Peter Dzimba were called on to speak for those who could no longer speak for themselves. Following victory, the Allies turned to the legal system to hold Axis leaders accountable. In an unprecedented series of trials, a new meaning of justice emerged in response to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by both the Germans and the Japanese throughout the war. The construction of a democratic order in Japan during the American occupation was one of the more significant outcomes of the conflict.
Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Appointing the Court Before the initial arrests in September , one week after the official surrender in Tokyo Bay, there were major disagreements of the terms between Allied administrations about who to put on trial and how to try them. List of Judges. Justice Harlan F. List of Chief Prosecutors. Ernest E. Monaghan United States Roy L. Morgan United States Arthur A. Indictment On May 3, , the prosecution opened its case charging the defendants with crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Like Nuremberg, the Allies established three categories: Class A: Charges against Japan's top leaders alleging crimes against peace. List of Defendants. Again, MacArthur moved quickly: by December 8 he had set up an international prosecution section under former U.
Twenty-eight high-ranking political and military leaders were indicted on 55 counts of "crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Although an improvement over the hasty Manila trials, which were also organized by MacArthur and resulted in the executions of Generals Yamashita and Homma, the Tokyo trials have been criticized as another example of "victors' justice.
We have seen that its process was seriously flawed. We have examined the verdict's inadequacy as history. Seven were sentenced to death, sixteen to life terms, two to lesser terms, two had died during the trials and one had been found insane. After reviewing their decisions, MacArthur expressed his regrets but praised the work of the tribunal and upheld the verdicts. Although calling the duty "utterly repugnant to me," MacArthur went on to say, "No human decision is infallible but I can conceive of no judicial process where greater safeguard was made to evolve justice.
The Nuremberg Trial lasted from November to October Three defendants were found not guilty, one committed suicide prior to trial, and one did not stand trial due to physical or mental illness. The Soviet Union did not sign the declaration because it did not declare war on Japan until weeks later, on the same day that the United States dropped the second atomic bomb at Nagasaki.
Japan surrendered six days later, on August 14, At the subsequent Moscow Conference, held in December , the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States with concurrence from China agreed to a basic structure for the occupation of Japan. Like the Nuremberg Charter, it laid out the composition, jurisdiction, and functions of the tribunal.
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