BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) — Sunday marks the eightieth anniversary of the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, or the Tokyo Trials.
From May 3, 1946, to Nov. 12, 1948, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East was held in Tokyo by 11 nations, together with the United States, China, the UK and the Soviet Union, to attempt Japan’s Class-A conflict criminals after World War II.
During the trial some eighty years in the past, the tribunal convicted 25 Class-A Japanese conflict criminals, with seven sentenced to dying, together with Hideki Tojo, probably the most atrocious conflict prison who served as Japanese prime minister between 1941 and 1944. The proceedings, backed by intensive proof, uncovered the crimes of Japanese militarism and stood as a landmark victory of justice over aggression.