International Military Tribunal for the Far East

The complete court records from the Tokyo Trial have been published in Chinese for the first time, spanning 40 volumes and requiring over a decade of work by hundreds of people. The translation fills a 'critical gap in domestic historical records' by providing detailed documentation of Japanese war crimes, according to state media.

A US prosecutor's WWII-era diaries detail the effort to document Japanese wartime atrocities in China and the bond formed with those he aided. The diaries of David Nelson Sutton, an assistant prosecutor at the Tokyo Trial, reveal the tribunal's reliance on extensive evidence to address the Nanking massacre.