Nuremberg at the age of 80: Japan's role in the unfinished struggle against aggression 80 years ago this October, judges in courtroom 600 in the southern German city of Nuremberg handed down a verdict that established a fundamental principle of international criminal law: starting a war of aggression was not only an international crime, but "the supreme international crime. ".

Nuremberg at the age of 80: Japan's role in the unfinished struggle against aggression 80 years ago this October, judges in courtroom 600 in the southern German city of Nuremberg handed down a verdict that established a fundamental principle of international criminal law: starting a war of aggression was not only an international crime, but "the supreme international crime. ".