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Indian Justice Radhabinod Pal's Presence and Impressions in Japan's Memory: The 1946-1948 Tokyo Tria

25 Mar 2022

In fact any interest which The reason for this conception, different from the western powers may now have in the that of antiquity and the Middle Ages, was territories in the Eastern Hemisphere was found in the complexity of the causes of war acquired mostly through armed violence in the present state of international relations, during this period and none of these wars in the dif ficulty of locat. [...] International life is not yet organized Journal of International Law in 2018, worried into a community under the rule of law.22 Pal that “the non-availability of the state practice investigated the charges “… and eventually of third world countries, and also the paucity concluded that the evidence presented to the of scholarly writings on the subject, allows Tribunal was not suf ficient to establi. [...] He held the view that President of the Tribunal, Justice William Webb the legitimacy of the tribunal was questionable of Australia, stated that the member judge of because the spirit of retribution, and not the tribunal from India had dissented from the impartial justice, was the underlying criterion for majority judgment and had filed a statement passing the judgment. [...] exclusion of Western colonialism and the use of nuclear weapons by the United States from the The American occupation of Japan ended in list of crimes, as well as the exclusion of judges 1952, following the signing of the San Francisco from the vanquished nations on the bench, Peace Treaty by Japan and its accepting of the signified the “failure of the Tribunal to provide Tokyo trial’s verdict. [...] It was the imperialist logic of global politics remains distinct, both in its form and content, and was insightful, revealing something fundamental unmistakably the view of a non-Westerner.49 about the nature of the post-war settlement and The questioning of the one-sidedness of the trial what would follow from it.45 The imperialism was not, however, synonymous with pro-Japan he experienced—intell.
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