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Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006 Under Japanese law, 14 at Yasukuni not criminals: AbeKyodo News
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday the 14 Class-A war criminals honored at Yasukuni Shrine are not war criminals under Japanese law but the country had to accept the outcome of the Tokyo Tribunal to become an independent nation. Abe told the Lower House that because the relatives of the convicted men receive war pensions and one of them -- wartime Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu -- received a first class award from the postwar government, "they are not war criminals under domestic laws." The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, which the Allies conducted between May 1946 and November 1948, put 28 political and military leaders on trial as Class-A war criminals, 14 of whom are now enshrined at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine. Abe said they stood trial for crimes against peace and humanity, which were concepts created by the Allies after the war and not enshrined in law. |
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