JAPANESE WAR CRIMINALS An incredible collection of 35 signatures of Japanese war criminals, each of whom have signed in Japanese and English characters. The signatures, about half of which are in pencil, appear on both sides of a 10" x 14" folded white sheet of paper. These defendants, although not the ones most Americans heard of during the war, include some of the most despicable criminals and profiteers. Among those signing are, in order: NOBUTAKA SHIODEN, Japanese lieutenant general, representative, and propagandist of a Jewish conspiracy theory, KEN. TERASHIMA, TAKAHASHI SANKICHI, Admiral and director of the Naval Academy, KAZUO AOKI, Administrator of Manchurian affairs; Minister of Treasury in Nobuyoki Abe's cabinet, KISABURO ANDO, Minister of the Interior and lieutenant general, YOSHISUKE AIKAWA, an important industrialist with links to the Army, was chief of the Manchukuan industrial zaibatsu groups, TAKUO GODO, implicated in the "Rape of Nanking", GENKI ABE, Home Minister in the Japanese Cabinet, IWAKUSU IDA, HUMIO GOTO, KOICHIRA ISHIHARA, CHUKO IKEZAKI, author, OTOGORO ISHIDA, MICHIYO IWAMURA, justice, NOBUSUKE KISHI, Tojo's minister of commerce and industry, SEIZO KOBAYASHI, Governor-General of Taiwan and minister, TAKEO KIKUCHI, A House of Peers member and royalist, YOSHIO KODAMA, formed an ultra-nationalist group with the intent to assassinate various Japanese politicians, later a "yakuza" chieftain, MAZAKI JINZABURO, commandant of the Japanese Military Academy, YOSHIHISA KUZUU, head of the dreaded "Black Dragon Society", KURODA SHIGENORI, Yamashita's predecessor, charged with more than 2,800 deaths, MURATA SHOZO, shipping magnate, MATSUZAKA HIROMASA, Minister of Welfare, SHIGEO ODACHI, director of the General Affairs Bureau in Japan's puppet Manchukuo government, wartime mayor of Singapore, NAGAKAGI OKABE, KAZO OTA, Minister of Education and an ultra-nationalist, MATSUTARO SHORIKI, RYOICHI SASAKAWA, Japanese businessman, fascist, organized crime figure, and renowned shipbuilder, KAZUMA SHINTO, TADAMASA SAKAI, SOEMU TOYODA, member of the Supreme War Council and Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet from May 3, 1944, HIROSHI TRAMURA, Lieut. General and head of POW records, YUI YOKOYAMA, believed to be involved in vivisection, and one other, unidentified. Many of these accused served either light sentences or were acquitted, either for lack of evidence or more often because of anti-Communist activities or collaboration with the post-war administration. Obtained by an American guard present at the war crimes trials in Tokyo in 1946 and at Yokohama, 1947. An irreplaceable grouping! $700-900