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Sugamo Prison, the Glossary

Sugamo Prison (Sugamo Kōchi-sho, Kyūjitai: 巢鴨拘置所, Shinjitai: 巣鴨拘置所) was a prison in Tokyo, Japan.^[1]

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1895 establishments in Japan
1971 disestablishments in Japan
Buildings and structures in Toshima
Defunct prisons in Japan
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Military prisons
Tokyo in World War II

Akira Mutō

was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bombing of Tokyo

The was a series of air raids on Japan launched by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific War in 1944–1945. Sugamo Prison and Bombing of Tokyo are Tokyo in World War II.

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Burma Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Eighth Army (United States)

The Eighth Army is a U.S. field army which commands all United States Army forces in South Korea.

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Eitaro Uchiyama

was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Espionage

Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence).

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fourteenth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Governor-General of Chōsen

The Governor-General of Chōsen (Chōsen Sōtoku; Joseon Chongdok) was the chief administrator of the Government-General of Chōsen (Chōsen Sōtokufu; Joseon Chongdokbu) (a part of an administrative organ established by the Imperial government of Japan) from 1910 to 1945.

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Heitarō Kimura

was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Hideki Tojo

was a Japanese politician, military leader and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association from 1941 to 1944 during World War II.

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Hiranuma Kiichirō

was a Japanese lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1939.

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Hiroshi Ōshima

Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese ambassador to Germany before and during World War II and (unwittingly) a major source of communications intelligence for the Allies.

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Hotsumi Ozaki

was a Japanese journalist working for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, communist, Soviet intelligence agent, and advisor to Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe.

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Hundred man killing contest

The was a newspaper account of a contest between Toshiaki Mukai (3 June 1912 – 28 January 1948) and Tsuyoshi Noda (1912 – 28 January 1948), two Japanese Army officers serving during the Japanese invasion of China, over who could kill 100 people the fastest while using a sword.

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Ikebukuro

is a commercial and entertainment district in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan.

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Imperial Japanese Navy

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II.

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International Military Tribunal for the Far East

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during the Second World War. Sugamo Prison and International Military Tribunal for the Far East are occupied Japan.

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Isamu Yokoyama

was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, commanding Japanese ground forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Pacific War.

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Iva Toguri D'Aquino

Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino (戸栗郁子アイバ; July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American disc jockey and radio personality who participated in English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II on the ''Zero Hour'' radio show.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese cuisine

Japanese cuisine encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan, which have developed through centuries of political, economic, and social changes.

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Jirō Minami

was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Governor-General of Korea between 1936 and 1942.

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Kaichi Hirate

Kaichi Hirate (March 12, 1909May 10, 1946) was a Captain in the Japanese Imperial Army.

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Kōichi Kido

Marquess (July 18, 1889 – April 6, 1977) was a Japanese statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Hirohito throughout World War II.

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Kōki Hirota

was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1936 to 1937.

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Kenji Doihara

was a Japanese army officer.

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Kuniaki Koiso

was a Japanese politician, military leader and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan from 1944 to 1945 during World War II.

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Kwantung Army

The Kwantung Army (Japanese: 関東軍, Kantō-gun) was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945.

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Kyūjitai

Kyūjitai (lit) are the traditional forms of kanji (Chinese written characters used in Japanese writing).

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Kyushu University

, abbreviated to, is a public research university located in Fukuoka, Japan, on the island of Kyushu. Founded in 1911 as the fourth Imperial University in Japan, it has been recognised as a leading institution of higher education and research in Kyushu, Japan, and beyond. The history of the university began a few decades before its founding when the medical school of the Fukuoka Domain (福岡藩 Fukuoka han) was established in 1867, the final year of the Edo period.

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Landsberg Prison

Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about west-southwest of Munich and south of Augsburg.

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Mamoru Shigemitsu

was a Japanese diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs three times during and after World War II and as Deputy Prime Minister.

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Matsutarō Shōriki

was a Japanese media proprietor and politician.

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Ministry of Munitions (Japan)

The was a cabinet-level ministry in the final days of the Empire of Japan, charged with the procurement and manufacture of armaments, spare parts and munitions to support the Japanese war effort in World War II.

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Nanjing Massacre

The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and the retreat of the National Revolutionary Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Naoki Hoshino

was a bureaucrat and politician who served in the Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese government, and as an official in the Empire of Manchukuo.

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Nobusuke Kishi

was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960.

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Occupation of Japan

Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952. Sugamo Prison and Occupation of Japan are occupied Japan.

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Okinori Kaya

was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who served as Minister of Finance from 1937 to 1938 and 1941 to 1944, and as Minister of Justice from 1963 to 1964.

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Osami Nagano

was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of the leaders of Japan's military during most of the Second World War.

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Parole

Parole (also known as provisional release or supervised release) is a form of early release of a prison inmate where the prisoner agrees to abide by behavioral conditions, including checking-in with their designated parole officers, or else they may be rearrested and returned to prison.

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Peace Preservation Law

The was a Japanese law enacted on April 22, 1925, with the aim of allowing the Special Higher Police to more effectively suppress alleged socialists and communists.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Political prisoner

A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.

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Prime Minister of Japan

The prime minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: Naikaku Sōri-Daijin) is the head of government and the highest political position of Japan.

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Rear admiral

Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies.

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Richard Sorge

Richard Sorge (Rikhard Gustavovich Zorge; 4 October 1895 – 7 November 1944) was a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.

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Ryōichi Sasakawa

was a Japanese businessman, philanthropist, far-right politician and suspected war criminal.

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Sadaaki Konishi

Sadaaki Konishi (January 19, 1916 – April 30, 1949) was a lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War.

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Sadae Inoue

was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.

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Sadao Araki

Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II.

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Seishirō Itagaki

was a Japanese military officer and politician who served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and War Minister from 1938 to 1939.

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Shigenori Tōgō

was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Axis–Allied conflict during World War II.

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Shigeru Sawada

was a career military officer and a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Shigetarō Shimada

was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

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Shinjitai

are the simplified forms of kanji used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946.

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Shunroku Hata

was a field marshal (gensui) in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors.

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Spandau Prison

Spandau Prison was a former military prison located in the Spandau borough of West Berlin (present-day Berlin, Germany).

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Special wards of Tokyo

are a special form of municipalities in Japan under the 1947 Local Autonomy Law.

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Sunshine 60

is a 60-story, mixed-use skyscraper located in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo, adjoining the Sunshine City complex. Sugamo Prison and Sunshine 60 are buildings and structures in Toshima.

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Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers

The was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the United States-led Allied occupation of Japan following World War II. Sugamo Prison and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers are occupied Japan.

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Takaji Wachi

was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

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Tasuku Okada

was a Japanese officer during World War II.

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Teiichi Suzuki

was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, a minister of state, and member of the House of Peers.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tokyo International University

Tokyo International University (TIU) (東京国際大学, Tōkyō Kokusai Daigaku) is a private, research-oriented liberal arts university which was founded in 1965.

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Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

The, known locally as simply the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), is the prefectural police of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.

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Toshima

is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan.

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Toshio Shiratori

was the Japanese ambassador to Italy from 1938 to 1940, adviser to the Japanese foreign minister in 1940, and one of the 14 Class-A war criminals enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine.

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Vivisection

Vivisection is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugamo_Prison

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1895 establishments in Japan

1971 disestablishments in Japan

Buildings and structures in Toshima

Defunct prisons in Japan

Former buildings and structures in Tokyo

Military prisons

Tokyo in World War II

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