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7 E. Asia L. Rev. 1 (2011-2012)

handle is hein.journals/etalr7 and id is 1 raw text is: Attempting to Go Beyond Forgetting: the Legacy of the Tokyo IMT and Crimes of Violence Against Women Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart This article begins by first focusing on the Tokyo IMT's heritage of collective forgetting in relation to instances of systematized violence against women, especially the establishment of comfort stations in territories formerly occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army. In specific, after the Introduction, it describes the international political, legal and military factors that led to the formation of the Tokyo IMT; a brief overview of the trial, the political and pedagogical functions of the Tokyo IMT; and legal and extra-legal devices of the Tokyo IMT. Subsequently, it points out key differences between the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials, in terms of their legal and political strategies and aims. From there, it analyzes the TokyoIMT's legacy offorgetting crimes of violence against women, especially the crimes against the comfort women, which included a collusion of amnesia imposed by the Allied powers with the Japanese Imperial government, through the exploitation of various legal loopholes in international law. From there, it moves from the Tokyo IMT's specific history to a broader analysis of the functions of crimes of violence against women during wartime conditions in the twentieth century and why such * Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart is a J.D. Candidate (2012) at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities at Santa Fe College. Prior to law school, she was an Associate Professor of English and Humanities at the Florida State University with a Courtesy Appointment at the Florida State University College of Law. She has a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University's School of Criticism and Theory. The author is indebted to Professors Berta Hernandez-Truyol, Danaya Wright, Michael Seigel, Dominick LaCapra, Raymond Fleming, Kenneth Nunn and Katheryn Russell-Brown for their mentorship. She dedicates this article to her husband, Jerry Rivera; the Picart and Terrell families; and friends. She thanks the East Asia Law Review staff, especially Andreas Apostolides, Stephanie Brown, and Edward Mahaney-Walter for their patience, expertise, professionalism and genuine concern.

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