Historical war crimes trials in Asia
By: Liu Daqun and Zhang Binxin, editors
Series: FICHL publication series -- no. 27 (2016); FICHL publication series -- no. 27 (2016)
Publisher: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9788283480559; 9788283480566
Subjects: War crime trials; International crimes; Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948; Procès (Crimes de guerre); Procès de Tōkyō, Tōkyō, Japon, 1946-1948; Japan; China; Hong Kong; World War II; Prosecution; International criminal law; International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Notes: Editors' preface -- Foreword / Liu Daqun -- Foreword / Sun Xiaoxia -- Foreword / Hans-Peter Kaul -- Foreword / Theodor Meron -- Crimes against peace in the Tokyo Trial / Xue Ru -- From Tokyo to Rome : a Chinese perspective / Zhu Dan -- Japanese receptions of separate opinions at the Tokyo Trial / Yuma Totani -- Dissent at Tokyo : the opinion of Justice Henri Bernard at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East / David Cohen -- The Tokyo Trial and its influence on contemporary international criminal justice / Gao Xiudong -- The Nanjing Trials : victor's justice? Revisiting the case of Tani Hisao / Liu Daqun -- The Nanjing Trial and its impact on the Chinese and Japanese peoples / Wang Xintong -- On the successor commander's responsibility : the Okamura Yasuji Case revisited / Yang Lijun -- The fall of the tigers of Hong Kong : Chinese war crimes trials of three Japanese governors of Hong Kong / Zhang Tianshu -- War crimes trials in China after the Second World War : justice and politics / Zhang Binxin -- The progress of historical documents acquisition and compilation on Japanese war crimes trials after the Second World War in the National Library of China / Gao Hong and Li Dan -- Joint and command responsibility in Hong Kong's war crimes trials : revisiting the cases of Kishi Yasuo and Noma Kennosuke / Nina H.B. Jørgensen and Crustal Yeung -- Overcoming challenges in historical war crimes research : the Hong Kong War Crimes Trials Project / Suzannah Linton -- Evidence collection and preservation in international criminal tribunals / Guido Acquaviva.

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