Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan
MovieTitle | De Nuremberg à Tokyo |
User score | 8 |
Release date | May 22, 2016 |
Genre | Documentary, History |
Director | Tim Toidze |
Production country | Canada, France |
Production companies | ARTE, Point du Jour, Sundial Entertainment |
Run time | 57 min. |
The story of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial, which, just after the Second World War, was established in Japan as a special jurisdiction in 1946 (it was closed in 1948) to judge the war crimes of the Japanese leaders; and how and why officials in Washington prevented Emperor Hirohito to be seen sat on the bench.