Tokyo Trials
Japan's postwar tribunal
The Tokyo Trials were military tribunals held from 1946 to 1948 to prosecute Japanese leaders for war crimes committed during World War II.
Formally the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, they paralleled the Nuremberg Trials in Europe.
Twenty-five defendants faced charges including crimes against peace and crimes against humanity; seven were executed.
The trials remain controversial in Japan, where some view them as victor's justice.
- Allied PowersCoalition against fascist aggressors
- war crimesIllegal acts during conflict
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- Pacific WarAllied-Japanese naval conflict
- occupation forcesTroops controlling foreign territory
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- Famous TrialsScopes Trial, Ted Bundy
- Showa JapanHirohito, Emperor Hirohito, Imperial Japan, Tojo, Hiroshima
- Postwar JapanGHQ, MacArthur, Douglas MacArthur, occupation forces, demilitarization
- WWII AtrocitiesHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, death camps, gas chambers
Tokyo Trialssummary execution
Killing without formal trial
blanket amnesty · impunity · mob violence · assassination · show trial