Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138526532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 339 str.

Peter Li

Opis

The question of national responsibility for crimes against humanity became an urgent topic due to the charge of ethnic cleansing against the previous Yugoslav government

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

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Peter Li