Table of Contents

Prologue: General Ishii and Germ Warfare

Introduction: Lasting Peace and the Protection of Civilians

1. MacArthur in Japan: “Punish the War Criminals”

2. Spoils of War: Secret Japanese Biological Science

3. International Prosecution Section: Toward the “Swift and Simple Trial”

4. The Investigation for Evidence in China

5. The Best Witnesses

6. Tokyo: The Rush to Trial

7. The Trial Begins

8. The Atrocities

9. The Soviet Division Versus US Military Intelligence

10. National Security Versus Medical Ethics

11. Open and Closed Trials

Epilogue: The Fallout

Acknowledgments

Source Notes

Acronyms

Principal Characters

Notes

Index