By NAOTAKA FUJITA/ Senior Staff Writer
August 6, 2021 at 07:30 JST
A courtroom of the Yokohama trials, which handled Class-B and C war criminals, is seen sometime around June 1946. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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