TY - BOOK ID - 101310727 TI - The Tokyo Trial : war criminals and Japan's postwar international relations AU - Higurashi, Yoshinobu AU - Japan institute of international affairs PY - 2022 SN - 9784866582306 4866582308 PB - Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, DB - UniCat KW - Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948 KW - War crime trials KW - J4833.20 KW - J4837 KW - J4810.90 KW - Tokyo Trial, 1946-1948 KW - Tokyo War Crimes Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948 KW - Trials (War crimes) KW - Trials (Crimes against humanity) KW - Trials (Genocide) KW - Trials KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international court -- International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1946-1948) KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international government -- League of Nations and United Nations KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary KW - Criminels de guerre japonais. KW - Tōkyō, Procès de (1946-1948). KW - Crimes de guerre KW - Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948. KW - Procès UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101310727 AB - The Tokyo Trial, like the Nuremberg Trial, was unique as a judicial event. Presided over by eleven Allied judges, Japan’s wartime leaders were individually tried in an international court of justice for crimes against international law. After two years of hearings, a majority judgment found twenty-five of the accused guilty; seven were sentenced to death. However, factionalism amongst justices and competing political interests served to undermine the final judgment, widely criticised as “victors’ justice.” Some seventy years later, its legacy continues to inform international politics and polarise ideological debate. In this revised English edition of his 2008 book, Tōkyō Saiban, the winner in the History and Civilization category of the 30th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, eminent political scientist Dr. Higurashi Yoshinobu sets aside routine ideological approaches that have characterised study of the tribunal until now and focuses our attention on the engrossing political dynamics surrounding the Tokyo Trial and its current impacts. Drawing on exhaustive research into foreign policy documents and inter-ministerial correspondence, Higurashi traces the contours of diplomacy in the wake of World War II, revisiting the Tokyo Trial from the viewpoint of Japan’s postwar international relations to shed new light on an event unprecedented in world history. ER -