Judgment at Tokyo - World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass. The book goes into detail on the trial of 28 of the most visible war criminals captured in Japan, including Hideki Tojo. They were tried by an International Military Tribunal. During the war, the Japanese took 132,134 prisoners, mostly from Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands. Of those, 35,756 died in captivity. That’s a mortality of 27 percent compared to Ger