HONJI/MATAGI
david
Last name
Honji
First name
Matagi
Rank
Sub Lieutenant 1st Class
Unit
Shirozu Unit
Trial
Sentence
Death by shooting
Date sentence carried out (if death)
Location of sentence (if death)
Rabaul
JAG advised that the findings and sentences should not be confirmed. Neither the accused or sailor can be held to have committed a war crimes as there was nothing to put them on guard that the order was an illegal one.
The real criminal was the staff officer who gave the order to Lt Miyazaki for the execution.