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After World War II, Kishi was imprisoned for three years as a suspected Class A war criminal. However, the U.S. government did not charge, try, or convict him, and eventually released him as they considered Kishi to be the best man to lead a post-war Japan in a pro-American direction.
Nobusuke Kishi (1896-1987) was a Japanese statesman who was imprisoned as a war criminal but released by the Allied Occupation authorities after World War II. His term as prime minister was marked by turbulent opposition to the U.S.-Japan security treaty signed in 1960.
After World War II, Allied Occupation forces arrested Kishi and imprisoned him for more than three years as a Class A war criminal. Unlike Tojo (and several other Cabinet members), Kishi was never tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
Perhaps the most important of these was Nobusuke Kishi, a senior official in Japanese-run Manchuria who later served in Tojo’s cabinet at the time of Pearl Harbor, and who after the war was ...
Former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, who was once accused by the United States of being a war criminal and later fought for the treaty that governs American-Japanese security relations,...
After Japan’s surrender, Kishi was imprisoned for 3 1/2 years as a war criminal. Upon release, he returned to politics and was elected to the lower house of the Diet, Japan’s parliament, in...
He was a Cabinet minister during World War II and was imprisoned for three years after the war as a suspected war criminal. He became Prime Minister in 1957 on a platform of US-Japanese friendship. He was forced to resign in 1960 after riots occurred over ratification of the US-Japanese Security Treaty. (C)
