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Scope and Contents Summation by the Prosecution (cont'd)

Scope and Contents Summation by the Defense (cont'd) - SUMMATION BY DEFENSE CONCERNING TREATMENT OF POWs AND INTERNEES: Transcripts of Broadcasts of the Foreign Office, the Board of Information, the Navy Ministry, and the War Ministry; Command Responsibility As to POWs; Conclusion.

Scope and Contents Summation by the Defense (cont'd)

Scope and Contents Summation by the Defense (cont'd)

Scope and Contents JUDGEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST - Chapter I. Establishment and Proceedings of the Tribunal; Chapter II. The Law; Chapter III (Summary, Obligations Assumed and Rights Acquired by Japan. Events Prior to January 1, 1928, Indictment, Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5; First Peace Conference at the Hague, The Boxer Troubles of 1899-1901, Russo-Japanese War, Treaty of Portsmouth, Treaty of Peking, South Manchurian Railway Company, Open Door Policy in China, Japanese...

Scope and Contents Judgement (continued) Hirota's Foreign Policy in 1938 was Founded on the Five Ministers' Decisions of August 1936; Deterioration of Japanese Relations with the Western Powers After the Lukouchiao Incident ; Naval Preparations and Preparations in the Mandated Islands During 1938 ; Hirota Refuses to Exchange Naval Information ; Hirota's Policy is Explained in the Words of the Basic National Policy Decision ; Japan's Economic Domination and Exploitation of Her Subject Territories ; Industrial...

Scope and Contents Judgement, Chapter IV (continued) - Oshima, with German Encouragement, Plans for a Japanese Attack Upon the Pacific Possessions of the Western Powers ; The Reasons for the Downfall of the Abe Cabinet, and the Resumption of a Pro-German Foreign Policy by the Yonai Cabinet ; The Yonai Cabinet Adheres to the Principles of the Basic National Policy Decision ; Japan Attempts to Obtain a Favoured Economic Position in the Netherlands East Indies ; The Yonai Cabinet's Policy of Non-Intervention in the...

Scope and Contents Judgement (continued), Chapter V. Japanese Aggression Against China (continued) - Invasion and Occupation of Manchuria. The China War And Its Phases; Supreme Administrative Council ; Declaration of Independence ; Organization of the New State ; Japanese Cabinet Approved Fait Accompli ; The Lytton Commission Arrived In Tokyo ; Araki Dispatched Reinforcements to Shanghai ; The League Took Action ; Manchukuo Was Constructed and Operated As a Puppet ; The Concordia Society and the "Kingly Way" ;...

Scope and Contents Judgement (continued), Chapter V. Japanese Aggression Against China - Wang Ching-Wei Taken to Shanghai ; Wang Ching-Wei Visited Japan ; Decision of the Five Ministers' Conference, June 1939 ; Cabinet Reshuffled in Japan and Continued Military Operation in China ; Inauguration of the Puppet Central Government ; Section VI - Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; The Second Konoye Cabinet ; Further Military Action By Japan Against China ; Japan Signed A Treaty With Wang Ching-Wei Government ;...

Scope and Contents Judgement (continued), Chapter VII (cont.) - Preparations Intensified ; Cabinet Policy and Decisions of June and July 1941 ; Third Konoye Cabinet ; Occupation of Southern French Indo-China ; Further Discussions with United States of America ; Supply Problems ; Further Discussions with the United States of America ; Imperial Conference, September 6, 1941 ; Continued Preparations For War ; Talks With United States of America, Continued ; Decision For War - October 12, 1941 ; Tojo Becomes Prime...

Scope and Contents Judgement (continued), Chapter VII - Conventional War Crimes (Atrocities) (continued) - Excessive and Unlawful Punishment was Imposed ; Prisoners of War Humiliated ; The System ; Japan Agreed To Apply the Geneva Convention, 1929 ; Ill-Treatment of Prisoners of War a Policy ; Japanese Purpose Was to Protect Japanese Nationals ; Creation of the Prisoner of War Information Bureau ; Creation of the Prisoner of War Administration Section ; The Military Affairs Bureau Retained Control ; Detention...