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Unit 9—Handout 1
Assessing and Defi ning Responsibility
1. Defi ne what the term responsibility means to you. Now list ten responsibilities you have.
2. If you were a judge, how would you assess the responsibility of the people listed below for what
happened during the Asia–Pacifi c War from 1931 to 1945?
Indicate one of the following:
1. Not responsible
2. Minimally responsible
3. Responsible
4. Very responsible
3. What penalty, if any, do you believe is appropriate for each of the following?
_____1. Emperor Hirohito of Japan
_____2. General Hideki Tojo who was the wartime Prime Minister and War Minister of Japan
_____3. Lt. Zenji Abe who was a pilot who bombed Pearl Harbor
_____4. Admiral Yamamoto who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor
_____5. General Iwane Matsui who commanded the army that committed the Nanking Massacre
_____6. Owners who operated the Mitsubishi factory complexes that employed slave labor
_____7. General Shiro Ishii, who was the commander who oversaw the experiments in Unit 731
_____8. Doctors who performed the experiments on the victims at Unit 731
_____9. Captain Shizuo Yoshi, who used cannibalism on American pilots
_____10. Soldiers who raped and murdered Chinese civilians in Nanking
_____11. A worker in a plant that made Anthrax that was used on victims at Unit 731
_____12. Kamikaze pilots who failed in their mission to destroy American naval ships
_____13. A Japanese diplomat for the Japanese government
_____14. Guards at the Japanese coal mines who guarded American soldiers used as slave labor
_____15. Captain Junsaburo Toshino, who commanded the “Hell Ship” Oryoku Maru
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