The Council on East Asian Studies presents:
David Cohen - Professor of Law, University of Hawaii; Professor & Director, War Crimes Studies Center, UC Berkeley & Yuma Totani - Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaii: “CEAS New Directions in Asia: The Tokyo War Crime Trials.”
A special dialogue on new research about the Tokyo War Crime Trials by two expert scholars in the field.
Yuma Totani earned her Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005, and is currently an associate professor of history at the University of Hawaii. She authored The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008) and produced its expanded Japanese-language edition, Tōkyō saiban: dai niji taisen go no hō to seigi no tsuikyū (Misuzu shobō, 2008). Her second book, Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region: Allied War Crimes Prosecutions (Cambridge University Press, 2015), is forthcoming