Shiratori, Toshio, 1887-1949

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.

Ambassador Toshio Shiratori was a Japanese ambassador to Italy from 1938-1940. He was an advocate of military expansionism, counseling an alliance between Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan to facilitate world domination. Shiratori was found guilty of conspiring to wage aggressive war by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in November 1948 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Original caption: Among the alleged major Japanese war criminals on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are left from right (first row), Sadao Araki, Akira Muto, Naoki Hoshino, Okinori Kaya, Koichi Kido, Heitaro Kimura, (back row) left to right, Shigenori Togo, Kenryo Sato, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Shigetaro Shimada, Toshio Shiratori, Teiichi Suzuki, and Seishiro Itagaki. All others are unidentified.