02780cam a2200337 i 4500 1023903429 TxGeo 20231020120000.0 221228s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022061519 9781101947104 hbk. 1101947101 hbk. (OCoLC)1360277874 TxGeo rda Bass, Gary J, author. Judgment at Tokyo : World War II on trial and the making of modern Asia / Gary J. Bass. New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. xi, 892 pages : maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Nuremberg to Tokyo -- Unconditional surrender -- "Prompt and utter destruction" -- Atomic fire -- Supreme commander -- Apprehensions -- "When the emperor violates the law" -- The god that failed -- The Imperial Hotel -- The anatomy of the Tokyo Trial -- "Asia for the asiatics" -- The first conquest -- The rape of Nanjing -- Remember Pearl Harbor -- The narrow road to the deep north -- Eleven angry men -- The defense rises -- A very British coup -- Denial at Nanjing -- Self-defense at Pearl Harbor -- The emperor waltz -- "The great sorrow of my life" -- Tojo takes the stand -- Mr. X -- Days of judgment -- "Blowing up a ton of dynamite" -- Judgment at Tokyo -- Dissensus -- "I am wholly dissenting" -- Equal justice under law -- One minute after midnight -- A silent prayer -- The inescapable purge of comrade Mei -- Martyrs of Showa. "In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, and their fellow victors, the questions of justice seemed clear: Japan's leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against citizens in China, the Philippines, Korea, and elsewhere; rampant abuses of POWs. For the Allied Forces, the trial was an opportunity to achieve justice against the defendants, but also to create a legal framework for the prosecution of war crimes and to prohibit the use of aggressive war, and to create the kind of liberal international order that would prevail in Europe"-- Provided by publisher. 20231115. International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948. War crime trials Japan History 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area Atrocities. QS5