. Joseph Grew, a former U.S. Ambassador to ... -
Ad[?]chi Says Japs Would Have Been Wiped Out
RABAUL,Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Hatazo Adachi ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 15 April 1947, page 1
News 264 wordsIf the war had lasted another month, the Japanese 18th Army would have been wiped out, Lieut-General ... -
KOISO HANDED OVER TO ALLIES
TOKYO
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Koiso Sugamo Prison ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 24 November 1945, page 1
News 62 wordsThe 65-year-old ex-Japanese Premier Koiso has been handed over by the Japanese Government to Allied prison ... -
JAP. HANGED HIMSELF
(A.A.P.—Reuters) TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kairiru Sugamo Prison Walchi Ogawa suicide ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 6 September 1947, page 1
News 44 wordsFashioning his singlet into rope, Watchi Ogawa, who was awaiting trial for beheading two Australian soldiers at Kairiru Island, off ... -
TOJO ABLE TO LEAVE HOSPITAL
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Shigenori Togo Tojo Attempted Suicide ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 9 October 1945, page 20
News 71 wordsTojo, first Japanese War Premier, who shot himself when about to be arrested, has been transferred with the greatest secrecy from hospital to ... -
JAP. WAR LEADERS HANGED
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO. Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Tojo Hanged ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 23 December 1948, page 1
News 33 wordsThe United Press correspond dont reports that General Tojo and other war leaders, who were sentenced to death, were hanged ... -
MACARTHURAPPROVES OF COURT FINDING ON JAP WAR LEADERS
(A.A.P.Reuter) TOKYO. Wednesday.
[ tagged as General Hideki Tojo Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 25 November 1948, page 1
News 463 wordsGeneral Hideki Tojo and the six other top-ranking Japanese war leaders, sentenced to death by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal, will be hanged secretly on a date yet to be fixed. ... -
44 JAPS EXECUTED BY AUSTRALIANS
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 1 February 1947, page 1
News 56 wordsGeneral MacArthur's headquarters advised that 44 Japanese war criminals have been executed by the Australian Army in New Britain for ... -
JAPANESE HANGED IN PRISON
(A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Japs Blue Beard Kodaira Hanged Miyagi Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 6 October 1949, page 4
News 49 wordsJapan's "bluebeard," Yoshio Kodaira, 45, was hanged this morning at Miyagi prison. During his trial he ... -
DEATH FOR JAPANESE "BLUE BEARD"
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Japs Blue Beard Kodaira Hanged ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 28 February 1948, page 1
News 44 wordsYashrio Kodaira, the "blue beard" of Japan, was sentenced to death by the Japanese Highest Court to-day. Kodaira was charged with ... -
JAP ADMIRAL TO BE HANGED FOR WAR CRIMES
(A.A.P:-Reuters) HONGKONG, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Houguchi Yoshio 4yrs Japanese War Crimes Kavieng Lieut Com Mori Kyoshi 23yrs Lieut Com Yoshimo Shozo 15 yrs Lieut Susuki Shozo 12 yrs Mochizuki Hichituro 7yrs Tamura Ryukichi Hanged ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 18 December 1947, page 1
News 130 wordsRear-Admiral Tamura Ryukichi was sentenced to death by hanging by an Australian" War crimes 'court for complicity, in the massacre of 23 ... -
JAP ENVOY PLANNED PACIFIC WAR WITH HITLER Talks in Berlin 8 Months Before Pearl Harbour
NUREMBERG
[ tagged as Hitler Japanese War Crimes Matsuoka Nuremberg War Crimes Prince Konoye ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 26 November 1945, page 20
News 769 wordsAccording to his own statement Matsuoka, onetime Japanese Foreign Minister, was the man primarily responsible for the starting of the ... -
TWO JAPS GUILTY OF MURDER Morotai War Trials
[ tagged as Fudasaki Japanese War Crimes Lieut Asoaka Not Guilty Lieut Tanaka Talaud Island ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 8 December 1945, page 3
News 137 wordsFound guilty of murder yesterday morning at Morotai after a court recess of only 25 minutes, two Japanese privates stood unmoved and ... -
Shot Prisoner's Body Carried Through Ranks
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Friday.
[ tagged as Captain Masuzumi Iguchi Captain Tadushi Yasuda Itsui Japanese War Crimes POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 11 November 1950, page 4
News 300 wordsThe Japanese executed an Australian prisoner of war who had escaped, and then, as an example, carried his body ... -
JAP. WAR TRIALS TO BEGIN ON MONDAY
LOS NEGROS (Admiralty Islands), Friday. (A.A.P.-Reuter)
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina Fusataro Teshima Idore Itsui Japanese War Crimes Kikumatsu Tanaka Lieut Gen Masataki Yamawaki Parit Sulong Shinsabura Hase Takuma Nishimura Tavoy Yaichiri Shibata ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 3 June 1950, page 1
News 437 wordsThree generals and three admirals are among the 95 alleged Japanese war criminals whose trials will begin here on Monday. All six have been charged with murder. ... -
FOUR JAPS TO DIE FOR MURDER AT BOUGAINVILLE
RABAUL, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Bougainville Japanese War Crimes Kokope Lieut Daisuka Goto Telatu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 8 May 1946, page 1
News 165 wordsFour sentences of death and eight long terms of imprisonment were passed on Japanese war criminals in the war crimes trial to-day. ... -
"TIGER OF MALAYA ON TRIAL"
Charges Against General Yamashita MANILA
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Tiger of Malay Tomoyuki Yamashita ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 8 October 1945, page 1
News 223 wordsGeneral Tomoyuki Yamashita, "Tiger of Malaya," who was captured at Singapore and who was the highest commander of ... -
JAPANESE CHARGED WITH "INHUMAN ATROCITIES"
[ tagged as Clark Castillo Filipino Massacre Fort Santiago Japanese War Crimes Lieut Colonel Seichi Ohta Pied Piper ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 28 December 1945, page 3
News 148 wordsLieut-Colonel Seichi Ohta, who took Japanese police torture methods to the Philippines, is on trial in Manila, charged with permitting his ... -
Jap Admiral Has No Regrets For Pearl Harbour
TOKYO,Friday.
[ tagged as Admiral Nagano Japanese War Crimes Pearl Harbour ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 27 October 1945, page 1
News 269 wordsBoasting that he had made no mistake in issuing final orders for the attack on Pearl Harbour, Fleet Admiral ... -
TOJO ORDERED ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR
TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Admiral Nagano Emperor Hirohito Japanese War Crimes Kumachi Jamoto Tojo Yamoto ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 11 July 1946, page 1
News 218 wordsKumachi Jamoto, Chief of the American section of the Japanese Foreign Office, told the American Associated Press that Emperor ... -
JAPANESE NOT ALWAYS BARBAROUS[?] SAYS PROSECUTOR
(A.A.P.-Re[?]) LOS NEGROS, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Ipachi Miyamoto Japanese War Crimes Koepang Seamen Taheshi Sasaki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 17 August 1950, page 1
News 447 wordsIn the War Crimes Court to-day, the prosecutor, Major G. Mcintyre, said the Japanese were not charged merely because they were Japanese. "Japan has been our ally and may be again," he declared. ... -
EXECUTION OF JAPS FOR MURDERING BURMESE
SINGAPORE, Sunday.
[ tagged as Andaman Islands Burmese Slaughtered Japanese War Crimes Vice Admiral Hara ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 4 March 1946, page 1
News 70 wordsThree of six Japanese naval officers, charged with murdering nine Burmese who tried t to escape from Andaman Islands, were sentenced to ... -
Secrecy Enshrouds Australian War Crimes Court
(A.A.P.-Reuters) HONGKONG, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 5 October 1948, page 2
News 77 wordsThe Australian War Crimes Court has suddenly assumed a cloak of secrecy and is declining to give any information about ... -
Accused Japanese Alleges Torture In Mass Murder Case
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ambon Japanese War Crimes Mass Beheadings P O Shimkichi Shimohama POW Sadao Hayashi Seamen Shiegei Kamioka Seichi Murayama Shigeyoshi Miyawaki Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 28 July 1950, page 4
News 695 wordsAn accused Japanese told the War Crimes Court today that an Australian officer had tortured him into swearing that he had beheaded five Australians in a mass slaughter of prisoners of war. ... -
JAPS BEHEAD JAVANESE SLAVE LABOURERS
MANILA; Thursday.
[ tagged as Balikpapan Japanese War Crimes Javanese Slave Labourers Mass Beheadings Sepinggan Airstrip ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 6 July 1945, page 4
News 142 wordsA Javanese slave labourer at Balikpapan described how he survived a deep neck wound and burial alive at the hands of the ... -
JAPANESE ATROCITIES IN BORNEO
Miniature Belsen Near Balikpapan
[ tagged as Balikpapan Japanese War Crimes Javanese Slave Labourers Mass Beheadings Sepinggan Airstrip ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 6 July 1945, page 16
News 201 wordsAustralian troops have discovered a miniature Belsen near Illandasan, on the coast of Borneo, south of Balikpapan. ... -
JAP ORDER FOR MASS MURDER DISCLOSED
MANILA, Thursday.
[ tagged as Filipino General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 16 November 1945, page 1
News 125 wordsThe prosecution at General Yamashita's trial read an American Army report, quoting a Jap military order, declaring that women and children, ... -
NEGOTIATING WITH JAPS IN BORNEO
Interview on Catalina LABUAN, BORNEO
[ tagged as 9th Division Colonel Suga Japanese War Crimes Kuching POW ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 8 September 1945, page 3
News 278 wordsNegotiations for the surrender of Kuching, North Borneo, were continued on a RAAF Catalina yesterday, when Brigadier T. C. Eastick, ... -
MASSACRE OF 44 POW's
Jop Sergeant Faces Trial LABUAN, BORNEO
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Labuan Miri POW Massacre Sergeant Major Tsuro Sugino ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 4 December 1945, page 16
News 224 wordsJapanese legal officers for the first time in any war trial appeared in defence of Japanese accused of war crimes when the trial opened ... -
AUSTRALIAN POW's USED AS LABOURERS IN BORNEO
Javanese Soldier's Story GHQ, BRUNEI BAY,
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kuching Labuan POW Massacre ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 18 June 1945, page 16
News 887 wordsThe Japanese brought about 80 Australian and British prisoners of war to Labuan in 1944 and kept them at work here in the harbour ... -
DEATH FOR JAPANESE OFFICERS
SINGAPORE, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kempei Tai Lieut General Kawamura Masayuka Oishi Takuma Nishimura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 14 June 1947, page 1
News 58 wordsThe South-East Asia headquarters confirmed the death sentences on Lieut-Gencral Suburo Kawamura, commander of the Kempe Tai, and ... -
DEATH SENTENCE FOR JAP
Massacre of POW's LABUAN, BORNEO
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Labuan Miri POW Sergeant Major Tsuro Sugino Takuma Nishimura ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 6 December 1945, page 16
News 476 wordsCharged with the massacre of 46 Allied POW's at Miri, near Sarawak, on June 10, 1945, Sergeant-Major Tsuro Sugino was found guilty by ... -
ENRAGED JAPS TURNED SIAM RAIL PROJECT INTO LIVING MORGUE
TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Chungkai Japanese War Crimes POW Seishiro Itagaki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 18 December 1946, page 4
News 224 wordsThe Australian prosecutor, Judge Mansfield, submitted evidence at the Tokyo War Crimes trials that the Japanese became insane with rage ... -
JAP. GENERAL IN DEFENCE OF COLLEAGUE
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ikara Muto Iwane Matsui Japanese War Crimes Rape of Nanking ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 9 August 1946, page 1
News 92 wordsGiving evidence before the International War Crimes Court, General Urira Muto declared that General Iwane Matsui flew into a rage when ... -
DEATH FOR JAP WHO PRACTISED CANNIBALISM
RABAU[?]. Tuesday.
[ tagged as Captain Tanashi Takase Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Rabaul ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 17 April 1946, page 1
News 80 wordsIt was alleged at the war crimes court to day that four Japanese had given sick Indians" injections and that after the Indians had died they ... -
Murdered By Japs After Mere Sham' Of Trial
(A.A.P.-Reuter). LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as 8th Division POW's Gen Masataka Yamawaki Haruo Watanabe Japanese War Crimes Sandakan ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 31 October 1950, page 3
News 239 wordsAfter a "mere sham" of a trial Japanese murdered an Australian signals officer and sentenced other prisoners of war to long ... -
SHOT PRISONERS TO SAVE FACE
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Wednesday.
[ tagged as 8th Division POW's Itsui Japanese War Crimes Kennichi Togoro ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 12 October 1950, page 1
News 196 wordsThree Australian prisoners of war from the 8th Division were shot to death in Burma "merely from a Japanese idea of saving ... -
ADACHI ADMITS EXECUTION OF INDIANS WITHOUT TRIAL
RABAUL, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Indian POW's Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Adachi ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 16 April 1947, page 1
News 268 wordsUnder cross-examination in the War Crimes Court to-day, Lieut. General Adachi admitted that some of his subordinates had executed Indians without trial, before he issued his emergency punishment order which gave them authority to do so. ... -
SIKHS TORTURED BY JAPS
LONDON, Thursday
[ tagged as Arakan Japanese War Crimes Sikhs ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 4 February 1944, page 12
News 260 wordsHow 8 Sikh soldiers were tortured by Japanese after being taken prisoner in the Arakan region of Western Burma is described by one ... -
JAP OFFICERS ADMIT ATROCITIES Wewak Evidence
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Lieutenant Chint Singh Lieutenant Matsuba Wewak ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 26 October 1945, page 1
News 164 wordsSummaries of evidence for subsequent trials were taken by the Wewak War Crimes Commission in its first sittings. ... -
JAP GENERAL FACES TRIAL ATRABAUL
RABAUL, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Indian Prisoners Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Hatazo Adachi Lieutenant Chint Singh ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 9 April 1947, page 1
News 357 wordsLieut.-General Hatazo Adachi, commander of the 18th Jap Army in New Guinea, was charged before the War Crimes ... -
INDIAN OFFICERS SHOT FOR BEING TOO WEAK TO WORK
BABAUL, Thursday.
[ tagged as Indian Officers Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Adachi Lieutenant Chint Singh Wewak ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 11 April 1947, page 1
News 170 wordsAt the trial to day of Lieut-General Adachi on charge of responsibility for war crimes committed by his subordinates it was stated that a Japanese ... -
JAPILL-TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS IN BATAVIA
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Javanese ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 29 October 1942, page 2
News 237 wordsThe degrading and disgusting conditions forced upon Australian and British prisoners of War and the illtreatment of natives by the Japanese ... -
CHINESE TELLS OF AUSTRALIAN P O W's ON LABUAN
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kuching Labuan POW's Jesselton ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 24 July 1945, page 1
News 147 wordsWhen the Allied air bombardment of Labuan Island began last November, Australian prisoners of war, who had been harshly treated by their ... -
TRAGIC SCENES IN LIBERATED JESSELTON
NORTH BORNEO
[ tagged as 9th Division Dyak tribesmen Japanese War Crimes Jesselton ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 3 October 1945, page 5
News 202 wordsOccupying troops of the 9th Division found Jesselton port, an important rubber port of British North Borneo, practically destroyed and ... -
JAP WAR LEADERS INDICTED FOR CONSPIRING OF WAR
(A.A.P.-Reuters.) TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Emperor Hirohito Hirota Japanese Cannibalism Japanese Vivisection Japanese War Crimes Kaya Matsui Rape of Nanking Shigemitsu Tojo Umezu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 12 November 1948, page 1
News 532 wordsContinuing judgment today on the Pacific phase of the war, the International War Crimes Tribunal declared that Japanese war leaders conspired to go to war, and so manipulate diplomatic ... -
JAPS TO DIE FOR VIVISECTION OF U.S.A. FLIERS
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese Cannibalism Japanese Vivisection Japanese War Crimes Liver Feast United States ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 28 August 1948, page 1
News 128 wordsOne former lieut.-general and four other Japanese have been sentenced to death, four to life imprisonment and 13 to terms ... -
MANCHURIAN WAR DEVELOPED FROM ABORTIVE PLOT
TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Dr Shumei Okawa Japanese War Crimes Konosuke Shimizu Kwantung Army Manchurian Incident 1931 ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 27 June 1946, page 1
News 158 wordsA Japanese witness told the War Crimes Tribunal that war-provoking Manchurian incident in 1931, grew from an abortive plot by Japanese ... -
HIROHITO KNEW OF JAP PLANS FOR MANCHURIA
TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as General Araki Japanese War Crimes Manchurian Incident 1931 ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 11 July 1946, page 1
News 122 wordsEmperor Hirohito was in "silent attendance" at a Privy Council meeting in 1931, at which it was decided to ... -
JAP WAR CRIMINALS BEING ROUNDED UP BY AUSTRALIANS
MELBOURNE, Monday.
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Japanese War Crimes POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 3 September 1946, page 1
News 149 wordsTo date 400 Japanese war criminals, rounded up by Australians, have been imprisoned or executed, and 1,600 are still being hunted. ... -
Chinese Cheer Death Of Jap Commander
NANKING, Sunday.
[ tagged as Chinese Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Hisao Tani Shot Rape Of Nanking ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 28 April 1947, page 2
News 36 wordsThousands of Chinese onlookers cheered to-day when a firing squad executed Lieut-General Hisao Tani, Japanese commander who was held ... -
AUSTRALIANS IDENTIFY JAP OPPRESSORS
From Australian Associated Press, London
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Japanese War Crimes Lieut-Colonel Ishi ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 2 October 1945, page 20
News 179 wordsMany Japanese officers and men concerned in the brutalities on the Burma-Siam railway were recognised by Australian ex-POW officers who ... -
NOMURA GUARDED BY US POLICE
LONDON, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Nomura ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 10 December 1941, page 5
News 31 wordsA broadcast report from USA states that U-S police are guarding Admiral Nomura, Japanese Ambassador at ... -
Confirmation By Authority
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Mr Choji Nakayama Shoichi Nonaka Takuma Nishimura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 23 June 1950, page 1
News 69 wordsThe convictions and sentences of Nishimura and Nonaka will have to go before a confirming authority before the sentences ... -
AUSTRALIAN TRIALS OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS
BRISBANE, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 6 November 1945, page 1
News 98 wordsJudge Mansfield, a member of the-commission appointed to investigate war crimes committed by the Japanese, revealed that the trials of ... -
TRIALS DISCONTINUED OF JAPANESE FOR WAR AGGRESSION
WASHINGTON, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Emperor Hirohito Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 17 March 1949, page 1
News 216 wordsNo further trials of Japanese on charges of having planned, prepared or conspired to wage war off aggression, will be conducted according to a directive by the Far Eastern Commission to to General ... -
JAPANESE PROPAGANDA HAS EFFECT
"Americans Forgetting Torture and Barbarity" From Our Own Correspondent in New York
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 31 August 1945, page 16
News 547 wordsUnder a deft barrage laid down by Tokyo Radio, American people are doing just the very thing that the Japanese hoped they would do. They ... -
Horrors of Sandakan Camp Told at Trial
LABUAN, Friday.
[ tagged as Captain Hoshijima Japanese War Crimes Sandakan POW Camp ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 12 January 1946, page 1
News 195 wordsThe Sandakan P.O.W. camp would live long as a blot on the barbaric Japanese army, declared Captain Athol Moffitt, at the trial of camp ... -
DEATH FOR 20 JAPS
Massacre of 45 POW's LABUAN (BORNEO)
[ tagged as Colonel Suga Colonel Yamada Japanese War Crimes Labuan Miri POW Massacre Sergeant Major Tsuro Sugino ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 10 December 1945, page 1
News 235 wordsTwenty Japanese and Formosans were on Saturday sentenced to death by shooting by the Australian Military Court ... -
POW's REMARKABLE ESCAPES IN NAGASAKI
Suffered Only Minor Injuries From Atomic Bomb MANILA
[ tagged as Atomic Bomb Japanese War Crimes Kuching POW Camp Manila Nagasaki POW ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 19 September 1945, page 20
News ILLUSTRATED 834 wordsWhen an atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki 24 Australians who were in a prison camp there had remarkable escapes. Although they were ... -
NEGLECT IN JAP POW BORNEO CAMP
600 Australians Buried at Sandakan
[ tagged as Borneo POW Camp Japanese War Crimes Kuching POW Camp Sandakan POW Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 1 September 1945, page 5
News 481 wordsAbout, 600 Australians were buried at Sandakan, NE Borneo, as a result of deaths from malaria, beri beri, dysentery, and neglect while prisoners ... -
JAP CLAIMS POW'S THANKED HIM
Reply to Charges From a Special Correspondent LABUAN, BORNEO
[ tagged as Captain Takino Colonel Suga Japanese War Crimes Kuching POW Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 21 December 1945, page 20
News 222 wordsCaptain Takino, overseer of the Kuching prison camp, Sarawak, in the witness-box of the War Crimes Court at Labuan, tried ... -
STARVED TO DEATH BY JAPS
From a Special Correspondent LABUAN, BORNEO
[ tagged as Captain Takino Japanese War Crimes Kuching POW Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 19 December 1945, page 4
News 163 wordsEvidence that.there was an abundance of food at Kuching camp, Sarawak, while prisoners were starving to death was given by ... -
BRUTAL JAP TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Australian Nurses Massacred Banka Island General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Prisoners of War Ranau Sandakan Death March Second World War Sister Vivian Bullwinkel War Crimes Trials World War 2 ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 21 December 1946, page 3
News 387 wordsOf the British and Australian soldiers imprisoned in the Sandakan and Ranau camps in North Borneo only six are alive to-day, declared ... -
TROOPS COMPLETE LOADING OF TROOP SHIP FOR JAPAN
SYDNEY, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Australian Nurses Massacred Banka Island Japanese War Crimes Sister Vivian Bullwinkel ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 16 October 1946, page 4
News 278 wordsThe loading of the liner Kanimbla was completed by troops this afternoon when wharf labourers refused to work in the rain. ... -
JAPANESE MASSACRE OF AUSTRALIAN NURSES ESCAPING IN FEBRUARY, 1942
SURVIVORS TELL STORY OF HORROR AND INDIGNITY SINGAPORE, Monday.
[ tagged as 14th AGH Australian Casualties Lists Australian Nurses Massacred Banka Island Japanese War Crimes Lahat Sister Vivian Bullwinkel ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 1
News 1408 wordsNo greater proof of sterling courage of Australian womanhood in the face of Japanese bestiality has yet been tendered than that revealed in the story of 65 Australian nurses whom the Japs bayoneted and ... -
TRACES FOUND OF MASSACRE NEAR RABAUL
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes POW Tol Plantation Massacre Waitavalo Plantation Massacre ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 5
News 247 wordsWritten while with Forward Troops in New Britain on March 22, this despatch has just been released for publication. ... -
WEBB REPORT REVEALS TERRIBLE JAPANESE ATROCITIES
PRISONERS AND CIVILIANS TORTURED AND MUTILATED ENEMY ATE FLESH OF PRISONERS AND COMPATRIOTS
[ tagged as Guadalcanal Crimes Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Milne Bay Moteo POW Tasimboko Village Tol Plantation Massacre Waitavalo Plantation Massacre ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 1
News 1803 wordsJapanese in the Pacific tied Australian soldiers to trees, bayoneted them and left them dying with their bowels hanging out, raped and killed two Roman Catholic nuns, dissected two American soldiers alive and removed their livers, horribly mutilated native women, and burnt alive at least two Australian soldiers who took ... -
ACCUSED JAP. WOULD "LIKE TO OFFER HIS LIFE"
LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Australian Airman Beheaded Japanese War Crimes Kempei Tai Sadatoshi Sakamoto ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 25 July 1950, page 4
News 166 wordsAn alleged Japanese war criminal told the War Crimes Court here to-day that he would like to offer his life to comfort the ... -
Jap. Victim Would Not be Blindfolded
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Australian Airman Beheaded Japanese War Crimes Kokas Petty Officer Agata Seamen Hisao Hiramatsu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 9 August 1950, page 4
News 130 wordsAn Australian airman refused a blindfold cloth just before he was beheaded, according to a sworn statement tendered to the ... -
FIVE JAPS GUILTY: MURDERS AS "SADISTIC SPORT"
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Ambon Australian Airman Beheaded Japanese War Crimes Kokas Lieut Kuichiro Shimizu P O Shimkichi Shimohama Petty Officer Agata Sadao Hayashi Seamen Shiegei Kamioka Seichi Murayama Yamashita Yutaka Suzuki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 8 August 1950, page 4
News ILLUSTRATED 746 wordsOf six former Japanese marines charged with the murder of about 50 Australian prisoners of war on Ambon Island on February 5, 1942, five were found guilty by the War Crimes Court to-day. ... -
Execution Of Four Jap. War Criminals Ordered
[ tagged as Ipachi Miyamoto Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Sugamo prison Takuma Nishimura Tsuki Takahiko Yutaka Suzuki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 31 May 1951, page 4
News 293 wordsThe Government has decided that death sentences passed on four Japanese war criminals by the War Crimes Court at Manus ... -
JAP CRIMINAL TO HANG FOR WAR CRIME
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Australian Airman Beheaded Japanese War Crimes Kokas Lieut Kuichiro Shimizu Petty Officer Agata Yutaka Suzuki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 15 August 1950, page 1
News 166 wordsThe War Crimes Court to-day sentenced a Japanese war criminal to death by hanging, and another Japanese to 15 years' imprisonment. They were found quilty of the murder of an R.A.A.F. ... -
WEBB REPORT Australians Tortured for Bayonet Practice
[ tagged as Buna-Gona Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Milne Bay Waitavalo plantation Massacre ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 2
News 1378 wordsSir William Webb said it could be reasonably concluded that the captured Australian soldiers were tied up, pressed for military information, ... -
EXECUTION OF FIVE JAP. WAR CRIMINALS
BODIES DUMPED AT SEA (A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday
[ tagged as Ipachi Miyamoto Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Executions Lieut Takahiko Tsuaki POW Takuma Nishimura Tamao Shinohara Yutaka Suzuki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 12 June 1951, page 1
News 270 wordsThe bodies of five Japanese war criminals executed near here at dawn today were dumped at sea this afternoon. ... -
JAP OFFICERS TO HANG FOR CANNIBALISM
GUAM, Friday.
[ tagged as American Military Commission Captain Shisuo Yoshii Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Hoshio Tachibana Major Sueo Mataba Vice-Admiral Kunaio Wori ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 5 October 1946, page 1
News 105 wordsThree Japanese officers— Lieut.-General Hoshio Tachibana, Navy Captain Shisuo Yoshii and Major Sueo Matcba ... -
PIGS TENDED BETTER THAN POWS From a Special Correspondent
LABUAN, BORNEO
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kuching POW Camp Labuan Lieutenant Yamamoto ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 20 December 1945, page 3
News 290 wordsDetails of crimes revealing incredible sadism by Japanese guards at Kuching camp, Sarawak, were given in written statements by ... -
Jap Accepts Blame for Cruelties
LABUAN, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kuching POW Camp Labuan Lieut Ojima ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 22 December 1945, page 1
News 66 wordsAt the war crimes court to-day Lieut. Ojima, commander of Kuching prison said he was entirely to blame for the beating of Allied prisoners by ... -
DEATH SENTENCE ON 7 JAPANESE
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Koepang Mass Beheadings RAAF Bombers RAAF POW's ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 9 March 1951, page 3
News 237 wordsThe Australian War Crimes Court to-day sentenced seven former members of the Japanese Navy to death by hanging. ... -
MacARTHUR'S ROUND UP OF CRIMINALS
First Steps In New Policy TOKYO
[ tagged as Colonel Akira Nagahama Fort Santiago General Kenji Doihara Japanese War Crimes John Holland Lily Abegg-Sybille Abe Matushiro Watanabe Tokyo Radio ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 25 September 1945, page 20
News 467 wordsGeneral MacArthur's order for immediate arrest of General Kenji Doihara, the "uncrowned king of Manchuria," is expected to be the first ... -
24 RESCUED NURSES SOON BACK IN AUSTRALIA
[ tagged as 24 Nurses Australian Nurses Massacred Banka Island Japanese War Crimes Sister Vivian Bullwinkel ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 1
News 399 wordsThe 24 Australian nurses rescued by air from Sumatra will return to Australia by sea as soon as they are fit to travel. ... -
JAP OFFICER TO BE QUESTIONED FOR MURDER
SINGAPORE, Thursday.
[ tagged as Australian Nurses Massacred Banka Island Japanese War Crimes Sukero Shibayama ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 30 May 1947, page 1
News 108 wordsThe first Japanese, detained in connection with the massacre of Australian, nurses at Banka Island in February, 1942, will ... -
JAPS. CLAIM WAR CASE HEARD EARLIER
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Corporal Uchihashi Deceased Cpt Hiroshi Fukaya Denroku Kano Ereventa Japanese War Crimes Lieut Col Kyoshi Miyakawa Maika Mr Choji Nakayama Sakamoto Takamoto ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 18 July 1950, page 4
News 330 wordsDefending counsel, Chojl Nakayama, to-day objected against the trial here of three alleged Japanese war criminals accused ... -
FIENDISH JAP ATROCITIES REVEALED BY INVESTIGATORS
[ tagged as Burma-Thailand Railway Chungkai Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes POW Ranau Sandakan POW Camp ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 11 April 1946, page 4
News 1093 wordsFurther horrifying stories of torture and butchery-killings of Australian prisoners of war by the Japanese are contained in the full ... -
YAMASHITA'S ORDER TO TROOPS "Wipe Our Filipinos"
From Australian Associated Press, New York
[ tagged as Filipinos Japanese War Crimes Narcisco Lapus Ricarte Yamashita ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 5 November 1945, page 20
News 196 wordsYamashita was linked for the first time directly with the brutalities of his troops at his trial in Manila on Saturday when Narcisco Lapus, ... -
JAP REMNANTS COMPRESSED IN SOUTH MANILA
MANILA, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes Mass Slaughter of Filipinos Pasig River US Forces ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 16 February 1945, page 1
News 600 wordsAmerican troops on Luzon are gradually compressing the circle on the trapped enemy garrison at Manila while elsewhere on the island solid progress is being made in clearing out Japanese troops still holding out. ... -
JAP. EMPEROR RESPONSIBLE OUTBREAK OF WAR
BOSTON, Thursday.
[ tagged as Doolittle's Raid Japanese War Crimes Kiukichi Tanaka Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 7 November 1947, page 1
News 169 wordsIn an interview with the Tokyo correspondent of the "Christian Science Monitor," Major-General Kiukichi Tanaka, former chief of the japanese Military Service Bureau, claimed that if the Emperor were put on trial as a war criminal, he would ... -
HIGH JAP OFFICERS FACE TRIAL
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Admiral Toyoda Japanese War Crimes Lieut Gen Hiroshi Tamuru ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 20 October 1948, page 1
News 105 wordsS.C.A.P. preferred war crimes charges to-day against the first two of 20 high Japanese military and political figures, who ... -
JAP. EX-GENERAL TURNS CATHOLIC
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Tojo Yoshijiro Umezu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 11 January 1949, page 1
News 88 wordsEx-General Yoshijiro Umezu, one of Tojo's co-defendants, and who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the International ... -
RABAUL COURT TO DECIDE FATE OF JAP COMMANDER
[?]ABAUL, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Hirota Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 3 April 1947, page 1
News 96 wordsIt is unlikely that a finding will be reached until after Easter in the charge against Major-General Hirota, formerly supply commander of ... -
Trial Commences Of Japanese Commander
RABAUL, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Major General Hirota ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 20 March 1947, page 1
News 126 wordsThe trial commenced to-day of Major-General Akira Hirota former supply commander of field depots of the Japanese Army in the Rabaul ... -
FIVE JAP. LEADERS TO LODGE APPEALS
WASHINGTON, Friday.
[ tagged as Admiral Shimada Japanese War Crimes Ken Sato Koichi Kido Shigenori Togo Takasumi Oka ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 4 December 1948, page 1
News 186 wordsAppeals were lodged yesterday to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Koichi Kido, Takasumi Oka, Kenro Sato, and Shigetaro Shimada, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for war ... -
JAP REBELS TRIED TO THWART EMPEROR'S PLANS
From Australian Associated Press, New York
[ tagged as General Shigeru Hasunuma General Shizuichi Tanaka Suicide Japanese War Crimes Koichi Kido Sotaro Ishiwata Surrender Rescript ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 21 September 1945, page 1
News 196 wordsDisclosing how Japan's war effort ended in a fantastic cloak and dagger finale the Tokyo paper, ... -
HIROHITO FORCED TO FOLLOW MILITARISTS
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Col Kingoro Hashimoto Hirohito Japanese War Crimes Koichi Kido Lieut Col Daisaku Komoto Maj Gen Ryukichi Tanaka Mukden Incident Schumie Akowa Seishiro Itagaki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 6 July 1946, page 1
News 139 wordsGiving evidence before the War Crimes Tribunal, Major-General Ryukichi Tanaka accused Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, General Seishiri ... -
EXECUTION OF JAP WAR LORDS DEFERRED
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as General Kenji Doihara General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Koki Hirota Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 2 December 1948, page 1
News 261 wordsAll seven Japanese war lords, under sentence of death in Sugamo Prison, have been informed of ... -
TRIAL OPENS OF TOJO AND OTHER LEADING JAPS
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as General Itagaki Heitaro Kimura Japanese War Crimes Kwantung Army Shumei Okawa Siam Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 4 May 1946, page 1
News 232 wordsThe former Premier (General Tojo) and 25 other topflight Japanese war criminals and suspects, were brought to ... -
EARLY TRIAL OF JAP OFFICERS FOR ATROCITIES
SINGAPORE, Tuesday.
[ tagged as General Itagaki Japanese War Crimes Saito ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 12 September 1945, page 1
News 169 wordsMajor-General Saito, commander of prisoner of war camps, and the other Jap officers, who had been arrested ... -
27 Jap. Leaders Indicted For War Crimes
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Admiral Nagano Admiral Shigetaro Shimada General Oshima Japanese War Crimes Koichi Kido Manchurian Incident 1931 Matsuoka POW Shiratori Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 30 April 1946, page 1
News 302 wordsGeneral Tojo, the former Japanese Premier, and 27 others, have been indicted by the United Nations Tribunal ... -
PRINCE KONOYE TAKES POISON TO AVERT ARREST
TOKYO,Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Koichi Kido Prince Konoye Suicide Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 17 December 1945, page 1
News 342 wordsPrince Konoye, whose arrest as a war criminal was ordered recently by General MacArthur, committed suicide ... -
KONOYE'S ARREST ORDERED
New List of High Japanese Suspects From Australian Associated Press, New York
[ tagged as General Oshima Japanese War Crimes Koichi Kido Prince Konoye ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 7 December 1945, page 1
News 140 wordsThe arrest of Prince Konoye, former Japanese Prime Minister; Marquis Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal; and ... -
SUICIDE OF PRINCE KONOYE
TOKYO
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Koichi Kido Prince Konoye Suicide Sugamo Prison ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 17 December 1945, page 1
News ILLUSTRATED 172 wordsAt dawn yesterday—the day he was due to be delivered by the Japanese authorities to Sugamo prison to await his ... -
TOJO AND OTHER LEADERS TO DIE FOR WAR CRIMES
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Admiral Shimada General Araki General Iwane Matsui General Kenji Doihara General Minami General Oshima General Tojo Hashimoto Hata Hideki Tojo Hirota Hiskinom Japanese War Crimes Kaya Ken Sato Kiichiro Hiranuma Kimura Koichi Kido Koiso Muto Seishiro Itagaki Shigemitsu Shigenori Togo Shiratori Sugamo Prison Suzuki Takasumi Oka Umezu War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 13 November 1948, page 1
News 458 wordsThe International War Crimes Tribunal found that Tojo and his 24 co-accused guilty of a general conspiracy to wage wars of aggression, as alleged in seven counts, and also on two counts of ordering and permitting war crimes. ... -
INHUMANITY TO AUSTRALIAN PRISONERS
JAP SAVAGERY AT RABAUL BAYONETED WITH HANDS TIED TOWNSVILLE[?] Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes POW Tol Plantation Massacre ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 7 April 1942, page 1
News 688 wordsTerrible stories of the inhuman behaviour of the Japanese in New Britain, following the capture of the island have been revealed, and also their barbaric treatment of Australian service personnel, who were forced to ... -
SURVIVORS TELL OF JAPANESE ATROCITIES TO PRISONERS
[ tagged as Burma-Thailand Railway Japanese War Crimes POW Thanbyuzayat ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 18 November 1944, page 2
News 2831 wordsAn early estimate places the death roll of Australian prisoners of war in Japanese prison camps in Burma and Thailand at about 2000 out of approximately 10,000. The first complete story of the terrible conditions suffered ... -
Tauro Not Guilty Of Murder
LOS NEGROS, Wednesday. (A.A.P.-Reuter)
[ tagged as Idore Japanese War Crimes Tadao Taura Yoshihiro Kitamura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 6 July 1950, page 3
News 97 wordsOne of the six Japanese charged with the murder of two Australian prisoners of war at Idore, Dutch New Guinea, in ... -
JAPANESE SADISTS WHO SHOULD DIE
Correspondent's List TOKYO
[ tagged as Aship Mining Camp Captain Motiawa Captain Sibata Colonel Sakaba Corp Korno Corp Naoki Japanese War Crimes Ken Sato Kobe Camp Matushiro Watanabe Nagoya Neoetz Notogawa Ofuna Prison Camp Onahama Mining Camp Senzugi Sergeant Yagashagushi Takenishi ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 16
News 942 wordsAs the trivial beginning of a personal attempt to assist in the coming task those charged with finding and punishing of Japanese war criminals, ... -
MORE EVIDENCE OF JAP BRUTALITY
Interviews With P O W's In Hospital Ship TOKYO BAY
[ tagged as 8th Division POW's Japanese Cruelty Japanese War Crimes Kawasaki POW Camp Ofuna Prison Camp Omori POW Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 5 September 1945, page 20
News 765 wordsFurther evidence of maltreatment of Allied POW's by the Japanese was found in the hospital ship Benevolence yesterday during interviews ... -
BRUTALITY OF JAP GUARDS
PATHETIC STORIES TOLD BY AUSTRALIAN POW'S Floggings, Starvation In Camps Near Yokohama YOKOHAMA STORIES OF MISERY AND DEGRADATION SUFFERED BY ALLIED POW'S WERE TOLD TO WAR CORRESPONDENTS WHEN THEY VISISTED SOME OF THE BIGGEST CAMPS IN THE YOKOHAMA AREA YESTERDAY. The internees, including a few Australians, who were getting their first glimpse of a white face in three and a half years, were overcome with joy, and many moving scenes were witnessed. They told of their existence in rat and disease ridden hovels, of meagre food allowances, and of painful tortures and brutal floggings.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Kawasaki POW Camp Omori Camp Onahama Mining Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 1 September 1945, page 1
News ILLUSTRATED 983 wordsThe correspondents were the first to bring to the Australian, British, Dutch, and American prisoners in the camp the news ... -
AUSTRALIAN POW's CHUCKLING OVER AMUSING INCIDENTS
FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MANILA
[ tagged as Colonel Murata Japanese War Crimes Kobe Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 14 September 1945, page 20
News 542 wordsThrough all the hardships and inhuman cruelties of Japanese prison camps, the Australians' sense of humour never failed. The famous ... -
VICTIM OF JAP ATROCITY
P/Sgt, King[?] of Reid.
[ tagged as Flight Sergeant Leon Newman-King Japanese War Crimes POW RAAF Casualties Lists ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 30 November 1945, page 2
News 175 wordsMr. and Mrs. H. P. Hancock, of Elimatta Street, Reid, received the tragic news yesterday that their adopted son, Flight-Sergt. Leon ... -
'Medical Research Excuse At War Crimes Trial
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Fusataro Teshima Idore Japanese War Crimes RAAF POW's Yoshihiro Kitamura Yoshiro ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 5 July 1950, page 3
News 133 wordsLieut.-General Fusataro Tes[?] told the War Crimes Court to-day that he did not think dissection of the dead bodies of two ... -
P.O.Ws "Executed In Revenge"
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGEROS, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Koepang Mass Beheadings RAAF Bombers RAAF POW's ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 20 January 1951, page 3
News 149 wordsJapanese whose' comrades had been killed during an raids by R.A.A.F. aircraft in Timor in 1942 were chosen to execute ... -
AUSTRALIAN TRIALS OF JAPANESE OPENS TO-DAY
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes RAAF POW's Talaud Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 29 November 1945, page 2
News 73 wordsThe first trial by an Australian military tribunal of Japanese accused of war crimes will open at Morota[?] to-morrow. There are 150 Japanese ... -
JAP. PRISONER RELEASED
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Mamoru Shigemitsu Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 9 November 1950, page 1
News 31 wordsTOKYO, Wed.(A.A.P.-Reuter) Mamoru Shigemitsu, former Japanese Ambassador in London, and wartime Japanese Foreign ... -
LIFE SENTENCE FOR JAP. GEIERAL
(A.A.P.-Reuter) MANILA, Thursday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Homma Lieut General Kuroda Lieut-General Yamashito ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 15 July 1949, page 1
News 70 wordsLieut General Shigenori Kuroda has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Philippines Military Commission. ... -
JAPS EXECUTED AT SHANGHAI
SINGAPORE, Thursday
[ tagged as Captain Mituo Hanged Indian Prisoners Japanese War Crimes Lieut Nakamura Sgt Major Iijima Hanged Shanghai ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 15 March 1946, page 1
News 66 wordsThe execution of three Jap officers took place to-day at the Shanghai gaol in the presence of 50 Allied officers, reporters and film ... -
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT REJECTS JAP APPEALS
WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH FINDING OF TRIBUNAL WASHINGTON, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Akira Muto General Kenji Doihara Heitaro Kimura Japanese War Crimes Kenryo Sato Koichi Kido Koki Hirota Shigenori Togo Shigetaro Dhoimada Takasumi Oka Tojo Yoshijiro Umezu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 22 December 1948, page 1
News 431 wordsBy a majority of six to one the Supreme Court has refused to interfere with the International Military Tribunal which recently condemned General Tojo and six other Japanese war lords to death. ... -
AUSTRALIA LISTS JAP. MINISTERS FOR WAR CRIMES
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Admiral Nagano Admiral Shigetaro Shimada Burma-Siam Railway Heitaro Kimura Japanese War Crimes Maneru Shigemitsu POW Seishiro Itagaki Shigenori Togo Tojo Yoshijiro Umezu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 17 December 1946, page 1
News 300 wordsThe former Japanese Premier (General Tojo) and the former Foreign Ministers (Shigenori Togo and Manoru Shigemitsu) are among the 12 defendants to-day listed by Justice Mansfield, of Queensland, as personally ... -
Allied Hunt of Jap War Criminals
SINGAPORE, Sunday.
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Koicho Kido Kwantung Army Prince konoye Shigemitsu Sotaro Ishiwata The Code of Napoleon Yoshijiro Umezu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 10 September 1945, page 1
News 304 wordsThe Allies have started hunting down Japanese war criminals and collaborators, according to the British commander (Major-General ... -
JAPANESE NAVY BLAMED FOR MANILA CRIMES
MANILA, Sunday.
[ tagged as Count Terauchi General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Lieut Gen Yokoyama Masaki Kawachi Yosuke Matsuoka ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 19 November 1945, page 1
News 288 wordsAttempts to link General Yamashita with atrocities in Manila receivcd a set-back yesterday when Lieut.-General Yokohama told the tribunal that naval forces defended the capital despite his order that they move to ... -
TOJO NAMED BY JAPS AS No. 1 WAR CRIMINAL
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as General Tojo Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Yoshiyasu Koga ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 1
News 256 wordsGeneral Tojo was alive 10 days ago and was living with his family in a luxurious home in the outskirts of Tokyo, a former high placed ... -
ARREST ORDERED OF 11 JAP WAR CRIMINALS General MacArthur Acts
TOKYO
[ tagged as Black Dragon Society Funanonsuke Kuhara General Araki General Honjo General Iwane Matsui General Koiso General Mazaki General Minami Japanese War Crimes Kwantung Army Kzaunobu Kanokogi Mukden Incident Rape of Nanking Toshio Shiratori Yoshihisa Kuzuu Yosuke Matsuoka ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 20 November 1945, page 1
News 309 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR yesterday ordered the arrest of 11 more major Japanese war criminals, including a former ... -
JAPS WANT WORLD PANEL TO REVIEW PENALTIES
TOKYO. Thursday.
[ tagged as General Yoshijiro Hirahuma Japanese War Crimes Kaya Shigemitsu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 14 June 1946, page 1
News 369 wordsDefence counsel at the Japanese war trials plan to ask the tribunal to submit to a panel, comprising Pope Pius, Gandhi and Mr. H. G. Wells, the question of whether or not the collective sense of humanity is in favour of the imposition of highly penal ... -
TOJO FOILED IN RESISTANCE TO JAP SURRENDER
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Emperor Hirohito Japanese War Crimes Korechika Anami Surrender Rescript Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 16 August 1946, page 3
News 213 wordsThe final attempt to restore General Tojo to the Premiership had to be foiled before Emperor Hirohito was able to broadcast the surrender rescript, according to a journalist, Michio Kihara, who wrote the rescript. ... -
TOJO HOODWINKED TOGO
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Shigenori Togo Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 25 June 1946, page 1
News 117 wordsGiving evidence before the war trials, Tomin Suzuki, a Japanese newspaper man, declared that General Tojo had misled Togo to accept ... -
JAPANESE EMPEROR CHARGED WITH WAR RESPONSIBILITY
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Admiral Nagano Admiral Shimada Emperor Hirohito Japanese War Crimes Koichi Kido Prince Takamatsu Shigenori Togo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 2 August 1947, page 1
News 342 wordsEvidence, that Emperor Hirohito was directly and solely responsible for the decision to wage war against Britain and the United States was submitted to Dr. Evatt by a senior officer of the International Tribunal for the Far East, who is now trying ... -
WAR CRIMINALS OF JAPAN SENT TO PRISON CAMP
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Lieut Gen Toyama Omori POW Camp Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 2 October 1945, page 1
News 241 wordsIn the next few days 23 Japanese weir criminals, including General Tojo, will be moved from Yokohama to Omori—one of the pest-hole camps in which Allied prisoners suffered atrocities. ... -
JAP MURDER OF R.A.A.F. SERGEANTS IS ALEGED
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Ambon Captain Kaneki Kagiyama Japanese War Crimes Kiyomi Sakemi RAAF Takao Sasaki ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 29 September 1950, page 4
News 295 wordsJapanese on Ambon Island had beheaded a R.A.A.F. flight sergeant who was suffering a severe leg wound, the War Crimes Court was told to-day, as three more Japanese war criminal suspects faced ... -
JAPS BEHEAD AIRMAN PRISONER
Salamaua Diary Reveals Atrocity
[ tagged as Australian Airman Beheaded Douglas Transport Japanese War Crimes Komai Komma Tai Lieut Comm Tsukioka ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 6 October 1943, page 3
News 622 wordsAnother terrible act of barbarity by the Japanese, the beheading of a member of the crew of a Douglas transport shot down near Salamaua, ... -
WAR PRISONER BEHEADED BY JAP OFFICER
Body Mutilated to Suit Samurai Code
[ tagged as Australian Airman Beheaded Japanese War Crimes Komai Tai ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 6 October 1943, page 1
News 716 wordsA grisly account of how the Japanese beheaded a member of the crew of a Douglas transport, which was shot down ... -
LIST OF JAP WAR CRIMINALS INCREASED
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 8 November 1945, page 2
News 88 wordsAnother 153 names havei been added to the list of suspected Jap war criminals. These were obtained by the firm handling of of Lieut-General ... -
JAPS NAMED FOR MURDER TRIAL IN BURMA
TOKYO. Monday.
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Chinese Massacred by Japs General Sygiyama General Terauchi Japanese War Crimes Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 17 September 1946, page 1
News 217 wordsAn official Japanese report, introduced in evidence at the war crimes trial, blamed the time-limit placed on the ... -
JAPANESE BUTCHERY OF 300 HOSPITAL INMATES AND STAFF
Horror of Surrender Day at Singapore (From Our War Correspondent, Athol Stewart)
[ tagged as Alexandria Military Hospital Hospital Inmates and Staff Butchered Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 9 November 1945, page 4
News 1299 wordsMore,than 300 persons, doctors, orderlies and patients of the Alexandria Military Hospital, lost their lives in the 36 hours immediately preceding the capitulation on the night of February 16, 1942. ... -
TWO MORE JAP SUICIDES
Nos 5 and 9 on War Criminals List From Australian Associated Prest, New York
[ tagged as Chikahiko Koizumi Japanese War Crimes Teiichi Yoshimoto Suicide ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 1
News 207 wordsGeneral Teiichi Yoshimoto, No 5 on General MacArthur's list of war criminals, and Lieut-General Chikahiko Koizumi, No ... -
HIGH-RANKING JAP ADMIRAL ON TRIAL
LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Katsuki Yoshimoto Kikumatsu Tanaka Shinsabura Hase Shizuo Tachino Tamao Shinohara Yaichiro Shibata ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 5 December 1950, page 3
News 173 wordsThe Australian War Crimes Couit to-day began the trial ot a Vice-Admiral, two Rear-Admirals and 12 other formers of the ... -
JAP. CHARGED WITH ATROCITIES
(A.A.P.-Reuters) MANILA, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Kuroda ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 14 December 1948, page 1
News 53 wordsLieut.-General Shigerori Kuroda, former Japanese commander in the Philippines, pleaded not guilty to-day to 59 war ... -
Japanese Women's Reaction
TOKYO
[ tagged as Admiral Shigetaro Shimada Japanese War Crimes Japanese Women's Reaction Kunihiko Hashida Tojo ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 24 September 1945, page 10
News 680 wordsOne of the most difficult tasks for the foreign observer in Japan today is interpreting the attitude of Japanese women to defeat and ... -
JAPANESE OFFER TO DETERMINE AND TRY AUTHORS OF WAR
Punishments Already Inflicted For Camp Atrocitie[?] TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Attack on Pearl Harbour General Doolittle General Shizuichi Tanaka Suicide Japanese War Crimes Lieut Colonel Seichi Ohta Lieut Gen Hamada Hitochi Suicide Lt Honashi Takauchi Nagasaki POW Camp Nankin Premier Kuni ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 20 September 1945, page 1
News 903 wordsSubject to the approval off General MacArthur the Japanese Government contemplates the establishment off a committee to determine Japanese responsibility for starting the war and to try those accused. ... -
JAPANESE TO FACE MURDER CHARGES FOR PEARL HARBOUR
TOKYO, Sunday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Colonel Akira Nagahama Filipinos Homma Japanese War Crimes Lieut Colonel Seichi Ohta Major Takashi Toehi Major Zanzo Salto Omori Prison Camp ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 10 December 1945, page 1
News 278 wordsThe United States has charged Lieut.-General Massaharu Homma conquerer of the Philippines,with permitting the death march at ... -
FUTURE OF WAR CRIMINALS TO BE DETERMINED
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 21 December 1949, page 4
News 165 wordsThe new Government is considering the policy to be followed regarding suspected war criminals held in Japan, but ... -
POW'S BURIED ALIVE BY JAPS
Massacre Story at War Trial LABUAN, BORNEO
[ tagged as Cpl Kiroshi Nango Japanese War Crimes Labuan Lieut Nishimura Miri POW POW Massacre Sergeant Major Tsuro Sugino ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 5 December 1945, page 20
News 775 wordsThe shooting of 46 POW's and the burial of some of them while still alive and screaming with pain were described at the trial of ... -
JAP EMPEROR NOT TO BE TRIED
AS WAR CRIMINAL Regarded by Allies As Mere Figurehead Of Jap War-Lords WASHINGTON, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Emperor Hirohito Japanese War Crimes Saburo Kurusu Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 19 June 1946, page 1
News 234 wordsThe decision not to try Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal was made on high political levels, stated Mr. Joseph Keenan, Chief Prosecutor of the Japanese war trials. He added that, although none of the prosecution ... -
Emperor Hirohito Not Charged With War Grimes On U.S. Order
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Emperor Hirohito Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 14 January 1949, page 1
News 221 wordsEmperor Hirohito escaped prosecution as a war criminal on the orders of the United States Joint Chief of Staffs. The order, copies of which are available here, ... -
HIROHITO ON CHINA'S WAR CRIMES LIST
[ tagged as Admiral Yonai Emperor Hirohito Highashi Kuni Japanese War Crimes Prince Konoye Shimomura ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 7 November 1945, page 1
News 125 wordsThe Emperor Hirohito is No 1 on a politically explosive list of 300 Japanese sought by the Chinese as war criminals, says New York ... -
WAR MURDERS IN TIMOR ARE ALLEGED
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS Monday.
[ tagged as Babaoe Hatsuichi Nada Dead Hiroshi Ito Japanese War Crimes Koepang PO Tieiyore Magarimichi POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 5 September 1950, page 3
News 269 wordsJapanese in Timor had made Australian prisoners of war carry heavy signal equipment into action and had bayoneted them ... -
CROWD OF JAPS. AT EXECUTION
(A. A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Thursday.
[ tagged as Hiroshi Ito Ipachi Miyamoto Japanese War Crimes Mass Execution Naval Lieutenant Makota Sakurada RAAF POW's ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 19 January 1951, page 2
News 248 wordsCars and trucks brought scorer of Japanese spectators to witness the beheading of 24 Australian and Allied prisoners of war in a ... -
JAP. ALLEGATIONS ON QUESTIONS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOO NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Baboe Hiroshi Ito Japanese War Crimes Laha Airfield Seaman Sadao Hayaski Seichi Murayama Tejiro Magarimichi WO Kazuto Suwa ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 12 September 1950, page 5
News 407 wordsThe War Crimes Tribunal to-day acquitted one Japanese and sentenced another charged with the murder of Australian ... -
THREE JAPANESE EXECUTED
SINGAPORE, Thursday.
[ tagged as Chinese Massacred by Japs Japanese War Crimes Kempei Tai Kosuka Goshi Hanged Kuala Lumpur Masayuki Oishi Hanged Saburb Kawamura Hanged ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 27 June 1947, page 1
News 55 wordsA Chinese delegation, including two women, this morning witnessed the hanging of three Japanese war criminals. ... -
WAS FORCED TO DRIVE CHINESE TO EXECUTION
[ tagged as Chinese Massacred by Japs Japanese War Crimes Mass Beheadings POW ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 3
News 147 wordsMass beheadings and torture of Chinese were revealed by recovered prisoners of war who arrived at Amberley (Q) yesterday by plane from ... -
TRIAL OF FORMER JAP COMMANDER OPENS
SINGAPORE, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Chinese Massacred by Japs Japanese War Crimes Kempei tai Takuma Nishimura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 12 March 1947, page 2
News 74 wordsThe trial has begurt of the former Japanese Commander Of Singapore (Lieut-General Nishimura) and five senior Kempatai officers responsible ... -
CHINESE MASSACRE DEATHROLL MAY TOTAL 500,000
CHICAGO, Friday, AAP
[ tagged as Chinese Massacred by Japs Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 1 May 1943, page 1
News 96 wordsFather Vincent Smith, a missionary, who escaped to the hills near Kiangsi, while the Japanese marauded the coastal ... -
WHOLESALE MASSACRE BY JAPANESE
Tokyo Raid Reprisal On Chinese SAN FRANCISCO, Thrusday.
[ tagged as Chinese Massacred by Japs Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 30 April 1943, page 1
News 86 wordsAccording to the American United Press, the Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Morgenthau) declared that the Japanese had slaughtered every man, ... -
JAPS SMILE AT DEATH SENTENCE
MOROTAI
[ tagged as Colonel Koba Japanese War Crimes Labuan Island Major Tamura Manado Talaud Island ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 17 December 1945, page 1
News 228 wordsIn the last fortnight I have seen 28 Japanese war criminals sentenced to death here and at Labuan, and, Without exception, from the ... -
JAP REAR-ADMIRAL SENTENCED TO DEATH
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Admiral Hamanaka Japanese War Crimes Manado Sarion ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 16 January 1946, page 1
News 104 wordsThe Australian Military Tribunal at Morotai to-day sentenced RearAdmiral Hamanaka to death by shooting, for murdering two ... -
DEATH SENTENCE FOR JAP CAPTAIN
MOROTAI, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Captain Kato Japanese War Crimes Japanese war criminals Major Odumura Manado Morotai ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 16 January 1946, page 1
News 109 wordsConvicted of murdering an Australian prisoner of war in Dutch New Guinea last March, Captain Kato, of the Jap Army, was sentenced to ... -
RETRIAL OF JAP CRIMINAL ORDERED
(A.A.P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Tetsaturo Kato ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 24 May 1949, page 1
News 105 wordsGeneral MacArthur, for the second time, has ordered the retrial of a convicted Japanese war ... -
JAP GENERALS ON CHARGES OF MALTREATMENT
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Bruno Saheki Choko Monobe Goro Isoya Hellship Heoshi Nukata Japanese War Crimes Rimpeio Kato Tadakazu Wakamatsu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 28 July 1948, page 1
News 107 wordsSix former Japanese generals will be tried on hellship charges for maltreatment of 30,000 Australian, British, Canadian, Dutch ... -
GENERALS GAOLED FOR HELL SHIPS
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Hellship Japanese War Crimes POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 9 December 1948, page 1
News 82 wordsSix former Lieut.- Generals were sentenced to prison terms, ranging from one to 24 years hard labour, for transporting ... -
BRUTAL JAPS PICKED OUT IN MASS PARADE
SINGAPORE, Monday.
[ tagged as Colonel Suasawa Japanese War Crimes Lieut-Colonel Ishi Moulmein-Bangkok Railway POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 2 October 1945, page 1
News 156 wordsAustralians were among those who took part in a mass identification parade of Japanese in Siam last week to identify officers and other ... -
JAPANESE BARBARITY IN PHILIPPINES
Thousands of Prisoners Die of Starvation WASHINGTON, Friday, AAP
[ tagged as Bataan Cabanatuan Camp Camp O'Donnell Capiztarlac Corregidor Filipinos Japanese War Crimes March of Death Mariveles Pampanga Province POW Sun Fernando ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 29 January 1944, page 3
News 1426 wordsHow the Japanese tortured, starved to death, and sometimes wantonly murdered American and Filipino soldiers taken prisoner on Bataan and Corregidor, in the Philippines, is described in "a factual official ... -
Jap Captain Asks Australians to Aid In His Suicide
SYDNEY, Wednesday.
[ tagged as 9th Division Captain Takakuwa Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Jesselton Kuching Labuan POW Sandakan ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 1 November 1945, page 2
News 105 wordsCaptain Takakuwa, who is held a prisoner on Labuan Island, requested members of the Australian Ninth Division to help him commit suicide ... -
61 JAPS TO FACE WAR TRIALS AT SINGAPORE
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Chinese Massacred by Japs Japanese War Crimes Lieut Col Yuzo Kitayana POW Rear-Admiral Ichioka Hisahi Sotojiro Koshikawa ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 21 February 1947, page 3
News 97 wordsSixty-one war crime suspects including several charged with masascre of 5000 Chinese civilians in Malaya, have left for Singapore for ... -
YAMASHITA TO OPEN CASE FOR DEFENCE
MANILA, Tuesday.
[ tagged as General Honjo Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 21 November 1945, page 1
News 168 wordsThe prosecution has completed its case against General Yamashita, who was on trial for having committed atrocities, and the court denied a motion by counsel for the defence that an immediate verdict of not guilty be issued. ... -
JAP WAR CRIMINAL COMMITS SUICIDE TO AVOID ARREST
[ tagged as General Honjo Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Kwantung Army Mukden Incident ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 21 November 1945, page 24
News 66 wordsBaron General Honjo, one of the 11 Japanese war criminals whose arrest was ordered by General MacArthur on Monday, has committed ... -
JUSTICE WEBB ATTACKED IN WAR CRIMES TRIAL
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as general Hata Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 13 March 1948, page 1
News 230 wordsDefence counsel at the War Crimes Trial to-day threatened in court to take action against the Tribunal president (Mr. Justice Webb). ... -
JAP ARMY LEADER SUICIDES: TOJO NOW LAUGHING STOCK
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Admiral Shimada Field Marshal Sugiyama General Tojo Homma Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 14 September 1945, page 1
News 581 wordsField-Marshal Sugiyama, commander of the East Japan Defence Corps and a member of the Imperialistic Army, committed suicide in his office by shooting himself through the head while later his wife killed herself at their ... -
JAP PLOTS THAT PAVED WAY FOR WAR
TOKYO
[ tagged as Black Dragon Society Field Marshal Sugiyama General Koiso General Mazaki Japanese War Crimes Manchurian Incident 1931 Tojo Upaki ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 16 November 1945, page 20
News 328 wordsThe latest of the former Japanese military leaders to join in the popular outcry against the militarist clique is General Mazaki, former ... -
MACARTHUR EXERTS FIRM GRIP ON JAPANESE
(From Our Special Correspondent, George Johnston) TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Black Dragon Society Colonel Oydomari Suicide Field Marshal Sugiyama Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Kamakazi Planes Kempei Tai Shizuichi Tanaka Suicide ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 1
News 336 wordsWith the pressure of General MacArthur's grip increasing inexorably, those who had been the sternest critics of MacArthur's cautious policy seem satisfied with the new turn of events. In the three days since the purge ... -
JAPANESE OFFICERS TO EXPIATE MURDERS OF WAR PRISONERS
NEW YORK, Friday.
[ tagged as Field Marshal Terauchi General Yamashita Japanese Cannibalism Japanese Vivisection Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 21 April 1945, page 1
News 226 wordsFor every Allied serviceman murdered by the Japanese, the Commander of the U.S. Third Fleet (Admiral Halsey) wants one Japanese officer executed. In an article published in Colliers' Magazine, Admiral Halsey ... -
NATIVE RIOTS IN SW BORNEO
Suicide Attempts By Jap Officers KUCHING
[ tagged as Captain Nakata Colonel Suga Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Kuching POW Camp Labuan Lieutenant Yamamoto Pontianak POW Camps ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 28 September 1945, page 20
News 256 wordsJapanese concentrating at Pontianak, 200 miles south of Kuching, to SW Borneo, have reported that riots have broken out among native ... -
JAP CRUELTY RELATED AT WAR TRIALS
MOROTAI, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Capt Ojima Japanese War Crimes Kuching POW Camp Lieutenant Yamamoto Nagota ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 20 December 1945, page 1
News 196 wordsEvidence of Jap cruelty to Aus tralian pnsoners was given at the war trials to day when Captains Takina Ojima and Nagata and Lieut. ... -
JAP. SURGEONS MUTILATE P.O.W. CORPSES
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Friday.
[ tagged as Hikosuke Yushino Japanese War Crimes Kensuko Konishi POW Sourabaya Tamao Shinohara ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 24 February 1951, page 1
News 196 wordsTwo Japanese navy surgeons cut out internal organs from the body of a prisoner of war executed in Sourabaya in 1945, ... -
LONG HEARING OF CRUELTY CHARGE AT HONGKONG
(A.A.P.-Reuters) HONGKONG, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sourabaya ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 25 March 1948, page 4
News 117 wordsThe Australian War Crimes Court has heard about 750,000 words of oral evidence from written affidavits during the Hainon ... -
PRISONERS DROWNED BY JAPANESE
MELBOURNE, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sourabaya ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 28 June 1946, page 2
News 136 wordsArcording to the N.E.I. Information Service, at least 1,000 Australian, British and Dutch guerilla fighters, captured by the ... -
EXECUTIONER OF R.A.A.F. PILOTS TO FACE TRIAL
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Execution 3 Australian Airman Japanese War Crimes Kumakichi Harada Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 29 March 1946, page 1
News 65 wordsLieut.- General Kumakichi Harada, the former commander of the Japanese 16th Army in Java, who was wanted by ... -
JAPANESE ADMIRAL HANGED.
HONGKONG, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese Executed Stanley Gaol Japanese War Crimes Kavieng Tamura Ryukichi ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 17 March 1948, page 1
News 41 wordsRear-Admiral Tamura Ryukichi, who was found guilty of complicity in the murder by ju [?] and strangulation of 23 ... -
JAP. HANGED FOR MURDER
(A.A.P.-Ruters) HONGKONG, Friday.
[ tagged as Iwasaki Yoshito Japanese Executed Stanley Gaol Japanese War Crimes Lieut Col Kondo Hideo NEI Air Force RAAF ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 2 October 1948, page 1
News 72 wordsIwasaki Yoshito was hanged at Stanley Gaol to-day, following his conviction by an Australian War Crimes Court of the murder ... -
JAP. LIEUT. HUNG IN STANLEY GAOL
(A.A.P.-Reuters) HONGKONG, Tues.
[ tagged as Aro Islands Japanese Executed Stanley Gaol Japanese War Crimes Rev Leonard Kentish Sagejima Mangan ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 25 August 1948, page 1
News 80 wordsThirty seconds before he was hung in Stanley Gaol this morning, Sagejima Mangan, former Jap ... -
HOMMA MOURNFUL IN MANILA TRIAL
MANILA, Thursday.
[ tagged as General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 4 January 1946, page 2
News 83 wordsThe trial of General Homma opened in the room where General Yamashita was condemned to death, but it is lacking the drama and tension ... -
DEATH FOR GENERAL HOMMA
MANILA, Monday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 12 February 1946, page 1
News 71 wordsGeneral Homma, who instigated the Bataan "death march," was to-day sentenced to death by shooting for his war crimes. ... -
DAMNING EVIDENCE AGAINST HOMMA
MANILA, Friday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma Takatsu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 5 January 1946, page 1
News 60 wordsMajor-General Toshimitsu Takatsu, formerly a member of General Homma's staff, gave evidence at Homma's trial that Homma's headquarters on ... -
HOMMA CLAIMS INNOCENCE ON WAR CHARGES
MANILA, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 30 January 1946, page 1
News 112 wordsGeneral Homma's chief defence counsel (Major Skeen) told the court that he intends to show that Homma was not ... -
FAILURE TO PROVE CHARGES AGAINST GEN. HOMMA
NEW YORK, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 23 January 1946, page 1
News 96 wordsEleven of the 48 counts against General Homma have been dismissed for lack of proof, reports a Manila correspondent of "The New York ... -
Homma To Stand Trial
Damning List of War Crimes TOKYO
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 10 December 1945, page 1
News 237 wordsThe death march from Bataan (which cost the lives of 1,200 American and 16,000 Filipino prisoners) and the bombing of ... -
COURT VERDICT ON GENERAL HOMMA CONFIRMED
TOKYO Thursday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 22 March 1946, page 1
News 299 wordsAfter a review of the evidence submitted to the military court in Manila in connection with the trial of General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, General MacArthur has confirmed the finding of the ... -
GENERAL HOMMA TO APPEAL AGAINST TRIAL
WASHINGTON, Friday.
[ tagged as General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 9 February 1946, page 1
News 359 wordsAlthough the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the validity of the tribunal which tried General Yamashita for war crimes ... -
GENERAL HOMMA CLAIMS HE WAS PRO-BRITISH
MANILA, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Camp O'Donnell Doolittle's Raid Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma Sadashi Shimomura Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 7 February 1946, page 1
News 374 wordsGiving evidence on his own behalf at the war crimes trial, General Honuna declared that he was removed from the Philippines command, partly because he was pro-British and also because he had disagreed with General Tojo; that resulted in his ... -
JAP OFFICER DENIES HOMMA ORDERED MARCH
MANILA, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Colonel Takatau Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma Lieutenant Gen Takeji Wachi ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 31 January 1946, page 1
News 144 wordsLieut.[?]General Takeji Wachi, who was General Homma's Chief-of-Staff, told the war crimes tribunal that Homma ... -
Homma's Appeal Rejected By U.S. Court
WASHINGTON, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 13 February 1946, page 1
News 173 wordsThe U.S. Supreme Court rejected the appeal by General Homma, against the validity of the military court at Manila to ... -
YAMASHITA NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH MARCH
MANILA, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Corregidor General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 25 October 1945, page 1
News 96 wordsLieut.-General Homma and not General Yamashita will be tried on November 1 for most of the atrocities, including the ... -
FIVE JAP OFFICERS FOR EXECUTION
Ordered Bayoneting Of Airmen MOROTAI
[ tagged as Captain Iwasa Japanese War Crimes Talaud Island ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 14 December 1945, page 20
News 134 wordsCaptain Tokio Iwasa, 24-year-old son of a lieutenant-general now a POW at Bougainville, was yesterday sentenced to death by shooting, ... -
No title
[ tagged as Captain Iwasa ILLUSTRATED Japanese War Crimes RAAF POW's ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 7 December 1945, page 1
News ILLUSTRATED 35 wordsCAPTAIN TOKIO IWASA, of the Japanese Army, who was found guilty at Morotai of having murdered a RAAF prisoner of war, ... -
Borneo Japs on Trial
[ tagged as Captain Iwasa ILLUSTRATED Japanese War Crimes Sgt Kubota ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 7 December 1945, page 1
News ILLUSTRATED 32 wordsSGT KUBOTA, OF THE JAPANESE MILITARY POLICE, being interrogated by Captain F. G. Thomas (interpreter for the prosecuting officer) during the trial of Captain Iwasa. (Australian Official photo.) ... -
JAP TAKES BLAME FOR MURDER
Death Sentence For Five Officers MOROTAI
[ tagged as Captain Iwasa Japanese War Crimes Lieut Tanaka Major Tamura Misumi Numura Talaud Island Yabe ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 15 December 1945, page 4
News 298 wordsAn offer to take the responsibility for five Japanese officers found guilty of the murder of an Australian airman was made yesterday at ... -
DEATH FOR JAP WHO ADMITTED CANNIBALISM
WEWAK, Sunday.
[ tagged as Captain Iwasa First Lieut Takehiko Tazaki Hanged Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Talaud Island Wewak ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 3 December 1945, page 2
News 208 wordsFirst-Lieut. Tukehiko Tazaki, of the Japanese Army, was sentenced to death by hanging, by a special military court yesterday, ... -
JAPANESE GUILTY OF MURDER Australian War Trial Verdict
MOROTAI
[ tagged as Beo Captain Iwasa Colonel Kobe Japanese War Crimes Major Tamura Talaud Island ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 3 December 1945, page 5
News 335 wordsIn the first verdict given in war crimes trials by Australians a military court on Friday found Captain Tokio Iwasa, of the 32nd Japanese ... -
AIRMEN BAYONETED TO DEATH BY JAPANESE
First Australian War Trials MOROTAI
[ tagged as Beo Captain Iwasa Chuichi Oishi Corporal Kenso Sasaki HMAS Junee Japanese War Crimes Lieut Asaoka Not Guilty Lieut Tanaka Major Tamura Misumi RAAF POW's Talaud Island Yasemasa Suzuki ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 1 December 1945, page 7
News 1056 wordsWith bowed, shaven heads and standing stiffly at attention, four Japanese officers and two privates were paraded today before a ... -
TRIAL OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS
[ tagged as Bataan Death March General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 5 October 1945, page 1
News 45 wordsAllied HQ at Manila announces that Lieut-General Homma, Japanese commander in the Philippines during the ... -
GENERAL HOMMA TO FACE 43 WAR CRIMES CHARGES
TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Camp O'Donnell Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Lieut-General Masaharu Homma Prince Konoye Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 19 December 1945, page 1
News 407 wordsGeneral Homma, who will be tried about January 7, will face no fewer than 43 charges covering the Bataan death march in which 17,200 Allied war prisoners died, and brutalities and executions in O'Donnell and ... -
General Honuna Faces Firing Squad For War Crimes Guilt
MANILA, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Executions Lieut-General Masaharu Homma ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 4 April 1946, page 1
News 194 wordsGeneral Homma, who was responsible for the Bataan "death march," was executed by an American firing squad to-day. He died tied to a post with a black hood over his' head. A four-inch white target was placed over ... -
NEWS IN BRIEF
ENGLISH WIN AT IPSWICH
[ tagged as Colonel Sumida Japanese War Crimes Japs Executed Changi Gaol POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 12 July 1946, page 4
News 99 wordsIPSWICH, Thursday.—The English Rugby League team recorded another victory this afternoon by defeating Ipswich by 29 to 12 before a large ... -
NINE JAPS HANGED
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Japanese War Crimes Japs Executed Changi Gaol POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 5 December 1946, page 1
News 39 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Army Department announced that nir more Japanese war criminals had been hanged at Changi goal, ... -
JAPS HANGED FOR ATTROCITIES
SINGAPORE, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Andaman Islands Japanese War Crimes Japs Executed Changi Gaol Kumichi Araka Vice Admiral Hara ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 19 June 1946, page 1
News 86 wordsEight Japanese were hanged at Changi Gaol for atrocities committed in Andaman Island. They included Vice-Admiral Tezo ... -
KOREAN GUARD TO DIE FOR CRUELTIES
SINGAPORE, Wed.
[ tagged as Hayashi Eishum-Korean Guard Japanese War Crimes Japs Executed Changi Gaol Mitsubashi Matachi Siam-Burma Railway ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 27 June 1946, page 1
News 202 wordsHayashi Eishum, a Korean guard, who was nicknamed "Maggot" by Australians on the Siam-Burma railway ... -
JAP WAR CRIMINALS HANGED
SINGAPORE, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Hofuku Maru Japanese War Crimes Japs Executed Changi Gaol Kitaich Jotani Kumakichi Harada POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 29 May 1947, page 2
News 71 wordsLieut.-General Kumakichi Harada who was found guilty of authorising the illegal execution of three Austraban airmen in Batavia in ... -
4 MORE JAPS TRIED FOR ATROCITIES
From a Special Correspondent LABUAN (BORNEO)
[ tagged as 8th Division POW's Australian Nursing Sisters Borneo Captain Nakata Captain Takino Japanese War Crimes Kuching Labuam Lieut Ojima Lieutenant Yamamoto Lintang POW Camp POW Sister Natalie Storey ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 18 December 1945, page 3
News 167 wordsWith the resumption of war criminal trials at Labuan, Borneo, on Saturday, four Japanese officers faced trial on charges of having ... -
LIBERATED PRISONER GIVES EVIDENCE OF ATROCITIES
SYDNEY, Monday.
[ tagged as Changi Prison Chinese Beheaded Japanese War Crimes POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 2
News 568 wordsAt Amberley the sheer bestiality and savagery or the Japanese is exemplified in the story of Driver C. M. Barnier, of Grafton, who will give evidence before the committee investigating atrocities. Barnier was a transport driver in the Australian Army ... -
BOMB DUMP IN P.O.W. CAMP AT AMBON
37 KILLED IN EXPLOSION AMBON, Tuesday
[ tagged as 2-21st Battalion Japanese War Crimes POW Ambon ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 9 January 1946, page 1
News 130 wordsA bomb dump containing 200 000 lbs of high explosive was built by the Japs in the middle of the Australian P. O. W. compound on ... -
P.O.W. With Broken Leg Carried To Execution
LOS NEGROS, Tuesday. (A.A.P.-Reuter)
[ tagged as Australian Airman Beheaded Captain Kaneki Kagiyama Captain Seizo Hara Japanese War Crimes Kiyomi Sakemi Lieut- Col Junichiro Sumizu POW Ambon Serg Maj Yoshimatsu Kuratani Takao Sasaki Yoshiyasu Koga ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 23 August 1950, page 4
News 500 wordsJapanese on Ambon Island in 1943 beheaded an Australian airman suffering from a broken leg, the War Crimes Court was told to-day. "They had to carry him to the place of ... -
ARREST OF 300 JAPANESE ORDERED
Mostly POW Guards TOKYO
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 10 November 1945, page 5
News 243 wordsAllied headquarters has released the names of 300 Japanese whom the Japanese Government has been ordered to arrest immediately on ... -
TOKYO RADIO ANNOUNCERS NOT YET IN CUSTODY
TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Black Dragon Society Hirota Japanese War Crimes John Holland Major Charles Cousens Rychei Uchida Seigo Nakano Suicide ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 19 September 1945, page 1
News 241 wordsAccording to the American Associated Press correspondent, the Ausliallon radio announcers, Major Charles Cousons and John Holland, ... -
ROUNDINGUP JAPWAR CRIMINALS
DIRCTOR OF PEARL HARBOUR ATTACK ARRESTED Black Dragon Society To Be Rooted Out TOKYO IN THEIR WIDE SWEEPS TO PICK UP JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS, US SECURITY OFFICERS HAVE ARRESTED ADMIRAL SHIGETARO SHIMADA, WHO DIRECTED THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR. He readily agreed to accompany the officers from his home near Yokohama, and in reply to their requests to hurry along he said: "Be quiet; no suicide; no suicide!" Meanwhile, on the order of General MacArthur, the sinister Black Dragon Society, which is reputed to have forced Japanese policies along Fascist lines by terrorism, assassination, and intrigue, is being rooted out.
[ tagged as Admiral Shigetaro Shimada Black Dragon Society Hashimoto Japanese War Crimes Koki Hirota Major Charles Cousens Mitsuru Tokama Professor Kato Rychei Uchida Seigo Nakano Suicide Taketora Ogata Tojo Tokosaburo Kikuchi ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 14 September 1945, page 1
News 456 wordsThe motor convoy which took the arresting party to Shimada's home included an ambulance "just in case." As ... -
JAP WAR LEADERS TO BE ARRESTED
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Black Dragon Society Fusanosuke Kukru General Araki General Iwane Matsui General Koiso General Mazaki General Minami General Shigeru Honjo Japanese War Crimes Jazenobu Kanakogu Matsuoka Mukden Incident Nanking Rape of Nanking Shiratori Yoshihisa Kuzuu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 20 November 1945, page 1
News 173 wordsGeneral MacArthur has ordered the arrest of the Japanese war leaders, comprising militarists who were most prominently associated with the imperialistic decade and civilians linked with the drawing of Japan into the tri-partite pact. ... -
JAP GOVERNMENT UNABLE TO CONTROL ARMY
TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Baron Shidehara Japanese War Crimes Manchurian Incident 1931 Wakatusuki Yoshida ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 26 June 1946, page 1
News 117 wordsGiving evidence before the Allied War Crimes Tribunal, Shidehara said the Japanese Government tried in 1931 to control the army after the ... -
JAP OFFICER TO SERVE LIFE TERM
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina Fusataro Teshima Gasmata Itsui Japanese War Crimes Norio Kondo Shoichi Nonaka Sth Burma Takuma Nishimura Tavoy ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 29 June 1950, page 2
News 296 wordsEnsign Norio Knodo, former Japanese naval officer, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the War Crimes Court to-day. He was convicted of the murder of between ... -
REASONS WHY JAPS. KILLED AUSTRALIANS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Gasmata Japanese War Crimes Norio Kondo POW's ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 27 June 1950, page 2
News 150 wordsSeveral Australian prisoners of war at Gasmata, New Britain, were executed because it was feared they might act as spies, ... -
Pause For Trial Defence
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Norio Kondo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 28 June 1950, page 4
News 53 wordsLOS NEGROS, Tues. [?] Reuter). Despite objections by the prosecution, the War Crimes Court adjourned to-day while the ... -
JAP GOVERNMENT HANDS OVER 16 CRIMINALS
TOKYO, Sunday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Captain Tokuda Chikahiko Koizumi Colonel Suzuki General Suzuki General Tojo Hashimoto Hiroyasu Ino Homma James Sakaki Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Kaya Kunihiko Hashida Lieut General Kuroda Michiyo Iwamura Nobosuke Kishi Ofuna Prison Camp Paratrap Mahendra Serg Tabata Shigenori Togo Shoza Murata Terashima Yashitaka Ueda ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 17 September 1945, page 1
News 791 wordsIncluding five members of General Tojo's Cabinet, which planned and directed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, 16 additional war criminals have' been handed over" by the Japanese Government to American ... -
RETRIBUTION COMES TO JAP WAR CRIMINALS
19 More Arrested; Several Commit Suicide TOKYO
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Camp O'Donnell Captain Tokuda Colonel Kingora Colonel Suzuki Dr Thein Maung James Sakaki Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicides Josias Van Dienst Kaya Koki Hirota Kouda Lieut Gen Teiichi Suzuki Lieut General Kuroda Lieut-General Masaharu Homma Michiyo Iwamura Ofuna Prison Camp Rychei Uchida Seigo Nakano Suicide Shigenori Togo Shinagawa POW Camp Shozo Murata Taketora Ogata Tojo Tokio Tobata Yashitaka Ueda ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 17 September 1945, page 20
News 639 wordsOne way or another retribution is coming swiftly and spectacularly to Japanese war criminals. In the last 24 hours another 19 of those names ... -
AUSTRALIA WELL AHEAD IN ARRESTS OF WAR CRIMINALS
MOROTAI, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Beheadings Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 7 November 1945, page 1
News 413 wordsAustralian investigations of atrocities by the Japanese have been so extensive that Australia will be probably the first to complete the task of punishing the war criminals, says the American Associated Press which ... -
JAPANESE BUTCHERY OF PRISONERS
SYDNEY, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Rabaul Massacres ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 10 April 1942, page 3
News 131 wordsA survivor to-day told a first-hand account of the Japanese massacre of prisoners in New Britain after the fall of ... -
JAP WAR CRIMINALS TO BE TRIED
From Australian Associated Press, London
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 7 September 1945, page 1
News 197 wordsAll Japanese who have committed atrocities against Allied war prisoners and internees will be tried, says Singapore ... -
JAP ADMIRAL TO DIE FOR ATROCITIES
SINGAPORE, Friday.
[ tagged as Airmans Graves Andaman Islands Buried with Full Military Honours Japanese War Crimes Vice Admiral Hara ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 6 April 1946, page 1
News 137 wordsVice-Admiral Teizo Hara, former commander of the Japanese naval forces in Andaman Islands, and five member of his staff, were sentenced ... -
JAP SEEKS TO ALTER STATEMENT ON GENERAL
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Colonel Imai Japanese War Crimes Major Morioka Parit Sulong Massacre POW Shoichi Nonaka Takuma Nishimura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 22 June 1950, page 4
News 510 wordsA sensation marked the War Crimes trials to-day when Captain Shoichi Nonaka, war-time personal aide of Lieut-General Takuma Nishimura, sought permission to correct vital parts of his ... -
General Gave Murder Order, Says Japs
LOS NEGROS, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Fukashi Honokuma Haramitau Sono Japanese War Crimes Kamejiro Imai Major Morioka Parit Sulong Massacre Shoichi Nonaka Tadshiro Inagaki Takuma Nishimura ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 21 June 1950, page 1
News 779 wordsFive Japanese Army Officers, including one now charged with murder,said in sworn statements to the War Crimes Court to-day that Lieut-General Takuma Nishimura ... -
POW's BUILD CASE FOR AUTHORITIES
Condemn Brutal Jap Sergeant YOKOHAMA
[ tagged as Honshu Island Japanese War Crimes Lieutenant Furashima Tori Nagoto Nagoya POW Watanabe ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 8 September 1945, page 3
News 585 wordsAllied prisoners pouring into Yokohama from liberated camps are all building up a terrible case of sadistic brutality against the notorious ... -
PRISONERS BAYONETED TO DEATH
SOUTHERN HONSU
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Mitsuhima Camp Motiama Nagoya POW Watanabe ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 7 September 1945, page 16
News 174 wordsStories of Japanese bestiality were told by 900 British, US, and Dutch POW's recovered from camps near Nagoya. They had been in various ... -
JAP DOCTOR USED LIGHTED STICKS ON PRISONERS TO "LET THE DEVIL OUT"
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Osaka Camp POW Umeda Camp ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 19 September 1945, page 20
News 179 wordsA Japanese voodoo doctor burned sick US war prisoners with lighted sticks to "let the devils out." Associated Press of America ... -
STARVING JAPS PRACTISE CANNIBALISM
SAN FRANCISCO, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Leyte ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 24 April 1945, page 1
News 158 wordsAccording to the correspondent of the United Press, the Japanese, who had been cut off from their supplies in New Guinea, had practised ... -
NUREMBERG NOT A PRECEDENT FOR JAPANESE TRIALS
TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 11 July 1946, page 1
News 80 wordsChief Justice Sir William Webb told the prosecuting American defence counsel at the war crimes trial, "If you think we are slavishly going ... -
ONLY 2,152 AUSTRALIANS IN ISLAND GARRISONS
BRISBANE, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 19 August 1946, page 1
News 66 wordsThe Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) said at Bundaberg yesterday that 2,152 Australian troops remained in the islands comprising 404 at ... -
JAP DENIES SHARE IN WAR MURDERS
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Yoshitaka Hijikuro ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 24 October 1950, page 6
News 83 wordsFormer Warrant Officer Yoshitaka Hijikuro denied before the War Crimes Court to-day that he had anything to do with ... -
DR. EVATT
JAPS PLANNED TO OUST RUSSIANS FROM MANCHURIA TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Premier Yoshida ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 31 July 1946, page 1
News 106 wordsQuoting from the Japanese official documents, the prosecution told the War Crimes Tribunal that the Japanese Government in ... -
ATROCITY TRIALS COULD BE HELD IN AUSTRALIA
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 21 September 1945, page 3
News 63 wordsIt was stated at Canberra yesterday that there would be nothing to prevent trials of Japanese war criminals being held in the Pacific Islands ... -
THREE MORE JAPS GUILTY OF MURDER
MOROTAI
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Talaud Island ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 12 December 1945, page 24
News 106 wordsThree more Japanese who took part in the ceremonial execution of an unidentified Australian airman at Alaud Island on March 23 last, were ... -
100 JAPS HELD BY AUSTRALIA: NO TRIAL YET
(A.A P.-Reuter) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 7 September 1949, page 4
News 82 wordsAlthough without a convened War Crimes Court since last December, Australia is holding nearly 100 suspected Japanese ... -
WANTS EARLY LIST OF JAP WAR CRIMINALS
LONDON, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 4 June 1945, page 2
News 88 wordsLieut[?]Colonel Oldham, Australian representative on the War Crimes Conference, again drew attention to the need for early compilation of a ... -
PEARL HARBOUR PLANNERS LIKELY TO BE TRIED
From Our Own Correspondent in New York
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Pearl Harbour ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 1 September 1945, page 1
News 122 wordsMembers of the Japanese General Staff and government officials responsible for planning the Pearl Harbour ... -
HIROHITO MAY COMMIT HARA KIRI
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Hirohito Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 16 November 1948, page 1
News 73 wordsAn influential section of Japanese opinion is seriously concerned that the Emperor will not abdicate ... -
Collaborationist Clues Unearthed In Batavia
BATAVIA, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes War Crimes Investigators Murdered ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 21 May 1946, page 1
News 74 wordsTwo Japanese and three Indonesians who were arrested by the Indonesian Republican People's Army, following the ... -
AUSTRALIANS SHOT DOWN BY INDONESIANS
LONDON, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes War Crimes Investigators Murdered ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 20 April 1946, page 1
News 203 wordsMystery surrounds the ambush of a party of Australian war crimes investigators near Buitenzorg, 30 miles south of Batavia, cables Reuters ... -
JAP MURDERERS ARRESTED
BATAVIA, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes War Crimes Investigators Murdered ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 7 May 1946, page 2
News 35 wordsThe Minister for Information announced that two Japanese and three Indonesians had been arrested for the murder of three Australian ... -
JUDGE TO REPORT ON MURDERS IN JAVA
SYDNEY, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes War Crimes Investigators Murdered ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 2 August 1946, page 1
News 70 wordsJudge Kirby, who returned to-day after investigating the murder on April 17 of three Australian war crimes investigators in Java, declined to make ... -
Jap Civil Leaders May Escape Guilt For War Crimes
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Oshima Tatsum Kasabu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 21 September 1946, page 1
News 209 wordsAfter reading a statement at the war crimes trial by Oshima, the former Japanese Ambassador to Germany, in which he admitted secret dealings with von Ribbentrop the deputy prosecutor (Mr. F. Tavenner), said ... -
Java Investigations By Judge Kirby
SYDNEY, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Judge Kirby War Crimes Investigators Murdered ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 24 May 1946, page 4
News 78 wordsThe murder of three Australians in Java last month is to be investigated by Judge Kirby, of the N.S.W. District Court, on behalf of the ... -
LITVINOV SOUGHT AS WITNESS AT WAR CRIMES TRIAL
TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes M Litvinov Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 16 October 1946, page 1
News 120 wordsThe defence has asked the War Crimes Tribunal to call the former Soviet Foreign Minister (M. Litvinov) as a witness at the trial of ... -
JAP WAR CRIMES TRIALS TO BE SPEEDED UP
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Rabaul Compound ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 16 June 1948, page 2
News 142 wordsCabinet decided yesterday to speed up the investigation and prosecution of suspect Japanese minor war criminals in an ... -
TREATMENT Of JAP. P.O.W.NOT TOO LENIENT
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Manus Island Rabaul Compound ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 25 January 1949, page 1
News 83 wordsThe Minister for the Army (Mr. Chambers) last night denied allegations that Japanese war criminals at Rabaul were ... -
CONVICTED JAPS SUFFER NO GAOL HARDSHIPS
Confined to Compound DARWIN, Monday.
[ tagged as Captain Abe Captain Misubo Captain Moire Captain Saiki Imamura Japanese War Crimes Lieut Murai ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 19 March 1946, page 2
News 581 wordsThree Jap captains, sentenced to short periods of imprisonment by a military court last Friday for beating and torturing Australian prisoners, ... -
JAP CAPTAIN SAYS BEATINGS OF TROOPS NOT CRUEL
(From our correspondent, Rupert Charlett.) DARWIN, Sunday.
[ tagged as Captain Abe Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 11 March 1946, page 1
News 211 wordsAs the life and death of Japanese forces in Tirrior were at stake in 1944, any beatings and ill-treatment of captured Australians to obtain ... -
JAPS ADMIT ILL-TREATMENT OF AUSTRALIANS
DARWIN, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Captain Abe Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 6 March 1946, page 2
News 250 wordsWritten statements, submitted to the trials of Japanese for war crimes, disclosed that an Australian captain had been forced to assist Japanese ... -
JAPS MASSACRE FRENCH CIVILIANS IN INDO-CHINA
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Japs Massacre French Langson ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 1
News 56 wordsA traveller from Hanoi, French Indo-China, stated that when news of the Japanese surrender reached enemy outposts the Japanese ... -
JAPS SENTENCED FOR WAR CRIMES
PARIS. Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Japs Massacre French Langson ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 28 January 1950, page 1
News 63 wordsFour Japanese officers were sentenced to death by a military court at Saigon yesterday for executing 300 French prispners at ... -
SIR WILLIAM WEBB RETURNS
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 22 February 1945, page 6
News 68 wordsHaving conferred with British authorities on matters affecting war crimes, and having on behalf of the Federal Government placed before ... -
WAR CRIMINALS RELEASED
WERL (Westphalia), Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Nazi War Crimes Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 24 December 1951, page 4
News 129 wordsBritish authorities in Germany released 42 war criminals, including seven women, from prison yesterday. All were serving ... -
HIGH-RANKING JAPS SURRENDER
To Face War Crime Charges From Australian Associated Press, New York
[ tagged as Bataan March Homma Japanese War Crimes Prince Nashimoto Sugamo Prison ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 13 December 1945, page 20
News 101 wordsA parade of Japanese war crime suspects, headed by Prince Nashimoto, surrendered at Sugamo prison yesterday—the last day of grace ... -
TOJO AND CABINET FOR JOINT TRIAL
Australian Associated Press, New York
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Pearl Harbour Prince Nashimoto Sugamo Prison Tojo ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 24 December 1945, page 16
News 101 wordsGeneral Tojo, former Premier, and his entire Cabinet, who together plunged Japan into the war, will be tried jointly as war criminals in ... -
JAPANESE PRINCE SEEKS REPRIEVE FROM WAR TRIAL
TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as General Yamashita Hata Japanese War Crimes Prince Nashimoto Ryochi Sasakawa ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 5 December 1945, page 1
News 240 wordsA formal request for a reprieve for Prince Morim[?] Nashimoto, the first member of the Imperial Household to ... -
ARRESTS ORDERED BY MACARTHUR OF 59 LEADING JAPS
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as Admiral Sankichi Takahashi Japanese War Crimes Kiichiro Hiranuma Kiyoshi Goko Koki Hirota Prince Nashimoto Shunroku Hata ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 4 December 1945, page 1
News 276 wordsIn the most important single list of war crime suspects, issued thus far, General Mac Arthur has ordered the Japanese Government to arrest 59 prominent Japanese including Prince Morimasa Hashimoto, who became ... -
WAR GUILT PANIC AMONG JAP LEADERS
TOKYO
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Prince Nashimoto Yoshida ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 5 December 1945, page 20
News 219 wordsA new war-guilt panic is gripping Japan's military, political, and financial circles following publication of General MacArthur's latest ... -
JAP LEADERS SURRENDER AT SUGNAMO, PRISON
TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Bataan Death March Homma Japanese War Crimes Prince Nashimoto Sugamo Prison ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 13 December 1945, page 1
News 179 wordsOn the last of the days of grace allowed by General MacArthur, a parade of Japanese war criminals, headed, by Prince Nashimoto, ... -
Indictment Of Jap Leaders For War Crimes
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 16 May 1946, page 5
News 183 wordsThe story of 18 years of conspiracy for world domination will be told before the International court in the mass war criminal trial in Tokyo for ... -
WAR CRIMES TOLL OF U.S. SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS
WASHINGTON, Monday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 30 July 1946, page 1
News 127 wordsIncomplete reports show that at least 142,075 Americans and F[?]pinos were killed as a result of war crimes, declared the assistant ... -
N.Z. DENIES HIROHITO NAMED FOR WAR CRIMES
AUCKLAND, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 21 January 1946, page 1
News 67 wordsA report from Tokyo that New Zealand has named Emperor Hirohito as the No. 1 war criminal, of the Pacific war, was ... -
Yamashita to Be Hanged For War Crimes
TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 8 February 1946, page 1
News 234 wordsThe death sentence, which was imposed on General Yamashita at the Manila war crimes trail is to be carried out, ... -
U.S. COUNSEL RESIGN TO SEEK PROBE OF WAR CRIMES TRIAL
NEW YORK, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 17 June 1946, page 2
News 119 wordsThe N.B.C. has broadcast a report from Tokyo that six members of the defence counsels at the War Crimes Trial who have resigned, declared ... -
GENERAL TOJO ILL
TOKYO, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 8 March 1947, page 1
News 56 wordsFor the first time since the opening of the war trials last April, General Tojo was absent. It was explained that he was taken suddenly ... -
JAP LET OF WITH DAY'S GAOL FOR CRUELTY
SINGAPORE, Thursday.
[ tagged as Burma-Thailand Railway Japanese War Crimes Watanabe Masso ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 8 February 1946, page 1
News 92 wordsFound guilty with six others of cruelty, causing the death of six British war prisoners who took part in the construction of the ... -
AUSTRALIANS TO GIVE EVIDENCE AT JAP TRIALS
SYDNEY, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Banka Island Burma-Thailand Railway Japanese War Crimes Ranau Sandakan Death March Sister Vivian Bullwinkel ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 3 October 1946, page 2
News 143 wordsFourteen Australians and former prisoners of war will sail on the Kanimbla about October 14, to give evidence before the International ... -
TOJO DEPENDS BURMA RAILWAY HORRORS
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Burma-Thailand Railway Japanese War Crimes Tojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 31 December 1947, page 2
News 187 wordsGeneral Tojo told the International Military Tribunal for the Far East to-day that many Japanese soldiers were employed side by side with war ... -
JAP'S CALLOUS ADMISSION OF WAR CRIMES
From a Special Correspondent NEW GUINEA
[ tagged as Beheadings Japanese War Crimes Mitsuba ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 27 October 1945, page 3
News 209 wordsWhen a platoon commander of the Japanese 18th Army in New Guinea, named Mitsuba, signed a document prepared by the War Crimes ... -
DEATH SENTENCE ON JAP OFFICER FOR MURDER
BABAUL, Friday.
[ tagged as a Cpl Ishyama Japanese War Crimes Mitsuba Haisaneo Rabaul Sgt Major Haizi Takei Shuzaki Yasuaki Massagi ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 23 March 1946, page 1
News 114 wordsConvicted of murdering,two Indian soldiers in New Guinea, Lieut. Mitsuba Haisaneo was sentenced by. a court martial to, be.hanged. ... -
WHITE WOMEN BAYONETED IN N GUINEA
Revolting Story of Japanese Savagery
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Buna Gona Japanese War Crimes New Guinea ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 17 May 1943, page 3
News 919 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Sun: Through the treachery of a few renegade New Guinea natives who had been won over by the ... -
ATROCITIES REPORT REVEALS MANY SAVAGE JAP CRIMES
Murder, Torture, and Cannibalism
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Australian Airman Beheaded Buna Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Kokumbona Rabaul Massacres Tasimboko Village Tol Plantation Massacre Waitavalo Plantation Massacre ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 11 September 1945, page 5
News 1523 wordsDetails of unspeakably savage atrocities against both civil and military personnel are given in the report of Sir William Webb, Chief ... -
FOUR JAPS GUILTY OF MURDER
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Wednesday.
[ tagged as American Airmen beheaded Australian Airman Beheaded Buin Commando Beheaded Denroku Kano Hiroshi Fukaya Japanese War Crimes Kiyoshi Miyakawa Maika Major Sidney Wharton Sadatoshi Sakamoto ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 27 July 1950, page 3
News 235 wordsThe Australian War Crimes Court to-day found four former Japanese soldiers guilty of murdering three Australian ... -
JAPANESE OFFICER ARRESTED FOR BEHEADING
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Japanese War Crimes Lt Otosu ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 8 April 1949, page 1
News 69 wordsGeneral MacArthur's headquarters, announced' the. arrest of a Japanese officer who beheaded eight American troops after ... -
JAP OFFICERS TRAINED TO BEHEAD VICTIMS
NEW YORK, Wednesday.
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 13 September 1945, page 1
News 75 wordsJapanese officer candidates were especially instructed how to behead prisoners, without nicking their Samurai swords, ... -
DEATH SENTENCES FOR JAPS WHO KILLED U.S. AIRMEN
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Tuesday.
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Japanese War Crimes Okinawa ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 17 March 1948, page 1
News 87 wordsThe Eighth Army Commission at Yokohama to-day sentenced to death 41 Japanese for the murder of three American naval ... -
IDENTITY NOT ESTABLISHED OF WOMAN MURDERED
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Thursday.
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Japanese War Crimes ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 16 July 1948, page 1
News 92 wordsAn investigation by American officers failed to reveal the identity of the woman, believed to be an Australian or an American, ... -
Jap Warrant-Officer Describes Beheading of American Pilot
KWAJALEIN, Thursday.
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Japanese War Crimes Kyoshi Fueta Tatanichi Manako ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 30 November 1945, page 1
News 132 wordsWarrant-Officer Tatanichi Manako testified that he had beheaded an American on instructions from Naval Lieutenant Kyoshi Fueta, one of the ... -
NOT HIS ORDERS, SAYS YAMASHITA
Denies Knowledge of Atrocities From Australian Associated Press, New York
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded General Yamashita Japanese War Crimes Kyoshi Fueta Tatanichi Manako ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 30 November 1945, page 20
News 190 wordsGeneral Yamashita concluded his evidence at his trial in Manila by repeating over and over that he had not known of any atrocities and ... -
CANNIBALISM, ATROCITIES BY JAPANESE Records Captured By Allies
From Australian Associated Press New York
[ tagged as Flight-Lieut W E Newton Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Kenneth Yunone Major Morimoto Yoshino ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 15 October 1945, page 20
News 203 wordsAllied authorities announce that they have captured Japanese army records which show that on December 21, 1944, a Major Morimoto and ... -
SENTENCES ON JAP. GENERALS FOR MURDER OF AIRMEN
TOKYO, Monday.
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Japanese War Crimes Michio Kunitake Sanji Okida Tsugio Nagatomo Yokohama ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Tuesday 4 January 1949, page 1
News 137 wordsThree former generals are among five Japanese who have been sentenced to life imprisonment for participating in the ... -
DEATH SENTENCES FOR JAP. GENERALS
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Hiroshima Isami Kyokoyama Japanese War Crimes Kyusaku Fukushima Kyushu University Revisection Atrocities Shoshin Ito ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 30 December 1948, page 2
News 150 wordsThe American Eighth Army Military Commission has sentenced nine former Japanese army officers, including three ... -
General Ordered "Bleeding" Of Prisoners Of War
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Corporal Uchihashi Deceased Denroku Kano Haruyoshi Hyakutake Hiroshi Fukaya Japanese War Crimes Kiyoshi Miyakawa Mitsuo Sugino Sadatoshi Sakamoto ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 26 July 1950, page 4
News 252 wordsLieut-General Haruvoshi Hyakutake, who commanded the Japanese forces on Bougainville in 1943 "might have ordered the ... -
PRISONERS BEHEADED; FEARFUL STORY AT WAR CRIMES COURT
(A.A.P.-Reuter) LOS NEGROS, Wednesday.
[ tagged as American Airmen Beheaded Australian Airman Beheaded Captain Taichi Ito Corporal Uchinhashi Denroku Kano Ereventa Hiroshi Fukaya Japanese War Crimes Major Kiyoshi Miyakawa Miyakawa Sakamoto Sadatoshi Sakamoto ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 13 July 1950, page 4
News 997 wordsEvidence of the decapitation of three Australian and one American prisoners of war at Bougainville was given to the War Crimes Court to-day, in the fifth case heard by the Court against ... -
GAOL FOR ASSAULTING WAR PRISONERS
(A.A.P.-Reuters) TOKYO, Wednesday.
[ tagged as American Military Commission Japanese War Crimes POW Sakamoto Yokohama ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 30 October 1947, page 1
News 69 wordsFor beating two Australian prisoners of war, a former Jap army officer at a p.o.w. camp at Mitsu[?]o, Sakamoto, was sentenced to three ... -
YAMASHITA IN GAOL AWAITING TRIAL
MANILA, Tuesday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Wednesday 5 September 1945, page 1
News 115 wordsGeneral Yamashita and his party have been taken to the New Bilibin prison where a few months ago his military ... -
ACTION STAYED IN YAMASHITA CASE
TOKYO, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 10 December 1945, page 1
News 56 wordsGeneral MacArthur's headquarters announce that the United States Secretary for War has ordered that further action against Yamashita be held ... -
YAMASHITA FIRST JAP CRIMINAL HANGED
MANILA, Sunday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Executions Lieut Colonel Seichi Ohta Takuma Higashi Tomoyuki Yamashita Yamashita ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 25 February 1946, page 1
News 149 wordsGeneral Tomoyuki Yamashita, former Supreme Commander of Japanese Forces in Malaya and the Philippines, was hanged secretly, before, ... -
AUSTRALIAN SENTENCED IN INDONESIA FOR SMUGGLING
(A.A.P.-Reuters) BATAVIA, Sunday.
[ tagged as Buitenzorg Japanese War Crimes Smuggling War Crimes Investigators Murdered ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 26 April 1948, page 1
News 176 wordsLyndon Lawrence Hanson, 29, Australian charterer of a Singapore-owned ship, was sentenced to five months' imprisonment by a Batavia court. Hanson was found guilty of a charge, involving the smuggling of quantities of rubber ... -
"POW WILL REJOICE AT CAPTURE OF NOTORIOUS OFFICER"
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Japanese War Crimes Lieut-Colonel Ishi POW Rohan Rivett ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 2 October 1945, page 20
News 221 wordsLieut-Colonel Ishi was one of the most notorious camp commanders along the Burma-Siam railway, says Mr Rohan D. Rivett, formerly of ... -
WAR CORRESPONDENT INDICTS JAP POW AUTHORITIES
Burma-Siam Atrocities
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Captain Neguchi Colonel Sugasawa Colonel Y Nagatomo Heguchi Hochi Hosoda Japanese War Crimes Kanematsu Komi Mizdani Motogima POW Red Cross Rohan Rivett Sezuki Teruchi Takahatchi ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 8
News 887 words1 accuse the Japanese POW authorities in Burma, Siam, and at headquarters in Tokyo: (1) Of sending 60,000 European ... -
MASSACRE OF NURSES ON BANKA BEACH
Australian POW Demand Japs Be Brought to Justice.
[ tagged as 8th Division POW's Australian Nurses Massacred Banka Island Japanese War Crimes Muntok Rohan Rivett Sister Vivian Bullwinkel ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 19 September 1945, page 3
News 1023 wordsThe story of the massacre of 20 Australian nurses on the beach of Banka Island has been one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the ... -
HORRORS OF THE HELL SHIPS
Many Prisoners Die Under Appalling Conditions Afloat
[ tagged as Burma Hell Ships Japanese War Crimes Moulmein POW Rangoon Gaol Rohan Rivett Siam ]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 18 September 1945, page 16
News 1676 wordsIt is now known that in the waters stretching between the Bay of Bengal and the China Sea several thousands of Allied POW's perished through ... -
ADACHI'S CONDUCT DEFENDED
RABAUL, Thursday.
[ tagged as Indian Prisoners Japanese War Crimes Kengro Tanaka Lieut General Hatazo Adachi Rabaul ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Friday 18 April 1947, page 1
News 92 wordsGiving evidence before the War Crimes Court to-day on behalf of Lieut.-General Adachi, who had been charged with permitting his ... -
LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR JAP COMMANDER
RABAUL, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Japanese Cannibalism Japanese War Crimes Lieut General Hatazo Adachi Rabaul Compound ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 24 April 1947, page 2
News 220 wordsFound guilty by the War Crimes Tribunal of responsibility for atrocities committed by his troops in. New Guinea, Lieut.-General Hatazo Adachi, G.O.C. of the 18th Japanese Army,'was to-day sentenced to life ... -
JAP COLONEL DIED RATHER THAN GIVE EVIDENCE
TOKYO, Wednesday
[ tagged as Colonel Masoa Kusunose Japanese War Crimes Japanese War Crimes Suicide Kokopo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 9 January 1947, page 1
News 116 wordsColonel Masoa Kusunose, who was charged with the massacre of 140 Australian soldiers and several civilians at Kokopo, New Britain, ... -
ITSUI "SORRY TO SHOOT AUSTRALIANS"
LOS NEGROS, Sunday. (A.A.P.-Reuter)
[ tagged as Captain Hirayasu Shina Itsui Japanese War Crimes POW Tavoy ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 12 June 1950, page 4
News 230 wordsJapanese Major Hiroshi Isul said on Saturday that he felt at the time it was a pity that eight Australian P.O.W's. had to be ... -
JAP CAMP OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH CAMP BRUTALITIES
YOKOHAMA, Sunday.
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Japanese War Crimes Naoetsu Camp POW Sergeant Major Shimojo ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Monday 2 December 1946, page 1
News 173 wordsCharges of contributing to the death of 60 Australian war prisoners were filed against seven former Japanese prison camp attendants by ... -
STARVING WAR PRISONERS EAT DOGS AND RATS
(From Our Correspondent, Axel Olsen) MANILA, Friday.
[ tagged as Japanese War Crimes Naoetsu Camp POW ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Saturday 15 September 1945, page 1
News 113 wordsBoiled dog was regarded as a rare luxury by Australians, in prisoner of war camp at Naoetsu, 250 miles north-west of Tokyo, where food was ... -
CORRESPONDENT HAS RECORDS OF JAP CRUELTIES
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.
[ tagged as Burma-Siam Railway Japanese War Crimes POW Rohan Rivett ]
The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926-1954) Thursday 13 September 1945, page 4
News 166 wordsAn Australian war correspondent, Rohan Rivett, who reached Melbourne to-day, believes that the full record of Jap atrocities, killings and ...
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