The Allies were arguably more concerned about the post-war order, and there were probably many men guilty of crimes, possibly Class A crimes, who were never prosecuted or were pardoned. Some even ended up running major Japanese corporations or, like Abe’s grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, running the country. Kishi was categorised as a Class A war criminal for his role in overseeing slave labour in Manchuria in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was imprisoned for three years after the war. He was pardoned by the Americans and went on to become a notably hard-line right-wing prime minister of Japan
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