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Book Review
| Tokyo saiban no kokusai kankei: Kokusai seiji ni okeru kenryoku to kihan (International relations surrounding the Tokyo trials: Power and code in international politics). By Yoshinobu Higurashi. (Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2002. 658, 50 pp. ¥10,000,ISBN 4-8332-2328-7.) In Japanese.
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| Readers may be forgiven for reacting to this latest study of what Arnold Brackman once called The Other Nuremberg (1987) with incredulity. With over two hundred books and articles focusing upon the Tokyo war crimes trials (19461948), one wonders whether there is room for another book-length treatment, not to mention one that exceeds seven hundred pages. Yoshinobu Higurashi, assistant professor of history at Kagoshima University, clearly intends for his volume to be the definitive study of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). As an intelligent, well-balanced, and exhaustively researched account of the trials in the context of early Cold War diplomacy, it may become just that. |
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