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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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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Lingen, Kerstin von, 1971
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
Subjects:
History
Asia > History
World War, 1939-1945
Law > History
Criminal law
Crime > Sociological aspects
Asian history
Crime and Society
History of World War II and the Holocaust
Legal history
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53141-0
Summary: 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

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