Japanese Forces

General Akira Mutō

General Akira Muto as commander of Japanese forces on Sumatra in Japanese -occupied Netherlands East Indies from June 1944. After the surrender of Japan, Mutō was arrested by the American occupation authorities and charged with war crimes before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. He was convicted for atrocities against civilians and prisoners of war in both China and the Philippines, and was executed by hanging on 23 December 1948