Judgment At Tokyo : World War Ii On Trial And The Making Of Modern Asia

EBook 2023

"In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, and their fellow victors, the questions of justice seemed clear: Japan's leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against citizens in China, the Philippines, Korea, and elsewhere; rampant abuses of POWs...

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International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948

War crime trials Japan History 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area Atrocities

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9781101947111

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Electronic reproduction. New York Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2023 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

Nuremberg to Tokyo
Unconditional surrender
"Prompt and utter destruction"
Atomic fire
Supreme commander
Apprehensions
"When the emperor violates the law"
The god that failed
The Imperial Hotel
The anatomy of the Tokyo Trial
"Asia for the asiatics"
The first conquest
The rape of Nanjing
Remember Pearl Harbor
The narrow road to the deep north
Eleven angry men
The defense rises
A very British coup
Denial at Nanjing
Self-defense at Pearl Harbor
The emperor waltz
"The great sorrow of my life"
Tojo takes the stand
Mr. X
Days of judgment
"Blowing up a ton of dynamite"
Judgment at Tokyo
Dissensus
"I am wholly dissenting"
Equal justice under law
One minute after midnight
A silent prayer
The inescapable purge of comrade Mei
Epilogue : martyrs of Showa

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3354489

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