Japan to re-examine verdicts in war crimes trials from Second World War

Japan to re-examine verdicts in war crimes trials from Second World War

"The Japanese government is to re-examine the guilty verdicts handed down in the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals, which found 25 of Japan's military and political leaders guilty of initiating the Second World War.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will set up a panel this month to consider whether the Allies' rulings were justified, as well as the policies imposed on Japan after its defeat in 1945.

Of the 25 men found guilty of Class A war crimes - which included waging a war of aggression and "ordering, authorising and permitting inhumane treatment of prisoners of war" - six were executed. They included Gen. Hideki Tojo, who served as prime minister, and Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, the minister for war.

Some within the LDP, and others on the right of Japanese politics, insist that the tribunal was merely the Allies exercising victors' justice.

"The perception of history on which the rulings of the tribunal were based were poorly constructed", Tomomi Imada, the chair of the LDP's Policy Research Council, said earlier this year. "We are in need of an examination [of the verdicts] by the Japanese".

The right wing has applauded the LDP's decision, which is among initiatives to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the party.

"It goes without saying that the trials did not deliver fair judgements," Hiromichi Moteki, secretary general of the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact, told The Telegraph.

"Those guilty rulings did not conform to international law as was prevalent at that time and I do not believe that Japan waged a war of aggression", he said.

Along with many conservative Japanese, Mr Moteki's position is that Japan was forced into a war of self-defence as a result of aggressive economic restrictions and embargoes imposed on Tokyo in the 1930s.

"The war of aggression was initiated by America and Japan had no choice but to fight back", Mr Moteki said. "

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Nazism is back? What do you guys think about it?

 

You are damn right Nazism is back. As they say, leopards can't change their stripes, and I noticed that with Germany's punishing attitude towards the Mediterranean nations...rather than allowing them to grow their economies. Only difference is that this time Washington supports the Nazis the way they did in Ukraine, and then covers it up with its propaganda networks.

I think it's the actions of our neo cons with their continuous warfare and indifference to human life, that has caused nations to look more critically at the US. Japan though should be the last one to talk, considering their own actions in China, the Philippines and Korea.

I sat next to someone years ago at a dinner who was the prosecutor at the Japanese war trials. He said they chose him because he was the only one in the army at the time with a law degree. I can't recall everything he said, but Truman's orders were to find Emperor Hirohito innocent ...even though he was guilty as hell.

I remember him saying that if it was ever found out that the trial was rigged, he would be the fall guy. I'm not sure, but he might have written a book about the trial. If so, then the Japanese would have a case.

 

Yep, first the Ukrainians, not its the Japanese, all who don't like Putin are Nazis, I am telling you ... LOL Putin-bots are fun.