Posted on 06/14/2021 10:26:34 AM PDT by MAGA2017
TOKYO (AP) — Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's remains was one of World War II's biggest mysteries in the nation he once led.
Now, a Japanese university professor has revealed declassified U.S. military documents that appear to hold the answer.
The documents show the cremated ashes of Tojo, one of the masterminds of the Pearl Harbor attack, were scattered from a U.S. Army aircraft over the Pacific Ocean about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest city, south of Tokyo.
It was a tension-filled, highly secretive mission, with American officials apparently taking extreme steps meant to keep Tojo's remains, and those of six others executed with him, away from ultra-nationalists looking to glorify them as martyrs. The seven were hanged for war crimes just before Christmas in 1948, three years after Japan’s defeat.
The discovery brings partial closure to a painful chapter of Japanese history that still plays out today, as conservative Japanese politicians attempt to whitewash history, leading to friction with wartime victims, especially China and South Korea.
After years spent verifying and checking details and evaluating the significance of what he'd found, Nihon University Professor Hiroaki Takazawa publicly released the clues to the remains' location last week. He came across the declassified documents in 2018 at the U.S. National Archives in Washington. It’s believed to be the first time official documents showing the handling of the seven war criminals’ remains were made public, according to Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies and the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records.
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They could have saved a step and just used flame throwers.
Sorry. Just saw now that this article was posted already. Thank you.
No problem. I have done it many times my own self. Even to the point of the mod booting me for a couple days. LOL!
IMHO, article needs to be reposted once a month as a reminder...
My Dad wasn’t a drinking man, but he sure did get plastered when the great news that these scum had been eradicated was finally announced in 48...
I was 15 at the time and snuck a couple of drinks myself...
Even so, for many years he opined that Truman should have had the second A-bomb detonated directly over the Emperor’s palace...
Being a Marine visiting many South Pacific beaches between 1942 and 1945 left deep and enduring scars...
Compare and contrast with how Bin Laden’s remains were dealt with.
I imagine that the thought crossed the Emperor’s mind that the third nuclear bomb might target him.
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