SDHF Newsletter No.43: The Tokyo Trials shroud communist warmongering

Posted on 15/06/2015

June 12, 2012

The Tokyo Trials punished Japan for waging “aggressive war”. The Allied
powers did everything they could to deny Japan an adequate defense. More
than two-thirds of the evidence submitted by the defence was rejected by
prosecutors or presiding judges by arbitrary reasons.

(See “The Tokyo Trials:The Unheard Defense” written and edited by Dr. Kobori
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/66_S4.pdf)

One important aspect of the defects of the Tokyo Trials concerns the lack
of discussion of Communism. Japan’s pre-war foreign policy was designed to
address a fundamental concern – the spread of Communism. Not only was Japan
anxious of the military threat posed by the Soviet Union, given her close
proximity, but Japan was also fearful of the spread of Communism in chaotic
and lawless China.

Japan’s pre-war fear of Communism, especially in Asia, was indeed realized
after the war. Documentation of the violent anti-Japanese campaigns waged by
both Chinese Communists and Nationalists were not even allowed to be presented
in the courtroom due to the presense of a Soviet Judge.

Dr. Kobori explains in detail how the trial judgments were distorted by this
unfair procedural detail. To make the matter worse, this fact has not been
given a due attention in discussions of the Tokyo Trials.

*Summary: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/88_S2.pdf
*Full Text: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/88_S4.pdf
Questions are welcome.

Sincerely,

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Secretary General
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact