Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations Memory-Making on the Ground: Peace Boat and Japanese World War II Narratives by Lim Jia Yi (Research Fellow, Singapore War Crimes Trials Project) Published on 7 October 2022 No one country is ever simply either a victim or an aggressor… What is immoral […]

Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations Digital Humanities and World War Two in Asia: the Battle of Hong Kong 1941 Project as Example by Associate Professor Kwong Chi Man (Hong Kong Baptist University) Published on 5 October 2022  On 8 December 1941, as part of the larger conflict between […]

Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations Words Matter, Translation Matters by Professor Kayoko Takeda (Rikkyo University) Published on 3 October 2022 Translation creates opportunities for a state to promote its narrative of war memories while meeting potentially conflicting political expectations of different parties, domestic and international. This was the […]

Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations Northeast Asia’s War Reparations Movement: Towards the Messy Uncertainty of Democracy, Civil Society and Rule of Law by Professor Timothy Webster (Western New England University School of Law) Published on 30 September 2022 For the past thirty years, domestic courts in the Asia-Pacific […]

Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations Problems of Justice in the Post-War Allied War Crimes Trials of Japanese Suspects by Professor Robert Cribb (Australian National University) and Professor Sandra Wilson (Murdoch University) Published on 28 September 2022 After the Second World War in Asia finally ended in August 1945, […]

Symposium: The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations The Tokyo Trial and its Legacy by Professor Neil Boister, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Published on 26 September 2022 Introduction The Tokyo Judgment was handed down by majority on the 12th November 1948, nearly three quarters of a century ago. After […]

Symposium Introductory Blog The Second World War in Asia: Justice Efforts, War Memory, and Reparations by Associate Professor Cheah W.L. (National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law) Published on 26 September 2022  This symposium on the Second World War in Asia is co-organized by CIL Dialogues and the International Criminal Law Interest Group of the […]