Tim McCormack is Professor of International Law at the University of Tasmania and the Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Humanitarian Law Series published by Brill Nijhoff and he was the Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project Australia’s Post-World War II War Crimes Trials of the Japanese: A Systematic and Comprehensive Law Reports Series which funded the research reflected in this and subsequent volumes of the new reference work. That project was undertaken in collaboration with the Australian War Memorial and with the Legal Division of the Australian Government’s Department of Defence. Narrelle Morris is an Associate Professor in the Curtin Law School, Curtin University in Western Australia. She is the principal legal researcher on the ARC project on Australia’s Post-World War II War Crimes Trials of the Japanese. She is the author of Japan-bashing: Anti-Japanism since the 1980s (Routledge, 2010) and Japanese War Crimes in the Pacific: Australia’s Investigations and Prosecutions (National Archives of Australia, 2019). Narrelle Morris and Tim McCormack (along with Georgina Fitzpatrick) were also editors of, and contributing authors to, Australia’s War Crimes Trials 1945–51 (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016), which was shortlisted in 2017 for the New South Wales Premier’s Award for Australian History.