Transcultural justice at the Tokyo Tribunal : the Allied struggle for justice, 1946-48 / edited by Kerstin von Lingen

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-90-04-35997-0

EAN : 9789004359970

Tribunal militaire international pour l'Extrême-Orient

Tōkyō, Procès de (1946-1948)

Crimes de guerre -- Procès -- Japon

Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Atrocités -- Pacifique (région)

Lingen, Kerstin von (1971-....) (Editeur scientifique / editor)

Collection : History of Warfare / editors Kelly DeVries,... Aimée Fox,... John France,... [et al.] / Köln : Brill , 1997-

Résumé / Abstract : Présentation de l'éditeur : "While the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg has been at the centre of scholarly attention, the Tokyo Tribunal has for decades been largely neglected. This is surprising insofar as this tribunal was a well-organized Allied endeavour and prefigured the international courts and tribunals of our day. Eleven national teams were sent to Tokyo between 1946 and 1948 to bring about justice in the aftermath of the Pacific War. This volume offers an innovative approach to the Tokyo Tribunal as an arena of transcultural engagement. It contextualizes legal agents as products of transnational forces, constituted through dialogues about legal concepts and processes of faction-making. The endeavour was challenged by different national policies, divergent legal traditions, and varying cultural perceptions of the task ahead."