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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, January 3 (Xinhua) — Russia will continue to uncover war crimes committed by Japanese militarists in 2026, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Friday.
"This year, we continue to uncover information about war crimes committed in the mid-20th century, including by Japanese militarists. We have repeatedly emphasized that these atrocities have no statute of limitations, and legal proceedings to punish all those responsible continue to this day," M. Zakharova noted in a commentary published on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website.
As M. Zakharova pointed out, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, between April and November 2025, ruled to overturn the rehabilitation decisions made in the 1980s and 2000s against Japanese war criminals who participated in sabotage and espionage activities against the USSR. Some defendants were involved in collecting data on the number and deployment of Soviet troops, others trained saboteurs, and still others sent people to conduct experiments on them in "Unit 731."
“Based on the review of court decisions in cassation and supervisory courts, it was established that the individuals in question are not eligible for rehabilitation and their guilt has been fully proven,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a press release. –0–
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