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The Tokyo Trial

The Tokyo Trial

War Criminals and Japan's Postwar International Relations

Higurashi Yoshinobu

JIIA series
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

History

¥3,200 + tax

ISBN 9784866582306
210 mm x 148 mm / 400 pp. / March 2022

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 “victors’ justice.” Some seventy years later, its legacy continues to inform international politics and polarize ideological debate.

In this revised English edition of his 2008 book, Tōkyō Saiban, winner in the History and Civilization category of the 30th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, eminent political scientist Dr. HIGURASHI Yoshinobu sets aside routine ideological approaches that have characterized study of the tribunal until now and focuses our attention on the engrossing political dynamics surrounding the Tokyo Trial and its current impacts.

Drawing on exhaustive research into foreign policy documents and inter-ministerial correspondence, Higurashi traces the contours of diplomacy in the wake of World War II, revisiting the Tokyo Trial from the viewpoint of Japan’s postwar international relations to shed new light on an event unprecedented in world history.

HIGURASHI Yoshinobu
Dr. Higurashi Yoshinobu is professor of Japanese political history and foreign policy in the Faculty of Law at Teikyo University. He was born in Tokyo in 1962. He received his BA in Law from Rikkyo University in 1986, MA in History from Rikkyo University in 1988, and PhD in Political Science from Gakushuin University in 2000. At Kagoshima University, he has served as assistant professor (1993–1994), associate professor (1994– 2004), and subsequently professor (2004–2012) in the Faculty of Law, Economics and the Humanities. He is the author of Tōkyō Saiban no kokusai kankei [The Tokyo War Crimes Trial and International Relations] (Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2002), which was awarded the Yoshida Shigeru Prize in 2003 and published as a Chinese-language edition in 2016 (Shanghai: Jiao Tong University Press). His most recent books are Tōkyō Saiban [The Tokyo Trial] (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2008), awarded the 2008 Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities (History and Civilization category) and translated into Chi­nese in 2017 (New Taipei: Gusa Press), and Tōkyō Saiban o tadashiku yomu [Correctly Reading the Tokyo War Crimes Trial] (Tokyo: Bungeishunjū, 2008), co-authored with Dr. Ushimura Kei. Other works include his translation of Arnold C. Brackman’s The Other Nuremberg into Japanese (Tōkyō Saiban, Tokyo: Jiji Press, 1991), and his supervi­sion of the Japanese edition of John G. Roos’s In a Prison Called Sugamo (Sugamo jinmon chōsho, Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 1995).

*information as of time of publication

JIIA series
History

Publisher:
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Hardcover
¥3,200 + tax
ISBN 9784866582306
210 mm x 148 mm / 400 pp. / March 2022

eBook
ISBN 9784866582344 (ePub)
ISBN 9784866582382 (PDF)

Preface / 1. Viewpoints on the Tokyo Trial / 2. How the Framework of the Tokyo Trial Was Formed / 3. What Charges Did the Allies Bring? / 4. How Japan Responded / 5. How the Judgment Was Written / 6. Why a Second Tokyo Trial Was Not Held / 7. How the Release of War Criminals Commenced / 8. Why Were Class A War Criminals Released? / Afterword / Chronological Table / List of References / Index / About the Author"

開廷から60年以上が経ち、新たな〈事実〉も明らかになってきた東京裁判。本書は「文明の裁き」と「勝者の報復」を巡るイデオロギー的アプローチから離れ、東京裁判を取り巻く政治力学とその影響に着目する。〈事実〉に基づく、冷静かつ実証的な研究から、世界史に残る未曾有の出来事の実態に迫る。第30回サントリー学芸賞(思想・歴史部門)受賞作。

日暮 吉延
1962年、東京都生まれ。立教大学法学部法学科卒業、同大学大学院文学研究科史学専攻博士後期課程満期退学。政治学博士(学習院大学)。現在、鹿児島大学法学部教授。専攻は日本政治外交史・国際関係論。著書に『東京裁判の国際関係』(木鐸社)などがある(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)

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Original Japanese Edition

東京裁判

日暮 吉延 著

講談社 刊

2008/01/18

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