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    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...
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    visiting prisons around the country, and cheering those on the home front. At the end of the war, Sasakawa entered the occupation-run Sugamo prison and spent...
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    and 5-chome, and 3-chome 5-18-ban West Sugamo (Nishi Sugamo) (西巣鴨中学校) - 1-chome 34-49-ban Sugamo Prison Sugamo Station Tokugawa Yoshinobu Nagamura, Kit...
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    the United States as a suspected Class A war criminal. He was held in Sugamo Prison with Ryoichi Sasakawa, where the two formed a long friendship. Kodama...
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    account of Hess and Spandau Prison. Land of the Blind Cold War Landsberg Prison in Bavaria Spandau Citadel Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan Speer und Er...
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    women in alcohol- and sex-drenched weekends. When he was locked up in Sugamo prison in 1946 awaiting trial, he reminisced about his Manchukuo years: "I...
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    1947, the two soldiers were arrested by the U.S. Army and detained at Sugamo Prison. They were then extradited to China and tried by the Nanjing War Crimes...
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    tax fraud in Landsberg Prison. Germany portal Doctors' Trial Spandau Prison in West Berlin Sugamo Prison in Tokyo Landsberg Prison / Frank Falla Archive...
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    larger prison was determined by the Home Ministry in a review following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, during which Tokyo's main prison, Sugamo Prison, was...
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    had actually been indicted as a Soviet agent. He was incarcerated in Sugamo Prison. Initially, the Japanese believed, because of his Nazi Party membership...
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    his wife do the same. On March 6, 1946, he surrendered himself in to Sugamo Prison. On April 29, 1946, Iwane Matsui became one of twenty-eight individuals...
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    his cohorts were also brought to the New Bilibid Prison after their extradition from Sugamo Prison in 1946. The Japanese would be imprisoned inside the...
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    Army The seven defendants who were sentenced to death were executed at Sugamo Prison in Ikebukuro on December 23, 1948. MacArthur, afraid of embarrassing...
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    laws of war) He was sentenced to death by hanging and was executed at Sugamo Prison. The severity of his sentence remains controversial, as Hirota was the...
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    US War Crimes Branch identify former guards and officers detained in Sugamo Prison, and interrogated in Tokyo's Dai-Ichi Building. Of the 33 charged with...
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  • convicts served their sentences or were executed at Sugamo Prison. In 1958, those still serving prison sentences from the trials were all paroled. Captain...
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    Tribunal for the Far East. Itagaki was hanged on 23 December 1948 at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. Victoria, Brian (2012). Zen War Stories. Taylor & Francis...
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    such drugs among such people." He was hanged on 23 December 1948 at Sugamo Prison. Japanese war crimes Deacon 1990, p. 142. Fuller 1992, pp. 88–89. White...
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    Homma trial. They were sentenced to death by hanging and executed at Sugamo Prison on 12 June 1949. On 13 September 2010 Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya...
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    Shigenori Tōgō (category Japanese people who died in prison custody)
    former members of the Imperial Japanese government; he was held at Sugamo Prison. During the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Haruhiko...
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    history to be convicted of treason. Toguri was eventually paroled from prison in 1956, but it was more than twenty years later that she received an official...
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    Imamura was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment which was served at Sugamo prison, where he stayed until his release in 1954. He considered that his imprisonment...
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    "Musashi" (東武), is on the west end. East of the station, on the site of Sugamo Prison, stands Sunshine 60, which was the tallest building in Asia at the time...
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    Kaikan building. The complex sits on land that was once occupied by Sugamo Prison. The lower floors of the complex cater toward passerby and customers...
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    prison inmates, was the internet portal Planet Tegel in 1998. Germany portal Doctors' Trial Karl Brandt Spandau Prison in West Berlin Sugamo Prison in...
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    sentenced to imprisonment for ten years. Imamura served his imprisonment at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo until he was released in 1954. He considered his imprisonment...
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    father-in-law of Shintarō Abe and grandfather of Shinzō Abe) from Sugamo Prison. Kishi later founded the Japan Democratic Party (no relation to the...
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    States. They were imprisoned in Yokohama until they were transferred to Sugamo Prison on November 16. On July 23, 1946, they left Tokyo for Manila, having...
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    that fails." After recovering from his injuries, Tojo was moved to Sugamo Prison. While there, he received a new set of dentures, made by an American...
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  • Trials. Hirate was found guilty, sentenced to death, and hanged at Sugamo Prison in 1946. Stella Lee Researcher, U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center...
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