Transcultural justice at the Tokyo Tribunal : : the Allied struggle for justice, 1946-48 / / edited by Kerstin von Lingen.

While the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg has been at the centre of scholarly attention, the Tokyo Tribunal has for decades been largely neglected. This is surprising insofar as this tribunal was a well-organized Allied endeavour and prefigured the international courts and tribunals of...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:History of Warfare 117.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Kerstin von Lingen
  • 1 Building Blocs: Communities of Dissent, Manufactured Majorities and International Judgment in Tokyo / James Burnham Sedgwick
  • 2 Sir William Webb and Beyond: Australia and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East / Narrelle Morris
  • 3 MacArthur, Keenan and the American Quest for Justice at the IMTFE / David M. Crowe
  • 4 On a ‘Sacred Mission’: Representing the Republic of China at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East / Anja Bihler
  • 5 Managing Justice: Judge William Patrick, Prosecutor Arthur ­Comyns-Carr and British Approaches to the IMTFE / Kerstin von Lingen
  • 6 The Soviets at Tokyo: International Justice at the Dawn of the Cold War / Valentyna Polunina
  • 7 ‘Little Useful Purpose Would be Served by Canada’: Ottawa’s View of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial / Yuki Takatori
  • Illustrations / Kerstin von Lingen
  • 8 New Zealand’s Approach to International Criminal Law from Versailles to Tokyo / Neil Boister
  • 9 Burdened by the ‘Shadow of War’: Justice Jaranilla and the Tokyo Trial / Hitoshi Nagai
  • 10 Defending French National Interests? The Quai d’Orsay, Ambassador Zinovy Peshkoff, Justice Henri Bernard and the Tokyo Trial / Ann-Sophie Schoepfel
  • 11 In the Footsteps of Grotius: The Netherlands and Its Representation at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1945-1948 / Lisette Schouten
  • 12 India’s ‘Subaltern Elites’ and the Tokyo Trial / Milinda Banerjee
  • 13 Loser’s Justice: The Tokyo Trial from the Perspective of the Japanese Defence Counsels and the Legal Community / Urs Matthias Zachmann
  • Appendix: The Composition of the Court at Tokyo / Kerstin von Lingen
  • Index / Kerstin von Lingen.