Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (died 1947)

Shigematsu Sakaibara

Japanese officer, war criminal 1898–1947

Shigematsu Sakaibara was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Japanese garrison commander on Wake Island during World War II, and a convicted war criminal. He was responsible for ordering the Wake Island massacre, in which 98 American civilians were murdered by Japanese…