Evening star., 1946-04-29
.Tojo and II Others
Face Arraignment
Friday for Crimes
BY the Assecioted pfass

TOKYO, April 29.-Former
Premier Hideki TOTO and 27
other Japanese militaristic lead
ers were indicted by the Allies
today as war criminals. They
will be arraigned Friday on 55
specific charges, ranging from
murder of thousands of Ameri-
cans-on Pearl Harbor day-to
conspiracy to hammer the whole
world into slave states Of the
Axis.
Defense attorneys are expected to
be given reasonable time to pre-
pare their cases before trial begin
before an l1-nation tribunal.
Tribunal members heard Joseph
B. keenan,, chief Allied prosecutor.
read the indictments at the Japa-
nese War Ministry Building. then
called Capt. Beverly M. Coleman.
U. s. N, who will head the defense,
into brief conference.
Neither Mr.. keenan, nor Chief
uStlSC Oh "llildIh WCOo, WIZ
heads the Allied tribunal, would
comment as they left the building
after the historic 35-minute session
Charges in Three Categories.
AS he presented the indictments,
Mr.. keenan, outlined three categor-
les of charges; Crimes against peace,
conventional war crimes, and
crimes against humanity" Offenses
thus range from maltreatment of
individuals to world conspiracy, and
Mr.. keenan, made it plain that the
whole 18-year story of Japan's S
bloody bid for world power will be
told in the forthcoming trials
xin the indictments were:
Four former Premiers: Tojo,
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma Koki
Hirota and Gen Kuniaki Koiso.
Admiral Osami Nagano, former
chief of staff whose direct order
launched the attack on Pearl Har-
Dor.
Gen. Kenji Doihara, Japan's
Lawrence of Manchuria. who en-
gineered the prewar Manchurian
incident
Three principal arrangers OF the
tri-partite pact with Italy and Ger
many: Former Foreign Minister
Yosuke Matsuoka, Gen. Hiroshi
Oshima tex-Ambassador to Ger
many, and Toshio Shiratori lex
Ambassador to Italy,
Other Former Ministers.
Six other former ministers: Gen.
Sadao Araki. war: Okinori Kaya,
finance: Jiro Minami, war: Mamoru
Shigemitsu, foreign; Shigetaro Shi-
mada, navy; and Shigenori Togo,
foreign minister when the war began.
Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu, who with
Shigemitsu signed surrender terms
aboard the battleship Missouri in
Tokyo Bay last September.
Marquis Koichi KIDD. former lord
keeper OF the privy seal and influ-
ential adviser to Emperor Hirohito
Six other army leaders: Col. Kin
goro Hashimoto. whose artillery
helped sink the American gunboat
Panay in China before the war;
Shunroku Hata, former field mar
shall and commander in chief in
China; Shishiro Itagaki former gen.
eral and chief of staff of Japan's
Kwantung Army: Heitaro Kimura
former general and Kwantung chief
of staff: Gen: Iwane Matsui. COM
mandant during the rape of Nam
king, and Akira Muto, chief of staff
under 1t. Gen. Tomoyuki Yama-
shita in the Philippines.
Naoki Hoshino. former president
OF Tojo's Planning Board
Takasumi Okla, former director
navy bureau of military affairs.
Shumei Okawa. civilian official of
the South Manchurian Railway
propagandist for expulsion of whites
from Asia.
Kenryo Sato. former chief of mill
tary affairs bureau. war ministry.
Teiichi Suzuki. former president
OF the Cabinet Planning Board.
Hirohito Not Mentioned.
Not mentioned in the indictments
were Emperor Hirohito and a half
dozen of Tojo's former cabinet min
listers: Michio YuZawa. Michiyo
Iwamura, Kunihiko Hashida. Hiroya
Ino. Nobusuke Kishi and Vice Ad-
miral Ken Tera lima.
Mr.. keenan, did not refer to them,
but commented that omission of a
name lin no sense implies" exonera-
ton; other names may be added.
Indictments included specific
charges of starting the war against
the II Allied nations, and 16 of
the prisoners-including Toio-were
accused of murder by ordering,
EDUCATIONAL.