The Tokyo War Crimes Trial by Yuma Totani - 9780674033399

Harvard University, Asia Center

The Tokyo War Crimes TrialThe Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II\nAuthor(s): Yuma Totani\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Harvard University, Asia Center, United States\nImprint: Harvard University, Asia Center\nISBN-13: 9780674033399, 978-0674033399\nSynopsis\nThis book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)commonly called the Tokyo trialestablished as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II.\n\nThrough 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 victors justice in which the legal process was egregiously compromised for political and ideologic.