U.S. scattered Japan war criminals' ashes at sea to prevent worship

The cremated remains of Japan's wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and other executed Class-A war criminals were secretly scattered in the ocean to prevent them from being deified by the Japanese people, recently discovered declassified U.S. documents showed.The documents provide the first official confirmation of the reason behind the American military's decision in 1948, driven by concerns over the potential revival of Japan's "ultra national spirit" after its World War II defeat.Similar to how the remains of executed war criminals of Nazi Germany convicted at the 1945-1946 Nuremberg tria…READ FULL ARTICLE