What a US lawyer’s diaries show about prosecuting Japanese atrocities of Nanking massacre

Newly revealed World War II diaries from David Nelson Sutton, an American assistant prosecutor at the Tokyo Trial (International Military Tribunal for the Far East), detail the difficult process of documenting Japanese wartime atrocities in China. The tribunal aimed to dismantle Japanese militarism and establish a historical record of war crimes. Sutton's diaries highlight the arduous effort involved in gathering evidence, which included a substantial "evidence wall" of nearly 50,000 pages of trial records. The documents also reveal an unexpected connection formed between Sutton and the individuals he assisted in documenting these events.