GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
29 January 1947

AG 000.5 (29 Jan 47) LS-R
(SCAPIN - 1496)

MEMORANDUM FOR	IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
THROUGH	Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.
SUBJECT	Apprehension of Suspected War Criminals.

The following-named Japanese will be apprehended as Suspected War Criminals and delivered to the Commanding General, EIGHTH Army, at Sugamo Prison (Tokyo detention Camp), at the earliest possible date.
NAME
RANK OR TITLE
PERTINENT DATA
ABE, (FND)
Maj Gen
CO, Abe Butai, Koepang Timor, Sep 42.
DOMORI, Masaichi
Sgt/Maj
Harada Butai. Overseer of Plantations, Pereuri Village, Kusaie, Marshall Islands, Mar 45.
Probable home address in Hokkaido.
FUJII, Junpei
Civ
Overseer, Kashima Konshu Contracting Co, KRA Railway, Siam, Sep 43 - Dec 43.
Probable home address: 76 Hanezawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
HAMADA, (FNU)
Maj
Staff paymaster, Harada Butai. Officer in charge of plantations, Kusaie, Marshall Islands, Mar. 45.
Home address believed in Osaka.
HAYASHI Reizo
Maj
Bn Cmdr, 56 Inf Regt, 18 Div, Malaya, 42. Instructor at Chiba Cadet Training School from 1942.
ICHIKAWA, Tadashi
Maj
OC 3rd Bn, 11 Inf Regt, 9 Inf Brig, 5th Div. Initial occupation of Singapore, Malaya, Feb 42.
ISHIOKA(ICHIOKA), Hisashi(Hiroshi),
Rear Adm
Cmdr of 8 Submarine Flotilla, 6th Submarine Fleet, Penang, Malaya 1944.
KAMISADA, Shoji
Civ
Kashima Konshu Contracting Co, KRA Railway, Siam.
Probable home address: 2040 Onjuku-machi, Isumi-gun, Chiba-ken.
KANEKO Sadao
Korean guard, 105 Kilo Camp, Burma-Siam Railway #3 Branch, May 43 - Mar 1944.
KATO, (FNU)
Capt
Ship commandant, "Yoshida Maru," Trandjong Priok, Singapore, 22 Oct 42-24 Oct 42.
KITABE, Kunio
Col
CO, 60th Regt, 15 Div, Mandalay, Burma 1945.
KUNICHIICA, Takashi
Police officer, Malaya. Repatriated to Japan from Singapore on "Arimasan Maru," Sep 46; arrived at Uraga, 8 Oct 46.
KUTOKI, Sanshichi
L/Cpl
Blacksmith and Railway Eng, Burma-Siam Railway.
Hintok PW Camp, Siam, Jun 1943.
MATSUI, Noboru
Capt
OC, 2 Co, 3rd Independent Engineer Bn, Nakon Pathom, Siam.
Returned to Japan from Bangkok, 19 Apr 46.
MIYOSHI, Kenzo
W0
Kempei Tai, Maymyo, Worth West Burma, Believed returned to Japan in 1944.
NACAKUMA, (FNU)
Sgt
Kempei Tai, Meiktila (North East Burma), 1942-43.
Returned to Japan during 1943.
NAKAMURA, (FNU)
2/Lt
Watanabe Butai, Oka 10452, Sarmi, New Guinea, Nov A5.
SAKUMA, Takayoshi
Col
33rd Div, 15 Army, Burma.
Repatriated on "Rufus C. Dawes," 25 Jun 46.
SARUWATARI, (FNU)
Police Dept, Padang, "West Coast Sumatra, NFI, 1945.
Probable home address: Kumamoto-ken, Tamana-gun, Ohara-mura, Ohara 444.
TANAKA , (FNU)
Lt
Draft cmdr on "Wales Maru," Singapore to Japan, 15 May - 7 Jun 46.
TSUCHITAN1, Joshichi
W0
2nd Gds Div during Singapore occupation, 1942; Personnel Dept, Military Administration, Singapore; Prison Gds, Changi, Nov 42 - Apr 43; Mil Admin, Sumatra, Apr 43.
Returned to Japan 1943.
WATANABE, Fukuo
Sgt/Maj
Kempei Tai, Mejktila (North East Burma), 1942-44. Returned to Japan during 1944.
YAMADA, Shiu
LT
Staff, 3rd Branch, PW Adm, Formosa, end of 1945.
YAMAMOTO, Kiyoe
Lt Gen
OC, 15 Div, 15 Army, Mandalay, Jan-May 1945. Returner to Japan prior to Aug 45.
YAMASHITA, Nobuo
W0
Stationed in Malaya, 1942. Tran to 106 Base Hospital Rangoon, for serious TB, Dec 44; later trans to Osaka or Hiroshima Hospital.
YASHIRO, (FNU)
Sgt
Miki Butai, Guard in charge of PW's at Biakang Mati Islands off Singapore 1942-43.
YATOMI, Mitsuji
Capt
Stationed in Malaya, 1942.
Trans to Kyushu Prov Kempei Tai, Japan, Mar 44
YOSHINO, Kuzu.
Civ
Kashima Konshu Contracting CO, KRA Railway, Siam. Probable home address: Kanayago, Kawabe-mura, Yamatake-gun, Chiba Pref.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

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