Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War
ISBN: 9780231542685
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: War crimes -- Japan; War crime trials -- Japan; War criminals -- Japan; World War 1939–1945 -- Atrocities;

Examining the complex moral, ethical, legal, and political issues surrounding the Allied prosecution project, from the first investigations during the war to the final release of prisoners in 1958, Japanese War Criminals shows how a simple effort to punish the guilty evolved into a multidimensional struggle that muddied the assignment of criminal responsibility for war crimes. This book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the construction of the postwar international order in Asia and to our comprehension of the difficulties of implementing transitional justice.

Robert Cribb is the author of Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan which made the NSW Premier¿s History Awards 2015 shortlists in the category of General History.

(Bowker Author Biography)


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