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Beyond Victor's Justice? the Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited

by Yuki Tanaka , Timothy L. H. McCormack , Gerry Simpson
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004203037
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill Nijhoff
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 404
  • Original Price: GBP 196.8
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 749 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): International

The aim of this new collection of essays is to engage in analysis beyond the familiar victor's justice critiques. The editors have drawn on authors from across the world -- including Australia, Japan, China, France, Korea, New Zealand and the United Kingdom -- with expertise in the fields of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, Japanese studies, modern Japanese history, and the use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The diverse backgrounds of the individual authors allow the editors to present essays which provide detailed and original analyses of the Tokyo Trial from legal, philosophical and historical perspectives.

Several of the essays in the collection are based on the authors' extensive archival research in Japan, Australia, the United States and New Zealand, providing rich insights into Japanese societal attitudes towards the Trial, biological experimentation by the Japanese Army in China, as well as the trial of Korean prison guards and prosecutions for rape and sexual assault in the post-war period. Some of the essays deal with particular participants in the Trial, examining the role of individual judges, and the selection of defendants and the decision not to prosecute the Emperor. Other essays analyse the Trial from a legal perspective, and address its impact on concepts such as command responsibility, conspiracy and war crimes. The majority of the essays seek to identify and address some of the 'forgotten crimes' in the Tokyo Trial. These include crimes committed in China and Korea (particularly the activities of the infamous Unit 731), crimes committed against comfort women, and crimes associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conventional firebombing of other Japanese cities and the illicit drug trade in China. Finally, the collection includes a number of essays which consider the importance of studying the Tokyo Trial and its contemporary relevance. These issues include an examination of the way in which academics have 'written' the Trial over the last 60 years, and an analysis of some of the lessons that can be drawn for international trials in the future.

Yuki Tanaka is a Research Professor of History at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University and was the Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at The University of Melbourne in 2008.

Tim McCormack is a Professor of Law at The University of Melbourne Law School and was recently appointed Special Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Gerry Simpson is a Professor of Law at The University of Melbourne Law School and is the Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, and the Global Justice Studio.

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