The Tokyo Trial executed Tojo Hideki and other 7 Class-A war criminals . These people committed heinous and countless crimes in China. Hanging them is very satisfying.
These seven people are: Hideki Tojo, Seishiro Itao, Hyōtaro Kimura, Kenji Doihara, Iwane Matsui, , Akira Muto, and Koki Hirota.
only executed 7 war criminals. I think MacArthur did not do a good enough job. Feichun Reading Today, based on the biography of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, we will reveal for you the little-known details after the Tokyo Trial.
At that time, after the court sentenced to hanging to seven Class A war criminals, the death penalty was not immediately executed. Their Japanese defense lawyers asked to suspend the execution of . To find variables.
MacArthur was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he rejected the request for a stay of execution. This was opposed by seven defense lawyers.
They jointly filed an appeal to the US Federal Supreme Court , saying that the Tokyo Tribunal is essentially a US court and that its establishment originated from Truman's executive power without the consent of the US Congress. They entangled with each other and wanted to change the final judgment of the court.
MacArthur was very angry. The military generals outside the country were not allowed to obey orders. As the supreme commander of the United Nations forces, when he was stationed in Japan after Japan surrendered, he basically had the final say alone.
He told Alvari Gascoigne, the British Commissioner in Japan, that even if the Supreme Court issued a written order for habeas corpus, he would ignore it and that he would immediately entrust the matter to the Far Eastern Commission.
Sure enough, on December 15, 1948, the day before the Supreme Court heard the case, the Far East Commission rushed ahead and announced in a hurry that the Tokyo Tribunal "is an international tribunal appointed in accordance with international authority and an international tribunal that acts in accordance with international authority."
5 days later, The Supreme Court ruled that it did not have the authority to annul the verdict.
The Japanese defense team did not succeed in the end, but this defense proposed from a political perspective was "provocative" and made MacArthur deeply uneasy. He was not worried about flaws in his procedures, but worried about Japanese militarism's persistent evil intentions.
To this end, he ordered the immediate execution of the hanging sentences of the seven death row prisoners, and required that their bodies be cremated and their ashes scattered into the sea. This is to prevent Japanese militarism or the descendants of these death row prisoners from finding their ashes one day in the future, digging them out and enshrining them in temples as revolutionary martyrs.
MacArthur's worries are not unnecessary at all. Facts have proved that he did not do enough.
After the United States withdrew its troops from Japan in 1952, the descendants of militarism gradually came to power. They planned together, did not reflect on the mistakes of the invasion, and opposed the Tokyo Trial. Some rightists angrily overturned the verdict of their ancestors.
▲Hideki Tojo
For example, Nobusuke Kishi, who escaped trial, served as the director of the General Affairs Department of the Industrial Ministry of the puppet Manchukuo during Japan's invasion of China, and committed an unforgivable felony in the invasion of China. But he was not held accountable, and he basically spent the rest of his life doing one thing: eradicating the influence of the Tokyo Trial in Japanese society.
Militarism is gradually resurrecting in Japan.
▲Nobusuke Kishi
If you don’t know Nobusuke Kishi, then you must know his nephew. He is the notorious current Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.
Abe once said that the greatest influence on him was his grandfather Nobusuke Kishi.
It can be seen how the ghost of Japanese militarism has spread like a virus for more than half a century, and continues to have a profound impact on Japan even after several generations.
▲Abe worships ghosts
