China, Korea and other countries will never forget the horrific events that occurred in their homelands. For example by looking at the incident that occurred in the beautiful ancient city of Nanking from the year’s 1931 to1945, one can only start to imagine the extent of Japan’s crimes. In just one winter’s time Japanese army had massacred over 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war, and raped at least 20,000 women. Also in the 14 year time period Japanese military massacred over 30 million Chinese soldiers and civilians, which include women and children, in the cruelest fashion. Men, women, and children were killed with bayonets, swords, bamboo sticks and also their bodies were even sexually mutilated.1The International Tribunal for the Far East was set up to charge Japanese leaders for such crimes in the Tokyo trial. However the Tokyo trial was not successful since it wasn’t able to provide proper justice because several important figures like the Emperor, industrialists etc were not tried and those who were tried were charged under counts which were basically used to gain revenge for Pearl H

found guilty under the conspiracy charge. Finally the verdict and the success of the

Supreme Commander of the allies in Japan was American.6 (Pg.4-18) The American

These criminals were charged with 55 counts (offenses) which fall under 3 main categories: Crimes against Peace, Crimes against Humanity and finally conventional war crimes. Crimes against Peace included the planning, preparation, waging of a declared or undeclared war of aggression or a war in violation of international laws, treaties, agreements, assurances, or participation in a common plan or some sort of conspiracy. In addition, crimes against humanity consisted of the following: murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, inhumane acts committed on civilians before or during war and etc. Also examples of conventional war crimes involve violations of laws or regular war practices.

had to tell William Webb the President of the tribunal who always had the

were due to two main reasons. The first reason being that the British, the French

Authority their simply didn’t pay much attention to the crimes committed by other Japanese leaders and industrialists who were not really involved in the planning of Pearl

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