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Re: Yamashita
I wouldn't say so much that he was only tried because he embarrassed the Allies. Well, at least not officially anyway; you never know what the top brass were thinking in their minds.
I recommend the paper The Defense of General Yamashita by George Guy. Guy was one of Yamashita's attorneys, and did a wonderful job describing his defense of the Japanese general, though he was naturally slightly biased in favor of Yamashita due to his working relationship with him. The paper was published in the Spring 1950 edition of the Wyoming Law Journal.
In William Manchester's American Caesar, there was also a good section on the Manila trials in which Homma and Yamashita were tried. Manchester's description of the court proceedings were mostly neutral in my view, going as far as calling the court rather "kangaroo", but many criticized the book overall as pro-MacArthur.
I have not yet checked out Jim's link in full yet, but that looked like a very valuble resource as well.
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