Scholar learns remains of Japan war criminals scattered in Pacific
A Japanese researcher has found official U.S. documents detailing how the American military scattered the cremated remains of Japan s wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other executed Class-A war criminals in the Pacific Ocean, shedding light on decades of mystery over their whereabouts.
The declassified documents, discovered by Hiroaki Takazawa, associate professor at Nihon University College of Industrial Technology, at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, contain a statement that a U.S. Army major personally scattered the cremated remains of the criminals over the Pacific Ocean.
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A U.S. military truck carrying seven bodies of executed Japanese Class A war criminals, including wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, departs Sugamo Prison in Tokyo for a crematorium in Yokohama on Dec. 23, 1948. | KYODO
Kyodo Jun 7, 2021
Yokohama – A Japanese researcher has found official U.S. documents detailing how the American military scattered the cremated remains of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other executed Class A war criminals in the Pacific Ocean, shedding light on the decadeslong mystery over their whereabouts.
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