Beyond the Judgement of Civilization: The Internat by Kei, Ushimura - 2003

Tokyo: International House of Japan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover.

Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 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. .

[Tokyo: The International House of Japan, 2003. First English edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 336; white pictorial boards; corners bumped, else fine in fine dust jacket. The Japanese edition won the Yamamoto Shichihei Prize for Nonfiction in 2001.