Published on: 2026-05-09
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 translations of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sessions into Chinese sheds light on the countless war crimes of Japanese militarists. This was stated on Friday by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Lin Ziyan.
Court transcripts are key historical documents of the Tokyo Trial, in which the entire year-long proceeding of more than two years was fully recorded. For the first time, recently discovered personal diaries of American lawyer David Nelson Sutton, an 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, 419 witnesses gave testimony, the total number of pieces of evidence amounted to 4,336, and the English-language stenograms totaled nearly 50 thousand pages. The tribunal exposed the war crimes of Japanese militarism in many Asian countries, establishing that militaristic Japan waged an aggressive war and forever condemned fascist war criminals to the ignominious pillar of human history, added the official representative.
“The publication of the full translation of the court session 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 Ziyan, eighty years later, the far-right forces in Japan have still 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 to impose a distorted view of history on Japanese society.
A Chinese diplomat reminded that some Japanese politicians even often visit Yasukuni Shrine, where Class A war criminals are enshrined. Lin Qian said that these actions essentially represent attempts to deny the Tokyo Trials rulings 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 must not be questioned,” Lin Xian noted. “All peace-loving people in the world will never allow anyone to attempt to revise crimes of aggression, firmly opposing the rash actions of Japanese ‘neo-militarism’ and restraining it.” –0–
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