Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays

Front Cover......Page 1
Edward Drea Greg Bradsher Robert Hanyok James Lide Michael Petersen Daqing Yang -  Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group......Page 3
Copyright
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Researching Japanese War Crimes Records......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Diary of a Japanese Army Medical Doctor, 1937......Page 7
Introduction......Page 11
Documentary Evidence and Studies of Japanese War Crimes: An Interim Assessment......Page 29
Recently Declassified Records at the U.S. National Archives Relating to Japanese War Crimes......Page 65
Japanese War Crimes Records at the National Archives: Research Starting Points......Page 87
Wartime COMINT Records in the National Archives about Japanese War Crimes in the Asia and Paci c eaters, 1978–1997......Page 119
The Exploitation of Captured and Seized Japanese Records Relating to War Crimes, 1942–1945......Page 159
A Constantly ecurring Irritant: eturning Captured and Seized Japanese Records, 1946–1961......Page 177
The Intelligence That Wasn’t: CIA Name Files, the U.S. Army, and Intelligence Gathering in Occupied Japan......Page 205
Notes......Page 231
About the Contributors......Page 239