China and Japan have both acknowledged the occurrence of wartime atrocities.
Such silence is common to victims of wartime atrocities, historians say.
More than 100 veterans testified to observing or taking part in wartime atrocities.
There is still widespread denial, he said, about wartime atrocities.
New junior high school textbooks omit or play down Japanese wartime atrocities.
The book waves away Japan's worst wartime atrocities in China.
Prosecutors had argued that he was killed to prevent any trials over wartime atrocities.
Discussion of wartime atrocities developed considerably in this period.
It followed that the military elite, not the nation as a whole, was responsible for wartime atrocities.
The only way to completely eliminate the occurrence of wartime atrocities is to avoid having wars.