"USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > Think about that and then look at the following:
> > http://www.korea-np.co.jp/pk/153th_issue/2000122304.htm
> >
> Not sure what the relevance of this is to what we are discussing.
> This is not a trial and it has nothing to do with any governmental or
> intergovernmental authority.
> In other words, it is a rambling of the prosection without any
participation
> of defense.
> So this information could presumably be used as part of a government or
> intergovernment
> investigation or even a trial, but by itself it doesn't legally hang a
> "criminal" label around anyone's neck.

This was about the guilt of Hirohito.

Clearly you did not carefully read this site and I wonder if you even
understand the concept of being tried "in absentia"?

As far as this particular commission having any legal weight, you are right
it does not.

However, Hashimoto's government found it necessary to present legal
documents to this commission, so there was active participation by the
Japanese government in this commission, symbolic as this trial was. And this
commission found Hirohito guilty of crimes against humanity. And contrary to
what you wish to believe, this was not a witchhunt nor was it a plot of
North Koreans. It was an international tribunal sanctioned by the UN to
investigate war crimes allegations against the japanese government of WW2.



Austin