Transcultural justice at the Tokyo Tribunal : the Allied struggle for justice, 1946-48 / edited by Kerstin von Lingen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lingen, Kerstin von, 1971- editor.

Series:

History of warfare ; v. 117.

History of warfare ; volume 117

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948.

War crime trials--Japan.

War crime trials.

Japan.

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Pacific Area.

World War, 1939-1945.

Atrocities.

Japan--Tokyo.

Pacific Area.

Local Subjects:

International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Physical Description:

xvi, 314 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

While the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg has been at the centre of scholarly attention, the Tokyo Tribunal has for decades been neglected. This is surprising insofar as this tribunal was a well-organized Allied endeavour and prefigured the International Courts of our day. Eleven national teams were sent to Tokyo between 1946 and 1948 to bring about justice in the aftermath of the Pacific War. This volume offers an innovative approach to the Tokyo Tribunal as an arena of transcultural engagement, and contextualizes legal agents as products of transnational forces, constituted through dialogues about legal concepts and processes of faction-making. The endeavor was challenged by different national policies, divergent legal traditions, and varying cultural perceptions of the task ahead.

Contents:

Building Blocs : Communities of Dissent, Manufactured Majorities and International Judgment in Tokyo / James Burnham Sedgwick

Sir William Webb and Beyond : Australia and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East / Narrelle Morris

MacArthur, Keenan and the American Quest for Justice at the IMTFE / David M. Crowe

On a 'Sacred Mission' : Representing the Republic of China at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East / Anja Bihler

Managing Justice : Judge William Patrick, Prosecutor Arthur Comyns-Carr and British Approaches to the IMTFE / Kerstin von Lingen

The Soviets at Tokyo : International Justice at the Dawn of the Cold War / Valentyna Polunina

'Little Useful Purpose Would be Served by Canada' : Ottawa's View of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial / Yuki Takatori

New Zealand's Approach to International Criminal Law from Versailles to Tokyo / Neil Boister

Burdened by the 'Shadow of War' : Justice Jaranilla and the Tokyo Trial / Hitoshi Nagai

Defending French National Interests? The Quai d'Orsay, Ambassador Zinovy Peshkoff, Justice Henri Bernard and the Tokyo Trial / Ann-Sophie Schoepfel

In the Footsteps of Grotius : The Netherlands and Its Representation at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1945-1948 / Lisette Schouten

India's 'Subaltern Elites' and the Tokyo Trial / Milinda Banerjee

Loser's Justice : The Tokyo Trial from the Perspective of the Japanese Defence Counsels and the Legal Community / Urs Matthias Zachmann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Transcultural justice at the Tokyo Tribunal.

ISBN:

9789004359970

9004359974

OCLC:

1019833923