By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
August 6, 2021 at 07:30 JST
The U.S. Far East Command, headed by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as commander in chief, gives an order in this document dated Aug. 13, 1948, on the handling of the remains of executed war criminals. The photo shows a copy of the previously classified document kept at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. (Provided by Hiroaki Takazawa)
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