Enforcing Discipline: The Institutional Development of the Imperial Japanese Army’s Justice System (1868–1945)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Military Justice in Modern History: An Introductory Overview 1
4. National and International Means of (Military) Justice: Four Circles of a Legal Debate on the Punishment of Violations of the Laws of War in the Period Between the Franco-Prussian War and the Beginning of the Cold War (1864–1949) 31
5. From Circumstantial Legislation to Civilianisation: A Century of Reforms in French Military Justice (1850–1928) 57
6. Enforcing Discipline: The Institutional Development of the Imperial Japanese Army’s Justice System (1868–1945) 81
7. Arbitrary Justice: Military Tribunals in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia 119
8. British Courts Martial in the Era of the First World War, 1914–1920 141
9. Fascist Justice: Italian Military Magistrates in the Colonies and Occupied Territories (1922–1945) 167
10. Assessing Soviet Military Justice: Military Tribunals and the Punishment of Red Army Soldiers During the Second World War 189
11. Heart of Darkness: Japanese Military Justice on the Road to Nanjing, 1937 221
12. The “Long Arm” of the Military Justice of the Wehrmacht: A Case Study on Luxembourgish Desertions 247
13. Military Justice and its Potential for Violence towards Civilians Under Wartime Occupation: The Imperial Japanese Army in China, 1894–1941 271
14. Wehrmacht Military Courts as Instruments of Occupation: The Case of German-Occupied Norway, 1940–1945 301
15. Justice Behind the Lines: Prisoners of War, Military Justice and Reprisals in the First World War 325
16. Japanese Military Justice Against Allied Soldiers During the Pacific War 1941–1945: An Assessment of the Trial Against Walter Anker and Four Others 347
17. Contributors
18. Index