Yokohama War Crimes Trials

The Yokohama War Crimes Trials were 319 trials of 996 Japanese accused of committing war crimes during World War II, held before the military commission of the U.S. 8th Army at Yokohama between February 1946 and October 1949. The defendants included civilians as well as military personnel ranging from enlisted ranks to generals, they belonged to class B and C, as defined by the charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Of those tried, 854 defendants were convicted, with 124 of them receiving death sentences, of which 51 were carried out. All of the convicts served their sentences or were executed at Sugamo Prison. In 1958, those still serving prison sentences from the trials were all paroled. These trials accounted for the majority of the 474 American war crimes trials conducted in the Asia-Pacific region.

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