War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956: Justice in Time of Turmoil

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Justice in Time of Turmoil: War Crimes Trials in Asia in the Context of Decolonization and Cold War....Pages 1-23
Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism in China: The Opium Question at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal....Pages 25-50
The French Prosecution at the IMTFE: Robert Oneto, Indochina and the Rehabilitation of French Prestige....Pages 51-67
Decolonization and Subaltern Sovereignty: India and the Tokyo Trial....Pages 69-91
The Legacy of Extraterritoriality and the Trial of Japanese War Criminals in the Republic of China....Pages 93-116
The Burma Trials of Japanese War Criminals, 1946–1947....Pages 117-142
Colonization and Postcolonial Justice: US and Philippine War Crimes Trials in Manila After the Second World War....Pages 143-166
Justice and Decolonization: War Crimes on Trial in Saigon, 1946–1950....Pages 167-194
Netherlands East Indies’ War Crimes Trials in the Face of Decolonization....Pages 195-220
Australia’s Pursuit of the Taiwanese and Korean ‘Japanese’ War Criminals....Pages 221-238
From Tokyo to Khabarovsk: Soviet War Crimes Trials in Asia as Cold War Battlefields....Pages 239-260
Resurrecting Defeat: International Propaganda and the Shenyang Trials of 1956....Pages 261-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-290