On 78th Anniversary of the Tokyo Trial Verdict, China's Foreign Ministry Calls for Resisting Any Revival of Militarism
November 12 marks the 78th anniversary of the verdict of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular press conference in Beijing that the international community should jointly resist any perverse attempt to overturn the verdict on the history of aggression or to revive militarism.
Mao said that 78 years ago today, after two and a half years of hearings, the Tokyo Trial established with voluminous ironclad evidence and rigorous legal reasoning that Japanese militarism's war of aggression was a grave violation of international law, and imposed due punishment on 25 Class-A war criminals. The crimes of Japanese militarism were made known to the world and nailed to the pillar of historical shame.
Mao said the Tokyo Trial is an important part of the postwar international order, and that acknowledging and accepting the trial was a precondition for Japan's return to the international community after the war. For years, she said, right-wing forces in Japan have disregarded the historical conclusions of the Tokyo Trial, strenuously denied and even glorified the crimes of aggression, and promoted a wrong view of history, which is outrageous.
Mao said it is worrying that in recent years the Japanese government, unwilling to make a clean break with Japanese militarism, has sharply increased military spending, developed offensive capabilities, pushed to revise its three security documents, sought to abandon the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, and kept accelerating its remilitarization. Such moves, she said, will seriously challenge the legal bottom line established by the Tokyo Trial and seriously threaten regional peace and stability.
Mao reiterated that history must not be forgotten and justice must not be challenged. China, she said, stands ready to work with all peace-loving countries and peoples to firmly safeguard historical truth, uphold the postwar international order, and defend international fairness and justice. (Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China)
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：日本外务省大楼（四级图库外国外交部包固定图）。 / Image: Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (fixed image from the foreign ministries asset pack).
