Lee Tsurugi, a former Japanese BC-class war criminal living in Japan who was sentenced to death in a postwar war crimes trial and then asked the Japanese government for relief, died of subarachnoid hemorrhage on the 28th.
I was 96 years old.
Born in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, Lee became a civilian employee of the Japanese Army at the age of 17 and was dispatched to a prisoner-of-war camp in Thailand to serve as the person in charge. He was charged with abusing prisoners of war after the war and was sentenced to death as a BC-class war criminal.
After that, he was commuted, but after the San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed in 1951, Koreans from the Korean Peninsula lost their Japanese nationality and were excluded from the support such as survivor's pension from the Japanese government, so they are former BC class Koreans. He continued his activities to seek relief and rehabilitation with the war criminals.
According to supporters, Lee was treated after falling at his home in Tokyo on the 24th of this month and being urgently transported, but died at a hospital in Tokyo on the 28th due to traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage. That is.