@Book{1859381464,
author="Kushner, Barak",
title="geography of injustice: East Asia's battle between memory and history",
year="2024",
publisher="Cornell University Press",
address="Ithaca",
keywords="War crime trials; China; History; Japan; World War, 1939-1945; Influence; Justice; Asian history; Asiatische Geschichte; Genocide {\&} ethnic cleansing; Genozide und ethnische S{\"a}uberung; HISTORY / Asia / Japan; Kriegsverbrechen; LAW / Legal History; Legal history; POL061000; Rechtsgeschichte; War crimes",
contents="Making Bad Television -- The Kaleidoscope of Defeat in East Asia -- The Shape of Justice: Creating New Symbols of International Stature -- When the Hero of Your Story Is the Villain of Another -- Laying Blame for Japan's War Responsibility -- The Tyranny of Tiny Decisions: The Failure of the Japanese Left -- The Violence of Imperial Dissolution at the Periphery -- The Geography of Power: Producing Political Legitimacy in Republican China -- Creating a Theater of Law in Mao's China -- The Pathology of Justice in Post-Occupation Japan -- Behind the Curtain: Forces Shaping Sino-Japanese Postwar Attitudes -- toward Justice -- Evaporating Legal Memory and KMT War Criminals -- Owning the War: Constructing the Contours of National History, 1970s-1980s -- Afterlives of the Damned: The Commemoration of Justice and Injustice, 1990s to the Present -- The Poverty of Political Ambition in East Asia.",
abstract="In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented national divides that persist into the present day. In 1946 the Allies convened the Tokyo Trial to prosecute Japanese wartime atrocities and Japan's empire. At its conclusion one of the judges voiced dissent, claiming that the justice found at Tokyo was only ``the sham employment of a legal process for the satisfaction of a thirst for revenge.'' War crimes tribunals, Kushner shows, allow for the history of the defeated to be heard. In contemporary East Asia a fierce battle between memory and history has consolidated political camps across this debate. The Tokyo Trial courtroom, as well as the thousands of other war crimes tribunals opened in about fifty venues across Asia, were legal stages where prosecution and defense curated facts and evidence to craft their story about World War Two. These narratives and counter narratives form the basis of postwar memory concerning Japan's imperial aims across the region. The archival record and the interpretation of court testimony together shape a competing set of histories for public consumption. The Geography of Injustice offers compelling evidence that despite the passage of seven decades since the end of the war, East Asia is more divided than united by history",
note="Barak Kushner",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="9781501774010",
language="English"
}