“Hiromi Nakayama”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Lieutenant Nakayama Hiromi (died 10 August 1946) was a Imperial Japanese Army soldier and convicted war criminal.

The Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, undertook Operation RY on 26 August 1942, with a company (100 men) of the 43rd Guard Force (Palau), led by Lieutenant Nakayama were inserted on Nauru and took occupation on the island. Lieutenant Nakayama executed Colonel F.R. Chalmers and four other prisoners of war in March 1943. Captured after the surrender of Japanese forces on Nauru on 13 September 1945, he was then transported to Rabaul, as a prisoner of war. Tried at an Australian Military Court trial held in Rabaul in May 1946, Lieutenant Nakayama was sentenced to death for the crime of killing the five Australians on Nauru,^[1] and was hanged on 10 August.*^[2]

References

1. ^{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2682059 |title=JAP TO HANG FOR MURDER OF EUROPEANS |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |work= |publisher=The Canberra Times, Friday 17 May 1946, Page 1 |accessdate=30 September 2018|location=}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Tanaka |first1=Yuki |title=Japanese Atrocities on Nauru during the Pacific War: The murder of Australians, the massacre of lepers and the ethnocide of Nauruans|publisher=Japan focus|year=2010|url=http://japanfocus.org/-Yuki-TANAKA/3441 |ref=harv}}

5 : Year of birth unknown|1946 deaths|Japanese military personnel of World War II|Japanese people convicted of war crimes|People executed for war crimes