"A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan"

[Mulboyne]

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There's a new book out called "Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan" by Terese Svoboda. She interviewed her uncle about his time when he was an MP in charge of US prisoners who had committed crimes during the occupation. He claims that some of the prisoners guilty of capital charges, many of whom were black, were secretly executed because of overcrowding in the jails. The sections with her uncle's recollections are good but there's also a lot about the author's personal relationships with her family and her attempts to find evidence in the National Archives which didn't seem too interesting to me. The book also draws extensive comparisons with the military police experience at Abu Ghraib. Svoboda has a website for her book here which has links to a blog and some media coverage.

[Greji]

She interviewed her uncle about his time when he was an MP in charge of US prisoners who had committed crimes during the occupation.

It would be highly interesting to know who her uncle is and why he would have knowledge of such alleged incidents.

There have been many documented cases of abuses of black military members following the war, a great portion of which were later disproved. This is not to say that segragation and discrimination didn't exist, but to go as far as summary executions ordered by a low-level officer?

The execution of any member of the military cannot be easily hidden even in those days. There is too much paperwork on military people to hide them, let alone kill them.