There were two goals of the United States with respect to the Tokyo Trial.
One was to prove crimes against peace – that is, to consider the planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression as an international crime, and applying the concept of justice in order to keep the international community safe. ...
The second goal was to prove the justice of the Allied powers by proving the personal responsibility of the leaders in the trial, and thereby defang Japan. ...
The first goal affirms the theory of the “judgment of civilization,” and the latter provides a negative view, that is, it demonstrates the theory of “victors’ justice.”
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