This is John Batchuk. Conversation with Professor Gary Bass, his book, Judgment at Tokyo.

This is the war crimes trials of the Japanese officials and military officers that followed the Second War's conclusion in 45.

Trials started in 46 into 47.

Judgment at Tokyo, World War II, on trial and the making of a modern Asia,

including the observation by the professor in the book,

and he comments here that George Kennan, the gifted diplomat working at the time in the State Department,

not only wrote the long telegram about

containing the Soviet aggression, but also wrote recommending that Japan be considered a major ally

of the United States following the war, that Japan be empowered to reorganize itself along

democratic lines and enter into the industrial age again. Japan, not China. China is seen by

George Cannon as a possible, but not necessarily predictable power.

We see the results today.

The People's Republic of China is a product of aggression and predation,

much like the Soviet Union in 1948 in the start of the Cold War,

whereas Japan is seen as a major ally of the United States

and its allies and the bulwark of a defense against China's aggression in East Asia. Japan.

Hard to see during the time of the prosecution of Japan for launching a war at Pearl Harbor.

But here is the professor to explain what George Kennan saw.

Much more of this next month.

No, I think that's exactly right.

And that's a huge shift in American policy, that American policy

throughout World War II is building up the Republic of China under the nationalists,

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