Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whol…
Beginning in late 1945, the United States, Britain, China, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and later the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China convened national courts to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants include…
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Names, Spelling, and Terminology -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Defining War Crimes and Creating Courts -- 2. Investigation and Arrest -- 3. In Court: Indictment, Trial, and Sentencing -- 4. Dilemmas of Detention an…
