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- l;ThrM Japanese Women I Acquitted of War Crime 1YOKOHAMA (AP)—An Eighth r army military commission Thurs- v day acquitted two of the only three j; Japanese women ever tried for p war crimes. vWakako Hagihara, 23, and Tazuko Ishihara, 30, were charged \ with participation in the mob mur- i: der of Lt. John V. Scanlan, jr, p Louisville, killed after his P-51 p fighter crashed during the war.A third Japanese woman is charged in the vivisection of a 1 B-29 flyer in a separate trial. p Fourteen men were tried with ethe women acquitted Thursday Eight were convicted and sentenced to a total of 59 years at hard labor Five were acquitted and one released for lack of evidence.$\
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Thu, May 13, 1948
Page 35
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