JAPANESE ATROCITIES AND BRITISH MINOR WAR CRIMES TRIALS AFTER WORLD WAR II IN THE EAST

It has been almost 60 years since the end of World War II. After the war, the Allied Powers conducted war crimes trials on Japanese war criminals. The Class A war criminals were tried in Tokyo by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East while the Classes B and C war criminals were tried by national military tribunals at various locations in the Far East by the respective Allied Powers. At the Tokyo Trial 28 major war criminals were tried while at the national military tribunals' level about 5,700 were tried and 4,405 were punished. Despite the significance of these trials, there is little effort from scholars to study them, especially the minor war crimes trials. The paper will touch upon the present status of the literature related to British minor war crimes trials and will highlight the lack of scholarly works on those trials and the need to study them and the related issues.