An ideological propaganda film by Americans talking to themselves.
Dealing with defeated countries and punishing war criminals is obviously a political issue, but it has to pretend to be a "legal issue". That’s fine. On the one hand, taking the view of the natural law school to argue that bad laws are illegal and punishing policymakers and executors in the Nazi state apparatus, on the other hand, in reality, they advocate the view of the positivist school of law – bad law is also law . It does not recognize benign violations, and insists on judicial prosecution of Snowden, Manning and other prisoners of conscience. The Tokyo Trial became even more of a performance that served geopolitics and the interests of the U.S. national interests. The pot was carried by a few upper-level military officials, and not only did the emperor and the political-military bureaucracy of the Showa era not be held accountable for war crimes. The corps of officers was kept intact, and the chaebols, the biggest promoters of the war, were not disbanded. Even the heinous criminal organization of Unit 731 was not treated as a war criminal because it handed over the research results obtained by the sacrifice of a large number of Chinese people through living experiments. Ishii Shiro and other members of the officer corps have all become the mainstay of the post-war Japanese political, business and academic circles, and some have simply joined the police and the Self-Defense Forces to continue their service.
In fact, whether the Tokyo Trial or the Nuremberg Trial is a political issue rather than a legal one. Whether the Nazis or the Showa warlords are just rivals of capitalism, all differences must give way to anti-communist plans. Hollywood has always been about politics.
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