The Australian class-B and -C war crimes trials have attracted little attention outside of academic circles. However, I have benefited tremendously from the work of others who have gone before me, particularly Georgina Fitzpatrick, Tim McCormack, Narelle Morris, Dean Aszkielowicz, Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Utsumi Aiko, Kōta Udagawa, Steven Bullard, Emmi Okada, and the late David Sissons. I am also indebted to Kirsten Sellars and Yuma Totani for their commentary on the Tokyo Trial, and John Dower and Herbert Bix for their books on Shōwa-era Japan. Not being able to read Japanese, I am particularly grateful to Japanese-speaking writers and academics who have been able to make Japanese sources available in English. I am pleased to have been able to continue my relationship with the same agent and the same publisher I worked with on The Last Fifty Miles, and I would like to thank Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management and Ben Ball, formerly of Penguin, for their ongoing support. I have once again found the staff at Penguin very professional and easy to work with, including lead editor Meredith Rose, who co-ordinated the entire project on a tight time frame. I would also like to thank Sam Dipnall at the Law Institute of Victoria for helping me network in the field of international human rights law. And finally, I would like to thank Brian Hurlock for reading and commenting on the first draft of the manuscript, and for consistently backing me through the difficult times as well as the triumphant ones.