IIAS Newsletter 41 Summer 2006

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2006 marks the 60th anniversary of what, in its time, was declared ‘the biggest trial in recorded history’. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East – which tried Japanese military and civilian leaders for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ‘crimes against peace’ – surpassed the Nuremberg trial in duration (two and a half years), in the number of accused (28), in the number of presiding judges (11), and in the length of its judgment (over 1,200 pages). But compared to Nuremberg, which is widely seen as a watershed moment in international law, Tokyo remains obscure.

 

Contents #41
2 Asia studies in the 21st century / Wim Stokhof
3 Chinese design - designing Chineseness / Jeroen de Kloet
3 Veil / Muhammed Hassanali

 

International Law?
4 International law: power and participation in the 21st century / Suzana Dudic
5 From Tokyo to The Hague / Liu Daqun
6 & 8 Can corporations be held legally responsible for serious human rights violations? / Ilaria Bottigliero
7 & 9 Civil society and the search for justice: the Tokyo women's tribunal / Tina
Dolgopol
8 & 9 Human rights between Europe and Southeast Asia / Simone Eysink

 

Research
1 & 10-11 Wildman / Gregory Forth
12 Sex in the city / Lena Scheen
13 Whose comrades? Gay festivals in China / Remy Cristini
14 Ida Bagus Nyoman Rai: painter of history / Adrian Vickers and Leo Haks
15 Engaging cultures across the Timor Sea / Georgia Sedgwick
16 Bhutanese Nepalis or Nepali Bhutanese? / Satya Shrestha-Schipper
17 Political turmoil in Cambodia / Michael Vickery
18 - 19 Photographing the Ogasawara Islands: thinking with 19th century photographs of Japan / David Odo

 

Reviews
20 - 21 British imperial collapse in Asia / Bali Sahota
20 - 21 Nalini by day, Nancy by night / Maya Kulkarni
21 To the professional assassin / Sarker Amin
22 Beyond state and nation in South Asia / Hastings Donnan
23 Social space and governance in urban China / Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen
24 Southeast Asia: one or many? / Marcus von Essen
25 Autobiography of an Indian indentured labourer / Victor van Bijlert
26 Creating the mindset for total war / Donald M. Seekins
27 Polite language in modern Japan / Manfred B. Sellner
28 Twenty-five centuries of body and face in China / Lucien van Valen
29 Books received


International Institute for Asian Studies
30 IIAS fellows
31 IIAS research
32 Voices of Islam in Europe and Southeast Asia / Cynthia Chou and Patrick Jory
33 European Alliance for Asian Studies
33 International Convention of Asia Scholars
34 - 35 Announcements
36 - 37 International arts agenda / Carol Brash
38 - 39 International conference agenda
40 Colophon

 

 

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