Photos document brutality in Shanghai September 23, 1996 "The Chinese enjoyed it," Simmen said. "They (were) waiting for the Japanese head to get cut off, then they took the head and played football ... I mean that was a terrible thing." Simmen's father told him that the Chinese soldiers used a variety of torture methods on prisoners, including suspending them in wooden cages by the neck until they died of starvation. Some were shot, and their bodies stacked for mass burials.
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 five 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.
More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Death Railway (or Thailand-Burma Railway).
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.
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. • Sook Ching Massacre in Singapore. • SS Tjisalak Massacre by Japanese submarine I-8. • Terror Bombing of Chongqing, China. • Tol Plantation Massacre in the Australian Territory of New Guinea. • Wake Island Massacre in North Pacific Ocean. • Hsuchow (Xuzhou) Massacre in Jiangsu, China.
Photos document brutality in Shanghai September 23, 1996 "The Chinese enjoyed it," Simmen said. "They (were) waiting for the Japanese head to get cut off, then they took the head and played football ... I mean that was a terrible thing." Simmen's father told him that the Chinese soldiers used a variety of torture methods on prisoners, including suspending them in wooden cages by the neck until they died of starvation. Some were shot, and their bodies stacked for mass burials.
undertakerRach 5 months ago
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 8 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 8 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 five 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 8 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.
More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Death Railway (or Thailand-Burma Railway).
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 8 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 8 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 8 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.
After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all POWs taken at sea.
TectonicPower 8 months ago
TectonicPower 8 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 8 months ago