World War II, provoked by several Axis powers, had a huge impact on the world, so after the Allied victory, it was necessary to slowly settle the war criminals. MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, made a special list of Japanese war criminals he most wanted to find, and the dozens of people in it were mostly high-ranking political or military officials, but there was an ordinary soldier, what did he do?
The Japanese soldier was named Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a corporal of the Army, but he was not only on MacArthur's list, but he was not even ranked behind, so what did he do to make the Americans so intolerant of him? Let's take a look. Watanabe was originally born into a wealthy Japanese family, and he was spoiled by his family from an early age, so his personality developed unpleasantly, and he later graduated from college and entered the Japanese Army. Originally, he thought that according to his family's situation plus his own diploma, he would soon be able to enter the army, but he did not expect that a few years had passed, and he was only a corporal, which made him a little unhappy that everything was at his fingertips since childhood.
At the age of twenty-seven, he was assigned to the Omori Prison of the Yokohama generation as the head of the prison, but in Japan, the prison guards are generally elderly or wounded soldiers, and they are basically not very popular, watanabe felt that he was even more insulted, so he vented all his dissatisfaction on the prisoners of war. Not only did he like to beat prisoners of war with kendo wooden swords, but he was also more unaccustomed to the officers of the Allied forces, all kinds of oppression, there was once a well-known American Olympian who was locked up here, he tortured him every day in different ways, after the war, the American athlete often woke up in his dreams, dreaming of being tortured by Watanabe, and he would also force the prisoners of war to burn the letters and photos of their families, which was their only comfort here.
The point is that Watanabe seems to have a very unstable temper, and after abusing the prisoners of war, he will suddenly stop at a certain moment to apologize to them, but then continue to commit violence. In addition, in the middle of the night, he would ask a prisoner of war to discuss literature with him, because his university major was French literature, so he would often find someone to discuss it. Because he was cloudy and uncertain, everyone could not predict his violence, so they were trembling not only every day, but every moment. Later, because of Watanabe's existence, the prison even became a punishment camp, and more prisoners of war were sent in.
Crucially, Watanabe eventually disappeared and escaped the Trial of the United States, and he became an insurance salesman, without the slightest remorse until his death.