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    Yuma Totani
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    Yuma Totani is a historian of modern Japan and a researcher of war crimes trials held by the Allied Powers against the Japanese in the wake of World War II. She earned her PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005. Her current home institution is the Department of History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Yuma Totani is a historian of modern Japan and a researcher of war crimes trials held by the Allied Powers against the Japanese in the wake of World War II. She earned her PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University in 2005–06; an Abe Fellow in 2010–11; a Frederick Burkhardt residential fellow and concurrently a CASBS fellow in 2012–13; a national fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2016–17; and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2017–23. Her current home institution is the Department of History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is a cofounder of the War Crimes Documentation Initiative, a digital humanities lab at the University of Hawaiʻi Library. Her representative publications are The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008); Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region,1945–1952: Allied War Crimes Prosecutions (Cambridge University Press, 2015); and The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal: Law, History, and Jurisprudence (with David Cohen, Cambridge University Press, 2018). Her latest book, The Anatomy of Defeat: World War II in Asia and the Pacific through the Japanese War History Series, is forthcoming from Hoover Institution Press.

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