YAMASHITA'S TRIAL - SOUND (OUT OF SYNC)

(15 Nov 1945)
Interior shots of Yamashita in witness box, answering questions being put to him by the prosecutor. SCU Yamashita. Various shots of court. Reynolds opens proceedings.
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[@shaeVettori]

He was the only REAL human general on his side at that level. Japanese leaders threw this man under the bus as a scapegoat and bargaining chip to save their own skins....shame. The fact that he thanked the americans for his fair and respectful treatment MOMENTS BEFORE WE HUNG HIM speaks volumes about his actual character.

[@らんらん-q2l]

The only reason he was punished was because he humiliated General Percival of the British army.

[@rimrunz1795]

No, asswipe, th reason he was sentenced is that he participated robustly in th wholesale killing of countless numbers of Filipinos and other pacific peoples. U wanna b a little nationalist? At least pick someone who was defensible.

[@samsonbengalilee7144]

@@ajaysidhu471 I don't realize what do you mean ?

[@danielloh1174]

@@ajaysidhu471 general yamashita is very kind and love his citizen, he learn spanish to communicate with chinese indian and malay in malaysia, singapore philipine....until today spanish are national language for malaysia, singapore philipine,

[@lioneltaniguchi9108]

I think General Yamashita was not guilty. He was murdered because british could not bear to lose battle of Singapur. It is a fact.

[@kamir4752]

They hanged yamashita and lost the fabled loot forever into myth.

[@gardoarellano9601]

His toughness is truly one of a kind

[@donfarlan214]

Nobody went to jail for bombing civilians because you cant convict others of the crime you exelled at

[@S2KEVIN]

Scapegoat.

[@S2KEVIN]

@Mike will lol

[@ironplasticmachine2309]

Mike will idiot he’s the one who ordered to withdraw manila because he choose to fight in the mountains. Blame it to the navy that got their battleship sunked and want to get revenge to americans.

[@BossKingNgManila]

That's sad. He was a professional and disciplined soldier.

[@akaleeeel]

Havent see lieuftenan adnan saidi?

[@farhansyj9564]

you havent see what he doing to Lieutenant Adnan ??

[@jimbo2629]

So it’s ok to invade a peaceful nation and kill, maim and destroy because that’s not a war crime. If a soldier killed one Philippino then he is guilty of murder and deserves to be brought to justice. If the general orders thousands to do it then he should suffer the consequences.

[@davanmani556]

It was disciplined mistreatment on purpose.

[@sosososososo4148]

Tiger of Malay

[@mscorrell]

This bum also occupied Singapore. My father, a lawyer, may have been in Singapore at this time. My uncle, a war correspondent, may have covered this trial and subsequent hanging.

[@michaelmallal9101]

Yamashita only defeated the mainly crappy British Army who retreated non-stop down the Malay peninsula and even Singapore island. Might have been a different story if he was fighting the Soviets, led by General Zhukov, in Mongolia? Compare Singapore to Leningrad and Stalingrad.

[@Edward1312]

He got his just deserts.

[@Ronxy9999]

History is written by the victors, no one in the modern era truly understand the full details of past events. It's much easier to judge than to understand.

[@noorur]

Never the less Yamashita was a tyrannical war criminal and deserved to be executed. Look into Sook Ching Massacre and Alexandre Hospital Massacre in Singapore, then whatever crap happened in Malaysia then in the Phillipines, the Manilla Massacre

[@haisee1671]

Yes, but u cant justify liberating people by waging war just like promoting peace but by intimidation.

[@thebittertruth3514]

British forces were badly defeated by Tiger Yamashita so he was unnecessarily blamed for war crimes . Just to take revenge of their defeat, they hanged a brave soldier who fought for his nation.

[@thebittertruth3514]

Eunuch General Percival took his revenge for badly defeated by Japanese who were just 1/3 comparison of his British troops. Eunuch Percival couldn't win in battle ground so judiciary killed a Brave General .

[@degorman4673]

Why his subordinate escaped death penalty?

[@MrEjidorie]

If Yamashita knew nothing about massacre which his soldiers had committed, he would be completely incompetent as a supreme commander. However, if Yamashita`s wrongdoings were deserved to death, Truman would be sentenced to death in case the United States was defeated. What he did over civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with A-bombs were tantamount to what Yamashita did over noncombatants in the Philippines.

[@surferpam1]

Shall we ask the dead lying at the bottom of Pearl Harbor?

[@tvgerbil1984]

Come now, Truman's equivalent would be Hirohito, not Yamashita. Did the Americans not spare Hirohito and his whole household of war criminals from war crime trials?

[@MrEjidorie]

@@tvgerbil1984 Douglas MacArthur spared Hirohito in spite of strong pressure from the Soviet Union to indict and hang him. MacArthur intended to exploit Hirohito`s authority as a living god to administer his subjects. Otherwise, he knew it would be extremely difficult to control Japan. In case Hirohito was executed as a war criminal, it would provoke fierce anti-American sentiments among Japanese nations, and Japan would be in the hollow of communists` hands as a result.

[@tvgerbil1984]

@@MrEjidorie Prince Yasuhiko Asaka was also granted immunity by MacArthur from war crime prosecution. He was Hirohito's royal uncle and the commanding general who gave the order to carry out the largest massacre of civilians in WW2 history at the Chinese capital of Nanking in 1937. MacArthur certainly didn't need Prince Asaka to govern the post-war Japan, just to show how generous and magnanimous Douglas MacArthur was.

[@MrEjidorie]

@@tvgerbil1984 There were a lot of plea bargaining between the US occupational forces and Japanese war criminals such as the case of Unit 731. In fact, none of Unit 731 were indicted after World War II in exchange of providing data of human experimentation to the United States. Top priority of the United States was to make Japan as anti-communism fortress in Asia rather than punishing Japanese war criminals. In other words, former enemies shared the same interests after the war. I recommend you to read “the Yamato Dynasty” which was written by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave. I have no idea too what degree what this book said are correct, but many contents of this book are unknown to Japanese. And the Japanese version of this book is not published in Japan yet just because this book is too controversial. If I translated this book into Japanese and published in Japan, I would be taken out in secret.

[@yeboyjayyjv9109]

No one deserves to die... after all "thou shall not kill"

[@windwalker8058]

He got exactly what he deserved Japan committed countless atrocities and got away with it, crimes against humanity should never go unpunished Nazi excused the murder of millions of innocents by claiming I WAS JUST DOING WHAT I WAS TOLD!

[@yeboyjayyjv9109]

@@windwalker8058 None in this planet deserved to get killed brutally, just cuz he killed other ppl does not mean we should kill him too. Your mind is ridiculous and your completely heartless

[@noorur]

@@yeboyjayyjv9109 your mind is ridiculous and completely heartless!! If he's gonna order innocent civilians to be killed, like the Sook Ching Massacre or the Alexandre Hospital Massacre, let alone the 60,000 civilians killed in Manilla all because the American troops were advancing, then he deserved nothing less than DEATH. Why should he be allowed to live ??!! If he doesn't deserve to die, tell that to me the family members of his victims.

[@johnrusanow3494]

@@noorur buts it's totally ok to fire bomb heavily built up known civilian populated areas such as Tokyo and all major cities in Japan then drop two Nuclear weapons on on civilian areas on an already defeated Countrie..then try hide information about the aftermath of radiation fallout..🤔.

[@noorur]

@@johnrusanow3494 the casualties from the firebombing & the two nukes is NOTHING compared to the nasty war crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial Army back in WW2, they were in China for 8 years, see the nasty stuff they did in Jinnan, then look at the Rape of Nanking, that was the biggest slaughter so horrific even by the standards of the Nazis. Nazis may have taken 6 million Jews into gas chambers, whereas the Japanese soldiers in Nanking were systematically killing anyone & everyone, regardless of whether if they were civilians or not, women & children, even babies! Then took literally every female living there as a sex slave, the amounts of rape that occurred there was on a level unknown to humanity since the Vikings in the 8th century, or Genghis Khan may have been just as bad. You see the part with the two generals who participated on who could behead 100 men first ? The tabloids in Japan given them the front page to celebrate their 'success'. Even the uncle of the then Emperor went to stroll into Nanjing just to show what his Imperial army was about, taking pride in it. You know what I think ? Japan deserved the fire bombings over its civilian population since they celebrated what their counter parts were doing all over China, especially the 2 nukes, they deserved 10 nukes. And I haven't even begun talking about the live human experiments in Manchuria by that doctor either. Alot of Japanese soldiers & generals got away, but atleast their 'civilian' relatives paid for it in the for bombings, good riddance!!

[@Rexclipedyou]

The British executed him because they didn’t want to lose yamashita was innocent

[@mscorrell]

That little girl in last video is gorgeous. He might not have issued orders, like Hitler. He was found guilty of not exercising control over his troops in both Singapore and Manila.

[@schmiteinsatz2420]

Is yamashita convicted to the massacare of british army during their invasion in malaya?1942

[@schmiteinsatz2420]

@Enoch's Ghost i think should open that case..british army massacare in muar johor..malaya at that time.

[@NimaEmreKeighobadi]

There is no justice in USA . like Eric von Manschtain's prison.

[@rudylopez5060]

This is unacceptable.. he followed orders from the emperor. He get executed while the emperor got away scot free. Our highest respect to the General yamashita

[@rudylopez5060]

We make it short and simple.. Your american president sent you, as a general to vietnam. You instructed your thousands of American soldiers and airmen to bomb villages, killed children and women. Dropped napalm bombs and agent orange all over north vietnam. Soon after, u were captured. And sentenced to the firing squad. Do u say, oh i simply orders.. Or do u say i'm proud to serve my country.. Lol.. cmon we need an answer from you..

[@lioneltaniguchi9108]

Perdón, pero el Emperador no tuvo nada que ver con lo sucedido bajo las órdenes del Gral. Yamashita. Saludos.

[@rimrunz1795]

Cry us a river....

[@baseplate7566]

@@rudylopez5060 Be educated, The emperor was merely a puppet, there was a prime minister system and the army was independent.

[@3j6j9j8]

ナポレオンの時代でさえ島流しなのに死刑にし過ぎだろ本当に

[@josedro]

Excelente comentario

[@GavinTheFifer]

What a miscarriage of justice.

[@mattohara7736]

A travesty of justice!

[@sidmichael1158]

What did he do?

[@Laimee]

War crimes

[@rexmonte1683]

lose

[@3j6j9j8]

日本が負けたから

[@sosososososo4148]

Raped Brits army of general Percival and threw them at Death Railway construction

[@baseplate7566]

@@sosososososo4148 no he was sentenced to death because he beat the general in singapore decesively

[@mscorrell]

A difficult job defending Yamashita. Could famous Jewish Singapore lawyer David Marshall be able to?

[@steveweatherbe]

Is his Jewishness inportant? Which English football team did he support?

[@limdaniel3324]

Yamashita and all those japanese commanders should just commit Seppuku instead of standing trials and bearing the shame. Guess they talk and practice differently, what a bunch of cowards.

[@위장염]

Yamashita can doing himself 'harakiri' before he being prisonor. But he did not. Because he don't want death penalty toward his inferiors. If he die himself, US army kill them fix the blame war crime instead kill yamashita

[@rimrunz1795]

Yep

[@arjanbrass1626]

He has paid dearly for what he has done!

[@らんらん-q2l]

The only reason he was punished was because he humiliated General Percival of the British army.

[@iskandergaba]

The US is yet to pay sadly.

[@hendradjaja7821]

Ini yg menyembunyikan harta karun rampasan jepang di filipina

[@aromnephesh5236]

"KANGAROO COURT"!!!!!! AMERICAN EMPERIALISM

[@yoyit-realtor]

Amen

[@bobbybates2614]

If the japanese invaded your country and committed murder rape would you still feel the same

[@rimrunz1795]

Kangaroo you, asshole

[@ernestoquiroga6174]

Tenno Heika Banzai(天皇 陛下 万岁: "¡Larga vida al Emperador!")

[@grettelvargas844]

ばか。

[@عليالمحمداوي-س7ش]

منتصرين في الحرب كانوا اكثر اجرام منه كما فعلت امريكا في العراق قتلت من مدنيين اكثر من طاغيه دكتاتور صدام