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"War crimes tribunals in postwar East Asia cemented national divides. Tribunals allowed the history of the defeated to be heard so a narrative and counter narrative formed the basis of postwar memory concerning Japan's imperial aims. The archival record of evidence shaped a competing set of histories for public consumption"--
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Introduction: Making Bad Television
1. The Kaleidoscope of Defeat in East Asia
2. The Shape of Justice: Creating New Symbols of InternationalStature
3. When the Hero of Your Story is the Villain of Another
4. Laying Blame for Japan's War Responsibility
5. The Tyranny of Tiny Decisions: the Failure of the Japanese Left
6. The Violence of Imperial Dissolution at the Periphery
7. The Geography of Power: Producing Political Legitimacy inRepublican China
8. Creating a Theater of Law in Mao's China
9. The Pathology of Justice in Post-Occupation Japan
10. Behind the Curtain: Shaping Sino-Japanese Postwar AttitudesToward Justice
11. Evaporating Legal Memory and KMT War Criminals
12. Owning the War: Constructing the Contours of National History,1970s-1980s
13. Afterlives of the Damned : the Commemoration of Justice and Injustice, 1990s to the Present
Conclusion: The Poverty of Political Ambition in East Asia
