Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956

Criminal Law

Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956

By Kirstin von Lingen
Palgrave Macmillan August 2017

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ISBN-13
9783319531403
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication
August 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Switzerland ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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 did the balance of responsibility lie between individuals and nations? But global standards jostled uneasily with the pluralism of the Western colonial order in Asia, where legal rights depended on race and nationality. In the end, these limits led to profound dissatisfaction with the trials process, despite its vast scale and ambitious intentions, which has implications until today.

Table of 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 RECENT PAST IN THE PHILIPPINE TREASON AMNESTY DEBATE, 1948
Konrad M. Lawson
7. JAPANESE MEDICAL ATROCITIES AND THE COLLABORATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC ELITES: POSTWAR PERSPECTIVES
Arnaud Doglia
8. The question of Complicity: Japan's early postures toward war crimes and war responsibility in the aftermath of the Second World War
Barak Kushner.
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