For the first time, the complete court records from the Tokyo Trial have been published in Chinese, offering the public in China a detailed look at Japanese war crimes, according to state media.
It filled “a critical gap in domestic historical records”, state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East – also known as the Tokyo Trial – lasted from May 3, 1946, to November 12, 1948.
Judges and prosecutors from 11 countries attended the trial, producing almost 50,000 pages of trial transcripts, witness testimonies, exhibit lists, prosecution and defence records, and judgment documents, Xinhua reported.
Until the new volumes’ publication on Apr…