Nobosuke Kishi, a gangster in the narcotics business who was actively involved in the use of slave labor as a wartime minister in the Japanese cabinet, likewise remains happily unprosecuted.

The only expert on international law on the Tokyo war crimes court, Radhabinod Pal of India, calls the whole sorry farce “an ethical travesty” but not too many newspaper readers in the U.S. find out about it.

After the execution of those defendants sentenced to death, General Douglas MacArthur releases the remainder of those few “Class A” war criminals who have been prosecuted and convicted. Like the thousands of unprosecuted war criminals, these mass murderers and torturers slide easily into positions of power in MacArthur’s America-compliant post-war Japan in politics, business, the civil service and academia. Leading the pack is Nobusuke Kishi, who will become Prime Minister of Japan in 1957, his “election” bought and paid for by the CIA with loot stolen from the victims of Japan’s war criminals.

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Kishi (indicated by circle) as a newly appointed member of the war cabinet of Prime Minister Tōjō Hideki, October 1941. He served as minister of commerce and industry until the end of the war in 1945.

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Kishi’s “mug shot” after he was arrested by U.S. occupation authorities and incarcerated in Sugamo Prison along with other accused and indicted Japanese war criminals. [X]

Shinzo Abe prays before the grave of his grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, a former prime minister, on Dec. 22 in Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Standing behind him are his wife, Akie, and brother Nobuo Kishi.