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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 our day. Eleven national teams were sent to Tokyo between 1946 and 1948 to bring about justice in the aftermath of the Pacific War. This volume offers an innovative approach to the Tokyo Tribunal as an arena of transcultural engagement. It contextualizes legal agents as products of transnational forces, constituted through dialogues about legal concepts and processes of faction-making. The endeavour was challenged by different national policies, divergent legal traditions, and varying cultural perceptions of the task ahead.
Contributors are Milinda Banerjee, Anja Bihler, Neil Boister, David M. Crowe, Kerstin von Lingen, Narrelle Morris, Hitoshi Nagai, Valentyna Polunina, Ann-Sophie Schoepfel, Lisette Schouten, James Burnham Sedgwick, Yuki Takatori and Urs Matthias Zachmann.
Contributors are Milinda Banerjee, Anja Bihler, Neil Boister, David M. Crowe, Kerstin von Lingen, Narrelle Morris, Hitoshi Nagai, Valentyna Polunina, Ann-Sophie Schoepfel, Lisette Schouten, James Burnham Sedgwick, Yuki Takatori and Urs Matthias Zachmann.
Price: $183.00
Pages: 314
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: History of Warfare
Publication Date:
22 March 2018
ISBN: 9789004359970
Format: Hardcover
''It contains a number of important revelations regarding the professional attributes of those individuals who were named to join the prosecution or the tribunal, their behind-the-scenes communications with their respective home governments, and their individual contributions to the making of the Tokyo Trial. It also hosts shining examples of deep archival research, based on which the volume contributors present new perspectives to broaden our understanding of the trial. In sum, this edited volume is recommended to all future students of the Tokyo Trial and, more generally, the history of international justice in Asia and the Pacific''. Yuma Totani in Pacific Affairs , 92, 4 (2019).
Kerstin von Lingen is a historian at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University and leads the Research Group “Transcultural Justice. Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1945-1954”.