The Tokyo Trial, Justice, and the Postwar International Order

• Main Author: Babovic, Aleksandra (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Directions in East Asian History,
• Subjects: Japan-History.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; International criminal law.; War Crimes.; History of Japan.; Criminal Justice.; International Criminal Law .

Fully utilizing the latest archival material, this book provides a comprehensive, multi-dimensional and nuanced understanding of the Tokyo Tribunal by delving into the temporal aspects that extended the relevance and reverberations of the Tribunal beyond its end in 1948. With this as a backdrop, thi...

Table of Contents:

• Part I
• 1. The Tokyo Tribunal, Justice, and International Order
• 2. In the Shadow of the Paris Peace Conference: Behind the Scene of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
• 3. The IMTFE as a Venue for Legislating Process
• 4. The Hegemonic Narrative of the Pacific War: Japan's Conspired and Aggressive War
• 5. The Partial Interest for Victims and Strategic "Forgetting" at the Tokyo Tribunal
• 6. Emperor Hirohito as the Japanese Kaiser and Selection of the IMTFE Defendants
• Part II
• 7. Towards the Post-Institutional Phase of the Tokyo Tribunal: Narratives, Sentences, Detentions
• 8. Forgiveness by Law and Dilemmas on the Nature of the War Criminal Program in Japan
• 9. Stagnation and Confusion: The Incoherencies of the War Criminal Program in Japan
• 10. From Criminals to Spirits: Class A War Criminals
• 11. International Criminal Tribunals: Cui Bono?. .