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Hidden Atrocities - Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial (Hardcover)
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Hidden Atrocities - Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial (Hardcover)
Series: A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations
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In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied intent to bring Axis
crimes to light led to both the Nuremberg trial and its counterpart
in Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Yet
the Tokyo trial failed to prosecute Imperial Japanese leaders for
the very worst of war crimes: inhumane medical experimentation,
including vivisection and open-air pathogen and chemical tests,
which rivaled Nazi atrocities, as well as mass attacks using
plague, anthrax, and cholera that killed thousands of Chinese
civilians. In Hidden Atrocities, Jeanne Guillemin goes behind the
scenes at the trial to reveal the American obstruction that denied
Japan's victims justice. Responsibility for Japan's secret germ
warfare program, organized as Unit 731 in Harbin, China, extended
to top government leaders and many respected scientists, all of
whom escaped indictment. Instead, motivated by early Cold War
tensions, U.S. military intelligence in Tokyo insinuated itself
into the Tokyo trial by blocking prosecution access to key
witnesses and then classifying incriminating documents. Washington
decision makers, supported by the American occupation leader
General Douglas MacArthur, sought to acquire Japan's biological
warfare expertise to gain an advantage over the Soviet Union,
suspected of developing both biological and nuclear weapons.
Ultimately, U.S. national security goals left the victims of Unit
731 without vindication. Decades later, evidence of the Unit 731
atrocities still troubles relations between China and Japan.
Guillemin's vivid account of the cover-up at the Tokyo trial shows
how without guarantees of transparency, power politics can
jeopardize international justice, with persistent consequences.
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