Overview
- Challenges the predominant view of the Tokyo Trial by observing it as a politico-legal event
- Offers a deep conceptualization of the Trial by using relevant disciplines, history and international criminal law
- Covers not only the Trial but also the temporal grid well beyond its end in 1948
Part of the book series: New Directions in East Asian History (NDEAH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Part I
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Part II
Keywords
- the Tokyo Trial War Crimes Tribunal
- Postwar International Order
- Nature of International Criminal Justice
- the Political, Historical and Legal Consequences of the Trial
- Class A War Criminals
- Power and Institutional Dynamics in the Tribunal
- Japanese Wartime Responsibility
- Alllied Powers' Manipulation of Parole System
- criminal justice
- war crime
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Tokyo Trial, Justice, and the Postwar International Order
Authors: Aleksandra Babovic
Series Title: New Directions in East Asian History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3477-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3476-4Published: 16 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3477-1Published: 04 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-0195
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0209
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 178
Topics: History of Japan, Criminal Justice, International Criminal Law , War Crimes