Japanese war crimes : the search for justice / Peter Li, editor.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Li, Peter, 1935-

Conference Name:

International Citizens' Forum on War Crimes and Redress (1999 : Tokyo, Japan)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Congresses.

World War, 1939-1945.

Atrocities.

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Atrocities--Congresses.

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.

War criminals--Japan--Congresses.

War criminals.

Japan.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 339 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, [2003]

Contents:

1. An Overview: Japan's War Responsibility and the Pan-Asian Movement for Redress and Compensation / Paul Schalow 1

I. It's Never Too Late to Seek Justice

2. Japan's War Crimes: Has Justice Been Served? / Michael M. Honda 11

3. Probing the Issues of Reconciliation More than Fifty Years after the Asia-Pacific War / Ivy Lee 19

4. Victor's Justice and Japan's Amnesia: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Reconsidered / Maria Hsia Chang, Robert P. Barker 33

5. Hirohito's War Crimes Responsibility: The Unrepentant Emperor / Peter Li 59

6. Accountability, Justice, and the Importance of Memory in the "Era of War" / Manuel Prutschi, Mark Weintraub 69

II. The American POW Experience Remembered

7. The Bataan Death March / Lester I. Tenney 81

8. Mitsui: "We Will Send You To Omuta" / Linda Goetz Holmes 107

III. Psychological Responses

9. The Nanjing Massacre: The Socio-Psychological Effects / Zhang Lianhong, translated and edited by Peter Li 119

10. One Army Surgeon's Account of Vivisection on Human Subjects in China / Noda Masaaki, translated by Paul Schalow 131

IV. Artistic Responses

11. Reunion: A Play in 2 Acts, 5 Scenes, and an Epilogue (Excerpts) / Yoshiji Watanabe 171

12. Cinematic Representations of the Rape of Nanking / Michael Berry 203

V. History Will Not Forget

13. The Nanking Holocaust: Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation / Peter Li 227

14. The Great Asian-Pacific Crescent of Pain: Japan's War from Manchuria to Hiroshima, 1931 to 1945 / Werner Gruhl 243

15. Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery: Memory, Identity, and Society / Yayori Matsui 259

16. The Looting of Books in Nanjing / Zhao Jianmin, translated and edited by Peter Li 281

17. Japan's Biochemical Warfare and Experimentation in China / Peter Li 289

18. Japan's Historical Myopia / Daniel A. Metraux 301

19. War Crimes and Redress: A Canadian Jewish Perspective / Manuel Prutschi, Mark Weintraub 315

Appendix The Tokyo Appeal 325.

Notes:

Portions of book originally published in East Asia: An International Quarterly, fall 200, vol. 18, no. 3; and includes sample of presentations at International Citizens' Forum on War Crimes and Redress, held December 10-12, 1999, in Tokyo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765808900

OCLC:

50334123