Sugamo Prison
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Sugamo Prison was a prison in Tokyo, Japan. It was located in the district of Ikebukuro, which is now part of the Toshima ward.
Sugamo Prison in December 1948
Sugamo Prison in 1945
Mug shot of Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose, taken at Sugamo Prison in March 1946
Photograph sheet of 28 suspected war criminals
Hundred man killing contest
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The hundred-man killing contest was a sensationalized story published first in prominent Japanese newspapers including the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun and Osaka Mainichi Shimbun in late 1937 during the
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…General Hideki Tojo: commander of Kwantung Army and later the prime minister. Executed in 1948. Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda: perpetrators of the hundred man killing contest during the Nanjing Massacre. Extradited to China and executed in 1948. Major General Yoshitaka Kawane and Colonel Kurataro Hirano: convicted of having…
The Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun's news coverage of the event on 13 December 1937. Mukai (left) and Noda (right). The bold headline on the right reads, "Hundred-man killing 'super record': Mukai 106 – 105 Noda: The two second lieutenants to continue the contest in overtime".
Mukai at Sugamo Prison after his arrest by the U.S. Army
Noda at Sugamo Prison after his arrest by the U.S. Army
Noda, center, and Mukai, right, during their trial for war crimes in China. Gunkichi Tanaka is on the left.