あるよ。サンフランシスコ条約が。

My mother’s house was once searched by the Imperial Japan’s secret police (特別高等警察), since her eldest brother had a friend who was a communist being looked for by the police as a political criminal. That friend had escaped from the town just before the domiciliary search. As most Japanese know, the secret police was one of the most feared organizations of Imperial Japan. My mother’s family was scared stiff during the search. But soon after they started the search, the leader of the investigators said: “This family is Christian. There is no chance that they support communism,” and he made the investigators to quit the search. My mother’s family was actually Christian; The reason the leader stopped the search was that he found that the bookshelves in my mother’s home were full of books related to Christianity. After the investigators left my mother’s house, to the family’s surprise, the eldest brother took out documents related to communism from behind a bookshelf. He told the family that his friend had entrusted him with the documents before escaping from the town. My mother’s family shuddered hearing his words. If the investigation had not been stopped halfway, the documents would have been easily found, and, in that case, the eldest brother would have been arrested and the entire family would have been ostracized.

The eldest brother was drafted before the Pacific War. He participated in the battles in Singapore and Burma. Fortunately, he could return home after the war.

Two other elder brothers were also drafted. They did not return home after the war. One died near Taiwan when his transport was sunk, and another died in Hokkaido. The latter was officially reported to have died of illness. However, his superior officer visited my mother’s parents after the war to tell them that, in truth, he had committed suicide in the army.

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The reason I wrote this late comment is partly because I sometimes see articles and comments suggesting that Imperial Japan prosecuted religions. For example, I have recently read this good article describing about the Christian community in Nagasaki. However, this article says “And what the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 200 years of persecution, American Christians did in 9 seconds.” This is just a misunderstanding. The fact is that the Japanese Imperial government did not prosecute Christianity at all. In 1930’s and 1940’s, it banned some political activities such as communism and anarchism that had been rampant in Japan in 1910’s and 1920’s, but it did not prosecute religions.

ポツダム宣言には、降伏の条件が明記されており、連合国も以下の条件を守ると書いてあります。
・日本人を奴隷化しない。
・国民を滅亡させない。
・言論、宗教、思想の自由、基本的人権を尊重する。
そして、日本に求められたのは、日本国軍隊の無条件降伏です。
日本はポツダム宣言を受諾し、降伏ました。

あなたがどんな見解を持つのも自由です。
でも、あなたが思ってるような文書も、国際法も存在しません。

tomojiroさん
誰に弁解してるの？
チョー不思議。