The Tokyo Trial: Recollections and Perspectives from China

ISBN-13: 9781107060388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 286 str.

The Tokyo Trial Research Centre

Opis

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, often known as the Tokyo Trial was held by the Allied Nations from 1946 8 to try Japanese military and civil officials for war crimes committed during World War II. The trial proceedings were controversial at the time and remain a highly emotive subject, particularly in East Asia. This collection of essays from leading Chinese historians, presented here in English translation for the first time, represents a distinctively Chinese approach to the interpretation of the trial and its significance today. The essays are supplemented by a detailed chronology and by firsthand accounts of the trial by two men who represented China in the proceedings: the judge Mei Ru'ao and the prosecution consultant Ni Zhengyu."

Spis treści

Part I. Perspectives from China: 1. Was the Nanking Massacre fabricated by the Tokyo Trial? Cheng Zhaoqi; 2. The Tokyo Trial and Japan's countermeasures Song Zhiyong; 3. On certain issues related to the Tokyo Trial Song Zhiyong; 4. From the movie 'The Tokyo Trial' to the Tokyo Trial Cheng Zhaoqi; 5. The defence of the Nanjing Massacre during the Tokyo Trial Zhang Sheng and Zhai Yi'an; 6. Re-examining Iwane Matsui's war crimes Cheng Zhaoqi; 7. Re-examining Sekijiro Ogawa's testimony Cheng Zhaoqi; Part II. Recollections from China: 8. Memories of the Tokyo Trial Ni Zhengru; 9. The legal bases and significance of the Tokyo Trial He Qinghua; 10. The Nanking Massacre and the Tokyo Trial Mei Ru'ao.