candy doihara, creator of the mancheugo state, the architect of the kwantung army, heitaru kimura, commanded11 judges by secret ballot, and the verdict was confirmed by a simple majority. none of the death sentences were approved unanimously, but indian judge radhabinot pal distinguished himself the most, immediately calling the trial a political staging. a separate monument is dedicated to him in yusukun, and another in another temple in kyoto. the place of execution is marked with a memorial stone; it is installed in an ordinary city square in the takiysky district ikebukuro, and previously it was here that the same sugamo prison was located, where on november 7, 1944, the japanese executed the soviet intelligence officer richard sorgi, then they could hardly have imagined that just 4 years later... they themselves would be executed in the same place, all seven were hanged on the same day , december 23, 1948. the territory of the memorial, over which the grave of the seven hanged rises, belongs, by the way, to the local municipality, and was systematically expanded until the end of the eig