Hidden horrors : Japanese war crimes in World War II

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Hidden horrors : Japanese war crimes in World War II

Yuki Tanaka ; with a foreword by John W. Dower

（Transitions : Asia and Asian America）

Westview Press, 1996

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

タイトル別名

Shirarezaru sensō hanzai

知られざる戦争犯罪

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"First published in 1993 in Japan by Otsuki Shoten (in Japanese) as Shirarezaru senso hanzai"--T.p. verso

Pbk ed.: Description based on 7th impression (1998)

Last page of some impressions of pbk is ended with 269 p.: NCID=BA60839106

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780813327174

内容説明

This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at warwithout denying individual and national responsibility. }This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become comfort womenprostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived to tell the tale.Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at warwithout denying individual and national responsibility. }

目次

Introduction The Sandakan POW Camp and the Geneva Convention The Sandakan Death Marches and the Elimination of POWs Rape and War: The Japanese Experience Judge Webb and Japanese Cannibalism Japanese Biological Warfare Plans and Experiments on POWs Massacre of Civilians at Kavieng Conclusion: Understanding Japanese Brutality in the Asia-Pacific War
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780813327181

内容説明

This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become "comfort women"--prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived to tell the tale.Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war--without denying individual and national responsibility.

目次

* Introduction * The Sandakan POW Camp and the Geneva Convention * The Sandakan Death Marches and the Elimination of POWs * Rape and War: The Japanese Experience * Judge Webb and Japanese Cannibalism * Japanese Biological Warfare Plans and Experiments on POWs * Massacre of Civilians at Kavieng * Conclusion: Understanding Japanese Brutality in the Asia-Pacific War

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