SCAPIN-1607: APPREHENSION OF SUSPECTED WAR CRIMINALS

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS

APO 500
12 April 1947

AG 000.5 (12 Apr 47) LS-R
(SCAPIN - 1607)

MEMORANDUM FOR

IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.

THROUGH

Central Liaison Office, Tokyo.

SUBJECT

Apprehension of Suspected War Criminals.

The following namec* Japanese will te 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
AKABANE, (FNU)
Sgt or WO
OC of PW Escort aboard "DAI NICHI MARU" enroute Singapore to Moji, 28 Oct 42 - 27 Nov 42.
Later posted to Amano Butai in South Burma, Jun 1943.
ITO, Yoshio (Tomio)
A/Pvt
Medical Corps. Stationed at hospital, 10 Kikometre Post, KRA Railway, Siam.
Believed to be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya during 44.
Was cook for Capt ORI, Masami, Medical Off.
KANNO, Masami
Civ
Guard, Tokyo Camp #11-D (later called 14-B), Nov 44 - 15 Aug 45.
Probable home address: Fukushima-Ken Iwaki-gun, Nakoso-machi, Seikita Minami-machi No. 21.
MITOMI, Hideo
Civ
Chief of Malaya Railway Bureau, KRA Railway, Siam.
NAKAMURA, Yoshitaro
WO
Kempei Tai, Miyazaki Detach, Babelthuap Palau Is, Sep 44.
OGAWA, Eichi
Col
OC, KRA Railway Unit, Sumatra Railway Corps
SHICHINO, Shinobu
Sgt (Medic)
Mitsushima PW Camp, 1 Jan 43 - 10 Jun 43,
TAKAHAGI, Aragi
Civ
Kinjohan Company, KRA Railway, Siam.

FOR THE SUPREME COMMANDER:

R.M. LEVY,
Colonel, AGD,
Adjutant General.