The arrest of Tojo after the Japanese surrender

[w***@aol.com]

The recent death of a WWII U.S. Army Intelligence
officer who later worked in the CIA for many years
is the subject of an interesting piece of WWII history
which ran today (03/05/13) in the New York Times.
Shortly after the surrender and occupation of
Japan, Lieutenant John Wilpers was sent by General
MacArthur to take former Japanese Prime Minister
Hedeki Tojo in custody. On his arrival at Tojo's
residence on September 11, 1945, Wilpers heard a
gunshot and rushed in the house to find that Tojo had
shot himself in the company of a Japanese doctor who
had been summoned by Tojo to oversee his proper
death by hara kiri and refused to help attend Tojo's
gunshot wound when asked to do so.
The wounded Tojo was taken to a U.S. Army
field hospital hospital and survived the attempt on his
own life, only to be later found guilty of a number of
charges at the International Military Tribunal for the Far
East (a.k.a "the other Nuremburg") war crimes trials.
He was subsequently executed by hanging along with
several other high-rankng wartime Japanese officials on
December 22, 1948.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/us/john-wilpers-who-captured-a-prime-minister-dies.html?src=recg

WJH

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Post by w***@aol.com
gunshot and rushed in the house to find that Tojo had
shot himself in the company of a Japanese doctor who
had been summoned by Tojo to oversee his proper
death by hara kiri and refused to help attend Tojo's
gunshot wound when asked to do so.

"hara kiri" is cutting the stomach open. Tojo was simply committing jisatsu.

Mike