Tokyo War Crimes Trial: A Digital Exhibition

After World War II ended, Allied forces established the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known
informally as the Tokyo War Crimes trial, to prosecute the
Japanese officials involved with launching the war. The
trial took place from April 1946 to November 1948 and
resulted in death sentences for seven of the defendants
and prison terms for the remaining war criminals. The
Tokyo War Crimes Trial is a massive digital exhibition of
historical documents related to the trial, posted by the
Virginia Law Library. At the heart of the collection is a
treasure trove of more than 20,500 original documents
donated to the Law School in 1978 by the family of Frank
Stacy Tavenner, a 1927 graduate of the University of
Virginia School of Law, who was the assistant chief
prosecutor of the Tokyo War Crimes trial.