It was three days after the emperor's announcement that Japan had finally surrendered. In the confusion of mid-August 1945 an intrepid schoolboy walked from his internment camp on the edge of Shanghai back into the wrecked city. Much later J.G. Ballard would win worldwide fame as a sci-fi novelist but memories of what…
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass literaryreview.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from literaryreview.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A detailed and sharply observed account of the 1946-1948 Tokyo trials – proceedings that were implicitly racist and hypocritical, and with a prosecution team that was led by a ‘blundering alcoholic’