The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan

2024-02-29 History

Author : Christopher Perkins
Release : 2024-02-29
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan written by Christopher Perkins. This book was released on 2024-02-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the trial of over 600 students arrested at the University of Tokyo in 1969 after thousands of riot police had flooded the campus to end the students’ year-long occupation of the university. The trial, which was the largest in Japanese legal history and was remarkable for being the first to hear cases in the absence of defendants and their lawyers, quickly turned into a divisive struggle over legal process that spilled out of the courts into the media, and in so doing raised troubling questions about the legitimacy of the courts themselves. In making the case for the significance of this trial, this book places it within the context of the Japanese state’s attempts to manage social order, arguing that the Tokyo University trial was a moment in which a range of postwar themes – legal process and rights, courtroom order and authority, the proper role of lawyers, the social position of students, and the legitimacy of forms of policing – crystalized in a courtroom battle that pushed at the limits of Japan’s postwar sociologic order. The book also sheds new light on the students' experiences of the trial, exploring their time spent in detention and demonstrating how tensions internal to the student movement manifested during the trial process.

The Tokyo Trial, Justice, and the Postwar International Order

2019-01-04 History

Author : Aleksandra Babovic
Release : 2019-01-04
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Tokyo Trial, Justice, and the Postwar International Order written by Aleksandra Babovic. This book was released on 2019-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully utilizing the latest archival material, this book provides a comprehensive, multi-dimensional and nuanced understanding of the Tokyo Tribunal by delving into the temporal aspects that extended the relevance and reverberations of the Tribunal beyond its end in 1948. With this as a backdrop, this book contributes to the study of Japanese postwar diplomacy. It shows the Tokyo Tribunal is still very much an experiment in progress, and how the process itself has helped Japan to quickly shed its imperial past and remain ambiguous as to its war responsibilities. From a wider vantage point, this book augments the existing scholarship of international criminal law and justice, offering a clear framework as to the limits of what international criminal tribunals can accomplish and offers a must-read for academics and students as well as for practitioners, journalists and policymakers interested in international criminal law and US-Japanese diplomatic history,

Neonationalist Mythology in Postwar Japan

2016-04-27 History

Author : Nariaki Nakazato
Release : 2016-04-27
Genre : History
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Download or read book Neonationalist Mythology in Postwar Japan written by Nariaki Nakazato. This book was released on 2016-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radhabinod Pal was an Indian jurist who achieved international fame as the judge representing India at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and dissented from the majority opinion, holding that all Japanese “Class A” war criminals were not guilty of any of the charges brought against them. In postwar Japanese politics, right-wing polemicists have repeatedly utilized his dissenting judgment in their political propaganda aimed at refuting the Tokyo trial’s majority judgment and justifying Japan’s aggression, gradually elevating this controversial lawyer from India to a national symbol of historical revisionism. Many questions have been raised about how to appropriately assess Pal’s dissenting judgment and Pal himself. Were the arguments in Pal’s judgment sound? Why did he submit such a bold dissenting opinion? What was the political context? More fundamentally, why and how did the Allies ever nominate such a lawyer as a judge for a tribunal of such great political importance? How should his dissent be situated within the context of modern Asian history and the development of international criminal justice? What social and political circumstances in Japan thrust him into such a prominent position? Many of these questions remain unanswered, while some have been misinterpreted. This book proposes answers to many of them and presents a critique of the persistent revisionist denial of war responsibility in the Japanese postwar right-wing movement.

The Tokyo Trial:War Criminals and Japan’s Postwar International Relations

2022-03-27 Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948

Author : Yoshinobu Higurashi
Release : 2022-03-27
Genre : Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948
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Download or read book The Tokyo Trial:War Criminals and Japan’s Postwar International Relations written by Yoshinobu Higurashi. This book was released on 2022-03-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tokyo Trial, like the Nuremberg Trial, was unique as a judicial event. Presided over by eleven Allied judges, Japan's wartime leaders were individually tried in an international court of justice for crimes against international law. After two years of hearings, a majority judgment found twenty-five of the accused guilty; seven were sentenced to death. However, factionalism amongst justices and competing political interests served to undermine the final judgment, widely criticized as 'victor's justice.' Some seventy years later, its legacy continues to inform international politics and polarize ideological debate."--Page 4 of cover.

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