The eighth chapter is dedicated to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the Tokyo Trials). It covers his arrest on suspicion of Class-A war crimes and subsequent interrogation, followed by the trial itself. Hirota was famously silent throughout the trial, not speaking in his own defense, and this has helped give rise to a popular image in Japan that he was a tragic figure who, despite not being guilty of militarism, quietly accepted judgment for failing to stop Japanese aggression. This chapter attempts to provide a more detailed and nuanced description of his defense strategy. While Hirota did accept responsibility to a greater degree than the other defendants, he still put forward witnesses in his defense (albeit to limited effect) and was at least initially accepting of his defense team’s strategy of minimizing his guilt by blaming the army. He undermined his own defense, however, by preventing his team from submitting documents that would be harmful to other defendants at the trial, at least in part due to pressure from those defendants.