Hashimoto, Kingoro, 1890-1957

Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto of the Black Dragon Society and Points Far East. He was charged with ordering an attack on a U.S. gunboat. This includes a negative and duplicate photo. From: A Scrapbook presented to Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan on the occasion of his visit to General Headquarters, U. S. Army Forces Pacific, in Tokyo, Japan, July, 1946.

Head shots of the twenty seven accused war criminals from Japan that were tried at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East in Tokyo, Japan.

Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army and politician. He was famous for having twice tried to stage a coup against the civilian government in the 1930s. He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.