Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956

Kerstin von Lingen is Researcher and Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany, in the ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’ Cluster of Excellence. Since 2013, she has led an independent research group, ‘Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1945-1954’. She is the 2016 laureate of the International Chair for the History of the Second World War, awarded by the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

• 1. WAR CRIMES TRIALS IN ASIA: COLLABORATION AND COMPLICITY IN THE AFTERMATH; Kerstin von Lingen and Robert Cribb.- 2. KOREANS IN THE TRIALS OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS; Sandra Wilson.- 3. DEFINING COLONIAL “WAR CRIMES”: KOREAN DEBATES ON COLLABORATION, WAR REPARATIONS, AND THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST; Deokhyo Choi.- 4. OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE IN THE SINGAPORE TRIALS; CHEAH Wui Ling.- 5. PUPPETS, PROFITEERS AND TRAITORS. DEFINING WARTIME COLLABORATION IN THE NETHERLANDS INDIES, 1945-1949; Esther Zwinkels.- 6. BETWEEN POST-OCCUPATION AND POST-COLONIAL: FRAMING THE RECENT PAST IN THE PHILIPPINE TREASON AMNESTY DEBATE, 1948; Konrad M. Lawson.- 7. JAPANESE MEDICAL ATROCITIES AND THE COLLABORATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC ELITES: POSTWAR PERSPECTIVES; Arnaud Doglia.- 8. The question of Complicity: Japan’s early postures toward war crimes and war responsibility in the aftermath of the Second World War; Barak Kushner.