Research Catalog

Title

The Tokyo trial, justice, and the postwar international order / Aleksandra Babovic.

Author

Babovic, Aleksandra

Publication

• Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

vi, 178 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

New directions in East Asian history

Uniform Title

New directions in East Asian history

Subject

• International Military Tribunal for the Far East
• 1900-1999
• 1945-1989
• Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948
• War crime trials > Japan > Tokyo > History > 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities > Japan
• Atrocities
• Diplomatic relations
• War crime trials
• Japan
• Diplomatic history
• International criminal law
• History of international law
• Japan > Foreign relations > 1945-1989
• Japan > Tokyo

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part I. 1. The Tokyo Tribunal, justice, and international order -- 2. In the shadow of the Paris Peace Conference: behind the scene of the International Miitary Tribunal for the Far East -- 3. The IMTFE as a venue for legislating process -- 4. The hegemonic narrative of the Pacific War: Japan's conspired and aggressive war -- 5. The partial interest for victims and strategic 'forgetting' at the Tokyo Tribunal -- 6. Emperor Hirohito as the Japanese Kaiser and selection of the IMTFE defendants -- Part II. 7. Towards the post-institutional phase of the Tokyo Tribunal: narratives, sentences, detentions -- 8. Forgiveness by law and dilemmas on the nature of the war criminal program in Japan -- 9. Stagnation and confusion: the incoherencies of the war criminal program in Japan -- 10. From criminals to spirits: class A war criminals -- 11. International criminal tribunals: Cui bono?

ISBN

• 9811334765
• 9789811334764

LCCN

2018965192

OCLC

• on1059331066
• 1059331066
• SCSB-9372239

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library