Murder and maltreatment of Allied POW and Civilian internee, genocidal campaigns against civilian during the China incident, unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor.
Nanjing Massacre-Starting 12/13/1937
lasting 6 weeks,
-City of 1 mil population, half left before Japanese came, of those
300,000 people killed in the most gruesome ways, 20,000 women raped.
-streets filled with blood, river piled up of bodies.
-mass execution, torture, rape, looting, burning
-Favorite Killing/Tortureing Methods-bushido, burned to death, drowning,
buried alive, boiled alive, heart cut out, arms legs cut off, tong cut
off, eyes gauged out, decapitation, mutilation of vagina, castration, nailing
people to boards, cannibalism, throwing babies up and bayoneting it, etc.
Yangtz River-12/37/1937
People trying to escape from Japanese army by crossing the river, Japanese
started shooting, the 50,000 bodies covered the river.
Unit 731 and Unit 100-conducted
gruesome experiments on prisoners near the Chinese city of Harbin.
Estimated 200,000 Chinese tortured to death between 1946-1948.
Favorite Killing/Torture Methods- Infected people with plague bombs,
anthrax, cholera, etc, vivisection(cutting from head to stomach without
anesthetics), freezing people alive, experiments on children, test new
weapons on captured, etc.
Japanese
Doctors Conducted Medical Experiments on Prisoners
Unit
731, Confession of Japanese War Criminals
Three All Campaign- Kill All,
Burn All, Loot All
Bushido- Japanese killing competition
to see who can kill the most.
Korean, Chinese, Philippines,
Taiwan "Comfort Women"- 200,000 forced sex slaves to service the Japanese
solider.
Tokyo War Crimes Trial
5/03/1946-11/04/1948
28 Class A War Criminals, 13
Others
Missing from Trial: All Unit
731 members exempt by U.S. Gen. Mac Arthur
Emperor Hirohito (his lineage are still Japanese royalty today),
Gen Abe Nobayaki, Admiral Yonai Mitsumasa
13 sentenced to death, 16 life
in prison
*far from a complete list of Japanese War Crimes
