When World War II ended in 1945, senior Nazi leaders were held accountable at the famous Nuremberg trials while Japanese officials appeared at the Tokyo trials. In addition, the Allies conducted hundreds of trials of Japanese soldiers who committed the atrocities, the beatings and the beheadings. The first such trial held in Singapore was for the atrocities against Indian prisoners of war on the Palau islands north of Papua New Guinea. This trial began on January 21, 1946, when the Red Fort trials were already underway in Delhi at which the British had accused some men who had joined the...