Japanese War Crimes During World War II
From the attack of 1937 to the end of the World War II, the Japanese army murdered about 3,000,000 to around 15,000,000 of people. Millions of those executed were Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, Indochinese and prisoners of war (Rummel). China was the top country with the most casualties of civilians. Cities and towns were completely destroyed by the Japanese army. Many times people call these years the “Asian Holocaust” due to its immense similarities to the Holocaust. Which also happened at the same time during World War II. Many people have no idea that something similar was happening in China, since the Holocaust was better known.
Many books and articles have been written over the Japanese War Crimes during World War II. War crime …show more content…
are a severe offense of the laws and customs of a war. The book “Forgotten Ally” is a book written about how the Chinese country had suffered throughout World War II. The country of Japan has decided to “forget” what has happened in the past and also has no concern in exposing what happened in China (Todd). Although it is appropriate to bring it up in China.
The Japanese war crimes committed towards the Chinese, did not just include the murder of innocent civilians and prisoners of war. It also included the torture and rape of women and children. Looting and mutilation also occurred very often during the time (Todd). Human experiments and forced labor weren’t uncommon in many towns invaded by the Japanese. The Japanese killed many of them by starvation, bashing and using them as target practices for their army (Morrow). Several times men would be blindfolded in the middle of town and stabbed with bayonets, in front of everyone.
One of the experiments carried out alone caused 3,000 deaths in Unit 731. Unit 731 was an area where people were turned into human guinea pigs and experimented on in a brutal and merciless ways (Kakuchi). Due to its undisclosed environment there is no complete list of all the experiments performed by Unit 731. Although there have been several experiments that were found out by the soldiers that found Unit 731. Vivisections, amputations without anesthesia, testing biological weapons, and frostbite were a few of the experiments performed at the unit (Kakuchi). Germ warfare and human experiments killed around 580,000 Chinese.
One doctor from a human experiment lab said “I cut him open from the chest to the end of his stomach, he made this unimaginable sound, he finally stopped. This was all in a day of a surgeon, but it left an impression on me, because it was my first time” (Kakuchi). Which shows that several time Chinese would be killed by the Japanese just to be killed. Mio also a doctor from a human experiment lab once said “ I Should be called a murdered” and that these labs were called “factories of death. Several times soldiers would find pressured chambers with piles of humans that were tested to see how long a person’s body could last before their eyes would pop out of their head (Kakuchi).
In addition to determine the treatment of frostbite prisoners were taken outside in freezing weather and left with exposed arms, periodically drenched with water until frozen solid. The arm was later amputated; the doctor would then repeat the process on the victims’ upper arm to the shoulders. After both arms were gone the doctors moved to the legs until only a head and torso remained. The victim was then used for plague, pathogens experiments (Kakuchi). Many times the doctor would amputate body parts without anesthesia and to see how much a human could take before death. On march 11, 1948 charges of cannibalism were dropped, but 23 people were found guilty of wrongful removal of body parts (Ralph).
Several times there would be areas where Japanese would force the captured victims to eat wounded soldiers, so the Japanese wouldn’t waste their own food (Ralph).
The Japanese had eaten both the wounded and dead Australians who had been left behind on the previous day. They found them with meat striped of their legs and half cooked meat in dishes. “Flesh stripped off his arms and legs, his uniform torn off him,” said one of the soldiers. In addition they also found dumps with rice and a lot of tinned meat. Which would mean they weren’t starving and having to eat human flesh because they were hungry (Ralph).
Numerous war crimes committed by the Japanese destroyed several towns and cities. Including the city of Nanking and Manila, both of these cities were violently raped and murdered. The Japanese would take any men as prisoners and wouldn’t give them water and food (Ralph). After false hope of being fed, the prisoners would see the Japanese weapons and realize it was too late to escape. The Japanese didn’t care about these people, the dead was thrown over the living and were all over the place. Sometimes the Japanese would disposal of the civilians by burning them …show more content…
(Ralph).
“ On at least two occasions I was an actual eyewitness at the killing of an estimated seventy to one hundred civilians” said Carolina at the time a 22 year old nurse. The Japanese would march into homes, hospitals, schools, and churches to murder everyone inside. Prisoners stood in silence and terror as others dropped, one bye one dead. Chinese women killed before or after gang rapes. Alleys and parks were filled with corpses of women, dishonored even after death by mutilation and stuffing.
The distruction of Naking was also know as “the rape of Naking”, due to the mass rape and murder of the people in the city.It was certainly one of the greatest mass rapes in world history (Jones). The massacres and mass rapes of Nanjing was known to lasted around six weeks or more. Many of the women that have died were from the age of 8 years old to the age of 70 (Jones). Women were brutally raped and knock down and beat till death. During the few weeks, the streets were covered in dead bodies. Women were found with wounds of a saber, or their breast cut off and their genital pierced with bayonets (Litton).
Most bodies were stripped naked, bayoneted all over the body and several times their intestines spilling out. If a Japanese man was to rape a women he had to kill her afterwards, without using his bayonet, and rifle fire (Jones). He had to beat her to death, the purpose was to disguise who killed her. “Chinese men were often sodomized or forced to perform a variety of repulsive sexual acts in front of laughing japanese soldiers (Jones).” Several times Chinese men were murdered because they didn’t want to commit necrophilia with woman corpse in the snow (Litton). In addition Chinese families were forced to rape each other, fathers would rape their daughters, sons rape their mothers. Or they would be killed on spot. Japanese soldiers would try to violate young girls who were actually dying (Litton).
“On February 10, 1945, a squad of Japanese soldiers entered the Red Cross building and proceeded to shot and bayonet everyone in the building, including staff, doctors, patients and young babies, nurses and refugees” (Litton).
Not many people died right then, several people died with in one or two hours later. Whenever one of the patients had asked for water or food. They were bayoneted and thrown into the building of the dead (Litton). A nurse from one of the hospitals in Manila said, “From where we were we could hear victims in their death agony and the shrill cries of children and sobs of dying mothers and
girls.”
Men were forced to dig their own graves and knelt before them before they were killed. Houses and churches were set on fire with everyone inside. Men would try to escape from burning homes, and forced back into their burning homes with flame throwers (Litton). Many times the Chinese victims were used as training and targets for the Japanese army. The women and children were slaves and toys for the army, and killed during beheading parties. On Taft Avenue, 45 women and children were cruelly mutilated and killed by bayonets (Litton).
The Japan-China War started in July 1937 when the Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops near Beijing (Trueman). China was the one of the most impacted country during World War II. China lost 14 million people during World War II (Todd). Many people still don’t know why the Japanese did what they did. Now a days Japan hasn’t mentioned anything over the past executions of the Chinese. The Holocaust and the Crimes committed towards the chinese are very similar. Both times, a specific race was chosen and mass murdered.
Many books and articles have been written over the Japanese War Crimes during World War II. War crime …show more content…
are a severe offense of the laws and customs of a war. The book “Forgotten Ally” is a book written about how the Chinese country had suffered throughout World War II. The country of Japan has decided to “forget” what has happened in the past and also has no concern in exposing what happened in China (Todd). Although it is appropriate to bring it up in China.
The Japanese war crimes committed towards the Chinese, did not just include the murder of innocent civilians and prisoners of war. It also included the torture and rape of women and children. Looting and mutilation also occurred very often during the time (Todd). Human experiments and forced labor weren’t uncommon in many towns invaded by the Japanese. The Japanese killed many of them by starvation, bashing and using them as target practices for their army (Morrow). Several times men would be blindfolded in the middle of town and stabbed with bayonets, in front of everyone.
One of the experiments carried out alone caused 3,000 deaths in Unit 731. Unit 731 was an area where people were turned into human guinea pigs and experimented on in a brutal and merciless ways (Kakuchi). Due to its undisclosed environment there is no complete list of all the experiments performed by Unit 731. Although there have been several experiments that were found out by the soldiers that found Unit 731. Vivisections, amputations without anesthesia, testing biological weapons, and frostbite were a few of the experiments performed at the unit (Kakuchi). Germ warfare and human experiments killed around 580,000 Chinese.
One doctor from a human experiment lab said “I cut him open from the chest to the end of his stomach, he made this unimaginable sound, he finally stopped. This was all in a day of a surgeon, but it left an impression on me, because it was my first time” (Kakuchi). Which shows that several time Chinese would be killed by the Japanese just to be killed. Mio also a doctor from a human experiment lab once said “ I Should be called a murdered” and that these labs were called “factories of death. Several times soldiers would find pressured chambers with piles of humans that were tested to see how long a person’s body could last before their eyes would pop out of their head (Kakuchi).
In addition to determine the treatment of frostbite prisoners were taken outside in freezing weather and left with exposed arms, periodically drenched with water until frozen solid. The arm was later amputated; the doctor would then repeat the process on the victims’ upper arm to the shoulders. After both arms were gone the doctors moved to the legs until only a head and torso remained. The victim was then used for plague, pathogens experiments (Kakuchi). Many times the doctor would amputate body parts without anesthesia and to see how much a human could take before death. On march 11, 1948 charges of cannibalism were dropped, but 23 people were found guilty of wrongful removal of body parts (Ralph).
Several times there would be areas where Japanese would force the captured victims to eat wounded soldiers, so the Japanese wouldn’t waste their own food (Ralph).
The Japanese had eaten both the wounded and dead Australians who had been left behind on the previous day. They found them with meat striped of their legs and half cooked meat in dishes. “Flesh stripped off his arms and legs, his uniform torn off him,” said one of the soldiers. In addition they also found dumps with rice and a lot of tinned meat. Which would mean they weren’t starving and having to eat human flesh because they were hungry (Ralph).
Numerous war crimes committed by the Japanese destroyed several towns and cities. Including the city of Nanking and Manila, both of these cities were violently raped and murdered. The Japanese would take any men as prisoners and wouldn’t give them water and food (Ralph). After false hope of being fed, the prisoners would see the Japanese weapons and realize it was too late to escape. The Japanese didn’t care about these people, the dead was thrown over the living and were all over the place. Sometimes the Japanese would disposal of the civilians by burning them …show more content…
(Ralph).
“ On at least two occasions I was an actual eyewitness at the killing of an estimated seventy to one hundred civilians” said Carolina at the time a 22 year old nurse. The Japanese would march into homes, hospitals, schools, and churches to murder everyone inside. Prisoners stood in silence and terror as others dropped, one bye one dead. Chinese women killed before or after gang rapes. Alleys and parks were filled with corpses of women, dishonored even after death by mutilation and stuffing.
The distruction of Naking was also know as “the rape of Naking”, due to the mass rape and murder of the people in the city.It was certainly one of the greatest mass rapes in world history (Jones). The massacres and mass rapes of Nanjing was known to lasted around six weeks or more. Many of the women that have died were from the age of 8 years old to the age of 70 (Jones). Women were brutally raped and knock down and beat till death. During the few weeks, the streets were covered in dead bodies. Women were found with wounds of a saber, or their breast cut off and their genital pierced with bayonets (Litton).
Most bodies were stripped naked, bayoneted all over the body and several times their intestines spilling out. If a Japanese man was to rape a women he had to kill her afterwards, without using his bayonet, and rifle fire (Jones). He had to beat her to death, the purpose was to disguise who killed her. “Chinese men were often sodomized or forced to perform a variety of repulsive sexual acts in front of laughing japanese soldiers (Jones).” Several times Chinese men were murdered because they didn’t want to commit necrophilia with woman corpse in the snow (Litton). In addition Chinese families were forced to rape each other, fathers would rape their daughters, sons rape their mothers. Or they would be killed on spot. Japanese soldiers would try to violate young girls who were actually dying (Litton).
“On February 10, 1945, a squad of Japanese soldiers entered the Red Cross building and proceeded to shot and bayonet everyone in the building, including staff, doctors, patients and young babies, nurses and refugees” (Litton).
Not many people died right then, several people died with in one or two hours later. Whenever one of the patients had asked for water or food. They were bayoneted and thrown into the building of the dead (Litton). A nurse from one of the hospitals in Manila said, “From where we were we could hear victims in their death agony and the shrill cries of children and sobs of dying mothers and
girls.”
Men were forced to dig their own graves and knelt before them before they were killed. Houses and churches were set on fire with everyone inside. Men would try to escape from burning homes, and forced back into their burning homes with flame throwers (Litton). Many times the Chinese victims were used as training and targets for the Japanese army. The women and children were slaves and toys for the army, and killed during beheading parties. On Taft Avenue, 45 women and children were cruelly mutilated and killed by bayonets (Litton).
The Japan-China War started in July 1937 when the Japanese claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops near Beijing (Trueman). China was the one of the most impacted country during World War II. China lost 14 million people during World War II (Todd). Many people still don’t know why the Japanese did what they did. Now a days Japan hasn’t mentioned anything over the past executions of the Chinese. The Holocaust and the Crimes committed towards the chinese are very similar. Both times, a specific race was chosen and mass murdered.