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SUMMARY:Symposium: Urban Bombing and War Crimes in the Second World War 
LOCATION:ECL3 - Lecture Theatre\, 460.3.030\, 460 - ECL(Map: http://maps.m
 urdoch.edu.au/location/14603030/)
DESCRIPTION:A Symposium with Professor Charles Schencking from the Univers
 ity of Hong Kong\, researchers in the Asia Research Centre and Murdoch Uni
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                         25 OCT 2019</span>\n                             <
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    A Symposium with Professor Charles Schencking from the University of Ho
 ng Kong\, researchers in the Asia Research Centre and Murdoch University H
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                             <p>We are delighted to welcome Professor Charl
 es Schencking\, who will visit the Asia Research Centre on 25 October. Pro
 fessor Schencking is a distinguished specialist on modern Japanese history
  at the University of Hong Kong - brief biography below. His keynote prese
 ntation will be followed by presentations by researchers from the Asia Res
 earch Centre/History Program at Murdoch.&nbsp\; All are welcome to attend.
 </p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>PROGRAM </strong></p>\n<
 p><strong>12.30-12.40pm&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&n
 bsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; </strong>Opening &ndash\;Sandra Wilson\, Academic Chai
 r\, History</p>\n<p><strong>12.40-1.40pm &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp
 \;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; </strong>Charles Schencking\,
  &lsquo\;The &ldquo\;Wanton Destruction&rdquo\; of Japanese Cities: Urban&
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 \; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;Area Bombing and American War Crimes in the Seco
 nd World War&rsquo\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>1.40-2.10pm&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp
 \;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&n
 bsp\; </strong><strong>Afternoon Tea</strong></p>\n<p><strong>2.10-2.50pm&
 nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp
 \;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; </strong>Paul Taucher\, &lsquo\;Command Responsibi
 lity and Summary Executions in Allied War&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &
 nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nb
 sp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;Crimes Trials of Japanese Susp
 ects&rsquo\;</p>\n<p><strong>2.50-3.15pm &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp
 \;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; </strong>Kirsty
  Metcalfe\, &lsquo\;Medical Care for Australian Captives of the Japanese M
 ilitary&rsquo\;</p>\n<p><strong>3.15-3.40pm &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&n
 bsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; </strong>San
 dra Wilson\, &lsquo\;War Crimes in Japanese Soldiers&rsquo\; Memoirs&rsquo
 \;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Brief Biography</strong></p>\n<p>Charle
 s Schencking is a professor of Japanese history at the University of Hong 
 Kong. He has published widely on the history of natural disasters\, urban 
 reconstruction\, the Imperial Japanese navy\, and on issues related to war
 \, state and society in prewar Japan.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Abst
 ract: &nbsp\;&ldquo\;Wanton Destruction&rdquo\; of Japanese Cities: Urban 
 Area Bombing and American War Crimes in WW2</strong></p>\n<p>From December
  1944 to August 1945\, American Army Air Corp bombers incinerated roughly 
 41% of Japan&rsquo\;s sixty-six largest cities&mdash\;even before the near
  total destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Reflecting in 1947 on their 
 successes\, the US Strategic Bombing Survey concluded that the &ldquo\;air
  attack on Japan was directed against the nation as a whole\, not only aga
 inst specific military targets . . . [and that] the American attack agains
 t the total target was successful.&rdquo\; Undoubtedly\, but what about qu
 estions of morality\, legality\, humanity? Where does America&rsquo\;s urb
 an area bombing of Japan fit within the larger context of war crimes given
  that Axis officials were charged\, convicted\, and executed for acts cont
 ributing to the &ldquo\;wanton destruction of cities&rdquo\;? In this pape
 r Charles Schencking explores the evolution and efficacy of American urban
  area bombing conducted against Japan within larger legal and conceptual f
 rameworks ranging from General Gulio Douhet&rsquo\;s 1927 theory of air po
 wer to post-war attempts to assess and punish crimes against humanity.</p>
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