Japanese war criminals : the politics of justice after the Second World War / Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt, and Dean Aszkielowicz.

Author
Wilson, Sandra, 1957- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xv, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    Beginning in late 1945 national courts convened to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants included ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese who had served with the armed forces as Japanese subjects. From the first investigations during the war to the final release of prisoners in 1958, Japanese War Criminals shows how a simple effort to punish the guilty evolved into a multidimensional struggle that muddied the assignment of criminal responsibility for war crimes. Over time, indignation in Japan over Allied military actions, particularly the deployment of the atomic bombs, eclipsed anger over Japanese atrocities, and, among the Western powers, new Cold War imperatives took hold. This book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the construction of the postwar international order in Asia and to our comprehension of the difficulties of implementing transitional justice.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-396) and index.
    Contents
    • Defining war crimes and creating courts
    • Investigation and arrest
    • In court : indictment, trial, and sentencing
    • Dilemmas of detention and the first misgivings
    • Shifting mood, shifting location
    • Peace and Article 11
    • Japanese pressure mounts
    • Finding a formula for release
    • The race to clear Sugamo.
    ISBN
    • 9780231179225 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    • 0231179227 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016028052
    OCLC
    947817050
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