Ms. Yu Chengyu, a Canadian-Chinese, donated Friday afternoon the archives of Henry Grattan Nolan, the Canadian prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum. In the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, Nolan was one of the judges of the 11 allied countries and the chief prosecutor against Iwane Matsui. Nolan’s contribution to the convicting of the Japanese war criminals at the Tokyo Trials was not known for a long time. Yu Chengyu, an overseas Chinese who has been committed to spreading the truth of the Nanjing Massacre in Canada, has collected his information in local archives, libraries, and his hometown of Calgary since 1997 and compiled it into the Nolan Archives. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as the Tokyo Trial or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for joint conspiracy to start and wage war, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity that are categorized as Class A crimes, Class B crimes and Class C crimes respectively. Eleven countries, including Australia, Canada, China, France, British India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, provided judges and prosecutors for the court. The defense comprised Japanese and American lawyers.
