CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Jan. 10, 1946

• General Masaharu Homma
• Bataan Death March trial
• Japanese atrocities to POWs
• Manila, Philippines

The front page has a one column heading: "Homma Grins as GI Tells of Death March". (see images)
Complete with all 38 pages, some small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: The 1946 trial of Japanese Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma proved legally monumental because it firmly established the standard of command responsibility, holding a military leader criminally accountable for mass atrocities committed by subordinate troops—specifically the April 1942 Bataan Death March and subsequent abuses at Camp O'Donnell—even without proof that he directly ordered or knew of them. Despite Homma's defense that he was preoccupied with the siege of Corregidor and misled by Japanese intelligence, which expected 25,000 prisoners rather than the 75,000 who surrendered, a U.S. military commission found him guilty of failing to control his forces. Evaluated alongside General Tomoyuki Yamashita's concurrent trial, Homma’s conviction set a precedent for modern international military law regarding general officer accountability, though it drew lasting criticism from legal scholars who viewed the rushed proceedings, relaxed evidentiary standards, and final death sentence review under General Douglas MacArthur as a form of victor's justice.