Interpreting the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal: A Sociopolitical Analysis (Perspectives on Translation)

I found Kayoko Takeda's short _Interpreting the Tokyo War Crimes Trial: A Sociopolitical Analysis_ unsatisfying. She looks at the interpretation at the trial not as issues in interpretation but as questions of who performed what roles, why, and how it worked out. She is interested in, for example, the idea of trust -- can the client really trust someone who has reason to identify with the other side -- and the interpreters' own understanding of their positions. (Many of the interpreters were from the Japanese Foreign Ministry or other Japanese organizations, and most of those who were not were nisei.) And while I realize this is a potential problem -- I have heard, for example, that Chinese interpreters understand they are working for the Chinese government no matter who is paying them for this or that job -- it is not as interesting to me as the actual language issues might be. Hence my dissatisfaction with the book. But if you are interested in that sort of thing, you will probably find the book interesting. And it is short and inexpensive enough to try out if you think you might be interesting. Published by the University of Ottawa Press this year. Basically a slightly expanded PhD thesis.