Tokyo Trial

Author: Yu Xianyu He Qinhua Cai Dongli
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Publication Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Time flies like the sun and moon, and the world and China have undergone tremendous changes in the past two decades. The friendship and exchanges between the people of China and Japan have continued to deepen, and the forces of peace and justice have further developed. However, in Japan, there is still a small group of people who have not fully recognized the invasion of China during the war sixty years ago or the crimes committed by the Japanese invaders against the Chinese people during that conflict. They even deny these facts through various means (such as revising history textbooks). This cannot but provoke our strong indignation and also prompts us to republish this book. History is a mirror of the present. Reviewing and summarizing the history of Japan's invasion of China and analyzing and evaluating the trial of Japanese war criminals by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East from 1946 to 1948 aims to deepen the understanding of the younger generation, particularly, of the immense historical disaster caused by that war, and to raise vigilance against the ambitions of Japan's small group of far-right forces to restore militarism—because in that war, the victims were not only the Chinese people but also all the Japanese people. Since the publication of this book, numerous research achievements on the Tokyo Trial have been published by academia, including literary works and TV documentaries on the Tokyo Trial. Abroad, a number of English-language publications on this topic have also been released. We have paid close attention to and absorbed these achievements as much as possible, and have noted them one by one. Time flies like the sun and moon, and the world and China have undergone tremendous changes in the past two decades. The friendship and exchanges between the people of China and Japan have continued to deepen, and the forces of peace and justice have further developed. However, in Japan, there is still a small group of people who have not fully recognized the invasion of China during the war sixty years ago or the crimes committed by the Japanese invaders against the Chinese people during that conflict. They even deny these facts through various means (such as revising history textbooks). This cannot but provoke our strong indignation and also prompts us to republish this book. History is a mirror of the present. Reviewing and summarizing the history of Japan's invasion of China and analyzing and evaluating the trial of Japanese war criminals by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East from 1946 to 1948 aims to deepen the understanding of the younger generation, particularly, of the immense historical disaster caused by that war, and to raise vigilance against the ambitions of Japan's small group of far-right forces to restore militarism—because in that war, the victims were not only the Chinese people but also all the Japanese people. Since the publication of this book, numerous research achievements on the Tokyo Trial have been published by academia, including literary works and TV documentaries on the Tokyo Trial. Abroad, a number of English-language publications on this topic have also been released. We have paid close attention to and absorbed these achievements as much as possible, and have noted them one by one.