Abstract
Neil Boister and Robert Cryer’s new tome on the post-War trials of Japanese war criminals in 1946 is entitled The Tokyo International Military Tribunal: A Reappraisal. Indeed, a successful, topical and engaging reappraisal it proves to be. While there is a wealth of material available on the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, there is comparatively little treatment, especially in the legal academy, of the IMT for the Far East, as it was known. Boister and Cryer identify this as the chief motivator bringing them to treat the Tokyo IMT in far greater detail than it has been. They do so with a Japanese guide through the Japanese literature on the subject, as well as a robust exposition of archival documents largely overlooked in the decades since the Tokyo IMT handed down its judgment.