A new three-episode documentary providing rare footage of the Tokyo Trials will began airing on December 13, China's National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials, when the Allied Forces tried Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo after World War II. The proceedings played an important part in shaping the postwar Asia-Pacific order.

Some rare footage, including witnesses testimony, and war criminals defending themselves in court are to be broadcast for the first time in China.

In one episode, U.S. missionary John Gillespie Magee, one of the key witnesses, is seen giving testimony.

(Xinhua News Agency December 12, 2016)