Dossier
Tokyo Trial
Coverage of Tokyo Trial in the Nexus archive.
- Chinese translation of Tokyo war trial records fill ‘critical gap’: state media
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.
- What a US lawyer’s diaries show about prosecuting Japanese atrocities of Nanking massacre
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.