Hidden horrors : Japanese war crimes in World War II

Yuki Tanaka ; with a foreword by John W. Dower

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.

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  • * 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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書名 Hidden horrors : Japanese war crimes in World War II
著作者等 Dower, John W
田中 利幸
Tanaka Toshiyuki
書名別名 知られざる戦争犯罪

Shirarezaru sensō hanzai
シリーズ名 Transitions : Asia and Asian America
出版元 Westview Press
刊行年月 1996
版表示 New ed
ページ数 xix, 267 p., [12] p. of plates
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0813327180
NCID BA27934573
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言語 英語
原文言語 日本語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国