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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Japanese war criminals sentenced

On November 12, 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death for war crimes.



Read more about the Tokyo War Crimes Trials before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.


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