From the introduction, it's very clear that Gary Bass is not going to spare anyone. He doesn't spare Japan for failing to engage with their own imperialism while being very explicit that much of the court was conducted by European colonial powers because it was their colonies that suffered, not them. The Soviet Union was killing a quarter million Japanese in Manchuria even as the trials went on. and that the United States has faced no serious repercussions for targeting civilians during the war (which is perhaps understandable) or since (which is much less understandable if there is truly to be a law of war).