Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956 /
This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan s contradictory roles in the...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Cham : |
Publication Dates: | 2017. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53141-0 |
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This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan s contradictory roles in the Second World War as brutal oppressor of conquered regions in Asia and as liberator of Asia from both Western colonialism and stultifying tradition set the stage for a tangled legal and political debate: just where did colonized and oppressed peoples owe their loyalties in time of war? And where di |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XI,158pages). |
ISBN: | 9783319531410 |
Index Number: | DS1 |
CLC: | D933.04 |
Contents: | 1. WAR CRIMES TRIALS IN ASIA: COLLABORATION AND COMPLICITY IN THE AFTERMATH; Kerstin von Lingen and Robert Cribb -- 2. KOREANS IN THE TRIALS OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS; Sandra Wilson -- 3. DEFINING COLONIAL WAR CRIMES : KOREAN DEBATES ON COLLABORATION, WAR REPARATIONS, AND THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST; Deokhyo Choi -- 4. OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE IN THE SINGAPORE TRIALS; CHEAH Wui Ling -- 5. PUPPETS, PROFITEERS AND TRAITORS. DEFINING WARTIME COLLABORATION IN THE NETHERLANDS INDIES, 1945-1949; Esther Zwinkels -- 6. BETWEEN POST-OCCUPATION AND POST-COLONIAL: FRAMING THE |