Another tribunal was made later down the road to deal with
Japanese war crimes.
Set firstly in immediate post-war Japan and Hong Kong, then in England and New Zealand, this is the story of Aldred Leith, author, researching a book on China and Japan and Peter Exley, solicitor and fine art enthusiast, investigating
Japanese war crimes.
Mark Felton has written over a dozen books on prisoners of war,
Japanese war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War II.
A case could be made that
Japanese war crimes in world war 2 were simply extreme cases of the type of crimes committed by almost all sides in almost all wars - massacres of civilians are pretty common.
Not exact matches
In 1945, the U.S. hanged
Japanese officers for
war crimes for inflicting «water - boarding» (near drowning) on U.S. prisoners — exactly what the CIA inflicted on its Muslim captives.
My impression is that the
Japanese largely consider the
war itself to be a
crime, rather than focus on specific incidents that occur during the course of the
war.
Japanese crimes took place in the context of
war - they were carried out by soldiers in what was seen as enemy territory.
The US were concerned about a communist revolution in Japan, so they (or possibly the
Japanese themselves, I'm not sure on this point) initially censored some
war crimes such as the Nanking massacre for fear that it would provoke sympathy among the
Japanese for communism.
In 1948, former
Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World
War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribun
War II
Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a
war crimes tribun
war crimes tribunal.
After making friends with the son of a respected
crime boss, Rama is hired as an enforcer for the syndicate, only to find himself smack dab in the middle of a turf
war between his boss and the
Japanese yakuza.
Emperor Rated PG - 13 for violent content, brief strong language and smoking (historical) Available on DVD and Blu - ray During the U.S. occupation of Japan directly after their surrender during WWII, a young general (Matthew Fox) is assigned by General MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) to investigate
war crimes and the possible involvement of the
Japanese Emperor in the decision to attack Pearl Harbor.