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Which side has criminal jurisdiction?
- Aftermath of the British seamen incident in Kobe City
In June 1952, HMS Belfast which was operating in Korean waters entered Kobe Port for a ceremonial visit to Japan. On the 29th, seamen Stina and Smith attacked a taxi to rob the car and 1,700 yen (around 300 dollars in modern value). They abandoned the taxi and, while drinking at a bar in the city, officers from Ikuta Police Station arrested them.
Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office, with the approval of Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, indicted both men on charges of robbery on July 2. On August 5, Kobe District Court sentenced them to two and a half years in prison. However, on the same day, British Foreign Secretary Eden requested Japanese Ambassador Matsumoto "I hope these seamen will be returned to their home immediately" and British Ambassador Dening to Japan also told Japanese Foreign Minister Okazaki on the 6th to protest "Prime Minister Yoshida promised to hand over UN criminals to the UN Forces till the UN Forces Agreement is reached. Japan has no jurisdiction over this matter."
In response to these protests, Japanese government claimed that Japan had jurisdiction over the case (as Yoshida memo was not official one) but, in fear of worsening the Japan-British relations, the government tried to release the defendants to seek a political solution. However, Osaka High Court refused to release them claiming that the defendants would need a reliable person who could prevent them from fleeing our country. In the end, this case was settled with a two-year prison sentence at Kobe District Court first and then a suspended sentence at Osaka High Court to return them to their home.
On November 22, however, another robbery incident occurred in Tokyo by British and Australian soldiers. Crimes committed by the UN personnels had once again become a diplomatic issue as British and Australian governments demanded the extradition of the perpetrators.
The perpetrator, British seamen (upper right), British, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand ambassadors discussing the UN Forces jurisdiction issue (mid-right), British and Australian soldiers arrested in Tokyo (lower)
British seamen case appeal trial (upper) Witness Keiko Yoshida testifies (lower left) Reference opinion by Professor Kisaburo Yokota. He gave an ambiguous comment regarding the practice of jurisdiction (lower right)
Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan Vol.13 (1955)
- Aftermath of the British seamen incident in Kobe City
In June 1952, HMS Belfast which was operating in Korean waters entered Kobe Port for a ceremonial visit to Japan. On the 29th, seamen Stina and Smith attacked a taxi to rob the car and 1,700 yen (around 300 dollars in modern value). They abandoned the taxi and, while drinking at a bar in the city, officers from Ikuta Police Station arrested them.
Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office, with the approval of Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, indicted both men on charges of robbery on July 2. On August 5, Kobe District Court sentenced them to two and a half years in prison. However, on the same day, British Foreign Secretary Eden requested Japanese Ambassador Matsumoto "I hope these seamen will be returned to their home immediately" and British Ambassador Dening to Japan also told Japanese Foreign Minister Okazaki on the 6th to protest "Prime Minister Yoshida promised to hand over UN criminals to the UN Forces till the UN Forces Agreement is reached. Japan has no jurisdiction over this matter."
In response to these protests, Japanese government claimed that Japan had jurisdiction over the case (as Yoshida memo was not official one) but, in fear of worsening the Japan-British relations, the government tried to release the defendants to seek a political solution. However, Osaka High Court refused to release them claiming that the defendants would need a reliable person who could prevent them from fleeing our country. In the end, this case was settled with a two-year prison sentence at Kobe District Court first and then a suspended sentence at Osaka High Court to return them to their home.
On November 22, however, another robbery incident occurred in Tokyo by British and Australian soldiers. Crimes committed by the UN personnels had once again become a diplomatic issue as British and Australian governments demanded the extradition of the perpetrators.
The perpetrator, British seamen (upper right), British, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand ambassadors discussing the UN Forces jurisdiction issue (mid-right), British and Australian soldiers arrested in Tokyo (lower)
British seamen case appeal trial (upper) Witness Keiko Yoshida testifies (lower left) Reference opinion by Professor Kisaburo Yokota. He gave an ambiguous comment regarding the practice of jurisdiction (lower right)
Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan Vol.13 (1955)
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Punishment for crimes such as these are deserved but the politics behind jurisdictional disputes are simply politics.
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What a fair person you are, Neil! God will save your country because of it certainly
Here used to be an unfair person -
Kisaburo Yokota (1896-1993) was one of the distinguished jurists in Japan. He clearly denied the emperor system in his book "Emperor System" in 1949 when such an opinion was popular in the postwar society. However, no sooner he was nominated for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1960 than he began to buy up this book as many as possible walking around the used book stores in Tokyo to conceal his past criticism.
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That man is a true politician that is for sure
The yen to dollars exchange rate in 1952 was the same as when I was there in 1966.
360 yen equals one dollar.
1700 yen would be $4.72 in 1952.
I don't see how less than $5.00 in 1952 could be inflated to $300. now.
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Thanks for your kind comment, tyrodtom
Roughly in comparison with price in 1950,
A dollar is up and down between 100 to 150 yen with commodity price 15 to 20 times now as food was/is low while special service like taxi was/is high.
1,700 yen = 11 to 17 dollars x 15 to 20 times = around 165 to 340 dollars in my caliculation.
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Japanese Nurse Dressed In Black During The Russo-Japanese War, 1905
What a pretty woman that was.
What a pretty woman that was.
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Why, such a creature attending to a wounded man would give a fellow hope and a promise of good to come.
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I thought I would post these here for anyone interested in the Merlin. I did some of the sponsor lettering on this one, the late John Crocker's
highly modified P-51D. The gold engine was a back-up in the bed of a pick up truck. The old El Camino with the tailgate down was my work truck!
Sorry the quality, a picture of a print!
highly modified P-51D. The gold engine was a back-up in the bed of a pick up truck. The old El Camino with the tailgate down was my work truck!
Sorry the quality, a picture of a print!
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Late night in Muntinlupa
- Repatriation of overseas war criminals
Muntinlupa Prison Camp is a white-walled prison located on the outskirts of Manila. Over 100 war criminals are still missing far back to their homeland.
The atrocities committed by them during the Pacific War instilled a deep sense of hatred and distrust towards the Japanese in the Filipino people's mind. After Japan surrendered, many Japanese personnel were held responsible for this crime and found guilty at the military tribunals although there were not a few unfortunate personnel who were unfairly accused of innocent crimes as scapegoats for high-ranking commanders who should have been truly punished.
They were sent to Muntinlupa. Those death row inmates were executed by a firing squad one by one. As soon as the fate of them was reported to the homeland, deep sympathy and demands of relief arose among the people. In the spring of 1953, even a female singer, Hamako Watanabe, and her group visited Muntinlupa to sing songs like "Late night in Muntinlupa" for the 59 on death row and 80 fixed-term or indefinite-term there.
People's movement to save them was eventually accepted with an amnesty by President Quirino on July 4. The death row inmates had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment and were sent to Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. All others were released and, on the 21st, they landed in Yokohama. On August 8, additional 15 on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea were also repatriated to meet their families in the homeland. Their war was over.
Landed in Yokohama
Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan Vol.14 (1955)
- Repatriation of overseas war criminals
Muntinlupa Prison Camp is a white-walled prison located on the outskirts of Manila. Over 100 war criminals are still missing far back to their homeland.
The atrocities committed by them during the Pacific War instilled a deep sense of hatred and distrust towards the Japanese in the Filipino people's mind. After Japan surrendered, many Japanese personnel were held responsible for this crime and found guilty at the military tribunals although there were not a few unfortunate personnel who were unfairly accused of innocent crimes as scapegoats for high-ranking commanders who should have been truly punished.
They were sent to Muntinlupa. Those death row inmates were executed by a firing squad one by one. As soon as the fate of them was reported to the homeland, deep sympathy and demands of relief arose among the people. In the spring of 1953, even a female singer, Hamako Watanabe, and her group visited Muntinlupa to sing songs like "Late night in Muntinlupa" for the 59 on death row and 80 fixed-term or indefinite-term there.
People's movement to save them was eventually accepted with an amnesty by President Quirino on July 4. The death row inmates had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment and were sent to Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. All others were released and, on the 21st, they landed in Yokohama. On August 8, additional 15 on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea were also repatriated to meet their families in the homeland. Their war was over.
Landed in Yokohama
Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan Vol.14 (1955)
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