TOKYO WAR CRIMES TRIAL

A collection of approximately 350 documents (mostly cyclostyle copies of originals), and other items from the U. S. and foreign prosecutor cases for the indictment of the leaders of the Empire of Japan at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (May 5, 1946 - November 2, 1948), most commonly known as the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, from the archive of Calhoun Phelps, Head of the Documents Division. The collection comprises: Approximately 55 documents, bound and single-sheet, for the use of the U.S. prosecuting team, including: 27 page Planning Memorandum distributed to the delegations at the beginning of the London Conference of June, 1945, marked "Secret," a 68 page transcript of the trial proceedings, an 8 page unpublished script for a propaganda film entitled "Glorious Japan," 19 pages of typed conference declarations from Potsdam, Moscow, Cairo and others, a 22 page document entitled, "Japanese Constitution, and the Functions of the Various Offices Held by Defendants," affidavits from witnesses, rules of procedure for the Tribunal, numerous extensive telephone directories, one of which is hand-written and lists the names and addresses of local merchants and citizens who have copiers available to the documents division, a 9 page list of names of Japanese and Puppets exercising Civilian Control in Occupied China, a 27 page full translation of the Records of Japanese Home Ministry and Personnel list of the Greater JAPAN-ASIA Prosperity Alliance, a 14 page Chron Read more…