WAR FOR JAPAN
ORDERED BY EMPEROR EVIDENCE IN ADVISOR’S DIARY TOKIO, Aug. 1. Evidence that Emperor Hirohito was directly and sdlely responsible for the decision to wage war against Britain and the United States was submitted to Dr Evatt to-day by a most senior officer of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, which is now trying 25 senior Japanese militarists and politicians for their part in the war. . . . A _ This was reported by the A.A.P. Reuter correspondent, who adds that Dr Evatt was shown an extract from the 4000-page diary of Marquis Kido, Keeper of the Privy Seal, and the Emperor’s closest advisor. This stated categorically that the Emperor ordered the war. Kido. who is one of the accused, turned over his diary to the prosecution after his arrest. Dr Evatt, who soon after the end of the war declared that the Emperor should be obliged to prove that he was not guilty, hedged on the only public occasion when-he was asked about the Emperor in Tokio. At the Correspondents’ Club on Wednesday he said there was no use beating his head against a wall. A certain decision had been made a long time. ago about the Emperor and that decision had been accepted. Highest legal authorities in Tokio, however, say that there is no reason why the, Emperor should not be tried now or even after the peace treaty
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26530, 4 August 1947, Page 5
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232WAR FOR JAPAN Otago Daily Times, Issue 26530, 4 August 1947, Page 5
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