Dean Aszkielowicz teaches at Murdoch University and is an Asia Research Centre Fellow. He is one of the four authors of Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War (Columbia, 2017).

Aszkielowicz demonstrates that the Australian trials, while pursuing a form of justice, never veered too far away from political and diplomatic concerns. This book charts new research to identify and historicize the evolution and impact of how the Australian nation adjudicated imperial Japanese war crimes. -- Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge; author of Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice Australia's unique contributions to defeating imperial Japan are legendary, but perhaps less so is the crucial role Australia played in postwar Allied war-crimes investigations and trials of the Japanese. Aszkielowicz sheds new light on this underappreciated story and assesses its implications to Australian domestic politics and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. -- Yuma Totani, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, author of The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II

Dean Aszkielowicz teaches at Murdoch University and is an Asia Research Centre Fellow. He is one of the four authors of Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War (Columbia, 2017).

Aszkielowicz demonstrates that the Australian trials, while pursuing a form of justice, never veered too far away from political and diplomatic concerns. This book charts new research to identify and historicize the evolution and impact of how the Australian nation adjudicated imperial Japanese war crimes. -- Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge; author of Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice Australia's unique contributions to defeating imperial Japan are legendary, but perhaps less so is the crucial role Australia played in postwar Allied war-crimes investigations and trials of the Japanese. Aszkielowicz sheds new light on this underappreciated story and assesses its implications to Australian domestic politics and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. -- Yuma Totani, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, author of The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II

Dean Aszkielowicz teaches at Murdoch University and is an Asia Research Centre Fellow. He is one of the four authors of Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War (Columbia, 2017).

Aszkielowicz demonstrates that the Australian trials, while pursuing a form of justice, never veered too far away from political and diplomatic concerns. This book charts new research to identify and historicize the evolution and impact of how the Australian nation adjudicated imperial Japanese war crimes. -- Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge; author of Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice Australia's unique contributions to defeating imperial Japan are legendary, but perhaps less so is the crucial role Australia played in postwar Allied war-crimes investigations and trials of the Japanese. Aszkielowicz sheds new light on this underappreciated story and assesses its implications to Australian domestic politics and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. -- Yuma Totani, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, author of The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II