judge pal's lone dissenting opinion, that the japanese soldiers were only following orders and that the acts committed by them weren't illegal in an indictable sense, was dismissed by the west as a biased judgement by another asian judge. pal wrote that the tokyo trials were an exercise in victor's justice and that the allies were equally culpable in acts such as strategic bombings of civilian targets. in 1966, pal visited japan and said that he had admired japan from an early age for being the only asian nation that "stood up against the west". regardless of his personal opinions about japan, he deemed it appropriate to dissent from the judgement of his "learned brothers" to embody his love for absolute truth and justice.