Throughout the Second World War there were many horrific executions that took place. The Japanese Army were responsible for it's believed the deaths of 14 million civilians and people following their brutal acts of war. But on Wake Island, the Japanese would oust the Americans who had established a base there, and one man who became the garrison commander of the Island was Shigematsu Sakaibara. He was a man though who would be guilty of a number of war crimes.

Sakaibara whilst on Wake Island ordered many American civilians to conduct forced labour building ditches to protect the island from air attacks. But he then after a bombardment ordered the execution by sword of a man who was an American Civilian. Following this he then ordered his Japanese soldiers to execute another 96 people, before he himself with his own sword executed a final American who had escaped. He was then for his crimes at the end of the Second World War, sentenced to death and was executed by the Americans.

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