Yuma Totani is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The significance of this book is not whether the Tokyo trials
established the guilt of Japanese wartime political leaders for
initiating an aggressive war, and their culpability for the
horrific war crimes committed by Japanese military personnel
against innocent civilians and Allied military personnel. While
these are important, the real import of The Tokyo War Crimes Trials
is its systematic, yet nuanced analysis of the prevalent Japanese
view--one that persists to this day--that the Tokyo tribunals were
illegitimate because the legal process was corrupted for
ideological and political reasons...This excellent book belongs on
the bookshelf of every historian interested in legal history
generally and war crimes in particular.
*Journal of Military History*
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