General Minami Jiro, defendant, International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Born 10 August 1874; died 6 December 1955. Cadet, Military Academy (January 1894); Second Lieutenant, Cavalry (May 1895); First Lieutenant (October 1897); Captain (November 1900); Major (March 1905); Instructor, Army Staff College (December 1905); Lieutenant Colonel (February 1910); Colonel (August 1915); Major General (July 1919); Commandant, Military Academy (October 1923 — August 1924); Lieutenant General (February 1924); Vice Chief, Army General Staff (6 March 1927 — 1 August 1929); Commander, Chosen Army (August 1929 — December 1930); General (March 1930); Supreme War Councilor (December 1930); Army Minister, Wakatsuki Cabinet (14 April 1931 — 12 December 1931); Commander, Kwantung Army (December 1934 — March 1936); retired from Army (April 1936); Governor General of Chosen (6 Augist 1936 — May 1942); appointed to Privy Council (May 1942); appointed to House of Peers, Imperial Diet (March 1945). Arrested 17 November 1945; designated war criminal by U.S. and China; appeared as defense witness at IMTFE. Charged on twenty-nine counts (reduced to seven), found guilty on two counts; sentenced to life imprisonment, paroled in 1954 due to ill health.