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Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an Indian jurist who was a member of the United Nations ' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1966. He was one of three Asian judges appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the "Tokyo Trials" of Japanese war crimes committed during the Second World War. [2] Among all the judges of the tribunal, he was the ...
The Japanese wanted the support of the Indian community to free India from British rule, and did not consider the Malays to be a threat. All three races were encouraged to assist the Japanese war effort by providing finance and labour.
Japanese war crimes. During its imperial era, the Empire of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. These incidents have been referred to as "the Asian Holocaust ", [3] [4] as "Japan's Holocaust", [5] and also as the "Rape of ...
In addition, the Japanese Government attempted to evade responsibility for their crimes against "Comfort Women" by establishing the Asian Women's Fund in July 1995, as a way to support non-governmental organizations focusing on women's issues.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East ( IMTFE ), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during the Second World War. [1] The IMTFE was modeled after the International ...
Shūmei Ōkawa (大川 周明, Ōkawa Shūmei, 6 December 1886 – 24 December 1957) was a Japanese nationalist and Pan-Asianist writer, known for his publications on Japanese history, philosophy of religion, Indian philosophy, and colonialism .
With territories of India being a British colony and the other regions of India being princely states or Protectorates of Britain, India fought against the Japanese Empire during the Second World War, wherein Japanese forces committed various atrocities and war crimes on the Burmese Front.
The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery was a private People's Tribunal organised by Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan). [1] As with the Russell Tribunal in 1967, which was not organized by any government or international institution, the verdict of this trial was not legally binding. [2] Its purpose was to gather testimony ...