2019-04-08
What is most important is to understand the true nature of the Khabarovsk Trial, closely examine the contents of the audio tape in question, clarify the truth about Unit 731, and prepare for China’s new historical war.
This is a repost of the chapter I published on 2018-04-06 under the title, NHK repeatedly showed courtroom photographs of defendants such as Kiyoshi Kawashima and Tomio Karasawa as if they were “heinous and inhuman criminals.”
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.

Differences from the Tokyo Trial.
So how did the Khabarovsk Trial differ from the Tokyo Trial, even though both were “war crimes” trials.
First, both were alike in being retaliatory trials carried out by victors against the defeated.
Second, the Tokyo Trial was an international tribunal with judges and prosecutors from the Allied nations, whereas the Khabarovsk Trial was a purely domestic Soviet trial.
Third, the Tokyo Trial was open to the world’s press, whereas the Khabarovsk Trial was open only to the Soviet press and Soviet citizens.
At the time, it attracted little attention internationally because it was seen as Soviet propaganda anyway.
Fourth, the Tokyo Trial lasted two and a half years, from May 1946 to November 1948, whereas the Khabarovsk Trial lasted only six days.
In other words, while the Tokyo Trial involved lengthy proceedings, the Khabarovsk Trial was a trial without anything worthy of being called real deliberation.
Fifth, in the Tokyo Trial both Allied and Japanese defense counsel were present, and some, like the American military man Blakeney, offered admirable defenses and engaged in exchanges with judges and prosecutors, whereas in the Khabarovsk Trial Soviet defense counsel were assigned but did not defend the accused.
According to Kazuo Mitomo, he was told before the trial that counsel would be appointed for him, but because he did not believe they would defend him in earnest, he refused.
However, after repeated pressure he agreed, and later wrote that at the trial the defense counsel, “in the same tone as the prosecutor, branded the defendant a heinous criminal, took severe punishment as a matter of course, and declared that there was no room even for defense.”
Kiyoshi Kawashima also wrote that he met his defense counsel only once beforehand, and they did not discuss the trial.
From these facts, it is clear that the Khabarovsk Trial was propaganda unworthy of the name of a trial, a political show.
That is why I call it a fake trial.

NHK repeatedly showed courtroom photographs of defendants such as Kiyoshi Kawashima and Tomio Karasawa as if they were “heinous and inhuman criminals.”
It also showed the anguished expressions and heavy tone of Tomio Karasawa’s bereaved family as they were made to listen to a tape of the father’s courtroom statement.
Are these not both serious violations of human rights.
China has established the “Exhibition Hall of the Crimes of Unit 731 of the Japanese Army Invading China” in Pingfang, Harbin, where the Kwantung Army’s Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department was once located, and is using it for anti-Japan propaganda.
It is widely known that China Central Television, CCTV, has a bureau inside NHK’s Shibuya Broadcasting Center.
If this audio tape is handed over to CCTV, it is obvious that it will be used for anti-Japan propaganda.
Surely, just as with the Nanjing Incident, they will eventually launch propaganda about “300,000 victims of bacteriological warfare.”
What is most important is to understand the true nature of the Khabarovsk Trial, closely examine the contents of the audio tape in question, clarify the truth about Unit 731, and prepare for China’s new historical war.
Needless to say, researchers capable of serving as “defense counsel” are indispensable in that effort.
(Honorifics omitted in the text.)