Five Japanese To Hang For Cannibalism
(10 a.m.) TOKYO, Aug. 27. One former lieutenant-general and four other Japanese were sentenced to hang, four were given life imprisonment and 13 sentenced to terms ranging from three to 25 years by the United States Military Commission in Yokohama for having vivisected captured American flyers and eaten their flesh at Kyushu Imperial University. The cannibalism trial ended today after more than five months of hearing. Eight defendants were acquitted. Those sentenced included First Nurse Shtzuko Tsutsui, the first Japanese woman to be tried for war crimes. She was sentenced to five years for participating in a “liver feast” in which she and other co-defendants ate the liver of an American airman.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22728, 28 August 1948, Page 5
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