What Really Happened to Japan's Leaders After WW2

What really happened to Japan's leaders after WW2? Hideki Tojo survived his own pistol shot, only to be tried at the Tokyo Trials and hanged three years later. The day after his execution, the man who slapped him in court walked free, and Tojo's own minister went on to become Prime Minister of Japan. This is the story of the Sugamo lottery: which Japanese WW2 leaders paid for the war, who got away, and why it had very little to do with guilt. In this video: General Korechika Anami and the failed palace coup of August 1945 Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the father of the kamikaze General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Manila trial and the Yamashita standard The Tokyo Trials (IMTFE): Shumei Okawa slaps Hideki Tojo on camera "Remember Pearl Harbor" in Morse code on Tojo's false teeth Judge Radhabinod Pal and his famous dissent Tojo's execution at Sugamo Prison and the secret of his ashes The men who walked free: Nobusuke Kishi, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Shiro Ishii of Unit 731, Masanobu Tsuji Why Emperor Hirohito was never put on trial CHAPTERS 0:00 Tojo misses his heart 0:45 Four endings stranger than Tojo's 1:25 Anami and the failed palace coup 2:37 Onishi, father of the kamikaze 3:35 Sugiyama: four bullets 4:08 Yamashita and the Manila trial 5:00 The Sugamo lottery 5:49 The Tokyo Trials begin 6:15 Okawa slaps Tojo in court 6:56 "Remember Pearl Harbor" in Tojo's teeth 7:48 Judge Pal: not guilty 8:39 Tojo's execution and the lost ashes 9:08 The day after: who walked free 9:47 Nobusuke Kishi, from prisoner to Prime Minister 11:12 Shiro Ishii and Unit 731 11:46 Tsuji and Emperor Hirohito 12:36 What really decided their fate 13:15 Yasukuni What do you think: should Nobusuke Kishi have stood trial next to Tojo? Tell us in the comments. SOURCES U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, Vol. VI: https://history.state.gov/historicald... International Military Tribunal for the Far East, judgment and proceedings (1946-1948) Archival photographs: public domain (U.S. National Archives, Wikimedia Commons) This video is made for educational and historical purposes. We do not glorify war, war crimes or any ideology. BABEL CHRONICLES. History, without the dust. A new animated history story every week. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. #WW2 #TokyoTrials #History