Fonds/Series
Records of War Crime Tribunals
- Title
- Records of War Crime Tribunals
- Level of Description
- series
- Extent
- ６，００３件||6,003items
- Creator
- Ministry of Justice Judicial System and Investigation Department
- Administrative / Biographical History
- The Ministry of Justice Minister's Secretariat Investigation Division which was established at the time of formation of the Ministry of Justice in August 1952, was reorganized as the Minister's Secretariat Judicial System Department in May 1958, and the name was changed to Minister's Secretariat Judicial System Department in January 2001. The official duties of the Minister's Secretariat Judicial System Department include: 1) Plans and drafts concerning the judicial system, 2) Improvement and compilation of materials concerning domestic and foreign laws and legal administration, etc.
- Source of Transfer or Acquisition
- Transferred from the Ministry of Justice Judicial Systems and Investigation Department in 1999
- Scope and Content
- 1. Class A tribunal records, class A tribunal stenographic records. Documents relating to class A records, daily reports and clippings from magazines and newspapers, catalogue of Far East international military tribunal records, Toyota/Tamura tribunal records. Class A defense records, class A defense research documents, documents related to Nuremberg tribunals (Germany, Nazi)|br|2. Class B/C Manila tribunal records, investigative charts, class B/C case files|br|3. Records transferred from Ministry of Health and Welfare (Class A tribunals, class B/C tribunals, documents for support of demobilized persons)|br|4. Judicial System and Investigation Department research and investigative records, tribunal reference records by country, records related to care group for war criminals. |br|In addition, 111 reels of recording tapes and 609 reels of microfilms are preserved.
- Conditions Governing Reproduction
- Image browsing is possible on the Internet(Some materials)
- Language
- Japanese, English, Dutch, Chinese and French
- Related Material
- Imperial Household Agency>Records of Far East Military Tribunals
https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/2796056
[Fonds/Series] "Records of War Crime Tribunals", National Archives of Japan Digital Archive, https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/fonds/en/2796056（accessed 2026-04-11）
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