Japan to re-examine verdicts in war crimes trials from Second World War

Japan to re-examine verdicts in war crimes trials from Second World War
By Julian Ryall, Tokyo
9:29AM GMT 13 Nov 2015

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The Japanese government is to re-examine the guilty verdicts handed down in the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals, which found 25 of Japan's military and political leaders guilty of initiating the Second World War. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will set up a panel this month to consider whether the Allies' rulings were justified, as well as the policies imposed on Japan after its defeat in 1945. ... "The perception of history on which the rulings of the tribunal were based were poorly constructed", Tomomi Imada, the chair of the LDP's Policy Research Council, said earlier this year. "We are in need of an examination [of the verdicts] by the Japanese". The right wing has applauded the LDP's decision, which is among initiatives to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the party. ... Along with many conservative Japanese, Mr Moteki's position is that Japan was forced into a war of self-defence as a result of aggressive economic restrictions and embargoes imposed on Tokyo in the 1930s. "The war of aggression was initiated by America and Japan had no choice but to fight back", Mr Moteki said.

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