Lieutenant General Sato Kenryo, defendant, International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Born 1 June 1895; died 6 February 1975. Cadet, Military Academy (November 1915); Second Lieutenant, Artillery (December 1917); First Lieutenant (April 1921); Captain (August 1926); Major (August 1932); Instructor, Army Staff College (August 1935); Lieutenant Colonel (March 1937); Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force (August 1937); Colonel (July 1938); Major General (October 1941); Chief, Military Affairs Bureau (20 April 1942 — 14 December 1944); Lieutenant General (March 1945). Arrested 1 December 1945. Charged on forty-two counts (reduced to seven), found guilty on five counts ; sentenced to life imprisonment, paroled in 1956, unconditionally released in 1958.