SCAPIN-1401: APPREHENSION OF SUSPECTED WAR CRIMINAL

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
13 December 1946

AG 000.5 (13 Dec 46) LS-R
(SCAPIN - 1401)

MEMORANDUM FOR

IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

THROUGH

Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.

SUBJECT

Apprehension of Suspected War Criminal.

Memorandum to the Imperial Japanese Government, dated 8 November 1946, file AG 000.5 (8 Nov 46) LS-R, wherein the Imperial Japanese Government is directed to deliver one WATANABE, (FNU) Major, to the Commanding General, EIGHTH Army at Sugamo Prison (Tokyo Detention Camp), at the earliest possible date, is amended to delete said WATANABE's name for the reason that he is presently incarcerated in RANGOON, Burma. This name appears as the third name on Page No. 5 of the above mentioned Memorandum.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

JOHN B. COOLEY,
Colonel, AGD,
Adjutant General.