A History of War Crimes Trials in Post 1945 Asia-Pacific

• Main Author: Cheng, Zhaoqi (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.
• Subjects: Japan-History.; World politics.; War Crimes.; World history.; China-History.; History of Japan.; Political History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of China.

Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II. It offers a comprehensive review of key events during this period, covering preparations for the Tria...

Table of Contents:

• Part One
• The Road to the Tokyo Trials
• The Dispute Over Jurisdiction Prior to the Court Opening
• The Trials
• The Declaration of Judgment
• Other Asian Trials for Japanese War Crimes
• Part Two
• A Re-evaluation of the Tokyo Trial Argument
• Evidence-Take Nanjing Massacre as Example
• Tokyo Trials and International Rules of Law
• Tokyo Trials and World Peace.