A recent history revisits the Tokyo trial. The Nazi war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg had already been underway for months by the time its counterpart in Tokyo began in March 1946. The staggered start ...

“To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice,” said U.S. Prosecutor Robert Jackson in 1945 at the start of the first Nürnberg war crimes trials, “is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon ...

It was April 1946 and World War II had ended just months ago with the surrender of Germany and Japan. The Allied powers (USA, USSR, and the UK) had claimed victory. That's when the turn came to try ...

At the war crimes trial in Tokyo, War Criminal Henry Pu-yi continued his testimony about his trials as No. 1 Japanese puppet (TIME, Aug. 19). In 1940, he reported, Emperor Hirohito had invited him to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Thousands of pages of documents, photos and other exhibits from the war crimes trial of 28 Japanese defendants have been digitally preserved and placed online by the University of ...