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Preliminary Inventory of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East Records
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Title: International Military Tribunal for the Far East records,
Date (inclusive): 1946-1948
Collection number: 49016
Creator:
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Extent:
81 linear feet, 1 envelope
(81.1 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Exhibits, transcripts and summaries of proceedings, summations of
counsel, judgments of the tribunal, and indexes, relating to the trials of
Japanese officials accused of World War II war crimes.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], International Military Tribunal for the Far East records, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired.
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The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) was established by a special proclamation of General Douglas
MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) on January 19, 1946. MacArthur thus implemented the Potsdam Declaration
of China, the United States, and the United Kingdom (July 26, 1945), as accepted by the Japanese signatories of the Instrument
of Surrender on September 2, 1945, that war criminals would be brought to justice. SCAP had been given the authority to issue
all orders implementing the Japanese surrender terms by a declaration of the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, the
United States, and the USSR, issued from Moscow on December 27, 1945.
IMTFE was constituted of eleven judges, appointed by SCAP, representative in nationality of the Allied signatories of the
Instrument of Surrender, and of India and the Philippines. From April 29, 1946, to January 12, 1948, IMTFE heard cases against
twenty-eight defendants. From November 4 to 12, 1948, it rendered judgments against twenty-five defendants (two having died
during the trial and one having been deemed incompetent to stand trial). Seven defendants were sentenced to death, sixteen
to life imprisonment, one to twenty years' imprisonment, and one to seven years' imprisonment.
Exhibits, transcripts and summaries of proceedings, summations of
counsel, judgments of the tribunal, and indexes, relating to the trials of
Japanese officials accused of World War II war crimes.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Japan.
Japan.
List of Indexes in the Hoover Archives Reading Room
1. Dull and Umemura. The Tokyo Trials: A Functional Index (1957). 94 p.
2. IMTFE. List of rejected prosecution documents. (n.d.) 17 p. (2 copies)
3. IMTFE. List of rejected defense documents. (n.d.) 44 p.
4. IMTFE. Index of (defense) witnesses, 28 Feb. 1947 - 10 Feb. 1948. (n.d.) 117 p.
5. IMTFE. Index of (prosecution) witnesses, 17 June - 16 Aug. 1946; 28 Aug. - 29 Nov. 1946. (n.d.) 13 p. (2 copies)
6. IMTFE. Index of motions, arguments, decisions, objections in open court. (n.d.) 36 p.
7. Supreme Command for the Allied Powers. International Prosecution Section (IPS). Revised index to documents by defendants
(at the Tokyo War Crime Trials). Also,numerical list of IPS documents introduced as court exhibits. (1947) 55 p. and 32 p.
8. Maxon, Yale Candee. Index to documents (by phase and subject). (1947) 20 p.
9. Maxon, Yale Candee. Index to documents not specifically linked to one or more of the defendants. (1947) 17 p.