On this day, 79 years ago, on January 9, 1946 (December 7, 1945 in the lunar calendar), China representatives participated in the trial of war criminals at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Hideki Tojo was tried in court. On January 9, the Supreme Command of the Allied Forces instructed the Supreme Command of the Allied Forces in Tokyo to set up the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try and punish the chief war criminals of Japan's fascism. The China judges participating in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are Mei Ru 'ao and prosecutor Xiang Zhejun. The legal experts and historians serving as assistants are Qiu Shaoheng, Fang Fushu, Yang Shoulin, Liu Zijian, etc. Mei Ru 'ao is a member of the Legislative Yuan and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Government, and Xiang Zhejun is the chief prosecutor of the Shanghai Special Administrative Region Court. Court hearings are complex. In addition to stipulating the adoption of "Anglo-American Law" litigation procedures, the trial also stipulates that each war criminal under trial must have an American lawyer in addition to having his own Japanese lawyer and defender. These American lawyers "sought opportunities to exonerate" some war criminals who did not harm U.S. interests. The National Government did not make sufficient preparations beforehand, thinking that as long as judges and prosecutors "opened the golden mouth and dropped the large amount", they could severely punish war criminals. Therefore, they did not prepare enough witnesses and physical evidence materials. Therefore, at the beginning of the trial, the Chinese representative fell into a passive situation where injustice was difficult to justify and suffering was difficult to explain. This made the representatives sad and angry. In order to quickly get out of the predicament, China representatives immediately went to the Allied Forces Headquarters to review the archives of several departments including the Japanese Cabinet and the Ministry of Army. Japan's archives for more than ten years, including documents, combat orders, telegrams, etc., are countless. Delegates first extracted, translated, and sorted out the original materials, and then prepared speech materials based on these materials. They worked day and night for this. Some crimes are not recorded in Japanese archives, and evidence can only be obtained through on-site investigations. For example, in order to collect material on the crimes of the Nanjing Massacre, China representatives made a special trip back to China to investigate, found a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, and took this person to Tokyo to testify in court. After a period of intensive work by the representatives, China has obtained a large number of powerful criminal evidence, which was unexpected by the war criminals who invaded China. During the trial of Ibanaki, 15 defense lawyers and witnesses appeared for him. When it comes to Ibanaki's participation in "Nine. During the August 18th incident, Nagashimoto, the Japanese regiment that attacked China, testified: "He was drinking at a friend's house that night and got drunk. When he got home, he got a" nine." Report on the 18th Incident. The China prosecutor immediately interrupted him and asked: "Since Shimamoto claimed that he was drunk that night, what can a confused alcoholic prove? How can I testify in court?" As a result, Shimamoto was kicked out of court. This attack caused Banyuan's defense team to mess up. China prosecutors must not only make efforts to defeat Japanese lawyers and witnesses, but also deal with the defense of American lawyers. Kenji Tohihara committed a heinous crime during the invasion of China. When he appeared in court, his defense lawyer actually said that Tohihara was a kind person. To this end, China prosecutors sternly refuted and showed the newspaper that the Fengtian secret service specially used to solicit credit from the Japanese government. One of the pages contains the words "When people in South China hear the name of Tufei Plain and Banyuan, they turn pale at the mention of tigers." China prosecutors said that this is a portrayal of Tufei Yuan and Banyuan, who have harmed the China people like tigers. However, American lawyers actually defended it, saying that this was talking about tigers and had nothing to do with the defendants in this case. The China prosecutor calmly explained: "'The expression turns pale at the mention of a tiger 'means that Tu Feiyuan and Banyuan are as fierce as tigers. When people hear their names, it is like mentioning tigers, and their faces change because of fear." The American lawyer was speechless, and the audience burst into laughter. It took China judges eight days from the trial to the final verdict, reading out more than 1200 pages of judgment. War criminals such as Tojo, Matsui, Dohihara, Ibanaki, and Hirota were finally sent to the gallows. China judge Mei Ru 'ao and prosecutors in the court During the arraignment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, all Japanese war criminals stood up. The 28 Japanese Class-A war criminals are: Kenji Doiwara, Toshiroku, Hiroshi Hiroda, Namajiro, Hideki Tojo, Junoki Okai, Mijiro Umezu, Saduo Araki, Taketo, Naoki Hoshino, Kagya Koshinobu, Yuichi Kimura, Shingoro Hashimoto, Koi Kuniaki, Nagano Osamu, Hiroshi Oshima, Matsui Ishione, Okawa, Kiichiro Hiranuma, Dongxiang Shigetoku, Matsuoka Yoshi, Shigemitsu, Kenyo Sato, Shimada, Toshio Shiratori Shiratori, Suzuki, Seishiro Iwaki.