Japanese war crimes : the search for justice / Peter Li, editor

Portions of book originally published in East Asia: An International Quarterly, fall 200, vol. 18, no. 3; and includes sample of presentations at International Citizens' Forum on War Crimes and Redress, held December 10-12, 1999, in Tokyo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An overview : Japan's war responsibility and the Pan-Asian movement for redress and compensation / Paul Schalow -- Japan's war crimes : has justice been served? / Michael M. Honda -- Probing the issues of reconciliation more than fifty years after the Asia-Pacific War / Ivy Lee -- Victor's justice and Japan's amnesia : the Tokyo War Crimes Trial reconsidered / Maria Hsia Chang and Robert P. Barker -- Hirohito's war crimes responsibility : the unrepentant emperor / Peter Li -- Accountability, justice, and the importance of memory in the "Era of war" / Manuel Prutschi and Mark Weintraub -- The Bataan death march / Lester I. Tenney -- Mitsui : "We will send you to Omuta" / Linda Goetz Holmes -- The Nanjing Massacre : the socio-psychological effects / Zhang Lianhong (translated and edited by Peter Li) -- One army surgeon's account of vivisection on human subjects in China / Noda Masaaki (translated by Paul Schalow) -- Reunion : a play in 2 acts, 5 scenes, and an epilogue (excerpts) / Yoshiji Watanabe -- Cinematic representations of the Rape of Nanking / Michael Berry -- The Nanking holocaust : memory, trauma and reconciliation / Peter Li -- The great Asian-Pacific crescent of pain : Japan's war from Manchuria to Hiroshima, 1931 to 1945 / Werner Gruhl -- Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery : memory, identity, and society / Yayori Matsui -- The looting of books in Nanjing / Zhao Jianmin (translated and edited by Peter Li) -- Japan's biochemical warfare and experimentation in China / Peter Li -- Japan's historical myopia / Daniel A. Metraux -- War crimes and redress : a Canadian Jewish perspective / Manuel Prutschi and Mark Weintraub.