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Why were the Nuremberg trials after WWII for the Germans only? The same charges used against the the Germans could be easily extended to the Japanese or possibly Italians. They have committed as much war atrocities as the others against the Chinese and POW. Why was not the Japanese Emperor and his generals charged as most of the German counterparts?

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And if it really was about justice, why not have trials for the allies as well? They committed war crimes as well. – Hermann Ingjaldsson Dec 26 '12 at 12:20
@HermannIngjaldsson In the Tokyo trial, Justice Pal made the same point as well, and judged the acccused not guilty. – Arani Dec 26 '12 at 18:56
@user571376: Without in any way impugning Justice Pal's learning or itegrity, I think he got it a bit wrong. One might argue that some of the things the Allies have done count as war crimes (firebombing would be high on the list). However, this in no way acquits the Axis criminals of their crimes. Justice Pal ought to have resigned instead of finding the defendants not guilty. – Felix Goldberg Dec 29 '12 at 19:10
@FelixGoldberg I would agree with you if this was the only reason behind judging the accused not guilty. But the full order of Justice Pal was a 1200-pages long report, and though it is available for free, I could not make much sense of it. It contains a lot of details related to precedence and jurisprudence. If there is a summary available somewhere, I would be interested. – Arani Dec 30 '12 at 1:03
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It's just weird to put up trials and all, pretending like the matter is about justice when in fact it is about being on the right team. The murderers on the winning team become heroes, the murderers on the loosing team get executed. It's not justice, it's who won.. and we should stop pretending like it is anything else. – Hermann Ingjaldsson Jan 2 at 18:23
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Look up the Tokyo trials. As for the Italians, they weren't implicated in war crimes on the same scale as the Germans and Japanese.

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Thanks you Sir. This is the first time I heard of the Tokyo trials. Most of the documentaries I watched were all about Nuremberg. – The Byzantine Dec 25 '12 at 19:17
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Japanese war criminals were tried in Tokyo after the war. Generals Tojo (the former Japanese Prime Minister) and Yamashita (in charge of the Philippines) were hanged as a result.

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