Kaya Okinori, defendant, International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Born 30 January 1889; died 28 April 1977. Graduated Law College, Tokyo Imperial University (July 1911); Vice Finance Minister, Hayashi Cabinet (2 February 1937 — 3 June 1937); Finance Minister, First Konoe Cabinet (4 June 1937 — 26 May 1938); appointed to House of Peers, Imperial Diet (December 1938); President, North China Development Company (August 1939 — October 1941); Finance Minister, Tojo Cabinet (18 October 1941 — 19 February 1944); Justice Minister, Second Ikeda Cabinet (17 July 1963 — 8 December 1963); Justice Minister, Third Ikeda Cabinet (9 December 1963 — 17 July 1964). Arrested 11 September 1945; appeared as defense witness at IMTFE. Charged on forty-three counts (reduced to seven), found guilty on five counts; sentenced to life imprisonment, paroled in 1955, unconditionally released in 1958.