Anna Kļaviņa’s Reviews > The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese > Status Update

Over a month passed before Allied troops were able to start working inside the camps, largely b/c of General MacArthur's massive ego. He had forbade British forces from liberating civilian internment and pow camps when the Japanese had surrendered on 14/09/45, demanding that no one moved until he, and he alone, had taken the formal J surrender in front of the world's media. […]
Many died b/c of that

Asaka had been intimately involved in the fighting towards Nanjing in 1937 and directly implicated in ordering the subsequent Rape of the city over the objections of the actual field commander, General Matsui. However, it was Matsui who was hanged as a war criminal[…] Asaka was granted immunity from prosecution by […] MacArthur's post war administration of Japan b/c he was member of the Imperial family.