Project to collate Japanese war trial data
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SHANGHAI Jiao Tong University announced an ambitious project to build the largest data base in Asia of the Japanese war criminals trials after World War II.
The project aims to collect dossiers from 54 war criminal courts set up after the war and add to the current data base of literature from the Tokyo War Crimes Trials where those accused of the worst war crimes, known as Class A crimes, faced justice. The dossiers for the slightly less serious crimes covered by the Class B and C trials, which the university wants to collate, will be publicly available in Chinese, English and Japanese for reading and researching, the university said.
Cheng Zhaoqi, head of the Center for Tokyo Trial Studies at the university, said the project was very challenging because researches on trials other than the Tokyo Trials so far have been fragmented. “Those courts were distributed in many different countries, and we don’t even know where the files of the trials at some courts are kept.”
But scholars at the center believe the project is feasible after preliminary researches carried out in China’s Taiwan, Japan and the United States. “Trials of the war criminals after the war are an important cornerstone for the establishment of the postwar political order in East Asia, so studies of the trials are conducive to studies on postwar international relations,” Cheng said.
The project, sponsored by the national government, will be carried out in cooperation with the National Museum of China and the Second Historical Archives of China, which specializes in documents of China’s central governments between 1912 and 1949.
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