Secret pact covered jurisdiction of U.S. military crimes committed in Japan

[unhappycamper]

Secret pact covered jurisdiction of U.S. military crimes committed in Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Stars and Stripes online edition, Sunday, April 10, 2010

TOKYO — In a 1958 secret agreement with the United States, the Japanese government effectively ceded the right to try U.S. military personnel for crimes committed in Japan, Foreign Ministry sources said Saturday.

The revelation comes on the heels of reports of the existence of several secret security-related agreements between Japan and the United States.

The latest revelation came to light as a result of a ministry investigation into the matter, according to the sources.

The de facto abandoning of jurisdiction over crimes committed by U.S. military personnel was referred to in a document on Japan-U.S. talks held in connection with a bilateral Administrative Agreement signed in 1952 regarding the status of U.S. military installations and members of U.S. forces stationed in Japan.

The agreement was replaced by the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement at the time of the 1960 revision of the bilateral security treaty.


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unhappycamper comment: Secrets are always good in a Status Of Forces Agreements, no?

[MadHound]

1. For twenty years after WWII, Japan was in the US pocket,

We never had the equivalent of the Nuremberg trials there because we made a deal with the Japanese. In exchange for no trials the US picked up all the records of Japanese medical experiments for the previous twenty five years, stuff that made Germany medical experiments look take. We took that, and several people made their fortunes off of it.