Guest lecture:
Yuma Totani is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hawaii. Her research focuses on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and other World War II war crimes trials in the Asia-Pacific Region. Born and raised in Japan, she obtained her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. She is the author of The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008). She is currently working on her second book (co-authored with Professor David Cohen, Director of the University of California, Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center), entitled The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal: Law, History, and Jurisprudence.