Comments on: Japanese War Crime Trials

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Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:31:14 +0000

[...] is a very informative over view of Japanese war trials we the United States conducted. 　 http://www.historynet.com/japanese-war-crime-trials.htm 　 [...]

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:42:52 +0000

I have done intensive research on the Japanese medical experiments, the U.S. cover-up, and the comparison between the Nazi and Japanese Medical Experiments.
From the information I have obtained through reliable sources, professors, and informative books on the subject I have discovered not one war criminal was punished. The court case took 2 1/2 years and most of the “guilty” criminals remained in prison till 1958, when they were released though some did die in prison all living were granted immunity based on a deal MacArthur made with General Ishii Shiro the chief medical doctor and genius bacteriologicist who represented Japan during the Geneva Convention of 1925 that banned biological and chemical warfare and research, which Japan blatantly ignored.
If you want to use this article I would check the accuracy by looking up information about the cover-up of the crimes and Ishii Shiro the main man who started Unit 731 and the human medical experiments; more information lies with obtaining knowledge about him and MacArthur who was the main conspirator because Joseph Keenan, the chief prosecutor, gave MacArthur the decisive power handling the trials, who already had a plan and agreement with Shiro.
This article is close to accurate; however, you need to read between the lines of the court case like how all of the Class A war criminals were given freedom, but that’s not mentioned in the text. Also Japanese medical experiments were equal if not worse than the Nazi’s. Look up the lack of anesthetics when they did vivisection’s on Chinese people, POWs, and many other POWS.
There is a lot of more information needed to be discovered within this subject.

By: Kiana

Kiana — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:59:43 +0000

Ah. Thank you. I’m doing this impossible report project thing on War Crimes during WWII. This is like just what I need. Keep it up!:)

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Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:04:55 +0000

[...] Originally Posted by WillowTree Japan? We did try Japanese war criminals. It was a big deal. Know your history or you’re doomed to show your ignorance. The first google hit: Japanese War Crime Trials ? HistoryNet [...]

By: Jessia Cornelson

Jessia Cornelson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:31:04 +0000

I think the article shows how “unfair” the punishments on Japanese were, I agree that how it is done is “unfair.” The punishments on Japanese imperialists were unfairly light compared to the hideous atrocities they have done on their victims.
The trial was unfairly done because MacArthur wants a new, nice relationship with post war Japan, and therefore he lessened the number of Japanese who were supposed to be punished in the first place.

Also, this article does not include the fact that MacArthur had let number of the war criminals (some of whom include class A war criminals) be free in order to get the Japanese research data on biological weapon which was experimented on alive Chinese, Korean, Filipinos etc by Japan, so that U.S can use it for its advantage in the future wars.