Review of United Nations' Policy for War Crimes Trials

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Generally speaking, studies of the Nuremberg Trial and the Tokyo Trial (International Military Tribunal for the Far East) have focused on Class A war crime; relations with Class B & C war crimes have been kept out of sight. However, recent studies show that Class B war crimes played a significant role at the Tokyo Trial. The idea of international trials administering justice to states and military leaders as war criminals originated, not with major powers such as the UK and the US, but rather with minior countires led to the founding of the UNWCC and motivated the major powers into action.

We have to place the Tokyo Trial in the cotext of the development of international cooperative efforts for a better future, a thread that runs from the aftermath of the First World War up to the founding of the International Criminal Court in 2003.

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  • 自然人間社会

    自然人間社会 55 1-28, 2013-07

    関東学院大学経済学部教養学会

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