Debating collaboration and complicity in war crimes trials in Asia, 1945-1956 / Kerstin von Lingen, editor.
2017
KZ1174.5 .D43 2017 (Mapit)
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Debating collaboration and complicity in war crimes trials in Asia, 1945-1956 / Kerstin von Lingen, editor.
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017.
Description
xi, 185 pages ; 22 cm.
Series
World histories of crime, culture and violence.
Formatted Contents Note
War crimes trials in Asia : collaboration and complicity in the aftermath of war / Kerstin von Lingen and Robert Cribb
Koreans in the trials of Japanese war crimes suspects / Sandra Wilson
Defining colonial "war crimes" : Korean debates on collaboration, war reparations, and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East / Deokhyo Choi
Oaths of allegiance in the Singapore trials / Cheah Wui Ling
Puppets, profiteers and traitors : defining wartime collaboration in the Dutch East Indies, 1945-1949 / Esther Zwinkels
Between postoccupation and postcolonial : framing the recent past in the Philippine treason amnesty debate, 1948 / Konrad M. Lawson
Japanese medical atrocities and the collaboration of the scientific elites : postwar perspectives / Arnaud Doglia
The question of complicity : Japan's early postures toward war crimes and war responsibility in the aftermath of the Second World War / Barak Kushner.
Koreans in the trials of Japanese war crimes suspects / Sandra Wilson
Defining colonial "war crimes" : Korean debates on collaboration, war reparations, and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East / Deokhyo Choi
Oaths of allegiance in the Singapore trials / Cheah Wui Ling
Puppets, profiteers and traitors : defining wartime collaboration in the Dutch East Indies, 1945-1949 / Esther Zwinkels
Between postoccupation and postcolonial : framing the recent past in the Philippine treason amnesty debate, 1948 / Konrad M. Lawson
Japanese medical atrocities and the collaboration of the scientific elites : postwar perspectives / Arnaud Doglia
The question of complicity : Japan's early postures toward war crimes and war responsibility in the aftermath of the Second World War / Barak Kushner.
Summary
"[This book] examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan's contradictory roles in the Second World War as brutal oppressor of conquered regions in Asia and as liberator of Asia from both Western colonialism and stultifying tradition set the stage for a tangled legal and political debate: just where did colonized and oppressed peoples owe their loyalties in time of war? And where did the balance of responsibility lie between individuals and nations? But global standards jostled uneasily with the pluralism of the Western colonial order in Asia, where legal rights depended on race and nationality. In the end, these limits led to profound dissatisfaction with the trials process, despite its vast scale and ambitious intentions, which has implications until today."-- Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Number
KZ1174.5 .D43 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9783319531403
3319531409
9783319531410
3319531409
9783319531410
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