1: An Overview: Japan’s War Responsibility and the Pan-Asian Movement for Redress and Compensation; It’s Never Too Late to Seek Justice; 2: Japan’s War Crimes: Has Justice Been Served?; 3: Probing the Issues of Reconciliation More than Fifty Years after the Asia-Pacific War; 4: Victor’s Justice and Japan’s Amnesia: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Reconsidered; 5: Hirohito’s War Crimes Responsibility: The Unrepentant Emperor; 6: Accountability, Justice, and the Importance of Memory in the “Era of War”; The American POW Experience Remembered; 7: The Bataan Death March *; 8: Mitsui: “We Will Send You to Omuta” *; Psychological Responses; 9: The Nanjing Massacre: The Socio-Psychological Effects; 10: One Army Surgeon’s Account of Vivisection on Human Subjects in China; IV: Artistic Responses; 11: Reunion: A Play in 2 Acts, 5 Scenes, and an Epilogue (Excerpts); 12: Cinematic Representations of the Rape of Nanking; History Will Not Forget; 13: The Nanking Holocaust: Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation; 14: The Great Asian-Pacific Crescent of Pain: Japan’s War from Manchuria to Hiroshima, 1931 to 1945 *; 15: Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery: Memory, Identity, and Society; 16: The Looting of Books in Nanjing; 17: Japan’s Biochemical Warfare and Experimentation in China; 18: Japan’s Historical Myopia; 19: War Crimes and Redress: A Canadian Jewish Perspective
Peter Li is editor of East Asia: An International Quarterly and a professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
-This volume fulfills a vital role in recording and analyzing some
of the horrendous war crimes and crimes against humanity
perpetrated by the Japanese Empire before and during the Second
World War. The elaboration of these terrible but little known
actions contributes in an important way to completing the tragic
story of that war. The telling of this story assists in the quest
for justice, helps provide closure for the survivors and their
descendants, does honour to the victims and forces the perpetrators
to confront the magnitude of their crimes.- --Jack Silverstone, EVP
and General Counsel, Canadian Jewish Congress -...essential reading
for anyone concerned about the future of human rights. This
excellent anthology, based on a landmark conference in Tokyo,
exposes not only the staggering scale of the Pacific Holocaust, but
the global dimensions of a movement, half a century later, to seek
full disclosure and redress for the victims. A multitude of
perspectives can be found in this extraordinary book--those of
historian and politician, activist and artist, perpetrator and
victim--which, like strands woven into tapestry, offer a densely
textured portrait of Japan's horrific legacy of genocide and
denial. Collectively, these essays tell an epic story of atrocity
and amnesia, ultimately defeated by a worldwide struggle for
Remembrance.- --Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking: The
Forgotten Holocaust of World War II -For those who do not know much
about the Asia-Pacific War, for those who would like to find out
more, for those who are struggling to comprehend one of the darkest
chapters of history and for those who are calling for an official
and unequivocal apology and due compensation from Japan, this
edition is a must. It engages us on all levels: historical,
artistic, psychological, political and philosophical. Then
transcending these levels, it becomes a clarion call for the
international community to embark on the only road that would lead
to a better future for us all. This road would start with Japan's
being held accountable for its crimes against humanity and its full
acceptance of that responsibility; it would continue with ensuring
justice for its victims and would end with reconciliation between
aggressor and the victimized nations. In cutting through the
Gordian knot of current debates on facts and figures of the
Asia-Pacific War, Peter Li, in his preface, arrives at the crux of
the matter--that, more than half a century after the war is over,
an impatient world awaits while an unrepentant Japan has yet to
make a move toward reconciliation and lasting peace in Asia.- --Ivy
Lee, President, Global Alliance for Preserving the Hisotry of World
War II in Asia
"This volume fulfills a vital role in recording and analyzing some
of the horrendous war crimes and crimes against humanity
perpetrated by the Japanese Empire before and during the Second
World War. The elaboration of these terrible but little known
actions contributes in an important way to completing the tragic
story of that war. The telling of this story assists in the quest
for justice, helps provide closure for the survivors and their
descendants, does honour to the victims and forces the perpetrators
to confront the magnitude of their crimes." --Jack Silverstone, EVP
and General Counsel, Canadian Jewish Congress ..".essential reading
for anyone concerned about the future of human rights. This
excellent anthology, based on a landmark conference in Tokyo,
exposes not only the staggering scale of the Pacific Holocaust, but
the global dimensions of a movement, half a century later, to seek
full disclosure and redress for the victims. A multitude of
perspectives can be found in this extraordinary book--those of
historian and politician, activist and artist, perpetrator and
victim--which, like strands woven into tapestry, offer a densely
textured portrait of Japan's horrific legacy of genocide and
denial. Collectively, these essays tell an epic story of atrocity
and amnesia, ultimately defeated by a worldwide struggle for
Remembrance." --Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking: The
Forgotten Holocaust of World War II "For those who do not know much
about the Asia-Pacific War, for those who would like to find out
more, for those who are struggling to comprehend one of the darkest
chapters of history and for those who are calling for an official
and unequivocal apology and due compensation from Japan, this
edition is a must. It engages us on all levels: historical,
artistic, psychological, political and philosophical. Then
transcending these levels, it becomes a clarion call for the
international community to embark on the only road that would lead
to a better future for us all. This road would start with Japan's
being held accountable for its crimes against humanity and its full
acceptance of that responsibility; it would continue with ensuring
justice for its victims and would end with reconciliation between
aggressor and the victimized nations. In cutting through the
Gordian knot of current debates on facts and figures of the
Asia-Pacific War, Peter Li, in his preface, arrives at the crux of
the matter--that, more than half a century after the war is over,
an impatient world awaits while an unrepentant Japan has yet to
make a move toward reconciliation and lasting peace in Asia." --Ivy
Lee, President, Global Alliance for Preserving the Hisotry of World
War II in Asia
"This volume fulfills a vital role in recording and analyzing some
of the horrendous war crimes and crimes against humanity
perpetrated by the Japanese Empire before and during the Second
World War. The elaboration of these terrible but little known
actions contributes in an important way to completing the tragic
story of that war. The telling of this story assists in the quest
for justice, helps provide closure for the survivors and their
descendants, does honour to the victims and forces the perpetrators
to confront the magnitude of their crimes." --Jack Silverstone, EVP
and General Counsel, Canadian Jewish Congress ..".essential reading
for anyone concerned about the future of human rights. This
excellent anthology, based on a landmark conference in Tokyo,
exposes not only the staggering scale of the Pacific Holocaust, but
the global dimensions of a movement, half a century later, to seek
full disclosure and redress for the victims. A multitude of
perspectives can be found in this extraordinary book--those of
historian and politician, activist and artist, perpetrator and
victim--which, like strands woven into tapestry, offer a densely
textured portrait of Japan's horrific legacy of genocide and
denial. Collectively, these essays tell an epic story of atrocity
and amnesia, ultimately defeated by a worldwide struggle for
Remembrance." --Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking: The
Forgotten Holocaust of World War II "For those who do not know much
about the Asia-Pacific War, for those who would like to find out
more, for those who are struggling to comprehend one of the darkest
chapters of history and for those who are calling for an official
and unequivocal apology and due compensation from Japan, this
edition is a must. It engages us on all levels: historical,
artistic, psychological, political and philosophical. Then
transcending these levels, it becomes a clarion call for the
international community to embark on the only road that would lead
to a better future for us all. This road would start with Japan's
being held accountable for its crimes against humanity and its full
acceptance of that responsibility; it would continue with ensuring
justice for its victims and would end with reconciliation between
aggressor and the victimized nations. In cutting through the
Gordian knot of current debates on facts and figures of the
Asia-Pacific War, Peter Li, in his preface, arrives at the crux of
the matter--that, more than half a century after the war is over,
an impatient world awaits while an unrepentant Japan has yet to
make a move toward reconciliation and lasting peace in Asia." --Ivy
Lee, President, Global Alliance for Preserving the Hisotry of World
War II in Asia
..".essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of
human rights. This excellent anthology, based on a landmark
conference in Tokyo, exposes not only the staggering scale of the
Pacific Holocaust, but the global dimensions of a movement, half a
century later, to seek full disclosure and redress for the victims.
A multitude of perspectives can be found in this extraordinary
book--those of historian and politician, activist and artist,
perpetrator and victim--which, like strands woven into tapestry,
offer a densely textured portrait of Japan's horrific legacy of
genocide and denial. Collectively, these essays tell an epic story
of atrocity and amnesia, ultimately defeated by a worldwide
struggle for Remembrance." --Iris Chang, author of "The Rape of
Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II" "For those who do
not know much about the Asia-Pacific War, for those who would like
to find out more, for those who are struggling to comprehend one of
the darkest chapters of history and for those who are calling for
an official and unequivocal apology and due compensation from
Japan, this edition is a must. It engages us on all levels:
historical, artistic, psychological, political and philosophical.
Then transcending these levels, it becomes a clarion call for the
international community to embark on the only road that would lead
to a better future for us all. This road would start with Japan's
being held accountable for its crimes against humanity and its full
acceptance of that responsibility; it would continue with ensuring
justice for its victims and would end with reconciliation between
aggressor and the victimized nations. In cutting through the
Gordian knot of current debates on facts and figures of the
Asia-Pacific War, Peter Li, in his preface, arrives at the crux of
the matter--that, more than half a century after the war is over,
an impatient world awaits while an unrepentant Japan has yet to
make a move toward reconciliation and lasting pe
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