Judicial Murder? : Macarthur and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, Paperback

by Dayle K. Smith

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Judicial Murder? : Macarthur and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, Paperback by Smith, Dayle K., ISBN 1480181560, ISBN-13 9781480181564, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book is concerned with the issue of power and the manner and form of its exercise in Japan between the fall of the last Tokugawa Shogun and 7 December 1941, and in American military commissions, and before and by the International Military Tribunal for the FarEast which sat in Tokyo between April 1946 and November 1948, and by General Douglas MacArthur in December 1948, when he gave the order which resulted in the killing of Koki Hirota, well after the Pacific War had Hirota, former Premier of Japan, was charged, together with 27 others, of having conspired to commit war crimes, crimes against peace: and murder. The thesis examines aspects of the rich traditional culture of Japan, its religions, its philosophies and methods of government, and the means whereby cabinet government functioned in the decade prior to 7 December 1941. It also examines the issue of the jurisdiction of the Tribunal established to try him and the review process undertaken thereafter by MacArthur. In order to ascertain the ambit of the powers said by MacArthur to have been lawfully invoked by him. Th explores the history of military commissions in America and the exercise by him of powers sufficient to allow him to issue orders for the execution of a civilian who took no part in the government of his country at the commencement of

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2013
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781480181564
• Condition: Fine

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