Gary Bass, "Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia"

Date and Time

November 27, 2023
12:00PM - 01:00PM EST

Location

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., and Online (Zoom)

poster with speaker book and event details

Gary Bass
William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, Princeton University

Moderator: Christina L. Davis
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University 

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; and East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School.

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Additional Resources
 

  1. Gary J. Bass, Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern AsiaKnopf, Oct. 17, 2023.
    * Named as one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2023 and The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023.
  2. Ian Buruma, "What the Tokyo Trial Reveals about Empire, Memory, and Judgment." The New Yorker, Oct. 16, 2023.
  3. Jennifer Lind, "Japan's Nuremberg: The Tokyo Trial and the Birth of Postwar Liberalism." Foreign Affairs, Oct. 20, 2023.