Guillemin Hidden Atrocities

Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54498-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations

Hidden Atrocities reveals the American obstruction that denied justice to Japan’s WWII victims at the postwar Tokyo Trial. Jeanne Guillemin explains how U.S. national security goals led to the failure to prosecute imperial Japanese leaders for the war crimes of Unit 731, Japan’s secret germ-warfare program.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guillemin, Jeanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Moderne Kriegsführung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Ausrüstung & Waffen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: General Ishii and Germ Warfare
Introduction: Lasting Peace and the Protection of Civilians
1. MacArthur in Japan: “Punish the War Criminals”
2. Spoils of War: Secret Japanese Biological Science
3. International Prosecution Section: Toward the “Swift and Simple Trial”
4. The Investigation for Evidence in China
5. The Best Witnesses
6. Tokyo: The Rush to Trial
7. The Trial Begins
8. The Atrocities
9. The Soviet Division Versus US Military Intelligence
10. National Security Versus Medical Ethics
11. Open and Closed Trials
Epilogue: The Fallout
Acknowledgments
Source Notes
Acronyms
Principal Characters
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeanne Guillemin is senior advisor at the Security Studies Program in the MIT Center for International Studies. Her books include Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak (1999); Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism (Columbia, 2004); and American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation’s Deadliest Bioterrorist Attack (2011).