Gary Bass in conversation on Judgement at Tokyo

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Join us for a lively chat between the Gary Bass celebrating the new book, Judgement at Tokyo

Join us for an exciting evening as Gary Bass sits down for a lively conversation about his new book, Judgement at Tokty, here at Solid State Books. This in-person event is your chance to hear brilliant minds discuss their latest works and delve into fascinating topics. For more than two years, lawyers for both sides presented their cases before a panel of clashing judges from China, India, the Philippines, and Australia, as well as the United States and European powers. The testimony ran from horrific accounts of brutality and the secret plans to attack Pearl Harbor to the Japanese military’s threats to subvert the government if it sued for peace. Yet rather than clarity and unanimity, the trial brought complexity, dissents, and divisions that provoke international discord between China, Japan, and Korea to this day. Those courtroom tensions and contradictions could also be seen playing out across Asia as the trial unfolded in the crucial early years of the Cold War, from China’s descent into civil war to Japan’s successful postwar democratic elections to India’s independence and partition.

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