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9780674033399

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674033399

  • ISBN10:

    0674033396

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-04-01
  • Publisher: TRILITERAL INC

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Summary

This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)-commonly called the Tokyo trial-established as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Through extensive research in Japanese, American, Australian, and Indian archives, Yuma Totani taps into a large body of previously underexamined sources to explore some of the central misunderstandings and historiographical distortions that have persisted to the present day. Foregrounding these voluminous records, Totani disputes the notion that the trial was an exercise in "victorsrs" justice" in which the legal process was egregiously compromised for political and ideological reasons; rather, the author details the achievements of the Allied prosecution teams in documenting war crimes and establishing the responsibility of the accused parties to show how the IMTFE represented a sound application of the legal principles established at Nuremberg. This study deepens our knowledge of the historical intricacies surrounding the Tokyo trial and advances our understanding of the Japanese conduct of war and occupation during World War II, the range of postwar debates on war guilt, and the relevance of the IMTFE to the continuing development of international humanitarian law.

Author Biography

Yuma Totani is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. xi
Note to the Readerp. xiii
Introduction: Why the Tokyo Trial Now?p. 1
Lessons from Nurembergp. 20
The Trial of Emperor Hirohito?p. 43
Tojo and Other Suspectsp. 63
Narrative of the Warp. 78
Leadership Responsibility for War Crimesp. 98
Nanking and the Death Railwayp. 119
Documenting Japanese Atrocitiesp. 151
The First Trial Analystsp. 190
Pal's Dissent and Its Repercussionsp. 218
Conclusion: Beyond Victors' Justicep. 246
Notesp. 265
Works Citedp. 301
Indexp. 323
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