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| |  | | Akira Muto | | | context : | Japan  | | judgement place : | Tokyo IMT | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to death and hanged on December 23, 1948 | | position : | General, Head of Military Affairs Bureau |
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| | | | After the Japanese surrender, Muto was arrested by the American occupation authorities
Akira Muto was then tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, in Tokyo which convened in May 1946.
He was found guilty on the following counts: 1 (responsibility for launching a war of aggression and a war in violation of international law), 27 (waging unprovoked war against China), 29 (waging aggressive war against the United States), 31 (waging aggressive war against the British Commonwealth) and 32 (waging aggressive war against the Netherlands). He was however found not guilty of counts 33 (waging aggressive war against France [Indochina]) and 36 (waging aggressive war against the USSR).
The Tribunal acquitted Muto of war crimes for the events at Nanking, considering that he did not occupy a position high enough for him to be under an obligation to take measures in order to prevent the latter crimes. However the Tribunal sentenced him for the crimes committed in the Philippines, since Muto’s responsibilities at the time were of the highest order and it was impossible for him to have been unaware of the atrocities committed. As he did nothing to prevent or put an end to them, he was found guilty of count 54 (to have ordered, authorized and permitted inhumane treatment, namely of prisoners of war) and 55 (to have deliberately or recklessly disregarded his duty adequate to take adequate steps to prevent those atrocities).
On 12 November 1948, the International Military Tribunal sentenced Akira Muto to death.
He was hanged on 23 December 1948. | |    | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | judgement period : | | | 06.05.1946 - 12.11.1948 | | | charges : | | | Aggression
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 03.06.2009 |
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