Nuremberg at 80: Japan's role in the unfinished fight against aggression

Tokyo backs ICC but stops short of accepting expanded jurisdiction over war Claus Kress, professor at the University of Cologne and a special adviser to the ICC, gives a keynote address in Courtroom 600 for the Nuremberg Forum 2026 on Oct. 7. (Photo by Shin Nakayama) NUREMBERG, Germany -- Eighty years ago this October, judges in Courtroom 600 in the southern German city of Nuremberg handed down a judgment that established a fundamental principle of international criminal justice: Starting a war of aggression was not merely an international crime, but "the supreme international crime."