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

 



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 **November 27, 2023** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EST 

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



 

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 [Gary Bass](https://gjbass.scholar.princeton.edu/)  
William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, Princeton University

 Moderator: [Christina L. Davis](https://scholar.harvard.edu/cldavis/home)  
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 Asia*. ](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533855/judgment-at-tokyo-by-gary-j-bass/)Knopf, Oct. 17, 2023.  
    \\* Named as one of [*The Washington Post*'s 10 Best Books of 2023](https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/16/best-books-year/) and [The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/21/books/notable-books.html).
2. Ian Buruma, ["What the Tokyo Trial Reveals about Empire, Memory, and Judgment."](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/judgment-at-tokyo-world-war-ii-on-trial-and-the-making-of-modern-asia-gary-j-bass-book-review) *The New Yorker,* Oct. 16, 2023.
3. Jennifer Lind, ["Japan's Nuremberg: The Tokyo Trial and the Birth of Postwar Liberalism."](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/japans-nuremberg) *Foreign Affairs*, Oct. 20, 2023.



 

 



 

 

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