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"In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For the Allied powers, the trials were an opportunity both to render judgement on their vanquished foes and to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was no more than victors' justice. For more than two years, the tensions and contradictions of the courtroom could be seen playing out across Asia as the trial unfolded in the crucial early years of the Cold War and the end of the European empires. They have influenced power politics across Asia and the Pacific ever since."--Back cover of the paperback edition

Tokyo, that epitome of Japanese cities, reflects in its urban structure a culture in which the meaning and use of public space has traditionally been very different from those of European cities. Two concurring and opposed processes are currently taking place in the biggest city on the planet which challenge that preconception: on one hand, a gradual canceling out of the original small-scale, multilayered urban fabric, substituted by huge, monolithic private developments; and on the other hand, a gradual collective acknowledgement of the sociopolitical role of public spaces, including a new attitude toward publicness and a new awareness of urban design's potential to facilitate social interchanges. An experimental event carried out in Tokyo in 2014 is presented as an example of this change in the perspective on public space in Tokyo, and as a model to engage students in architecture and social sciences in a beneficial transformation of the city, toward a new publicness. ; Tòquio: cap a una nova idea d'allò públicTòquio, epítom de la ciutat japonesa, reflecteix en la seua estructura urbana una cultura en la qual, tradicionalment, l'espai públic ha tingut un significat molt diferent del de les ciutats europees. Dos processos concurrents i oposats s'estan donant avui dia a la ciutat més gran del món, posant en crisi aquesta preconcepció: d'una banda, una cancel·lació gradual del teixit urbà original, de xicoteta escala i format per múltiples capes, que ve substituït per enormes promocions privades monolítiques; d'altra banda, un reconeixement col·lectiu progressiu del paper sociopolític dels espais públics, incloent una nova actitud cap a la idea d'allò que és públic i una nova consciència de les possibilitats del disseny urbà per facilitar els intercanvis socials. Un esdeveniment experimental dut a terme a Tòquio el 2014 es dóna com a exemple d'aquest canvi de perspectiva respecte de l'espai públic i com a model per involucrar l'estudiantat d'arquitectura i de ciències socials en una transformació beneficiosa de ...

Abstract Tokyo Trial is a historical TV series on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. Its heroes are the audacious dissenting judges Pal and Röling—a rare choice that seems to point to a critical counter-narrative of international criminal justice. This article suggests multiple readings of Tokyo Trial that open up historiographical and ideological struggles beneath the tropes of an entertaining 'docu-drama'. ; Peer reviewed

Tokyo: destroyed by the earthquake of 1923 and again by the firebombing of World War II. Does anything remain of the old city? The internationally known Japanese architectural historian Jinnai Hidenobu set out on foot to rediscover the city of Tokyo. Armed with old maps, he wandered through back alleys and lanes, trying to experience the city's space as it had been lived by earlier residents. He found that, despite an almost completely new cityscape, present-day inhabitants divide Tokyo's space in much the same way that their ancestors did two hundred years before. Jinnai's holistic perspective is enhanced by his detailing of how natural, topographical features were incorporated into the layout of the city. A variety of visual documents (maps from the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, building floorplans, woodblock prints, photographs) supplement his observations. While an important work for architects and historians, this unusual book will also attract armchair travelers and anyone interested in the symbolic uses of space. (A translation of Tokyo no kûkan jinruigaku.)