The trial of Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita was one of the first major war crimes trials following World War II and is a landmark case in international law. Yamashita, who had been the commander of Japanese forces in the Philippines, was tried by a U.S. military commission in Manila in late 1945. The core of the charge against him was not that he personally ordered atrocities, but that he failed to "control the operations of the members of his command," thereby permitting widespread and bru

Exploring the execution site of Imperial Japanese Army General Tomoyuki Yamashita in Los Baños, Laguna: | World War II in the Philippines

General Tomoyuki Yamashita was one of the most feared men in World War 2. Dubbed as 'The Tiger of Malaya' because of his conquest of the nation within 70 days from the British, Yamashita was one of Japan's most significant military assets. The general also planned and carried out the ignominious fall of Singapore from the United Kingdom to Japan, which Prime Minister Winston Churchill once called the largest capitulation in English military history. Despite his lengthy list of feats during the c