The controversy of the Nuremberg Japanese
The January 19, 1946, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander in Japan, made public the order initiating the trial of Japanese war criminals.
Held in Tokyo, over 417 days, the trial was in many ways similar to that performed in Nuremberg, accused to bail is the same document read by the judges at Nuremberg. The military tribunal, chaired by Australian William Webb, was part of representatives of eleven countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Holland, India, Philippines, New Zealand, USSR, United Kingdom and United States of America.
As with the German process, the development of events was marked by controversy. The prosecution was handled by one of causídicos Americans in the room and the only languages ??used were Japanese and English. The accused was granted for extenuating act in compliance with orders and was taken into account the position they occupied at the time who committed the acts they were accused.
The court eventually convict seven defendants to capital punishment. Among them was Hideki Tojo, war minister and prime minister of Japan during much of the strife, who was deposed in July 1944 before the successive defeats suffered by the forces nipónicas. Tojo tried to commit suicide before being arrested, was hanged on November 22, 1948. Of the remaining defendants, 16 were sentenced to life imprisonment and the two minor penalties.
The english version of this article will be available soon. In the meanwhile, the text above was the result of a Google translation from portuguese version to english.
