As Army Minister, Seishiro Itagaki rejected Nazi Germany’s request for cooperation in Jewish persecution, while Hideki Tojo authorized the safe passage of tens of thousands of Jewish refugees. These facts demonstrate Japan’s clear non-anti-Jewish national stance—an overlooked element in the Tokyo Trials.

Then Disraeli rose to become the leader of the Conservative Party and eventually Prime Minister.
The name Disraeli means “a man from Israel.”
There were also other individuals who became wealthy and were elevated to the nobility.
As a result, Jews around the world came to regard Britain as something like their homeland.
At that time, the only organizations that were spread across the world were the Roman Curia and the Jewish network.
Jews were present everywhere, and as a people who produced many writers, they thoroughly disseminated criticism of Spain.
At the same time, they tended to remain silent about Britain’s misconduct.

This is why it is regrettable that Japan did not attempt to have Jews disseminate information about the good aspects of Japan.
After all, Seishirō Itagaki and Hideki Tōjō, who were executed at the Tokyo Trial, had in fact helped Jews.

When Germany asked Itagaki Seishirō, in his capacity as Minister of the Army, to cooperate in the persecution of Jews, he stated at the Five Ministers’ Conference that Japan possessed the spirit of Hakkō Ichiu and therefore could not persecute any particular ethnic group.
Likewise, when Hideki Tōjō was asked whether it would be permissible to allow approximately twenty thousand Jews who had fled to the Manchurian border to pass through to Shanghai, he approved it in his capacity as Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army.
As a result, at least twenty thousand lives were saved.

It is deeply regrettable that these facts were not used in the defense of the Class-A war criminals.
There was also the well-known case of Chiune Sugihara.
His actions, too, were possible precisely because Japan did not adopt an anti-Jewish policy.
He was well known among Jews, and one cannot help but lament the folly of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for not making use of him in diplomacy after the war.
He was dismissed in a postwar personnel reduction almost immediately.

It is most unfortunate that postwar Japan did not make use of such a “Jewish card.”
The Tokyo Trial was conducted in accordance with the Nuremberg Trials, which judged the killing of Jews, yet Itagaki, Tōjō, and Matsuoka had all helped Jews.
Had this card been used skillfully, the Tokyo Trial might have turned out quite differently.
Fortunately, Japan has never persecuted Jews, and therefore, from now on, Jews throughout the world should be encouraged to feel gratitude and to go about telling others that Japan is a fair and good country.