This photo taken on April 30, 2026 shows the comprehensive Chinese translation of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East records in Shaoxing, east China"s Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua)

　　HANGZHOU, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Eighty years after the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, or Tokyo Trials, a comprehensive Chinese translation of its records has been published for the first time, offering new access to one of the 20th century"s most consequential judicial proceedings.

　　With a 40-volume collection, the complete Chinese translation of the tribunal records spans more than 20,000 pages and 22 million Chinese characters, and was launched at Zhejiang Yuexiu University in Shaoxing, east China"s Zhejiang Province, on Thursday.

　　The project fills a longstanding gap in Chinese-language documentation in the area. For decades, the tribunal records had been available only in English and Japanese. Their translation into Chinese, scholars noted, opens new avenues for research while broadening public understanding of the trial"s historical significance.

　　The translation and editorial work were carried out over more than a decade by a joint team from the Research Institute of War Crimes Trials and World Peace, under Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang Yuexiu University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press.

　　From May 3, 1946, to Nov. 12, 1948, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East was held in Tokyo by 11 countries, including the United States, China, the UK and the Soviet Union, to try Japan"s Class-A war criminals after World War II.