I just recently finished writing my senior capstone paper for my university. My thesis was that the Tokyo Trials were ultimately a failure in it's purpose to bring the people responsible for involvement in the war to justice: because the U.S. used the trials for their own good.

At the end of 1937 and at the beginning of 1938, the Japanese imperial army took over the city of Nanking, and over about a 6 week period - the Japanese Imperial Army killed and raped many of the civilians, giving life to the name "The Rape of Nanking".

This post isn't about the atrocities that happened during the invasion, but rather the fact that the prosecutors during the Trial were highlighting the terrible things that happened in Nanking and hanging/executing the people involved, rather than the people who actually did damage to the overall involvement to the war.

The U.S. didn't really get involved in the war until Pearl Harbor, the U.S. using nuclear weapons against Japan was a test of their strength everyone knows this, but during the Trials - the main focus was what the Japanese Imeprial Army did during their conquest of East Asia. They let many of the important players in Japan go on account that they give up their knowledge.

An example of this is the Commander of unit 731. The unit was a human experimentation facility that was responsible for holding prisoners of war - where biological and chemical warfare research and development took place. Shiro Ishii, a Japanese microbiologist and army medical officer, and Director of Unit 731, was completely voided of all charges during the Tokyo Trials. The suspected reason was that General Douglas MacArthur and others realized they could take their research and use it to their advantage.

My question isn't if the U.S. did a lot of shady shit, cause I already know that. I just wanna hear from others what else they've heard that the U.S. has hid from the public during the war and the Tokyo Trials.

P.S.: English isn't my first language so I apologize for any corrections that need to be made to my post. Thank you.