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Japanese war criminals : the politics of justice after the Second World War / Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt, and Dean Aszkielowicz.
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Wilson, Sandra, 1957-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
xv, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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KZ1181 .W55 2017
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Subject(s)
War crimes
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Japan
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War crime trials
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Japan
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War criminals
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Japan
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World War, 1939-1945
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Atrocities
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Author
Cribb, R. B.
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Trefalt, Beatrice
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Aszkielowicz, Dean
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Trial and arbitral proceedings
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Summary note
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.
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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.
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ISBN
9780231179225 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
0231179227 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016028052
OCLC
947817050
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