The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) is pleased to announce the upcoming Book Break event on June 23, 2022.


Book Break: "The Tokyo Trial, Justice, and the Postwar International Order"
By Aleksandra Babovic


Thursday, June 23, 2022 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
(The talk will be in English)


Please sign up by email (front@fccj.or.jp) and pay by Monday, June 20th, 2022.


Admission:

3,000 yen/ 4,000 yen (member/ non-member, including tax, a set dinner with a drink)

550 yen (Online attendance via zoom, including tax)


Menu: TBD/ Coffee or Tea with One Drink

Venue:
The Foreign Correspondents` Club of Japan
5F Marunouchi Nijubashi Building
3-2-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
(https://www.fccj.or.jp/article/access-contact)


The Tokyo Trial, 1946 to 1948, seen by many as victors' justice, was a dark and painful episode in Japan's immediate post-WWII history. In contrast to Germany with the Nuremberg Trials, Japan's postwar politics never accepted the Tribunal's verdicts. The government in Tokyo tried to ease the prison conditions of the convicted war criminals. In the early 1950s, the Japanese people and government gradually came to see these men as martyrs to be freed from Sugamo Prison. In lengthy negotiations with the US government, Tokyo eventually secured their release. They were reintegrated into the society and accepted as part of the political elite. The former war criminals transitioned to honorable citizens. With their secret consecration to Yasukuni Shrine in 1978, they became spirits.