Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice

ISBN-13: 9780765808905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str.

Peter Li

Opis

One of the most troublesome unresolved problems facing many Asian and Western countries after the Asia Pacifi c war (1931-1945) is the question of the atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial Army throughout Asia and the Japanese government's repeated attempts to whitewash its wartime responsibilities. The psychological and physical wounds suffered by victims, their families, and relations remain unhealed after more than half a century, and the issue is now pressing. This collection, edited by Peter Li, undertakes the critical task of addressing some of the multifaceted and complex issues of Japanese war crimes, redress, and denial...".

Spis treści

1: An Overview: Japan’s War Responsibility and the Pan-Asian Movement for Redress and Compensation; It’s Never Too Late to Seek Justice; 2: Japan’s War Crimes: Has Justice Been Served?; 3: Probing the Issues of Reconciliation More than Fifty Years after the Asia-Pacific War; 4: Victor’s Justice and Japan’s Amnesia: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Reconsidered; 5: Hirohito’s War Crimes Responsibility: The Unrepentant Emperor; 6: Accountability, Justice, and the Importance of Memory in the “Era of War”; The American POW Experience Remembered; 7: The Bataan Death March *; 8: Mitsui: “We Will Send You to Omuta” *; Psychological Responses; 9: The Nanjing Massacre: The Socio-Psychological Effects; 10: One Army Surgeon’s Account of Vivisection on Human Subjects in China; IV: Artistic Responses; 11: Reunion: A Play in 2 Acts, 5 Scenes, and an Epilogue (Excerpts); 12: Cinematic Representations of the Rape of Nanking; History Will Not Forget; 13: The Nanking Holocaust: Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation; 14: The Great Asian-Pacific Crescent of Pain: Japan’s War from Manchuria to Hiroshima, 1931 to 1945 *; 15: Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery: Memory, Identity, and Society; 16: The Looting of Books in Nanjing; 17: Japan’s Biochemical Warfare and Experimentation in China; 18: Japan’s Historical Myopia; 19: War Crimes and Redress: A Canadian Jewish Perspective

O autorze

Peter Li