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Lot 890
[Sugamo Prison, Tokyo] Hideki Tojo, Mamoru Shigamitsu, and Yoshijiro Umezu. Photo signed in English and Japanese, 3½ x 4¾, Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, November 1947. General Tojo signed in the lower right corner; Foreign Minister Shigamitsu and General Umezu signed at top left on the verso. General Tojo (1884-1948) is shown at Sugamo Prison boarding the bus which took him and the other members of the Japanese War Cabinet to trial daily. Tojo was Prime Minister of Japan when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. He had been Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria (1937-38), Vice Minister of War (1938-39), Minister of War (1940-41), and Prime Minister (1941-44). He was hanged as a war criminal.
Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigamitsu (1887-1957) signed the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. After the war, he was tried for waging war and for deliberately and recklessly disregarding his duty. Sentenced to seven years in prison, he was paroled in 1950. He returned to politics as a leader of the Reform Party, and was the Foreign Minister between 1954 and 1956.
General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff (1882-1949) signed the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, on board the USS Missouri, September 2, 1945. After the war, he was tried as a war criminal and was found guilty of waging a war of aggression and sentenced to life imprisonment on November 12, 1948. While in prison, he became a convert to Christianity. He died from rectal cancer in prison in 1949.
All three men were held in Sugamo Prison, Tokyo while on trial. From March 24, 1947 to February 10, 1948, young American private Samuel J. Million was assigned to Headquarters Detachment, 8th Army, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur Headquarters. He was assigned to Sugamo Prison as a guard to top-level Japanese war criminals and personally obtained these signatures.
Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000.
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