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Hardcover, white pictorial boards publisher’s dust-jacket with artwork repeated. 336 pages. Illustrated with several vignette photographs. Translated by Steven J. Ericson. First English edition. An examination of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East’s prosecution of Japanese war crimes as the “judgment of civilization”, with a focus on what the term “civilization” and what the term actually signified to those involved. By extension the author argues that the experience of “victors justice” has had a profound impact on the intellectual legacy of post-war Japan. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.