Table of Contents

Foreword Sir Gerard Brennan; Note on Language; Notes on Contributors; Editors’ Preface
Part One A Retrospective
Chapter 1 The Tokyo Trial: Humanity’s Justice v Victors’ Justice Fujita Hisakazu;
Chapter 2 Writing the Tokyo Trial Gerry Simpson;
Chapter 3 Japanese Societal Attitude towards the Tokyo Trial: From a Contemporary Perspective Madoka Futamura;
Part Two The Accused
Chapter 4 Selecting Defendants at the Tokyo Trial Awaya Kentarō;
Chapter 5 The Decision Not to Prosecute the Emperor Yoriko Otomo;
Part Three The Judges
Chapter 6 Justice Northcroft (New Zealand) Ann Trotter;
Chapter 7 Justice Bernard (France) Mickaël Ho Foui Sang;
Chapter 8 Justice Patrick (United Kingdom) Lord Bonomy;
Chapter 9 Justice Roling (The Netherlands) Robert Cryer;
Chapter 10 Justice Pal (India) Nakajima Takeshi;
Part Four The Trial Proceedings
Chapter 11 The Case against the Accused Yuma Totani;
Chapter 12 Command Responsibility for the Failure to Stop Atrocities: The Legacy of the Tokyo Trial Gideon Boas;
Part Five Forgotten Crimes: China and Korea
Chapter 13 Reasons for the Failure to Prosecute Unit 731 and Its Significance Tsuneishi Kei-ichi;
Chapter 14 The Legacy of the Tokyo Trial in China Bing Bing Jia;
Chapter 15 Forgotten Victims, Forgotten Defendants The Hon O-Gon Kwon;
Part Six Forgotten Crimes: The Comfort Women
Chapter 16 Knowledge and Responsibility: The Ongoing Consequences of Failing to Give Sufficient Attention to the Crimes against the Comfort Women in the Tokyo Trial Ustinia Dolgopol;
Chapter 17 Silence as Collective Memory: Sexual Violence and the Tokyo Trial Nicola Henry;
Chapter 18 Women’s Bodies and International Criminal Law: From Tokyo to Rabaul Helen Durham and Narrelle Morris;
Part Seven Forgotten Crimes: Atomic Bombs, Saturation Bombing and the Illicit Drug Trade
Chapter 19 The Atomic Bombing, the Tokyo Tribunal and the Shimoda Case: Lessons for Anti-Nuclear Legal Movements Yuki Tanaka;
Chapter 20 The Firebombing of Tokyo and Other Japanese Cities Ian Henderson;
Chapter 21 Punishing Japan’s ‘Opium War-Making’ in China: The Relationship between Transnational Crime and Aggression at the Tokyo Tribunal Neil Boister;
Part Eight Tokyo Today
Chapter 22 Tokyo’s Continuing Relevance Sarah Finnin and Tim McCormack.
Index.

About the Author

Yuki Tanaka is a Research Professor of History at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University and was the Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at The University of Melbourne in 2008.

Tim McCormack is a Professor of Law at The University of Melbourne Law School and was recently appointed Special Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Gerry Simpson is a Professor of Law at The University of Melbourne Law School and is the Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, and the Global Justice Studio.

Reviews

"A monograph of comparable importance should have been written and published years ago...it will certainly be a valuable asset to scholars and practitioners of international, especially criminal, law as well as to historians and philosophers."
-Sergey Sayapin, Journal of International Criminal Justice