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Prologue -- Introduction -- Part one: Emperor -- Part two: Ministers -- Part three: Soldiers -- Part four: Reactions and resolution -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.;"'For the first time Australia speaks, not for herself alone, but for the whole British Commonwealth.' So wrote a journalist about Australia's leading role in the Allied program of war crimes trials which followed the end of the Second World War in the Pacific. An Australian judge, Sir William Webb, was president of the Tokyo Trial of Japan's wartime political and military leaders, and Australia conducted hundreds of other trials throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The most tenacious of the Allied prosecutors, Australia led the unsuccessful bid to prosecute Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal and was the last country to conduct war crimes trials against the Japanese, on Manus Island in 1951. The aim of the trials was to prevent a repetition of the horrors of the Pacific War, in which millions had perished, mostly civilians, and tens of thousands of prisoners of war had died in Japanese captivity. Yet debate around the trials was fierce at the ti

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Author

Wakeling, Adam

Publisher

Penguin Random House Australia;Viking

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760144456

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, True Crime, Crime