In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented national divides that persist into the present day. In 1946 the Allies convened the Tokyo Trial to prosecute Japanese wartime atrocities and Japan's empire. At its conclusion one of the judges voiced dissent, claiming that the justice found at Tokyo was only "the sham employment of a legal process for the satisfaction of a thirst for revenge."
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23 June 2025
Professor Barak Kushner gave this talk at the Rethinking Empires and Trans-Imperial History Conference at Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea, 19 June 2025.
20 June 2025
Dr Elizabeth Monier, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge, was interviewed by Bloomberg TV on 20 June.
05 June 2025
On Friday, 30 May, Professor Barak Kushner gave a lecture at Sun Yat Sen University on the history of ramen and Sino-Japan relations.
05 June 2025
Professor Kushner did a long interview on ramen and other topics which has been published in three parts.
03 June 2025
A new documentary on the legendary Sigmund Freud, with the director, Yair Qedar
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