Yokohama War Crimes Trials

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The Yokohama War Crimes Trials was a series of trials of Japanese war criminals, held before the military commission of the U.S. 8th Army at Yokohama immediately after the Second World War.[1] The defendants belonged to class B and C, as defined by the charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.[2]

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  1. ^ Spurlock, Paul E. (1950). "The Yokohama War Crimes Trials: The Truth About a Misunderstood Subject". American Bar Association Journal. 36 (5): 387–437. ISSN 0002-7596. JSTOR 25717239.
  2. ^ Stoffell, Christy Merrifield (May 2003). "In the Shadow of Nuremberg: The Creation of the Yokohama Trials of Class B and C War Criminals". University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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