Title
The Minds Behind the Movement: The Role of Academics in East Asia’s War Reparations Litigation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
East Asia's war compensation litigation simultaneously unites diverse regional actors (lawyers, survivors, activists) and fray international relations (as recent verdicts from South Korea attest). However, one view of the merits of these lawsuits is that they have reconfigured transnational activism in East Asia, exhumed forgotten and suppressed histories of Japanese aggression, and on occasion compensated victims of World War II. This Article highlights the role of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese activists, lawyers and scholars in researching, filing, litigating and appealing over 80 lawsuits between 1972 and the present.
Recommended Citation
Timothy Webster, The Minds Behind the Movement: The Role of Academics in East Asia’s War Reparations Litigation, 54 CASE W. RSRV. J. INT'L L.1 (2022).
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