Baron Lieutenant General Oshima Hiroshi, defendant, International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Born 19 April 1886; died 1975 ? Cadet, Military Academy (December. 1904); Second Lieutenant, Artillery (June 1906); First Lieutenant (June 1909); Captain (May 1916); Assistant Military Attache, Japanese Embassy to Germany (May 1921); Major (January 1922); Military Attache, Japanese Legation in Austria and Hungary (February 1923); Lieutenant Colonel (August 1926); Colonel (August 1930); Military Attache, Japanese Embassy to Germany (March 1934); Major General (March 1935); Lieutenant General (March 1938); retired from Army (October 1938); Ambassador to Germany (October 1938 — December 1939); Ambassador to Germany (December 1940 — May 1945); Ambassador to Slovakia (April 1941 — May 1945). Arrested 6 December 1945; designated war criminal by U.S.; appeared as defense witness at IMTFE. Charged on thirty-nine counts (reduced to seven), found guilty on one count; sentenced to life imprisonment, paroled in 1955, unconditionally released in 1958.