Staff writer
A former court interpreter at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East believes the Allied trial proceedings were fair and legitimate, but reflected ignorance of Japan's wartime politics.
Takashi Oka, 75, who was educated at an American prep school in Tokyo's Meguro Ward before the war, worked for the International Prosecution Section of the Supreme Commander for Allied Powers and served as one of the eight interpreters in the tribunal between May 1946 and November 1948.