GT Exclusive: Testimony across 80 years
By: Global Times | Published: Aug 15, 2026 10:25 AM
"April 7, 1946. Cloudy. Very cool." In Nanjing, David Nelson Sutton, a US assistant prosecutor at the Tokyo Trial, wrote of visiting a site beside the Yangtze River where 6,000 people had been machine-gunned by Japanese troops. Eighty years later, Sutton's six previously unpublished diaries have resurfaced, tracing the postwar ...