The Tokyo Trial
Recollections and Perspectives from China

This collection of essays represents a distinctively Chinese approach to the interpretation of the Tokyo Trial and its significance today.

The Tokyo Trial Research Centre (Compiled by)

9781107060388, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 December 2016

286 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.56 kg

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, often known as the Tokyo Trial was held by the Allied Nations from 1946–8 to try Japanese military and civil officials for war crimes committed during World War II. The trial proceedings were controversial at the time and remain a highly emotive subject, particularly in East Asia. This collection of essays from leading Chinese historians, presented here in English translation for the first time, represents a distinctively Chinese approach to the interpretation of the trial and its significance today. The essays are supplemented by a detailed chronology and by firsthand accounts of the trial by two men who represented China in the proceedings: the judge Mei Ru'ao and the prosecution consultant Ni Zhengyu.

Part I. Perspectives from China: 1. Was the Nanking Massacre fabricated by the Tokyo Trial? Cheng Zhaoqi
2. The Tokyo Trial and Japan's countermeasures Song Zhiyong
3. On certain issues related to the Tokyo Trial Song Zhiyong
4. From the movie 'The Tokyo Trial' to the Tokyo Trial Cheng Zhaoqi
5. The defence of the Nanjing Massacre during the Tokyo Trial Zhang Sheng and Zhai Yi'an
6. Re-examining Iwane Matsui's war crimes Cheng Zhaoqi
7. Re-examining Sekijiro Ogawa's testimony Cheng Zhaoqi
Part II. Recollections from China: 8. Memories of the Tokyo Trial Ni Zhengru
9. The legal bases and significance of the Tokyo Trial He Qinghua
10. The Nanking Massacre and the Tokyo Trial Mei Ru'ao.

Subject Areas: Second World War [HBWQ], Military history [HBW], Asian history [HBJF]