Both Japan and Germany are currently experiencing an uptick in far-right sentiments and movements. Though on the surface the groups may seem to have similar aims, such as bolstering nationalism and normalizing xenophobia, the far-right in Japan and Germany differ in their relationships to history. Both countries committed atrocious war crimes during World War II, and both countries were held accountable on an international scale through the novel use of war crimes trials. But the historical facts of the two trials were different, and out of each trial came a different narrative and thus a different cultural identity. I argue that the trials themselves served as a lens through which Japanese and Germans could view themselves and their country, and the differences in the trials produced different cultural memories that could be used by re-emergent far-right movements to relate to, learn from, and appropriate their countries’ pasts in different ways. This research attempts to provide a synthetic account that brings together two bodies of literature: cultural memory and far-right movements. Ultimately, I argue that the different methods of historical revisionism used in Japan and Germany’s far-right scene can be explained by the differences in the postwar trials of the 1940’s.