A Reckoning: Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals

by Sharon W. Chamberlain

After World War II, thousands of Japanese throughout Asia were put on trial for war crimes. Examination of postwar trials is now a thriving area of research, but Sharon W. Chamberlain is the first to offer an authoritative assessment of the legal proceedings convened in the Philippines. These were trials conducted by Asians, not Western powers, and centered on the abuses suffered by local inhabitants rather than by prisoners of war. Her impressively...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299318605
• ISBN13: 9780299318604
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"