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60 Years On Japanese Debate the Tokyo Tribunal's Legitimacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Yoshida Reiji
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[The Tokyo war crimes trial (International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-1948) was the Pacific counterpart to the first Nuremberg Tribunal. Controversial at the time, it is more controversial today. This essay reminds American readers of differences in assessing the trial in the victorious and in the defeated countries, as well as within a single country such as Japan.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , October 2005 , e13
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