It wasn't until May 3rd, 1946 that the court put only twenty-eight men on trial (Tokyo war crimes trial). The trial lasted over two years, ending November 2nd, 1948. GENERAL HIDEKI TOJO WAS EXECUTED FOR HIS RESPONSIBILITY WITH THE JAPANESE WAR CRIMES. Out of the twenty-seven other men, two died during the trial due to natural causes, one had a mental breakdown on the first day of the trial and was sent to a psychiatric ward and released in 1948 as a free man, seven were sentenced to death by hanging, and seventeen men were sentenced to life imprisonment (three of those men died in prison, and the other fourteen were released on parole in 1954 and 1956; they served only eight years in prison). One former ambassador was released on parole in 1950 and later appointed as foreign minister. Out of the twenty-eight men, many had very high positions such as foreign, war, and navy ministers, Generals, ambassadors, and economic and financial leaders . An official history text used by the Japanese Ministry of Education greatly distorts what happened by saying that only Chinese soldiers were killed and that only 40,000 people died. The Japanese officials/government are still in denial that the "Nanjing Massacre" occurred.