What is the approximate number of Japanese hanged for war crimes after World War 2?

The only total that is available is from the trials in Manila, and later in Tokyo. The Chinese never released that information, but you can be certain that it was as many as possible. The Chinese method of execution was not hanging - probably a bullet at the back of the head.

There were two hanged in Manila: Gen. Yamashita, who could count among his achievements as the commander in what was then Malaya when 5,000 Chinese merchants were slaughtered in Singapore, and later in the Philippines when thousands of Batangas villagers were murdered (including women and children). Not to be outdone was Gen.

Honma Masaharu who was commander during the Bataan Death March where as many as 3,000 Americans and 8,000 Filipinos died. There were seven who made it to the gallows in Tokyo at the "International Military Tribunal for the Far East": Gen. Matsui Iwane (The Butcher of Nanking), Tojo deki (primary architect and advocate of war with the U.S.) Doihara Kenji, Itagaki Seishiro, Kimura Heitaro, and Muto Akira.At least two others missed the festivities by poisoning themselves, and a few more died in prison from disease.

What is impossible to document are the numerous make-shift trials at the end of the war in The Philippines, China, Southeast Asia and Indonesia where defendants were basically pronounced guilty and summarily executed (especially P.O.W.Camp commandants) Executed Japanese War Criminals The only total that is available is from the trials in Manila, and later in Tokyo. The Chinese never released that information, but you can be certain that it was as many as possible. The Chinese method of execution was not hanging - probably a bullet at the back of the head.

There were two hanged in Manila: Gen. Yamashita, who could count among his achievements as the commander in what was then Malaya when 5,000 Chinese merchants were slaughtered in Singapore, and later in the Philippines when thousands of Batangas villagers were murdered (including women and children). Not to be outdone was Gen.

Honma Masaharu who was commander during the Bataan Death March where as many as 3,000 Americans and 8,000 Filipinos died. There were seven who made it to the gallows in Tokyo at the "International Military Tribunal for the Far East": Gen. Matsui Iwane (The Butcher of Nanking), Tojo deki (primary architect and advocate of war with the U.S.) Doihara Kenji, Itagaki Seishiro, Kimura Heitaro, and Muto Akira.

At least two others missed the festivities by poisoning themselves, and a few more died in prison from disease. What is impossible to document are the numerous make-shift trials at the end of the war in The Philippines, China, Southeast Asia and Indonesia where defendants were basically pronounced guilty and summarily executed (especially P.O.W.Camp commandants).

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