Although most press was focused on Nuremberg, an International Military Tribunal for the Far East was set up in Tokyo in May 1946 to try Japanese officials and military personnel who committed war crimes. A total of twentyfive men were indicted; two men died during the trial and a third was considered mentally unfit to be tried. The bestknown defendant was Hideki Tojo, who had led Japan throughout the war. All of the men were found guilty, and seven, including Tojo, were sentenced to death and were hanged. Sixteen others received life sentences, and two men who had served for short periods as foreign minister received prison terms. One, Mamoru Shigemitsu, actually returned to politics and served again as Japan's foreign minister.

In 1947 the Americans shifted the remaining trials to the Philippines. The U.S. Navy also held trials on Kwajalein in the...