Originally published on April 29, 2019, this chapter revisits a piece first written on April 5, 2018 and forcefully argues that the Soviet Siberian internment and the so-called “war criminal” trials were unlawful detentions and dark show trials that violated both international law and the fundamental principles of modern law.
It criticizes trials such as the Khabarovsk trial as proceedings built on statements extracted through torture, coercion, and prolonged confinement, argues that such statements have no evidentiary value, and condemns NHK for broadcasting them uncritically.
The piece further asserts that NHK’s true duty should be to expose the injustice done to the imprisoned Japanese “war criminals” and restore their honor, yet instead it continues to demean Japan and the Japanese people.

2019-04-29
Just as he killed his own father.
The employees of NHK, and the left-wing documentary makers who live by parasitically feeding off NHK.
Go on killing Japan and the Japanese, who are their true father.

What follows is a chapter I published on 2018-04-05.

However, it has long been clear that in the Soviet Union’s “war criminal” trials there was neither fair interrogation nor a fair trial.
One has no choice but to say that this program entirely lacks any understanding of the judicial system of a Communist dictatorship.

To begin with, the Siberian internment of Japanese soldiers was an unlawful long-term detention in violation of international law.
The Geneva Convention.
And of the provision in the Potsdam Declaration that “Japanese soldiers shall be returned home promptly.”

In addition, the “war criminal” trials were hollowed-out proceedings in which fabricated interrogation records, produced through long questioning accompanied by coercion and torture in closed rooms where suspects had not the slightest semblance of legitimate rights such as access to counsel, were used as evidence, and in which predetermined judgments were simply pronounced without any proper hearing or defense.
I have long argued that the imprisoned Japanese “war criminals” were innocent prisoners.

One of those “war criminal” trials, the Khabarovsk trial, was also, as will be discussed later, a fake.
A false.
Trial, or rather a dark trial.
For that reason, the defendants’ statements and witnesses’ testimony in that trial cannot be accepted as evidence proving the truth, even if they are preserved on tapes in the speakers’ own voices.
In other words, these tapes have no evidentiary value in court.

To be clear, I am not saying that everything stated on those audio tapes is false.
Rather, after first recognizing the fictitious nature of the Khabarovsk trial, one must examine strictly and fairly, in each individual case, whether a given statement is true or not true.

NHK should first ponder carefully Article 38, Paragraph 2, of the Constitution of Japan, which it so dearly loves.

“A confession made under compulsion, torture, or threat, or after prolonged detention or confinement without due cause, cannot be admitted as evidence.”

This is a great principle of modern law.
NHK, which reacts with almost excessive sensitivity to domestic cases of false conviction, must surely know the importance of this provision.
Even if one assumes for the sake of argument that there was no compulsion, no torture, and no threat, the mere fact that the statements were made under internment and confinement over a period of four long years in the Soviet Union would be enough to deny them evidentiary value in a court of law.

The terror of the Siberian internment “war criminal” trials.

From the very beginning of the Siberian internment, the Soviet Union deliberately set out to search among the captured Japanese military personnel and civilians for “war criminals” and try them.
The Soviet forces that invaded Manchuria, North Korea, Sakhalin, and the Kurils used the notorious “SMERSH.”
The counterintelligence special administration.
To identify and detain Japanese military personnel and civilians suspected of being “war criminals.”
Those targeted were not only senior officers such as Otozo Yamada, Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, military police, and special agency personnel, but also police officers, judicial officials, administrative leaders, persons connected with the Concordia Association of Manchukuo, and even executives of private companies as “former office-holders.”
Naturally, members of Unit 731 were also among the targets.

According to a document dated March 22, 1949 from the Main Administration for Prisoners of War and Internees of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, as many as 8,870 Japanese were registered as “war criminal” suspects, of whom 206 were identified as members of Unit 731.
From among them, those whom the Soviet authorities deemed suitable to appear in public trials were made to appear as defendants or witnesses in the Tokyo Trial and the Khabarovsk Trial, and more than 2,600 were sentenced to long prison terms of twenty or twenty-five years.

What NHK must do before anything else is to expose the injustice done to these people and undertake the work of restoring their honor.
All NHK employees, that is, state functionaries, who cannot even understand such a thing, are bastards created by the Comintern before and after the war.
Bastards born from brainwashing by the postwar GHQ occupation policy that taught the theory of Japan as evil, the Japanese as evil people.
That Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula.
That the Japanese forcibly took Koreans away.
They are, in other words, Smerdyakovs from The Brothers Karamazov.
Just as he killed his own father.
The employees of NHK, and the left-wing documentary makers who live by parasitically feeding off NHK.
Go on killing Japan and the Japanese, who are their true father.

To be continued.