An official document of the US military was found that the remains of seven A-class war criminals, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who was sentenced to death in the Tokyo Tribunal after the Pacific War, were scattered from the sky into the Pacific Ocean.
It is attracting attention as a historical material that supports historical facts that were not clear until now.
This was discovered by Hiroaki Takasawa, a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology of Nihon University, in the documents held by the US National Archives of Japan, which was created by the US 8th Army, which had its headquarters in Yokohama after the war.
The processing of the remains of seven A-class war criminals sentenced to death in the Tokyo Tribunal, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and former Prime Minister Kouki Hirota, was described in detail in a top secret document dated January 4, 1949. ..
According to this, the bodies were carried out from Sugamo Prison in Tokyo before dawn on December 23, 1948, when seven people were executed, and after being cremated in Yokohama, each of the remains was placed in an urn.
Then, it was mounted on a small military aircraft called a liaison aircraft and scattered from the sky into the Pacific Ocean.
This top secret document was written by Major Luther Flyerson, who was in charge of the field and belonged to the 8th Army. It was spelled out.
According to Mr. Takasawa, there was no clear record to support the treatment of the remains of seven A-class war criminals. I think it's worth it to be backed up by documents. "