The following is a genuine article I discovered by searching for related matters.
https://seiron-sankei.com/10897
The emphasis in the text except for the headline is mine.
NHK, Is this what you want to do? Slash the "Unit 731" special, taking the former Soviet Union's mock trial into account!
April 15, 2018.
Ryoji Nagase, researcher, and translator on the Siberian internment issue, May issue of Monthly Seiron
On August 13 last year, NHK aired the NHK Special "The Truth about Unit 731: Elite Medics and Human Experiments" (50 minutes) as one of the programs based on the usual Japanese military malignant theory.
Five months later, on January 21 of this year, it re-edited the program to double its length and broadcast as the BS1 Special "Unit 73. On January 21 of this year, five months later, due to the "great response," a BS1 Special, "73rd Unit: Human Body Experiments Expanded in This Way / The True Faces of the Unit Members," was broadcast in double-length (100 minutes).
Unit 731 is the common name of the quarantine and water supply department of the Kwantung Army.
The Department of Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply is a unit of the Japanese Army that provides medical care and water purification to fight epidemics.
It is true that Unit 731 also researched bacteriological warfare, but there are differing views on the human testing of bacteriological weapons and their actual use in China.
In these programs, NHK used audio tapes of the defendant and witnesses in the Khabarovsk trial, which were discovered in the Russian National Audio Archive, as evidence to report the fact of human experimentation and actual use of germ weapons by the Kwantung Army.
Why is it so late now?
Why the Khabarovsk Trials of sixty-eight years ago?
I believe that the intention was to hold a "second Khabarovsk trial" (this time in absentia) to unilaterally judge the deceased defendant, who was "dead man, no talk," by bringing out the audiotape from that time.
He has once again condemned them as diabolical criminals.
The Khabarovsk Trials were a six-day military trial held in Khabarovsk in the Far East of the Soviet Union from December 25 to December 30, 1949, to try interned Japanese soldiers, mainly in connection with the Kantokuen (Kwantung Army Special Maneuvers), the Kwantung Army's Water Supply Department, and the so-called Unit 731.
The Khabarovsk region was the largest internment area where more than 150,000 Japanese were interned. It also had a symbolic meaning because it was where the last Japanese "war criminals" were gathered and where the propaganda newspaper "Nihon Shinbun" was edited and published.
NHK broadcasted the audiotape triumphantly as if it were the head of an ogre, based on the assumption that the Khabarovsk trial was a fair trial based on a proper interrogation.
*When I read this article, I was immediately reminded of the time when TV Tokyo's WBS moved up its time slot by an hour last year.
Both showed the shallowness, stupidity, and ugliness of people involved in TV reporting.
The host, Oe, had been touting for several days that a very big business person would appear live as a guest on the changeover day.
I have already mentioned those circumstances and that the guest was Masayoshi Son, as I had guessed.
On this day, TV Tokyo showed the same kind of stupidity described above to the whole world.
I was dismayed to hear Masayoshi Son talk about what he had said during his live appearance after he had left the stage, saying that it was TV Tokyo's own reporting (a scoop).
However, this reveals the reality of the people who make their living from TV news programs.
The brain level and attitude of the people in NHK's news department, who broadcasted the audiotape triumphantly as if it were the head of an ogre, and the people in TV Tokyo are identical.
This kind of behavior is the height of vulgarity. *
However, it is clear that there was neither a fair interrogation nor a fair trial in the "war criminal" trials in the Soviet Union.
It must say that this program lacks any understanding of the judicial system of a communist dictatorship.
First of all, the internment of Japanese soldiers in Siberia was illegal and prolonged internment in violation of international law (Geneva Convention) and the Potsdam Declaration, which stipulates that Japanese soldiers should be sent home as soon as possible.
In addition, the trial of the "war criminals" was becoming a mere shell trial in which a predetermined verdict was handed down without a proper hearing or defense, using as evidence interrogation reports made up through coercion, torture, and other prolonged interrogations in closed rooms where the legitimate rights of the suspects, such as access to a lawyer, were not a factor.
I have long argued that the Japanese "war criminals" were innocent prisoners.
The Khabarovsk trial, one of the "war criminal" trials, is also fake or dark, as I will explain later.
Therefore, the defendants' statements and the testimonies of the witnesses in this trial cannot be accepted as evidence to prove the truth, even if they are their voice tapes.
In other words, the tape has no evidentiary value in court.
We should strictly and fairly verify whether each testimony is true or not, taking into account the delusional nature of the Khabarovsk trial.
First of all, NHK should take a good look at Article 38, Paragraph 2 of the Japanese Constitution, which it loves so much.
Confessions made by coercion, torture, or intimidation, or confessions made after prolonged and unjustified detention or imprisonment, may not be used as evidence.
It is an essential principle of modern law, and NHK, with its hypersensitivity to false convictions in Japan, is no doubt aware of the importance of this provision.
Even if one assumes that there was no coercion, torture, or intimidation, the mere fact that the statements were made during four years of detention in the Soviet Union should be enough to negate their evidentiary value in a court of law.
From the beginning of the Siberian internment, the Soviet Union deliberately sought out "war criminals" from among the Japanese military personnel it had taken prisoner and brought them to justice.
After invading Manchuria, North Korea, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands, the Soviet military used the infamous Smersh (Special Counterintelligence Service) to identify and detain suspected "war criminals" among Japanese military personnel.
The targets were not only high-ranking officers such as Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army Yamada Okuzo, military police, and members of special services, but also policemen, judicial officials, administrative officials, Manchukuo Cooperative Association officials, private company executives, and other "former employees.
Of course, it also targeted members of Unit 731.
According to a document dated March 22, 1949, from the General Administration of Prisoners of War of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, as many as 8,870 Japanese were registered as suspected "war criminals," 206 of whom were members of Unit 731.
Those who were found by the Soviet authorities to be suitable for public trial were sent to the Tokyo and Khabarovsk trials as defendants and witnesses, and more than 2,600 were sentenced to long-term sentences of 20 or 25 years.
In the Soviet Union, there was a certain formality of arrest, interrogation, trial, and sentencing, but the reality was far different from that of the Western judicial system.
According to Yasuo Wakatsuki's "Siberian Prisoner of War Camp" and other books, informing was encouraged, torture was used as a standard method, it gave confessions a heavyweight, it gave no proper defense at the trial, judged attempts, thoughts, and duties instead of the actual act, absenteeism was rampant, and it imposed firing squads and excessively long sentences.
Suspects were interrogated in prisons or camps, usually starting in the evening and lasting until late at night or dawn.
The mere thought of being interrogated under dim lights in the dead of night was enough to make one fearful.
It was a kind of torture to force a confession while one was dazed from insomnia and fatigue.
The interrogators often flashed their pistols at the prisoners and threatened them.
Other forms of torture included fasting, reduced diet, water, cold, intimidation, and violence.
Please read the rest in the May issue of Seiron.
Ryoji Nagase was born in Hokkaido in 1949. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University. He studied Russian at the Russian Far Eastern State University in Hakodate and studied the Siberian internment in the former Soviet Union. His publications include "Siberian Internment" (Shinchosha).
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