Judgment at Tokyo

Judgment at Tokyo

Judgment at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass is an authoritative account of the post–World War II Tokyo war-crimes trial which was both inadequate in resolution and crucial to building the future of Asia. The global leaders who convened the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials sought to bring to justice the perpetrators of the war and achieve a reckoning for the victims. Yet unlike the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, which attained a “near-universal national…