Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Saturday responded to a question on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent meeting with the descendant of Indian judge Radhabinod Pal.

Radhabinod Pal was the only judge who dissented at the post-World War II tribunal that sentenced wartime Japanese leaders to death.

The solemn trial that the International Military Tribunal for the Far East had made on Japanese militarism represented the just voice of loving peace and opposing war of the peoples around the world including the Japanese people, Jiang said.

The trial was also an important foundation for post-war Japan to return to the international community, she said.

The international community had consensus of opinion about this issue a long time ago, the spokeswoman added.

(Xinhua News Agency August 27, 2007)