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imported>Howard C. Berkowitz (New page: {{subpages}} ==Parent topics== {{r|World War Two in the Pacific}} {{r|War crime}} {{r|Supreme Court of the United States}} ==Subtopics== {{r|Tomiyuki Yamashita}} {{r|Douglas MacArthur}}...) |
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Parent topics
- World War Two in the Pacific [r]: The part of World War II (1937-45) fought in Asia and the Pacific Ocean between Japan and the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, and other Allies. [e]
- War crime [r]: Acts that violate the laws of war as they applied in the time and place of commission, or that were deemed violations of law, possibly ex post facto, as determined by a competent tribunal [e]
- Supreme Court of the United States [r]: The final federal court of appeals in the U.S., consisting of nine Justices. [e]
Subtopics
- Tomiyuki Yamashita [r]: Imperial Japanese Army general, member of the Imperial Way Faction, who led the capture of Malaya, fell into political disfavor with the high command, but later returned to command the defense of Luzon in the Philippines; executed after a controversial war crimes trial with an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States [e]
- Douglas MacArthur [r]: Senior U.S. Army commander in the Second World War, head of the Occupation of Japan, holder of the highest rank and highest honor for valor in the Army, yet relieved of command for insubordination [e]
- Manila [r]: Capital of the Philippines [e]
- Command responsibility [r]: A doctrine, in international law, that a commander is ultimately responsible for war crimes by subordinates, even if the commander was unaware of the acts or may have taken steps to prevent the acts [e]
- Harlan Stone [r]: Add brief definition or description
- In re Quirin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Johnson v. Eisentrager [r]: A 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision that nonresident enemy aliens, captured in the context of a declared war outside the jurisdiction of any U.S. civil court, were purely under the jurisdiction of military law and had no access to the U.S. judicial system [e]
- Rasul v. Bush [r]: Add brief definition or description