Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan

Directed by Tim Toidze

With Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, Hideki Tojo and Harry S. Truman

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.