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100 1  Jaffe, Eric.|eauthor. 
245 12 A curious madness :|ban American combat psychiatrist, a 
       Japanese war crimes suspect, and an unsolved mystery from 
       World War II|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cEric Jaffe. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2014. 
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511 1  Read by Robertson Dean. 
520    In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged 
       twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. 
       Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence 
       fell most heavily on ten of the accused. In December 1948,
       five of these defendants were hanged, while four received 
       sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a brilliant 
       philosopher-patriot named Okawa Shumei. His story proved 
       strangest of all. Among all the political and military 
       leaders on trial, Okawa was the lone civilian. In the 
       years leading up to World War II, he had outlined a divine
       mission for Japan to lead Asia against the West, 
       prophesized a great clash with the United States, planned 
       coups d'etat with military rebels, and financed the 
       assassination of Japan's prime minister. Beyond 'all 
       vestiges of doubt,' concluded a classified American 
       intelligence report, 'Okawa moved in the best circles of 
       nationalist intrigue.' Okawa's guilt as a conspirator 
       appeared straightforward. But on the first day of the 
       Tokyo trial, he made headlines around the world by 
       slapping star defendant and wartime prime minister Tojo 
       Hideki on the head. Had Okawa lost his sanity? Or was he 
       faking madness to avoid a grim punishment? A U.S. Army 
       psychiatrist stationed in occupied Japan, Major Daniel 
       Jaffe-the author's grandfather-was assigned to determine 
       Okawa's ability to stand trial, and thus his fate. Jaffe 
       was no stranger to madness. He had seen it his whole life:
       in his mother, as a boy in Brooklyn; in soldiers, on the 
       battlefields of Europe. Now his seasoned eye faced the 
       ultimate test. If Jaffe deemed Okawa sane, the war crimes 
       suspect might be hanged. But if Jaffe found Okawa insane, 
       the philosopher patriot might escape justice for his role 
       in promoting Japan's wartime aggression. Meticulously 
       researched, A Curious Madness is both expansive in scope 
       and vivid in detail. As the story pushes both Jaffe and 
       Okawa toward their postwar confrontation, it explores such
       diverse topics as the roots of belligerent Japanese 
       nationalism, the development of combat psychiatry during 
       World War II, and the complex nature of postwar justice. 
       Eric Jaffe is at his best in this suspenseful and 
       engrossing historical narrative of the fateful 
       intertwining of two men on different sides of the war and 
       the world and the question of insanity. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Ōkawa, Shūmei,|d1886-1957. 
600 10 Jaffe, Daniel S.,|d1914-2007. 
600 10 Ōkawa, Shūmei,|d1886-1957|vTrials, litigation, etc. 
650  0 Politicians|zJapan|vBiography. 
650  0 Nationalists|zJapan|vBiography. 
650  0 Psychiatrists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Insanity defense|zJapan|zTokyo|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 War crime trials|zJapan|zTokyo|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|vBiography. 
651  0 Japan|xHistory|yAllied occupation, 1945-1952|vBiography. 
700 1  Dean, Robertson,|enarrator. 
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