Nosaka Sanzo is very happy these days, someone secretly put a document in his home, the content of the document is actually that the Showa Electric Company in order to obtain an improper loan of 3 billion yen from the Japanese state-run reconstruction bank, bribes to the prime minister, parliamentarians, and bureaucrats more than 70 million, part of the money is used to make up for the company's shortfall, part of the fertilizer is operated for black market trade, and part of it is embezzled by the Ashida cabinet. ≥, if the information provided in the document is true, it is a huge event, enough to send an earthquake to the Japanese political scene.

Although Nosaka Sanzo does not have many friends, there are still many well-informed people in the Japanese Communist Party, such as Tokuda Qiuichi, although he has been in prison for many years, but he has a wide range of contacts, otherwise he would not have been the general secretary of the Japanese Communist Party. Thanks to the efforts of the Japanese Communist Party and others, the authenticity of this document was gradually verified, but because what this document said was true, there were disagreements within the Japanese Communist Party.

The conservative faction headed by Koichi Tokuda believes that this sudden document is a conspiracy, and that this is a deliberate attempt by someone or force to send the matter to the Japanese Communist Party, hoping to pierce the matter through the hands of the Japanese Communist Party, thus triggering turmoil in the Japanese political arena.

However, the radicals, led by Sanzo Nosaka, believe that even if the person who sent the document had bad intentions, the contents of the document were true. Now that the revolutionary situation in Asia as a whole is very good, the Japanese Communist Party can take advantage of this trend to rise strongly, but there was no suitable opportunity before, but now such a good opportunity is in front of us, how can it be missed? As long as this matter is made big, we can use this Showa Electric bribery and fraud case to expose the ** of the Japanese ruling group. This aroused the enthusiasm of the broad masses of the people for struggle, forced the cabinet of Ashida-kun to resign, and established a people's democratic government composed of representatives of clean political parties and workers' and peasants' organizations.

The result of the controversy was that the radicals represented by Nosaka Sanzo won the victory, but in fact the root cause of their victory was very simple, not that everyone did not know that the success rate of establishing a people's democratic government was very low, but it still existed anyway. If you don't seize the opportunity this time, then you don't know how long you will have to wait for the next such opportunity, and even if you fail, what will happen? The Japanese Communist Party has survived such a hard life before, can it be worse than before? Can they still be arrested and imprisoned again because of this incident?

So, a few days later, Nosaka Sanzo exposed the scandal of Showa Electric's bribery and fraud in the mouthpiece of the Japanese Communist Party, "Red Flag Daily", which clearly showed the Japanese government's **, so Nosaka Sanzo demanded that the Ashida Jun government should immediately take the blame and resign and dissolve the parliament. It was replaced by a people's democratic government composed of representatives of clean political parties and workers' and peasants' organizations.

As soon as this statement was issued, it caused an uproar in Japan's political circles, with some people questioning it and others adding fuel to the fire, fearing that there would be no chaos in the world. At first, the Ashida government tried to cover up the incident, but unexpectedly, the Japanese people and the middle class reacted so strongly that they organized various activities to demand that the government be held responsible.

As a result, an investigation into the case began at the end of May. As it intensified, the involvement became more and more extensive, and it was only Hinohara, the general manager of Showa Company, who was arrested at the beginning. Then there were as many as 20 big bureaucrats and big capitalists who were prosecuted for facilitating the loan and accepting bribes from it, including Yoshimoto Ninomiya, vice president of the Industrial Bank of China, Seiyuki Shigemasa, former vice minister of agriculture and forestry, Takeo Fukuda, former director of the Accounting and Audit Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, Takemu Ohno, former president of the Liberal Party, and Takeo Kurisu, former minister of state and president of the Economic Stability Agency, who was arrested a few days ago. In particular, after their arrest, Seiyuki Shigemasa and Takeo Fukuda have confessed to accepting bribes of hundreds of thousands of yen. After Kurisu's arrest, the leaders of the three ruling parties, Jun Ashida of the Democratic Party of Japan, Tetsu Katayama of the Social Democratic Party, and Takeo Miki of the National Cooperation Party, held an emergency meeting on the evening of 1 July. He even visited MacArthur in secret.

Unfortunately, due to the changing situation in Asia, the United States has gradually planned to change its policy toward Japan, and after Chairman Chiang has determined that it is powerless to reverse the situation in China, the United States has decided to turn Japan into a front line against communism. Centrists like Ashida-kun were no longer suitable to run Japan, so even if MacArthur tried to keep Ashida-kun's cabinet, he did not succeed, and finally Yoshida Shigeru, who publicly stated his support for the Dodge plan, returned to power to form a cabinet. At this point, the Showa Electric case, which is known as one of the four major scandals of Japan's post-war period, was officially ended. (The other three are the shipbuilding scandal, the Lockheed scandal, and the Likulut incident.) ）

Although this incident caused a sensation throughout Japan, it was not particularly significant for Tang Ning, who had been sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and the only benefit was to strengthen the relationship with Yoshida Shigeru's faction. At the same time, he also took advantage of the fact that no one paid attention to it in the past half a year to operate his major factories more steadily.

But in 1948, there was another big event that Downing definitely didn't want to miss, and that was the Tokyo Trials, which began in November. In fact, since January 19, 1946, MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Japan, has already promulgated the "Special Notice" and the "Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East", announcing the formal establishment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to prepare for the trial of Japanese war criminals.

On April 29, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East formally indicted 28 Class A war criminals, including Hideki Tojo. On May 3, the court held its first public meeting to begin the trial of Hideki Tojo and other war criminals. On the 3rd and 4th, Chief Prosecutor Keenan read a 42-page indictment listing the crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the accused between 1 January 1928 and 2 September 1945. In May 1946, the Far East Military Tribunal, composed of 11 countries, including China, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, India, and the Philippines, tried 28 Japanese Class-A war criminals. (Among them, China appointed the jurist Mei Rujiao as a judge and Wu Xueyi as a legal adviser).

Until November 1948, the entire trial lasted more than two years, with a total of 818 court sessions, 419 witnesses testifying, 4,336 pieces of evidence admitted, and 48,412 pages of trial records in English. The entire trial cost $7.5 million.

But November 4, 1948 was the day when the final trial decision was announced, and Downing had no qualifications or time to attend the previous trials, but he definitely didn't want to miss this moment when the final announcement was made, and he wanted to see those war criminals hanged with his own eyes! (To be continued......)