Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials
MAGA, Tim
From COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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From COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 8, 1998
About this Item
181pp, octavo, hc w/jacket, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with sharp corners, bright spine titles, mild bow to front cover, clean and complete jacket with light wear. Seller Inventory # 139299
Bibliographic Details
Title: Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes ...
Publisher: U. of Kentucky
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: HARDCOVER
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: 1st edition.
About this title
Tim Maga contends that despite these charges, the trials encompassed some of the most fascinating criminal cases of the twentieth century. Judgment at Tokyo is a bold reassessment of the trials, in which defendants ranged from lowly Japanese Imperial Army privates to former prime ministers. Maga shows that these were cases in which good law was practiced and that they changed the ways war crimes trials are approached today.
In contrast to Nuremberg, the efforts in Tokyo, Guam, and other locations throughout the Pacific received little attention by the Western press. Once the Cold War began and America needed Pacific allies, the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers throughout the 1930s and early 1940s were rarely mentioned. The trials were dismissed as phony justice and “Japan Bashing.”
Since the defendants did not represent a government for which genocide was a policy pursuit, their cases were more difficult to prosecute than those of Nazi war criminals. Keenan and his compatriots adopted criminal court tactics and established precedents in the conduct of war crimes trials that still stand today. Maga reviews the context for the trials, recounts the proceedings, and concludes that they were, in fact, decent examples of American justice and fair play.
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