...Kurt Steiner Victor's Justice: the Tokyo War Crimes Trial . By Richard H. Minear . Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 1971 . xv, 229 pp. Appendices, Bibliographic Note, Index. $7.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 708 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Brett de Bary Between God and Man: A Judgement on War Crimes . By Kinoshita Junji . Translated with an introduction by Eric J. Gangloff . London and Seattle : University of Tokyo Press and University of Washington , 1979 . 171 pp. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Richard H. Minear The Japanese on Trial: Allied War Crimes Operations in the East, 1945–1951 . By Philip R. Piccigallo . Austin and London : University of Texas Press , 1979 . xv, 292 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... Crimes Trials . New York : William Morrow . Brode Patrick . 1997 . Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments: Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944–1948 . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Brook Timothy , ed. 1999 . Documents on the Rape of Nanking . Ann Arbor : University...

... crimes" were in the logic of the Vietnam War. As the United States attempted to destroy an adversary with close ties to the rural population, Vietnamese peasants paid a high price, and, with memories of World War II still fresh, the Nuremberg Trials provided a ready framework for making sense...

... of Minnesota The Japanese on Trial: Allied War Crimes Operations in the East, 1945-1951. By PHILIP R. PICCIGALLO. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1979- xv, 292 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $15.00. In the aftermath of their military victory over Japan in the Pacific, the Allies...

... in the Tokyo war crimes trial. The interviews were conducted in 1977 in English, which was not the mother tongue of either of the men. Roling died in 1985 before seeing the final version. The text is marred by occasional mistakes in spelling (zailatsu for zaibatsu, Meyi for Meiji). Although Cassese summarizes...

... war crimes postwar responsibility memory studies The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle In 2020 Murakami Haruki surprised his readers by publishing a personal memoir, Abandoning a Cat: Memories of My Father ( Neko o suteru: Chichioya ni tsuite kataru toki ). In this slim piece, the world-famous...

... crimes, particularly those already executed. Full exoneration required that both the Japanese and South Korean governments take action. From the Japanese side, these Koreans demanded acknowledgment of responsibility for their plight and compensation equal to that provided to Japanese war criminals...

.... India's support of the Allied powers allowed Indian moderates to represent India in Paris; during the war, Indian subjects had contributed over one million soldiers and suffered influenza, plague, and famine. The possibility of a new relationship between those governing and those being governed led many...

... whom the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal convicted of Class A “crimes against peace” and sentenced to execution after World War II. Controversy recently arose when Prime Minister Koizumi Junichirō made annual Yasukuni visits between 2001 and 2006. Breen's two essays, Caroline Rose's “Stalemate...

... J. SMITH-HEFNER University of Massachusetts, Boston When the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam. By M A R T H A HESS. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. 239 pp. $22.95. "War crimes" were in the logic of the Vietnam War. As the United States attempted to destroy an adversary with close ties...

... sentence, as he had the authority to do. Roling was "strongly convinced" that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States were war crimes. The American military had been indoctrinated to regard the Japanese as a subhuman race, he says. The conventional and atomic bombings of Japanese...

... ideas about peace terms in 1943-1944 a subject Iriye treats in intriguing fashion. STEPHEN PELZ University of Massachusetts I Amherst Between God and Man: A Judgement on War Crimes. By KINOSHITA JUNJI. Translated with an introduction by ERIC J. GANGLOFF. London and Seattle: University of Tokyo Press...

.... Special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 5:1. Edited by C H U N G M O O C H O I . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. xiv, 323 pp. $12.00. Selective historical amnesia. Crimes against humanity. Sexual war crimes against women. Acknowledgment of and apology for such historical...

... of BC-class war crimes tribunals (the well-known L. F. de Groot is included), non–BC class courts in postwar Indonesia, the repatriation process for Japanese and Europeans, and innumerable Japanese and Indonesian personalities during the war could be added. With a slight stretch, Haraguchi Takejirō, his...

.... or Japanese governments. An estimated threethousand prisoners were killed in experiments at Unit 731 alone. The second part of the story is the coverup of this war crime. U.S. officials granted the Japanese immunity from prosecution in return for their technical data. Ishii's daughter has told reporters...

... in Japan and written three previous books on the arts, utilize such recently unveiled materials as the Sugamo Prison files at Suitland, the Owen Cunningham papers at the University of Maryland, and Lord Patrick's commentary on the war-crimes trials in the Lord Chancellor's Office files in the Public Record...

.... Furthermore, he corresponded with, or interviewed, many persons who were associated with Tojo and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial. 232 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The evidence is carefully sorted and weighted and much of the drama in the rise and fall of Japan's war-time Premier is captured. Mr. Butow rejects...

... and sociological materials. Everyone interested in Japanese immi- gration must have this book. Cornell University ROBERT J. SMITH Victor's Justice: the Tokyo War Crimes Trial. BY RICHARD H. MINEAR. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971. xv, 229 pp. Appendices, Bibliographic Note, Index. $7.95...