SDHF Newsletter No.137 Victor’s Justice (Book Review)

Victors’ Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial
Richard H. Minear
Princeton University Press, 1971
(Reviewed by Tadashi　Hama)

September 6, 2016

There are a number of books that have critically examined the Tokyo trial. A good beginning text is Victors’ Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial by Richard Minear. As a historian, Minear clearly elaborates the self-serving and blatantly undemocratic undercurrents that formed the basis of the Tokyo trial, in three parts: “Problems of International Law,” “Problems of Legal Process,” and “Problems of History”.

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MOTEKI Hiromichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact