By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
June 8, 2021 at 19:07 JST
Copies of reports stating that the cremated remains of the seven Class-A war criminals had been scattered over the sea in accordance with GHQ instructions. The documents are housed at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration headquartered in Washington, D.C. They were provided by Hiroaki Takazawa, a full-time lecturer at Nihon University. (Naotaka Fujita)
The ashes of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Class-A war criminals executed in Tokyo on the same day in 1948 were scattered over the Pacific Ocean, according to declassified U.S. documents that clear up a decades-old mystery over final disposal of the remains. [Read More]
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