As a military historian, I can say without equivocation that no combatant country in World War II, not even the Germans, has a record of atrocity more cruel, more barbaric, more hideous than the Japanese. Much of it was hushed up after the war, but the stories have gotten out. This video should be an object lesson in that barbarity. Unfortunately, unlike Germany, Japanese children are not taught their history and so the young Japanese live in blissful ignorance of their disgusting legacy.
@warwolfii ooh..kids in japan never have history class at their school?!!That's very bad!!..I have a friend who worked in japan for 20 years and she said,whenever people mention about WWII,no matter who they are,Japanese never stop being guilty...yea,that's why God pay them with uncountable tsunamis!
8,000 Australian and Dutch POWs died in Tarsau, Thailand.
Comfort women mostly from Korea and China, also Philippines, Taiwan, Burma, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Netherlands, and Australia were forced into sexual slavery in frontline Comfort Stations in China, Indochina and Indonesia.
Cannibalism in many parts of Asia and the Pacific against POWs, e.g. Chichi Jima and Bonin Islands, in some cases, flesh was cut from living people.
Widespread looting in occupied territories (valuable goods from banks, depositories, temples, churches, mosques, museums, businesses, private homes, etc.) was organized on a massive scale by official secret organization called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) headed by Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother.
Mass raped by Japanese soldiers in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, where some victims were pre-menstruating girls.
Between November 1944 and April 1945, Japan launched over 9,300 balloon bombs (or Fu-Go) to attack US and Canada. One bomb killed a woman and 5 children in south Oregon.
A tacit order from Hirohito to execute all Chinese POWs before the surrender of Japan, out of thousands of Chinese POWs, only 56 survived; and to eliminate evidences, all surviving human test subjects in Japanese Army’s chemical and biological research units were executed before the surrender of Japan.
Thousands of POWs and captured civilians were transported to Japan, Taiwan, Indochina, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor perished in Hell ships such as Oryoku Maru, Junyo Maru, Dainichi Maru, Arisan Maru, and many more.
Only 52,000 of the 270,000 Javanese forced laborers being sent to other Japanese held areas survived after WWII, a death rate of 80%.
Most victims of the human experimentations were Chinese, also American, British, Australian and Russian POWs.
At least six different chemical and biological attacks were conducted in China, such as Changde chemical and biological weapon attack in Hunan, and twice Kaimingjie germ weapon attacks in Zhejiang, chemical weapons attack in Battle of Wuhan and Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang.
Cyanide gas was tested on Australian and Dutch POWs on Kai Islands of Indonesia.
Various Japanese Army Units (100, 200, 516, 543, 731, 773, 1644, 1855, 2646, 8604, 9420) researched and developed chemical (potassium cyanide, phosgene, chlorine, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic trichloride, sulfer mustard, lewisite etc.) and biological (anthrax, glanders, rusts, bubonic plague, typhoid, typhus, cholera, smallpox, botulism, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.) weapons, and conducted lethal human experimentations on the general population in Japanese occupied territories.
The Three Alls Policy (Kill all, Burn all, Loot all) sanctioned by Hirohito was to massacre an entire village if they suspected an enemy hiding in the village, such as the Panjiayu Massacre in Hebei, China.
More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Death Railway (or Thailand-Burma Railway), especially at Hellfire Pass.
After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all POWs taken at sea.
• Manila Massacre in Manila, Philippines • Nanking Massacre in Nanking, China • Palawan Massacre in Palawan, Philippinnes • Parit Sulong Massacre in Johor, Malaysia • Sandakan Death Marches in Borneo, Indonesia • Sook Ching Massacre in Singapore • SS Tjisalak Massacre by Japanese submarine I-8 • Terror Bombing of Chongqing, China • Tol Plantation Massacre in Australian Territory of New Guinea • Wake Island Massacre in North Pacific Ocean • Hsuchow (Xuzhou) Massacre in Jiangsu, China
As a Sabahan, I wish to convey my highest appreciation for everything, especially for the life's and souls that we owe from you all.. to all the Australian, NZ, British and the North Borneo (Sabah) people who died during the invasion of Japanese army. Thank you thank thank you Thank you again. My dad was also caught by the Japanse but luckily escaped and lived... :The Japanese never apologised ...
If I were there as a military unit taking the Jap surrender I would have killed every one of those Japs. Shot them right there. I heard some US Marines would sometimes burn Japs to death with flamethrowers for Justice. I hope those stories are true.
You're comments are not welcome in connection with this tragic event. My pops brother was murdered there so I get more of a say than you.. you're troppo.. how can you justify wanting to torture others to get even? it does not bring back those who were lost or undo any of the suffering.. keep your american bs opinions to things american..
I am so happy that my nation dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At that time we would have DESTROYED the Japanese race. It would have been genocide if the Japs did not surrender. The nuclear bomb is a just weapon when killing evil fuks like them!
My grandmother's cousin was also murdered there. I can't believe that so many Australians still don't know about this place, and this terrible barbaric tragedy ....
I adore this history and I born here in Sandakan..Lest We Forget...
Finie88 1 month ago
As a military historian, I can say without equivocation that no combatant country in World War II, not even the Germans, has a record of atrocity more cruel, more barbaric, more hideous than the Japanese. Much of it was hushed up after the war, but the stories have gotten out. This video should be an object lesson in that barbarity. Unfortunately, unlike Germany, Japanese children are not taught their history and so the young Japanese live in blissful ignorance of their disgusting legacy.
warwolfii 1 month ago
@warwolfii ooh..kids in japan never have history class at their school?!!That's very bad!!..I have a friend who worked in japan for 20 years and she said,whenever people mention about WWII,no matter who they are,Japanese never stop being guilty...yea,that's why God pay them with uncountable tsunamis!
Finie88 1 month ago
Watch this video on the 66th Anniversary of the Death March August 15, 2011
cj.my/video/22227/66th-anniversary-of-sandakan-ranau-death-marches.html
taikonunt 6 months ago
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Live burial of POWs and civilians.
8,000 Australian and Dutch POWs died in Tarsau, Thailand.
Comfort women mostly from Korea and China, also Philippines, Taiwan, Burma, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Netherlands, and Australia were forced into sexual slavery in frontline Comfort Stations in China, Indochina and Indonesia.
Cannibalism in many parts of Asia and the Pacific against POWs, e.g. Chichi Jima and Bonin Islands, in some cases, flesh was cut from living people.
TectonicPower 7 months ago
Widespread looting in occupied territories (valuable goods from banks, depositories, temples, churches, mosques, museums, businesses, private homes, etc.) was organized on a massive scale by official secret organization called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) headed by Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother.
Mass raped by Japanese soldiers in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, where some victims were pre-menstruating girls.
TectonicPower 7 months ago
Between November 1944 and April 1945, Japan launched over 9,300 balloon bombs (or Fu-Go) to attack US and Canada. One bomb killed a woman and 5 children in south Oregon.
A tacit order from Hirohito to execute all Chinese POWs before the surrender of Japan, out of thousands of Chinese POWs, only 56 survived; and to eliminate evidences, all surviving human test subjects in Japanese Army’s chemical and biological research units were executed before the surrender of Japan.
TectonicPower 7 months ago
Thousands of POWs and captured civilians were transported to Japan, Taiwan, Indochina, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor perished in Hell ships such as Oryoku Maru, Junyo Maru, Dainichi Maru, Arisan Maru, and many more.
Only 52,000 of the 270,000 Javanese forced laborers being sent to other Japanese held areas survived after WWII, a death rate of 80%.
TectonicPower 7 months ago
Most victims of the human experimentations were Chinese, also American, British, Australian and Russian POWs.
At least six different chemical and biological attacks were conducted in China, such as Changde chemical and biological weapon attack in Hunan, and twice Kaimingjie germ weapon attacks in Zhejiang, chemical weapons attack in Battle of Wuhan and Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang.
Cyanide gas was tested on Australian and Dutch POWs on Kai Islands of Indonesia.
TectonicPower 7 months ago
Various Japanese Army Units (100, 200, 516, 543, 731, 773, 1644, 1855, 2646, 8604, 9420) researched and developed chemical (potassium cyanide, phosgene, chlorine, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic trichloride, sulfer mustard, lewisite etc.) and biological (anthrax, glanders, rusts, bubonic plague, typhoid, typhus, cholera, smallpox, botulism, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.) weapons, and conducted lethal human experimentations on the general population in Japanese occupied territories.
TectonicPower 7 months ago
The Three Alls Policy (Kill all, Burn all, Loot all) sanctioned by Hirohito was to massacre an entire village if they suspected an enemy hiding in the village, such as the Panjiayu Massacre in Hebei, China.
More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Death Railway (or Thailand-Burma Railway), especially at Hellfire Pass.
After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all POWs taken at sea.
TectonicPower 7 months ago
TectonicPower 7 months ago
The followings are all well documented massacres and war crimes committed by the Japanese Army during WWII:
• Alexandra hospital Massacre in Singapore
• Bangka Island Massacre in Duch East Indies (now Indonesia)
• Bataan Death March in Philippines
• Benxihu Colliery in Liaoning, China
• Bombing of Darwin and Broome, Australia
• Changjiao Massacre in Hunan, China
• Double Tenth Incident in Singapore
• Kalagong Massacre in Burma
TectonicPower 7 months ago
As a Sabahan, I wish to convey my highest appreciation for everything, especially for the life's and souls that we owe from you all.. to all the Australian, NZ, British and the North Borneo (Sabah) people who died during the invasion of Japanese army. Thank you thank thank you Thank you again. My dad was also caught by the Japanse but luckily escaped and lived... :The Japanese never apologised ...
BorneoRights 8 months ago
thanks for posting the story..
johnmcmartin 8 months ago
thats my Ganddad Keith Botterill he was 1 of the surviving 6
PlutpPupsPetShop 10 months ago
@PlutpPupsPetShop You should be proud, a true Aussie he was :)
JakeLapham96 9 months ago
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bossdog20 11 months ago
If I were there as a military unit taking the Jap surrender I would have killed every one of those Japs. Shot them right there. I heard some US Marines would sometimes burn Japs to death with flamethrowers for Justice. I hope those stories are true.
carribbeandreams2004 1 year ago
@carribbeandreams2004
You're comments are not welcome in connection with this tragic event. My pops brother was murdered there so I get more of a say than you.. you're troppo.. how can you justify wanting to torture others to get even? it does not bring back those who were lost or undo any of the suffering.. keep your american bs opinions to things american..
johnmcmartin 8 months ago
I hope they hung every one of those war criminals or at least shot them.
carribbeandreams2004 1 year ago
I am so happy that my nation dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At that time we would have DESTROYED the Japanese race. It would have been genocide if the Japs did not surrender. The nuclear bomb is a just weapon when killing evil fuks like them!
carribbeandreams2004 1 year ago
My grandmother's cousin was also murdered there. I can't believe that so many Australians still don't know about this place, and this terrible barbaric tragedy ....
gothecats29 1 year ago
So was my grandfather. he only lived 2 years after he got back :(
blacka78 1 year ago