10 Mar 1947 China
  • Lieutenant General Hisao Tani was sentenced to death by a court in Nanjing, China for encouraging his men to commit crimes such as rape, murder, plunder, and destruction at Nanjing in 1937 and 1938. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Nanjing | CPC]
  • Hisao Tani was found guilty of war crimes by a court in Nanjing, China. ww2dbase [Hisao Tani | Nanjing | CPC]

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Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
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