Exhibition recreating Japanese war criminals' trial opens in Harbin

The exhibition — Justice on Trial: A Special Exhibition on the Historical Trial of Japanese War Criminals by New China — opened to the public on Wednesday at the Exhibition Hall of Evidence of Crimes Committed by Unit 731, a museum located in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.

The exhibition, jointly created by the museum and the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, Liaoning province, comprehensively and systematically recreates the full historical process of the public trial of 45 Japanese war criminals during World War II by a special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China in Shenyang and Taiyuan, Shanxi province, in 1956.

The exhibition meticulously presents the precious historical facts of war criminals confessing their crimes in court, recreating the judicial trial in New China that had a profound international impact.