Yamashita

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#1

After some research, I updated Yamashita’s biography on my WW2DB website:

http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=32

I never realized his full story until now, I must say. What do you guys think about the way he was hurriedly tried and executed? Until this day I don’t think anyone has enough evidence to say he was guilty or otherwise… what do you guys think?

Even if you are not knowledgeable about Yamashita, I hope you will read the biography I wrote for him hope you will enjoy it :slight_smile: After all, that’s why I maintain this website :slight_smile:

#2

i think in some point he did get into war, that makes him a war criminal. I dont think he should be spared just because he didnt really participate a lot in the war, we should look at the fact that he did fight the war and killed innocent people.

#3

Firstly, good article I enjoyed reading it.

Secondly. I suppose he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, if he had stayed in Manchuria or Japan he would probably have lived, although Im not sure if the Commonwealth wouldnt have tried him.

A lot of things were done at the end of the war for show I think more than anything.

#4

The trial of Yamashita:
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/yamashita1.htm

#5

Dani, that’s a good picture of Yamashita. Do you know what the copyrights are on that photo? I’m interested in attaching it to my biography of Yamashita.

Thanks for the compliments, Firefly. His qualifications put him in Philippines to make the last stand against the American invasion, which should be an honor to him, but then of course his men’s savagery sent him to the gallows. I’d agree that in a way he was definitely at the wrong place at the wrong time.

I suppose we can’t conclude whether he was fully responsible for the war crimes or not, however, from my studies of him in the past week, I have come to respect the man a heck of a lot as a gentleman as well as a general.

#6

I took it from an Italian site:
http://digilander.libero.it/secondaguerra/yamashita.html

#7

Thanks for sharing Dani. Not too certain about the rights on that photo so I’ll lay off that for now.