Hashimoto, Sato, Doihara, Matsui, Kido, Kimura

Six caricatures of top-ranking Japanese Second World War leaders all convicted for war crimes at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. These caricatures appeared regularly in the BCON Weekend magazine. Kingoro Hashimoto (1890-1957), Japanese soldier and politician sentenced to life imprisonment at the Tribunal; Naotake Sato (1882-1971), Japanese diplomat and politician, was Japan's ambassador to the USSR during the war and received the USSR's declaration of war against Imperial Japan at the Kremlin on 8 August, 1945. Kenji Doihara (1883-1948), a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and instrumental in the planning of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria; Iwane Matsui (1878-1948), a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and commander of the expeditionary forces sent to China during the Second World War. Matsui was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging for being responsible for the Nanking Massacre. Marquis Koichi Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1889-1977), closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout the war. Heitaro Kimura (1888-1948 a general in the Imperial Japanese Army; the Tribunal condemned his inability to prevent atrocities against POWs in Burma, despite the fact that he did not arrive in Burma until late 1944 and the railway construction was conducted between 1942-43.