This study traces one of the greatest and most dramatic trials in history and provides fresh information on the way Japan conducted the war, from Pearl Harbor, to the attempted assassination of Stalin, to the final surrender.

Includes index.

1.War criminals at bay -- 2. MacArthur in Tokyo -- 3. The Allied prosecutors -- 4. The judges -- 5. The defense, the prisoners, and the charges -- 6. The indictment : Tojo, not Hirohito -- 7. The trial opens : challenges and decisions -- 8. The missing defendants -- 9. The prosecution begins -- 10. Trouble in the tribunal -- 11. The Army in the dock -- 12. The invasion of Manchuria -- 13. Lawyers at war -- 14. The Emperor of China speaks -- 15. Holocaust in China -- 16. Unconventional warfare : drugs and disease -- 17. The Axis on trial -- 18. Trouble among the Allies -- 19. Judgment at Nuremberg -- 20. Remember Pearl Harbor -- 21. Atrocities in the Philippines -- 22. POWs and other slave labor -- 23. Defense parry, prosecution thrust -- 24. The defense opens, and the Generals shout -- 25. The defense stalls -- 26. Pearl Harbor redux -- 27. Defendants take the stand -- 28. Sir William Webb leaves the bench -- 29. Tog, Tojo, and Umezu -- 30. Rebuttals and summaries -- 31. Decision at Tokyo -- 32. The verdict is read -- 33. Opinions, dissent, and appeal -- 34. Justice on the gallows -- appendixes -- a. The indicted Class A war criminals -- b. The IMTFE's findings on the indictment.