Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War
Sandra Wilson, "Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War"
English | ISBN: 0231179227 | 2017 | 440 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0231179227 | 2017 | 440 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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. While the fairness of these trials has been a focus for decades,
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