Contents

Acknowledgements

Kerstin von Lingen

List of Illustrations

Notes for Readers

List of Contributors

Introduction

Kerstin von Lingen

Chapter 1

Building Blocs: Communities of Dissent, Manufactured Majorities and International Judgment in Tokyo

James Burnham Sedgwick

Chapter 2

Sir William Webb and Beyond: Australia and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Narrelle Morris

Chapter 3

MacArthur, Keenan and the American Quest for Justice at the IMTFE

David M. Crowe

Chapter 4

On a ‘Sacred Mission’: Representing the Republic of China at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Anja Bihler

Chapter 5

Managing Justice: Judge William Patrick, Prosecutor Arthur Comyns-Carr and British Approaches to the IMTFE

Kerstin von Lingen

Chapter 6

The Soviets at Tokyo: International Justice at the Dawn of the Cold War

Valentyna Polunina

Chapter 7

‘Little Useful Purpose Would be Served by Canada’: Ottawa’s View of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial

Yuki Takatori

Illustrations

Chapter 8

New Zealand’s Approach to International Criminal Law from Versailles to Tokyo

Neil Boister

Chapter 9

Burdened by the ‘Shadow of War’: Justice Jaranilla and the Tokyo Trial

Hitoshi Nagai

Chapter 10

Defending French National Interests? The Quai d’Orsay, Ambassador Zinovy Peshkoff, Justice Henri Bernard and the Tokyo Trial

Ann-Sophie Schoepfel

Chapter 11

In the Footsteps of Grotius: The Netherlands and Its Representation at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1945-1948

Lisette Schouten

Chapter 12

India’s ‘Subaltern Elites’ and the Tokyo Trial

Milinda Banerjee

Chapter 13

Loser’s Justice: The Tokyo Trial from the Perspective of the Japanese Defence Counsels and the Legal Community

Urs Matthias Zachmann

Appendix: The Composition of the Court at Tokyo

Index