(Source: Brill)
Brill has just published a new book on the
Tokyo Tribunal from a transcultural perspective.
ABOUT
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.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of
Illustrations
Notes for
Readers
List of
Contributors 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
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 Index
More information
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