Gary J. Bass’s new book delves into the Tokyo war crimes trial, which was far more complex and contentious than the Nuremberg proceedings.
Statistics can be devastating. While about 4 percent of Allied troops captured by the Nazis and Italian fascists died in captivity, approximately 27 percent captured by the Japanese in World War II died as prisoners, the historian Gary J. Bass writes in “.” Though there was not a signature crime in the Pacific theater on the scale of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe, Japanese brutality took just about every form besides outright genocide.
Bass employs the complexities of the trial as a fulcrum to sketch a wide canvas, documenting not just all the atrocities but the history of World War II in Asia, which remains lesser known in America than the war in Europe. In fact, to this day, Tojo is not a household name in the way Hitler is.
Moreover, the Cold War was creeping in, leading to hard political realities. Chinese nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek were in the early phase of losing a civil war to Mao Zedong’s communists, and the Truman administration had to contemplate the loss of China as a friend and strategic partner. This made a strong and stable Japan a vital necessity as a postwar ally.
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