MATERIAL: Silk
TYPE: Flag / Banner
DIMENSIONS: 23"x28"
COMPONENTS:
NOTES: Very Rare.
ITEM ID: 590
Japanese Flag Signed by War Criminals
DATE
Year: 1945
Decade: 1940s
Century: 20th (1901-2000)
A Japanese Rising Sun flag darkly signed by various Japanese War Criminals while on trial. The Tokyo prosecution began in May 1946; after hundreds of sessions, it closed in November two years later. The trial was held, perhaps symbolically, in the auditorium of the Japanese War Ministry building, and in the audience were 100 correspondents, both Japanese and Allied, and several hundred spectators. Before it was over, the prosecution had produced more than 400 witnesses, almost 800 witness affidavits and about 1,000 other documents.
Asia / Africa
This collection houses art and artifacts from China, Ethiopia, India and Japan.
