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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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    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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    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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    Cold War Landsberg Prison in Bavaria Spandau Citadel Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan Speer und Er (Extensive footage of the prison recreated in a studio)...
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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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    war in both China and the Philippines, and was executed by hanging at Sugamo Prison on 23 December 1948. Fuller, Richard (1992). Shokan: Hirohito's Samurai...
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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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    his cohorts were also brought to the New Bilibid Prison after their extradition from Sugamo Prison in 1946. The Japanese were imprisoned inside the NBP...
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    and that the leaders bore most of the responsibility. Sugamo Prison was renamed to the Sugamo Detention Centre, and members of the public visited it...
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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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    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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    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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    Homma trial. They were sentenced to death by hanging and executed at Sugamo Prison on June 12, 1949. On September 13, 2010, Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya...
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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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    such drugs among such people." He was hanged on 23 December 1948 at Sugamo Prison. Deacon 1990, p. 142. Fuller 1992, pp. 88–89. Gunther 1942, pp. 55–57...
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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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    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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    3 years in Sugamo Prison or if he was held in Sugamo for one year. Page 209 of Drea 2006 states that he was "arrested and held in Sugamo for one year"...
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    Kuniaki Koiso (category Japanese people who died in prison custody)
    was within his power to do so." Koiso died of esophageal cancer in Sugamo Prison in 1950. His grave is at the Aoyama Cemetery in central Tokyo. From...
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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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    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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    "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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  • Military Tribunal for the Far East and executed on 23 December 1948 at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo. The film focuses on Iwane Matsui's campaign in Nanjing through...
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    the reserves. After the surrender of Japan, Kobayashi was detained at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo by the SCAP authorities, and charged with command responsibility...
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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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    that fails." After recovering from his injuries, Tojo was moved to Sugamo Prison. During his imprisonment, Tojo received a new set of dentures, reportedly...
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    surrender of Japan. They were imprisoned at Yokohama prison and two months later at Sugamo Prison. On July 23, 1946, they were flown back to the Philippines...
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    Thailand to Japan, where he was captured later that year and was held in Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, until 1946. Burma Independence Army Japanese occupation of Burma...
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