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

law. The prosecution was able to prove their case and all 28 defendants were

and the Russians had more resentment against Germany and the Nazi leaders than

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5. B.V.A. Roling and C.F. Ruter, eds. The Tokyo Trial; The International Military Tribunal for Far East: Volume one. Amsterdam: University Press, 1977

the judgment of the two trials. The Nuremberg trial had four judges, each of them

7. B.V.A. Roling and C.F. Ruter, eds. The Tokyo Trial; The International Military Tribunal for Far East: VolumeTwo. Amsterdam: University Press, 1977

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

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