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Hidden atrocities : Japanese germ warfare and American obstruction of justice at the Tokyo Trial /

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 ger...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guillemin, Jeanne, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Colección:Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen books on American-East Asian relations.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.