Japanese War Criminals by Sandra Wilson

Author:Sandra Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS021000, History/Asia/Japan, HIS027100, History/Military/World War II
Publisher: Spry Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 8.4 Quirino (who suffered from gout) exchanges pardon for war criminals for money. Manila Chronicle, in Carlos Quirino, Apo Lakay (Manila: Total Book World, 1987), after 242.

When the war criminals were repatriated and pardoned, there was an outpouring of Japanese gratitude to the Philippines, and to Quirino specifically. Japanese groups and individuals continued to send gifts, letters of appreciation, and inquiries after Quirino’s health for several years afterward.63 Although the desired reparations deal did not follow the president’s 1953 granting of clemency, it seems there were other benefits. In February 1954 Jinbo Nobuhiko, a former chief of staff of Japanese forces in Mindanao, wrote to Quirino proposing a joint enterprise between the Philippines and Japan to build a canning factory in Zamboanga, in Mindanao, for tuna and bonito. The Japanese side would provide the considerable sum of ¥250 million, or the equivalent of US$1.4 million, while Quirino was simply asked for his “cooperation.” Jinbo also reaffirmed the Japanese people’s gratitude for Quirino’s clemency to war criminals.64 The Manila Chronicle, moreover, suspected Quirino and his political allies of improperly starting an import-export business with Japan, presumably by taking advantage of unhealthily close past relations (figure 8.5).

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