Law without Mercy: Japanese Courts-Martial and Military Courts During the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-45

Project Information

LawWithoutMercy

Grant agreement ID: 819892

DOI

10.3030/819892

Project closed

EC signature date 5 April 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 697 776,00

EU contribution

€ 1 697 776,00

Coordinated by

FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN
Germany

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Publications

Book chapters (17)

31National 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)

Author(s): Daniel Marc Segesser
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 31-56
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-002

189Assessing Soviet Military Justice: Military Tribunals and the Punishment of Red Army Soldiers During the Second World War

Author(s): Franziska Exeler
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 189-220
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-008

81Enforcing Discipline: The Institutional Development of the Imperial Japanese Army’s Justice System (1868–1945)

Author(s): Tino Schölz
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 81-118
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-004

Silent enim leges inter arma? Die Militärjustiz im Kaiserlich-Japanischen Heer während des Asiatisch-Pazifischen Krieges (1937-1945)

Author(s): Tino Schölz
Published in: Kriegsschauplatz Asien. Historische und globale Perspektiven, 2026
Publisher: Brill Schöningh

Fukuchi Tanenori’s Life and Judgements as Legal Officer in the Japanese Burma Area Army, 1943–45

Author(s): Urs Matthias Zachmann
Published in: Wege, Sehepunkte, Panoramen: Japanologische Festschrift für Klaus Vollmer, 2025, Page(s) 593-606, ISBN 978-3-928463-87-4
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens

141British Courts Martial in the Era of the First World War, 1914–1920

Author(s): Gerard Oram
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 141-166
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-006

301Wehrmacht Military Courts as Instruments of Occupation: The Case of German-Occupied Norway, 1940–1945

Author(s): Maria Fritsche
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 301-324
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-012

325Justice Behind the Lines: Prisoners of War, Military Justice and Reprisals in the First World War

Author(s): Brian K. Feltman
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 325-346
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-013

221Heart of Darkness: Japanese Military Justice on the Road to Nanjing, 1937

Author(s): Urs Matthias Zachmann
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 221-246
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-009

347Japanese Military Justice Against Allied Soldiers During the Pacific War 1941–1945: An Assessment of the Trial Against Walter Anker and Four Others

Author(s): Nicolas Stassar
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 347-370
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-014

The Two Faces of Military Justice in Occupied Territories: Japanese Military Justice during the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-45

Author(s): Kelly Maddox
Published in: Military Justice: Contemporary, Historical and Comparative Perspectives, 2025
Publisher: Maklu Publishers (RIDP)

57From Circumstantial Legislation to Civilianisation: A Century of Reforms in French Military Justice (1850–1928)

Author(s): Gwenaël Guyon
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 57-80
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-003

167Fascist Justice: Italian Military Magistrates in the Colonies and Occupied Territories (1922–1945)

Author(s): Giovanni Focardi, Nicolò Da Lio
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 167-188
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-007

1Military Justice in Modern History: An Introductory Overview

Author(s): Kelly Maddox, Tino Schölz
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 1-30
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-001

247The “Long Arm” of the Military Justice of the Wehrmacht: A Case Study on Luxembourgish Desertions

Author(s): Sarah Maya Vercruysse, Nina Janz
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 247-270
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-010

119Arbitrary Justice: Military Tribunals in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia

Author(s): Elizabeth Shesko
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 119-140
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-005

271Military Justice and its Potential for Violence towards Civilians Under Wartime Occupation: The Imperial Japanese Army in China, 1894–1941

Author(s): Kelly Maddox
Published in: Military Justice in Modern History, 2025, Page(s) 271-300
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588-011

Peer reviewed articles (4)

The Dynamics of Japanese Military Justice and the Maintenance of Order in the Philippines, 1942-5

Author(s): Kelly Maddox
Published in: Journal of Contemporary History, 2026, ISSN 0022-0094
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00220094261443233

Military justice on trial: Insights from efforts to prosecute Japanese commanders for “denial of fair trial” in the aftermath of the Second World War

Author(s): Kelly Maddox
Published in: Contemporary Japan, 2026, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 1869-2729
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2026.2631835

Militärgerichte für die Jieitai? Zur innerjapanischen Debatte über die Notwendigkeit einer Militärgerichtsbarkeit für Japans Selbstverteidigungsstreitkräfte (Military Courts for the Jietai? Domestic Debates on Special Courts for Japan’s Self-Defense Forces)

Author(s): Urs Matthias Zachmann
Published in: Japan 2024, 2024, Page(s) 106-129, ISSN 0343-6950
Publisher: Iudicium

An Instrument of Military Power: The Development and Evolution of Japanese Martial Law in Occupied Territories, 1894–1945

Author(s): Kelly Maddox
Published in: Law and History Review, Issue 2024, Vol 42(2), p 367-391, 2024, Page(s) 367-391, ISSN 0738-2480
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0738248023000524

Monographic books (1)

Military Justice in Modern History

Author(s): Kelly Maddox, Tino Schölz, Urs Matthias Zachmann (eds.)
Published in: 2025, ISBN 978-3-11-099986-0
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110989588