Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War

by Sandra Wilson, Beatrice Trefalt, Dean Aszkielowicz, et al.

Beginning in late 1945, the United States, Britain, China, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and later the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China convened national courts to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants included ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese who had served with the armed forces as Japanese subjects. In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East tried Japanese leaders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231179227
• ISBN13: 9780231179225
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher