Keywords: General Tomoyuki's Military Commission.png In the Pacific Theater the Commanding General of U S Army Forces Western Pacific convenes a military commission to try Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita for violations of the laws of war The U S Supreme Court upholds the use of the commission in In re Yamashita 327 U S 1 1946 holding that the President and other military commanders possess the authority under the laws of war as codified in Article of War 15 to try enemy combatants by military commission for violations of the laws of war <p>The U S and its allies also establish The International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo Japan which tries Japanese leaders for war crimes and other offenses www mc mil/ABOUTUS/MilitaryCommissionsHistory aspx unknown unknown -- credited to Harry S Truman Library and Museum PD-USGov Military Commissions in World War 2 |