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  • 作者:Patrick Brode
  • 出版社:Dundurn Press
  • 出版年份:2024
  • 語言:English
  • ISBN:9781459753693
  • 頁數:200

 

About the Book

At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.

One of the most bizarre stories to emerge at the end of the Second World War was that of Kanao Inouye. Born in Kamloops, B.C., in 1916, he had relocated to his ancestral homeland of Japan, and by 1942 was a translator for the Japanese army. He was assigned to the prisoner of war camp in Hong Kong where he became infamous as one of the “most sadistic guards” over the Canadian survivors of the Battle of Hong Kong. Scores of prisoners would attest to his brutality administered in revenge for the treatment he had received growing up in Canada.

His reputation was such that he was quickly apprehended after the war and faced charges of war crimes. But his subsequent trials became mired in questions as to who he really was. Was he a Canadian forced to serve in the Japanese military machine? Or was he a devoted soldier of his emperor obeying his superiors?

 

作者簡介 Author Introduction

Patrick Brode has written extensively on Canadian history and law. His works include a biography of one of Canada’s early jurists, Chief Justice John Robinson, as well as Courted and Abandoned, a study of the tort of seduction on the frontier. His more recent writing includes Death in the Queen City about the racially charged murder trial of Clara Ford in Toronto in 1895, The Slasher Killings, on the anti-gay hysteria that accompanied a serial killing in Windsor in 1945, as well as a survey of Canada’s investigation and prosecution of war crimes after the Second World War. Five of these works have been short-listed for Canadian book awards. Patrick was formerly a lecturer at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. He lives in Windsor, Ontario, and has practiced law there since 1977.

 

Table of Contents

 

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

 

Introduction

1 Arrival

2 Sham Shui Po

3 Kempeitai

4 Arrest

5 Political Football

6 Godown Justice

7 Only Obeying Orders

8 Decision Annulled

9 Treason?

10 Defence Gamble

11 Exhibit C

12 Technicalities of Law

13 End of a Scruffy Show

 

Acknowledgements

Appendix

Notes

Image Credits

Index

About the Author

 

 

Traitor By Default: The Trials of Kanao Inouye, the Kamloops Kid

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