Re: Japan's Emperor Marks 20th Year - Inouye
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"Dave Smith" <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message...
> Then there is Kanao Inouye, a Japanese Canadian who was born and raised
> in Kamloops and went to Japan in 1938 to continue his education, got
> drafted into the army and served as a guard and interpreter in a
> Japanese POW camp in Hong Kong where we was notoriously brutal towards
> the prisoners.
IMHO, there is an interesting second part to that story.
(From "Desperate Siege, The Battle of Hong Kong"
by Ted Ferguson, 1980)
"On the morning of April 22, 1947, (IJA) Sgt. Inouye Kanao
faced the bench in a Hong Kong courtroom to hear
Chief Justice Sir Henry Blackall pronounce sentence.
He was originally charged under a war-crimes statute that
had produced a twenty year sentence for Commandant
Tokunaga, but his lawyer argued that the statute did not
apply because he was a Canadian citizen. The lawyer's
maneuver backfired. The prosecution laid a high treason
charge and, as Innouye stood in the box ---, Blackall
issued a death sentence. Three days afterward, at 7:03 AM,
Inouye was hanged at Stanley Prison."
Goes to show, not all lawyer tricks work!