Sir Julian Lewis: May I say how important it is that both Front Benchers have emphasised the atrocities that were committed against prisoners of war? Just as we remember the Nuremberg trials, we remember the Tokyo trials, at which many war criminals were convicted and subsequently executed. Is it not a measure of the importance of unconditional surrender that that at least removed the aura of divinity from the Emperor so that the fanaticism of religion was excised from Japanese society?

[Saqib Bhatti (Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport): My right hon. Friend said that so eloquently, and he is clearly a very learned individual. I could not agree with him more.]