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Sugamo Prison

Sugamo Prison (Sugamo Kōchi-sho, Kyūjitai: 巢鴨拘置所, Shinjitai: 巣鴨拘置所) was a prison in Tokyo, Japan. It was located in the district of Ikebukuro, which is now part of the Toshima ward of Tokyo, Japan.

: American-Japanese suspected collaborator known as "Tokyo Rose.” Sentenced to 10 years in prison in the United States for treason, which she served in the United States. Released in 1956, and pardoned in 1977. Died in 2006.

Iva Toguri D'Aquino

Minister of Foreign Affairs : Died in prison in 1946, before he could be brought to trial.

Yōsuke Matsuoka

Marshal Admiral : Died in prison during his trial in 1947.

Osami Nagano

Nobusuke Kishi: Ran plundering of China, planned and ran the war, key deputy to Tojo, Later Prime Minister (LDP) 1957–1960: Released after charges dropped in 1948. Died in 1987.

Vice Minister of Munitions

secretary of the Political Police in Tokyo, later media mogul, LDP politician, Chief of the Information Department of the Interior Ministry: Released in 1948 after charges dropped. Died in 1969.

Matsutarō Shōriki

drug trafficking operations and Intelligence agent in China, rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yakuza head: Released in 1948 after charges dropped. Died in 1984.[6]

Yoshio Kodama

Japanese fascist leader : Released in 1948 after charges dropped. Died in 1995.

Ryoichi Sasakawa

Ambassador : Died in prison in 1949.

Toshio Shiratori

General : Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. Died in prison in 1949.

Yoshijirō Umezu

Prime Minister : Also an IJA general and Governor-General of Korea. Died in prison in 1950.

Kuniaki Koiso

Lieutenant General : Released in 1950. Died in 1980.

Shigeru Sawada

Minister of Foreign Affairs : Paroled in 1950, and died in 1957.

Mamoru Shigemitsu

Lieutenant General : Paroled in 1950. Died in 1978.

Takaji Wachi

Minister of Foreign Affairs : Died in prison in 1950.

Shigenori Tōgō

Lieutenant General : Convicted of having command responsibility for vivisection and other human medical experiments performed at the Kyushu Imperial University on downed Allied airmen. Sentenced to death in 1948, but later reprieved. Died in prison in 1952.

Isamu Yokoyama

Prime Minister : Paroled in 1952, and died a few months later.

Hiranuma Kiichirō

Lieutenant General : Paroled in 1953. Died in 1961.

Sadae Inoue

Advisor : Paroled in 1955, and died in 1977.

Kōichi Kido

Field Marshal : Paroled in 1955, and died in 1962.

Shunroku Hata

General : Governor-General of Korea. Paroled in 1954, and died in 1955.

Jirō Minami

General : Paroled in 1955, and died in 1966.

Sadao Araki

Admiral : Minister of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Paroled in 1955, and died in 1976.

Shigetarō Shimada

Lieutenant General : Paroled in 1955, and died in 1989.

Teiichi Suzuki

Minister of Finance : Paroled in 1955, and died in 1977.

Okinori Kaya

Lieutenant General : Paroled in 1955, and died in 1975.

Hiroshi Ōshima

Lieutenant General : Paroled in 1958, and died in 1973.

Eitaro Uchiyama

General : Paroled in 1958, and died in 1978.

Naoki Hoshino

: Executed for treason in 1944.

Hotsumi Ozaki

: Soviet spy, executed by the Japanese in 1944.

Richard Sorge

Captain : Permitted the mistreatment and murder of Allied POWs. Executed in 1946.

Kaichi Hirate

General : Chief of intelligence services in Manchukuo. Executed in 1948.

Kenji Doihara

Prime Minister : Executed in 1948.

Kōki Hirota

General : Japanese war minister. Executed in 1948.

Seishirō Itagaki

General : Commander of the Japanese Burma Area Army. Executed in 1948.

Heitarō Kimura

Lieutenant General : Chief of staff of the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army. Executed in 1948.

Akira Mutō

General : Commander of Kwantung Army and later the Prime Minister. Executed in 1948.

Hideki Tojo

Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda: Perpetrators of the during the Nanjing Massacre. Extradited to China and executed in 1948.

hundred man killing contest

Major General Yoshitaka Kawane and Colonel Kurataro Hirano: Convicted of having command responsibility in the . Executed in 1949.

Bataan Death March

Lieutenant : Convicted of torturing prisoners in a prison camp in the Philippines. Executed in 1949.

Sadaaki Konishi

Lieutenant General : Ordered the massacre of 38 U.S. POWs. Executed in 1949.

Tasuku Okada

in Bavaria, Germany

Landsberg Prison

in West Berlin

Spandau Prison

Ginn, John L. (1992). . McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-89950-739-5.

Sugamo Prison, Tokyo: An Account of the Trial and Sentencing of Japanese War Criminals in 1948, by a U.S. Participant