|aJudgment at Tokyo :|bWorld War II on trial and the making of modern Asia /|cGary J. Bass.
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|aNew York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2023.
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|axi, 892 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aIntroduction -- Part I: Genesis. Nuremberg to Tokyo ; Unconditional surrender ; "Prompt and utter destruction" ; Atomic fire ; Supreme commander ; Apprehensions ; "When the emperor violates the law" ; The god that failed ; The Imperial Hotel -- Part II: Catharsis. The anatomy of the Tokyo Trial ; "Asia for the Asiatics" ; The first conquest ; The rape of Nanjing ; Remember Pearl Harbor ; The narrow road to the deep north ; Eleven angry men ; The defense rises ; A very British coup ; Denial at Nanjing ; Self-defense at Pearl Harbor ; The emperor waltz ; "The great sorrow of my life" ; Tojo takes the stand -- Part III: Nemesis. Mr. X ; Days of judgment ; "Blowing up a ton of dynamite" ; Judgment at Tokyo ; Dissensus ; "I am wholly dissenting" ; Equal justice under law ; One minute after midnight ; A silent prayer ; The inescapable purge of comrade Mei -- Epilogue: Martyrs of Showa.
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|a"In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, and their fellow victors, the questions of justice seemed clear: Japan's leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; war crimes against citizens in China, the Philippines, Korea, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of POWs. For the Allied Forces, the trial was an opportunity to achieve justice against the defendants, but also to create a legal framework for the prosecution of war crimes and to prohibit the use of aggressive war, and to create the kind of liberal international order that would prevail in Europe. For the Japanese leaders facing trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism. For more than two years, lawyers for both sides presented their cases before a panel of judges from China, India, the Philippines, and Australia, as well as the US and Europe. The testimony ran from horrific accounts of brutality and the secret plans to attack Pearl Harbor to the Japanese military's threats to destabilize the government if it sued for peace. Yet rather than clarity and unanimity, the trial brought division and complexity; these tensions and contradictions could also be seen playing out across Asia as the trial unfolded, from China's descent into civil war to India's independence and partition to Japan's first successful democratic elections and the rewriting of a new, liberal constitution" --|cProvided by the publisher.
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|aInternational Military Tribunal for the Far East.
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|aInternational Military Tribunal for the Far East|2fast.
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|aTokyo Trial|c(Tokyo, Japan :|d1946-1948)|2fast.
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|aWorld War|d(1939-1945)|2fast.
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|a1900-1999|2fast.
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|aTokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948.
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|aWar crime trials|zJapan|xHistory|y20th century.
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|aWorld War, 1939-1945|xCampaigns|xAtrocities|zPacific Area.
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to NurembergIn the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against civilians in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of prisoners of war in notorious incidents such as the Bataan death march. For the Allied powers, the trial was an opportunity to render judgment on their vanquished foes, but also to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war, building a more peaceful world under international law and American hegemony. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was victors’ justice.For more than two years, lawyers for both sides presented their cases before a panel of clashing judges from China, India, the Philippines, and Australia, as well as the United States and European powers. The testimony ran from horrific accounts of brutality and the secret plans to attack Pearl Harbor to the Japanese military’s threats to subvert the government if it sued for peace. Yet rather than clarity and unanimity, the trial brought complexity, dissents, and divisions that provoke international discord between China, Japan, and Korea to this day. Those courtroom tensions and contradictions could also be seen playing out across Asia as the trial unfolded in the crucial early years of the Cold War, from China’s descent into civil war to Japan’s successful postwar democratic elections to India’s independence and partition.From the author of the acclaimed The Blood Telegram, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, this magnificent history is the product of a decade of research and writing. Judgment at Tokyo is a riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles, and the epic formative years that set the stage for the Asian postwar era.
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Gary J. BassGARY J. BASS is the author of The Blood Telegram, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction and won the Arthur Ross Book Award, the Bernard Schwartz Book Award, the Lionel Gelber Prize, and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. He is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. Bass has written for The Economist, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. His previous books are Freedom’s Battle and Stay the Hand of Vengeance.
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