War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Justice in Asia and the Pacific, 1945-1952: Allied War Crimes Prosecutions

April 12, 2021-May 1, 2022
Location: Online

The War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) is a digital humanities laboratory led by a team of historians, librarians, and GIS specialists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. WCDI seeks to experiment, develop, and make available to a broad audience innovative digital resources that help promote the teaching and research of World War II-era war crimes committed by the Japanese and of the postwar Allied war crimes program in the Asia-Pacific region. This exhibit showcases WCDI's digital resources that make use of geographic information systems (GIS) and graph analysis, for the purpose of documenting across space and time the nexus between Japanese military operations, government and military power structures, and the patterns of war crimes. The exhibit and projects are accessible through the WCDI website:

http://manoa.hawaii.edu/wcdi

This exhibit is made up of three story maps:

Justice in Asia and the Pacific, 1945-1952: Allied War Crimes Prosecutions
WCDI Data and Visualization
The Forgotten Soldiers: Prisoners of the Japanese during World War II in Asia and the Pacific

and highlights three projects:

Documenting Japanese War Crimes at Tokyo: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-1948
Mapping POW Camps in Japan during World War II
Graphing POW Camp Mistreatment in Wartime Japan

Curated by the War Crimes Documentation Initiative (WCDI) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The WCDI team would like to thank the Japanese Studies Endowment and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library in making this project possible.