JAPANESE ATTITUDE TO WAR CRIMINALS
REFUSAL TO CO-OPERATE IN ! DEFENCE _j i Received Thursday 7.20 p.m. TOKIO, April 3. Americah officers attaqhed to General MacArthur's legal staff ;said' that Jap- j anese civilians refuse ta cooperate in defence of alleged war criminals. They ! want the suspects to he punished so j that they can say that Japan has paia her deht and regained her honour. The Associated Press of Great Britain reports that Madame Katsuko Tojo, wife of the wartime Premier, toils daily : in the fields oittsiae a small village to deaden her horror as Tojo awaits trial. A friend of Madame Tojo said that she suffered greatly after Tojo's at tempt to commit suicide, because tne Japanese people blamed Tojo for the loss of their sons. Even food is hard to get because the villagers have hoy- j cotted the Tojo family. The formal charges against Tojo and. other Japanese leaders held as war criminais will probably he filed on April 15. Tojo and his fellow-prisoners are held in a prison in which many British and Americans were interned aiter Pearl Harbour. In contrast to the brutal way those Allied internees were handled, the Japanese are housed in clean cells and are probably better fed than the average citizens of Tokio.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 April 1946, Page 5
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