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Article: Judgement at Tokyo
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- February 22, 1987
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THE OTHER NUREMBERG
The Untold Story of the
Tokyo War Crimes Trials
By Arnold C. Brackman
Morrow. 432 pp. $19.95
THE TOKYO WAR CRIMES TRIAL
An International Symposium
Edited by C. Hosoya, N. Ando,
Y. Onuma and R. Minear
Kodansha International. 226 pp. $50
IMAGINE A TRIAL involving 28 defendants in which there are 11
judges, but none of the same nationality as the defendants; the
basic language of the trial is not the defendants' native tongue;
the collection of evidence is essentially controlled by the
prosecution; the chief justice is absent for five weeks and misses
the testimony of 10 defendants; another justice is a former
prisoner-of-war of the government of the accused, and ...