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BEIJING: China is compiling a series of 80 books documenting the post-World War II Tokyo trials of Japanese war criminals, state media said Friday, at a time of souring ties between the historic rivals.
Many right-wing Japanese politicians and historians doubted the justice of the trials and distorted the reality... so we have to accelerate our research to counter their version of events, said Zheng Zhaoqi, head of the centre producing the series, as quoted in the China Daily newspaper.
News of the project comes a week after two Japanese ministers visited a controversial Tokyo shrine that honours 14 war criminals, provoking an angry response from China, as prior visits by Japanese politicians have also done.
Sino-Japanese relations had already been strained over a decades-old dispute about an island chain that flared up again in August, and Beijing has long resented what it sees as Japans failure to fully atone for its aggression in the early 20th century.
Its only the beginning, Zheng said, adding that the full volume of books, containing 50,000 pages, would be published by the end of 2013. We plan to expand relevant research based on this original file.
The 1946-48 Tokyo trials, formally known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, were akin to the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis, set up after World War II by the victorious Allied forces to convict war criminals.
All 28 Japanese defendants were convicted by 11 judges from Allied nations, with sentences ranging from seven years in jail to execution. Scholars have since debated if the process was one of unfair victors justice.
The Chinese have protested against atrocities committed when Japan invaded and occupied parts of China, from forced labour and sex-slave comfort women to mass killings including the infamous 1937-38 massacre known as the Rape of Nanjing.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Many right-wing Japanese politicians and historians doubted the justice of the trials and distorted the reality... so we have to accelerate our research to counter their version of events, said Zheng Zhaoqi, head of the centre producing the series, as quoted in the China Daily newspaper.
News of the project comes a week after two Japanese ministers visited a controversial Tokyo shrine that honours 14 war criminals, provoking an angry response from China, as prior visits by Japanese politicians have also done.
Sino-Japanese relations had already been strained over a decades-old dispute about an island chain that flared up again in August, and Beijing has long resented what it sees as Japans failure to fully atone for its aggression in the early 20th century.
Its only the beginning, Zheng said, adding that the full volume of books, containing 50,000 pages, would be published by the end of 2013. We plan to expand relevant research based on this original file.
The 1946-48 Tokyo trials, formally known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, were akin to the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis, set up after World War II by the victorious Allied forces to convict war criminals.
All 28 Japanese defendants were convicted by 11 judges from Allied nations, with sentences ranging from seven years in jail to execution. Scholars have since debated if the process was one of unfair victors justice.
The Chinese have protested against atrocities committed when Japan invaded and occupied parts of China, from forced labour and sex-slave comfort women to mass killings including the infamous 1937-38 massacre known as the Rape of Nanjing.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
