INTERNATIONAL MI~ITARY TRIBUN4L FOR THE FAR EAST TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS OCTOBER 18, 1946 (pp. 8057 - 8165 inc.) .! / DAVID PELSON SUTTON PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f001b8/ 18 OCTOBER 1946 I N D E X Of WITNESSES Ergsocution's Witnesses L~ SEJlkLA, Ruizo 8093 Direct by Colonel Rosonblitt 8093 Cross by Dr. KIYOSE 8103 I~ 11 1I1r. B12keney 8109 " 11 Mr. McManus 8123 Redirect by Colonel Rosenblitt 8125 MATSUMURA, Tomokatsu 8138 Diroct by Colonel Rosenblit 8138 Cross by Dr. KIY08E 8147 II 11 Mr. SHIMl'NOUCHI 8151 II " Mr. Furness 8152 I If D E X Of EXHIBITS Doc. Pros. Dof. Fer In No. tio Ic·'-n.... Evidence .lto,..!. -- Ji9..!. 1?eseri]2 l1 ~~ 2462 826 Text of Statorent by Defendant TOJO, Hideki, the then Prime Minister on the occasion of the Dcclaretion of Wer ~y Germany and Italy on the U. S. A. and the Con­ clusion by Japan of the Military Agreement with Gcr~:'any. Published in the Newspaper ItAsahj" on 12 Dec 194i 8060 2462 826-A Excerpt therefrom 8060 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f001b8/ I N D E X Of WITNESSES Doc. Pros. Def. For In .lI.2.L No. .1!o .. Description Ident " Evidence 2461 827 Excerpt of Speech of Defend­ TOJO, Hideki the then Prime Minister mc.de on 16 April 1944 r-t e meeting of Nixed Specitlists Com·.., mission convened in c:ccord­ rnce ~ith the Triprrtite Pect 8063 . 2461-A 827-A File of Nepsprper 'tJ.SLHI- SHIIvIEUNII for J~pri1 8063 2528 828 Telegr~m ~~nt by SHIGENITSU on 11 Decenber 19!.l.4 to Ribbentrop end Mussolini, published in the ne't'lspcp er IiNippon Times." 8065 2528 828-1. Excerpt therefrom 8066 590 829 SYIl'lposium "Krnpolt dr-ted 22 Jrnurry 1945 contrining speech of Defcndrnt SHIGEMITSU rt the 86th Session of thE'; Diet I!lr-de on 21 Jr,nupry 1945 8067 590 829-A Exccrnt ther~from 8068 4052 830 Photostrtic Copy of Tclegrpm sent by Ott, Germrn Lm~ b['.ssr'dor in Jrprn rnd Kret~chm['r, Germrn Militrry Attrche in Jrprn 25 July 1941 (No. 1355) 8071 2595-A 831 Certificrte of MIYJ.JJA, Yozo, dcted 7 l~ugust 1946 8075 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f001b8/ I N D E X Of EXHIBITS (cont'd) Doc. Pl'os .. Def. For In No. NOe>_ No. D~cr:!:.:Qtion gent. ;§yidence 1973 832 Photostatic Copy of the Directive of the Kwantung Army Headquarters of 16 Sept 1941 signed by UMEZU, Yost~ijiro 8081 2153 833 Affidavit of Major N1ATSUURA, Kusuo, dated 18 May 1946 8092 2673 834 Affidavit 0f :he Witness SEJIMA, Ruizo, d.at~~- 27 sept 1946, (in the Japar~ef' language) 8094 2467 835 statement of .•1'" "'a1 KITA, Seiichi, (w;' ..,t: n by him- self in thL Jaranese languag~) 2:J Apr through 23 <'~pr .. 946 8127 2672 836 Affidavit of Witness MATSUMURA, TOIUokatsu dated 27 September 1946 (in t he Japanese language) 8139 1981 837 Affidavit OfOTSUBA Kajuma, dated 29 March 194 6 8160 1982 838 Affidavit of KUSABA, Tatsumi~ 8164 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f001b8/ 8,057 .---.----------------- ,Friday, 18 October, 1946 1 .2 - ..... 3 INTERNATIONAL ~!IIJ.JITARY TRIBUNAL 4 FOR THE FAR EAST Court Hon~e of the Tribunal 5 War Ministry Building 6 Tokyo, Japan /f"} 7 I .£ The Tribunal met, pursuant·to adjourmnent, -' " 8 9 at 0930. 10 11 12 13 Appearances: 14 For the TriblIDa1, same as before. 15 For the Prose,cution Section, sarra a s before. , 16 For the Defense Section, q21me a s before. t '~. 17 18 ~ -. .. 19 10 (English to Jar:~nesc, Japanese to 21 English, Russian to English and Japanese to .. ~, 2'2 Russian interpretation was made by the 23 Language Section, IlIlTFEo) 24 25 PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f001b8/ .. 8,0;8 MARSHAL OF THE COURT: The International 1 Military Tribunal for the Far East is now in session. 2 3 THE PRESIDENT: Minister Goluns)ty •. 4 MR. GOLUNSKY: If the Tribunal please; 3 , about the names of thos~ two sailors killed on those ~. 1 ships, I have verified the whole matter and it shows 3' 6 1 1 that there is no mistake in translation and, as it 8 appea,:s from the document, the situation is this. 9 On the seas December 18 the ship "SvirstroyU was # 10 shelled by Japanese and two men, Kovernikov and 11 Elagin, were killed •. This is exhibit 819 •. 12 As for the second 'ship, "Sergey Laso, It 15 mentioned in the exhibit 820, it was not shelled; 14 it was only bombed from the airplanes and nobody was 15 killed during this bombing on t his ship. After this , 16 ~' the crews of all the ships were brought ashore and ~: 17 pooled together, and when they were ashore a shell 18 from an English ship broke into the hous~ where they '19 ,lived and two men, Krivoruchko and Bochko, were .to killed by that shell. Thedoeument does not show 21 from which ship those two men were but their names . 22 ·are mentioned in both exhibits , 819 and 820. 23 ~ith the Tribunalts permission, I wo~ld 24 2' like to take another matter-up now about the document 24-62. PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f001b8/ 8,059 ---------------------------------- THE PRESIDENT: Hr. Ble-wett. 1 MR. BLE1''ETTg If the Court please, on the 16th. I objected to the admission of document 2462 on the :; ground that no rule had been requested for the admis- 4 sion of the excerpt. THE PRESIDENT~ That number does not recall 6 the document to me. Has it been admitted? 1 I f 11'F. BLEiffiTT: It waS refused, your Honor. ~?e have now checked the newspaper ~rom which this is 9 an item and, while there may be other objections sus­ 10 11 tained as to the introduction, to save time, I shall 12 withdraw my objection to.its admission. THE PRZSIDENT ~ Major Furness. 14 MR. FURNESS: If the Court please, at the 15 close of yesterday's proceeding the prosecutor made a statement which appears on pap.e 805~ of the record. 17 I quote: flI conclude my statement with a presentation 18 of several-documents proving that up till 1945, in­ 19 clusiVe, th~ Japanese Government, including the 20 defendants TOJO and SHIGErUTSU, repeatedly proclaimed their loyalty to the alliance with Hitlerite Germany.1I 22 Following that statement there W6.S intro- 23 'duced into evidence as exhibit 825, a d@cument dealing 24 with economic agreements between Germany, Italy and 25 Japan, dated January 21, 1943. I wish to deny any PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f001b8/ 8,060 implication that SHIGErHTSU had anything to do with 1 ' these agreements and call attention to the fact that exhibit 123 shows that he did not become Foreign 3 H~lster or part of the Government until April 20, 4 1943. 5 THE PRESIDENT: Yes, General Vasiliev. 6 GENERAL VASILIEV: I shall present in evi­ 7 dence the text of this statement of the defendant 8 ~OJO., the then Prime l'1inister, on the o~casion of 10 the declaration of war by Germany-and Italy on the 11 United States of Amarics. and of the conclus1onby 12 Japan of. the military agreement with Germany and , l3 Italy. This statement was published in t he newspaper 14 "Asah!u on December 12, 1941, document No. 2462. At 15 the same time I present for 'identification th:ks news ... 16 paper in a file for December., 1941. THE PRES IDENT ~ ..Admi t ted on the usual terms. 1.8 CLERK, OF THE COURT: Pros ecution f s document 19 No. 2462 will be given exhibit No. 826 for identifies.... .20 tion only and the excerpt therefrO!!l bearing the same 21 document nUmber will be ·given eXhibit No. 826-A. 22 (~'.#hereupon, pro~ecution t s document 23 No. 2462 was marked prosecution I s exhibit No. 24 . 25 826 for identification; the excerpt therefrom was marked prosecution's exhibit No~ 826~A and PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f001b8/ 8,061 '!JIras received in evidence.) 1 GENERAL VASILIEV: I quote an excerpt from TOGO's statement: 3 "The world is nOVl divided into two groups; 4 one that vainly struggles to maintain the status quo, and the other, who earnestly strives to establish the 6 . rightful- new order; and they are fighting the greatest "I battle that has ever occu~red in history. 8 u'n th just cause and substantial power,' I 10 believe without d()ubt victory is ours. 11 ItI now offer' my hearty -congratulations on 12 th~ alliance of the three countries in becoming stronger than ever, and herewith express my firm belief 14 in our glorioUS future. It 15 ~T'he~SetJOnd document showing the tenacity 16 t ~., . in the realization of aims of the conspiracy and the .).. ' . 17 unity in aggressive war of the German-Italian..:. 18 Japanese bloc ~s a radio address of the defendant 19 SHIGEMITSU made on September 27, 1943, on the occasion 10 of the third anniversary of conclusion of the Tri­ 21 partite Pact. The text of this speech has been taken 22 from a E?;rmposium of Official Announcements Concerning 23 24 Foreign Relations. The entire publication has already 2' been presented by me for identification and two Pllb- ,lished spepches concerning the Question under PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f001b8/ 8,062 consideration are presented in evidence, exhibit 1 773-A • .2 I Quote brief excerpts from this speech 3 conta ining the gist of the matter, page I of the 4 English text: 5 tl1~re are marehing forward toward the fulfill- 6 .., ment of our great n:ission with an unfaltering spirit regardless of '"rhat happens on t he way.