Edited sentence: " Regardless of his political opinion, his legal reasoning was a landmark in international law and should more or less balance the charge that his dissent was politically charged.Deeply entrenched with this anti-imperialist and anti-West politics, Pal then used legal arguments to excuse the charges against Japan's leaders.In 1966, Pal visited Japan and openly said that he had admired Japan from a young age for being the only Asian nation that "stood up against the West.Pal also believed that the Tokyo Trials was an exercise in victor's justice and that the Allies were equally culpable in acts such as strategic bombings of civilian targets.Pal was also an admirer of the Indian National Army (INA), an Indian army which collaborated with Japan to fight against Great Britain and liberate India from British colonization.Pal was an anti-imperialist and sincerely believed Japan's propaganda that World War II was fought to liberate Asian people from Western colonization.Pal's lone dissenting opinion that Japan did not wage an aggressive, therefore illegal, war and its leaders cannot be prosecuted as war criminals was surprising and dismissed as a political ploy by his contemporaries