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| |  | | Kuniaki Koiso | | | context : | Japan  | | judgement place : | Tokyo IMT | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) for war crimes | | position : | Army General and Japanese Prime Minister (1944-1945) |
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| | | | Kuniaki Koiso was born on 22 March 1880 in Utsunomiya into an ex-Samurai family. He was a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and took part in the 1904-1905
Russo-Japanese war.
Koiso then moved up through the ranks of the Japanese army and subsequently began a political career.
In February 1932, Koiso became Vice-Minister for War and in August 1932, concurrently Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army (Manchuria). In 1938, he joined the Army General Staff. From April-August 1939, and again from January-July 1940, he served as Minister of the newly created cabinet post of the Ministry of Greater East Asia (an institution in charge of the colonisation of the territories occupied by Japan). In May 1942, he was appointed Governor-General of Korea.
On 22 July 1944, following the resignation of Tojo (see "related cases"), he was chosen to become Prime Minister.
Under his government, the condition of the allied prisoners of war and that of civilians from the occupied countries saw no improvement whilst at the same time Koiso proved incapable of slowing the allied advance in the Pacific.
On 7 April 1945, Koiso was forced into resignation when the American forces landed in Okinawa.
Kuniaki Koiso was arrested at the end of the war. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Japan | | | date of birth : | | | 22.03.1880 | | | judgement period : | | | 06.05.1946 - 12.11.1948 | | | charges : | | | Aggression
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 28.01.2007 |
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