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实践主题Topic:Tokyo Trial

Make an account of Tokyo Trial.

实践目标Objective of the practice:

1)To get familiar with the words and expressions learned in this unit

2)To be able to put the reading skill into personal practice

实践任务Tasks:

1)Discuss the significance of Tokyo Trial with your friends or classmates.

2)Use proper words and expressions to describe Tokyo Trial.

实践要求Requirements:

Write down what has come to your mind during your thinking and discussion, and organize them into a neat essay.

Sample

All of you must have known something about Tokyo Trial. How do you think of its historical significance? Try to imply your attitude towards the significance in the choice of the words instead of direct telling.

教师解析:

The following text offers some details of Tokyo Trial.

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, tried Japanese leaders accused for war crimes and other charges committed between 1937 and 1945. The legal basis for the trial was established by the Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (CIMTFE), which was proclaimed on 19 Jan 1946 by Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers General Douglas MacArthur. The Tokyo Trial began on 3 May 1946 at Ichigaya Court (formerly the Japanese Army headquarters building) in Tokyo, Japan.

28 Japanese leaders were charged with Class A crimes, and more than 5,700 were charged with Classes B and C crimes. Class A included those who were charged with crimes against peace, Class B was a category for those accused of war crimes, and those charged with crimes against humanity were said to be in Class C. Members of the Japanese imperial family, including Emperor Showa (Hirohito), were granted immunity by MacArthur.

Two of the accused Class A criminals, Matsuoka Yosuke and Nagano Osami, died of natural causes during the trial. Seven were found guilty and sentenced to death, with the executions carried out at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan on 23 Dec 1948.

Finally, Shigenori Togo received 20 years imprisonment and Mamoru Shigemitsu received 7 years imprisonment.

Of the 5,700 accused of Class B and Class C crimes, 984 were condemned to death (some were later pardoned), 475 were given life imprisonment sentences, 2,944 were given finite imprisonment sentences, 1,018 were acquitted, and 279 were not brought to trial or not sentenced.

There were criticisms of the Tokyo Trial, which mostly centered around the American bias through the entire proceedings as well as the immunity enjoyed by members of the imperial family. Judge Radhabinod Pal of India offered a dissenting opinion, questioning the exclusion of western imperialism and the American use of the atomic weapons from the trial while Japanese imperialism and Japanese use of chemical and biological weapons were central to the Tokyo Trial.