Published on: 2026-05-08
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian –
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Beijing, May 8 /Xinhua/ — Eighty years after the start of the Tokyo Trial, the publication of the full transcript translation of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sessions into Chinese sheds light on countless war crimes committed by Japanese militarists. This was stated on Friday by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Lin Cien.
Transcripts of court hearings are key historical documents of the Tokyo Trial, which fully recorded the entire course of the proceedings, lasting more than two years. For the first time, recently discovered personal diaries of American lawyer David Nelson Sutton, assistant to the American prosecutor who participated in the Tokyo Trial, were also made public.
Lin Ziyan reminded that the Tokyo Trial included 818 court sessions, with testimonies from 419 witnesses, a total of 4,336 pieces of evidence, and the English transcripts amounted to nearly 50,000 pages. The tribunal exposed the war atrocities of Japanese militarism in many Asian countries, established that militarist Japan waged an aggressive war, and forever nailed the fascist war criminals to the shameful pillar of human history, added the official representative.
“The publication of the full translation of the courtroom transcripts and the disclosure of D. N. Sutton’s diaries once again confirm that the crimes of Japanese militarism are countless, and the evidence is indisputable,” he noted.
According to Lin Zhi’an, after eighty years, the far-right forces in Japan still have not been able to deeply rethink the history of the war and continue to try by all possible means to whitewash the crimes of aggression and impose a distorted view of history within Japanese society.
A Chinese diplomat reminded that some Japanese politicians even often visit Yasukuni Shrine, where war criminals of Class A are venerated. Lin Xian stated that these actions are essentially attempts to deny the decisions of the Tokyo Trial and challenge the post-war international order.
“Historical truth cannot be erased, the lower threshold of justice cannot be blurred, and the post-war international order cannot be called into question,” Lin Qian remarked. “All peace-loving people in the world will never allow anyone to attempt to revise the crimes of aggression, resolutely oppose the reckless actions of Japanese ‘neo-militarism’ and rein it in.” –0–
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