Records of the International Military Tribunal, Far East (Tokyo)

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Records of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, held in Tokyo between April 1946 and December 1948 to try representatives of the wartime Japanese governments and armed forces on war crimes charges, comprising: 27 volumes of the published transcripts of Proceedings in Open Session and associated records, with name and subject index (THE TOKYO WAR CRIMES TRIAL, ed. R J Pritchard & S M Zaide, Garland Publishing, New York 1981 - 1987); bound copies of the original cyclostyled record of proceedings, prosecution and defence summations, court exhibits not included in the published series, and related records (held under Public Record Office references FO 648/1-160).

History note

Cataloguer SWW

History note

Catalogue date 2001-01

Object Details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Interwar (content), Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content)
Creator: International Military Tribunal (Far East)
Dimensions: whole: 67 boxes + 101 volumes
Catalogue number: Documents.9902

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