Tokyo Trials on Netflix :
Every Japanese Prime Minister when on a visit to India calls on a family in Kolkata. It is the family of Radhabinod Pal, Indian Jurist, who was the lone dissenting judge in the Tokyo Trials.
The
International Military Tribunal for the Far East (
IMTFE), also known as the
Tokyo Trial and the
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a
military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to
tryleaders of the
Empire of Japan for their
crimes against peace, conventional
war crimes, and
crimes against humanity, leading up to and during the
Second World War.
[1] The IMTFE was modeled after the
International Military Tribunal (IMT) at
Nuremberg,
Germany, which prosecuted the leaders of
Nazi Germany for their war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity. ( source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East )
The trials have been dramatised as a series Tokyo Trials on Netflix.
Please watch it if you wish to understand by the Japanese revere Justice Pal so much.
The Emperor of Japan conferred upon Pal the First Class of the
Order of the Sacred Treasure. Pal is revered by Japanese nationalists and a monument dedicated to him stands on the grounds of the
Yasukuni Shrine.
[16] The monument was erected after Pal's death. ( source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhabinod_Pal ).
Irfan Khan played the role of Justice Pal.
