Tokyo War Crime Trial book published in China

A book detailing the Tokyo War Crime Trials was published for the first time on the Chinese mainland on Sept 2, marking the 68th anniversary of China's victory on the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).

Transcript of the Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East is 50,000 pages long and comprises 80 volumes. It has been jointly published in English by Shanghai Jiaotong University Press and the National Library of China. The book covers the details of the Tokyo War Crime trials that ran from May 3, 1946 to Nov 12, 1948.

The publication took about two years, according to Cheng Zhaoqi, head of the Tokyo Trial Research Center affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University.