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Author Guillemin, Jeanne, 1943- author.

Title Hidden atrocities : Japanese germ warfare and American obstruction of justice at the Tokyo Trial / Jeanne Guillemin
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 460 pages) : maps
Series Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen books on American-East Asian relations
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen books on American-East Asian relations.
Contents Intro; Table of Contents; Prologue: General Ishii and Germ Warfare; Introduction: Lasting Peace and the Protection of Civilians; 1. MacArthur in Japan: â#x80;#x9C;Punish the War Criminalsâ#x80;#x9D;; 2. Spoils of War: Secret Japanese Biological Science; 3. International Prosecution Section: Toward the â#x80;#x9C;Swift and Simple Trialâ#x80;#x9D;; 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 FalloutAcknowledgments; Source Notes; Acronyms; Principal Characters; Notes; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-436) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT International Military Tribunal for the Far East
International Military Tribunal for the Far East gnd
Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai gnd
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948.
War crime trials -- Japan.
Biological weapons -- Japan -- History
War Crimes -- history
War Crimes -- legislation & jurisprudence
Biological Warfare -- history
Jurisprudence -- history
History, 20th Century
LAW -- International.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Biological weapons
War crime trials
Biologische Waffe
Einflussnahme
Kriegsverbrechen
Menschenversuch
SUBJECT Japan
United States
Subject Japan
Japan -- Tokyo
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0231544987
9780231544986
9780231183529
0231183526