Hidden Atrocities: Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial

by Jeanne Guillemin

Book Overview

In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied intent to bring Axis crimes to light led to both the Nuremberg trials and their counterpart in Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Yet the Tokyo Trial failed to prosecute imperial Japanese leaders for the worst of war crimes: inhumane medical experimentation, including vivisection and open-air pathogen and chemical tests, which rivaled Nazi atrocities, as well as mass attacks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231183526
• ISBN13: 9780231183529
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"