Victors' Justice: Tokyo War Crimes Trial

by Richard H. Minear

Book Overview

The klieg-lighted Tokyo Trial began on May 3, 1946, and ended on November 4, 1948, a majority of the eleven judges from the victorious Allies finding the twenty-five surviving defendants, Japanese military and state leaders, guilty of most, if not all, of the charges. As at Nuremberg, the charges included for the first time "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity," as well as conventional war crimes. In a polemical account, Richard Minear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691056455
• ISBN13: 9780691056456
• Release Date: November 1971
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.