WMD's of the Rising Sun.

The Beer Baron

http://www.skycitygallery.com/japan/japan.html#unit731

Cruelty, torture, Mengalee-style operations, plague-bombs, tainted water, chemical warfare, forced addiction and amnesties from the US government.

After infecting him, the researchers decided to cut him open alive, tear him apart, organ by organ, to see what the disease does to a man's inside. Often no anesthetic was used, he said, out of concern that it might have an effect on the results.

Not exactly light reading.

An in-depth study by Chinese and Japanese scholars have shown that at least 270,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed by Japanese germ warfare between 1933 - 1945.

Kinda puts Hiroshima and Nagasake in perspective.

Capt'n Midnight

Article is from a very USA perspective - the individual actions they refer too are have lower deaths than the Tokoyo boming raid.

However the numbers say it all.. (from the link)

Japan is responsible for the casualties of 20 - 30 million Chinese during the 14 years of invasion,

Not to mention large numbers of Korean (9 million), Indonesia (4 million), Vietnam (2 million), India (1.5 million), Filipine (1 million), and other Asian countries Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, Singapore ..........

Despite first seeing numbers like this in my intercert history book I still don't know very much about the asians who died in the Japenese occupation, still don't since this article mentions only about 1% specifically - was it like the German occupation of Poland / Russia or not ?

Geromino

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Article is from a very USA perspective - the individual actions they refer too are have lower deaths than the Tokoyo boming raid.

However the numbers say it all.. (from the link)


Despite first seeing numbers like this in my intercert history book I still don't know very much about the asians who died in the Japenese occupation, still don't since this article mentions only about 1% specifically - was it like the German occupation of Poland / Russia or not ?

The Beer Baron gave an extensive list, but I mght add the Japanese philosophy that they were racially superior to that of Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, and all other East Asian nationalities.

There were little amnesties by the US government except for the Emperor. In the Japanese pysche, the Empreror was not a Constitutional Monarch, but reserved as a Divine Being. It was the Emperor that allowed Japan to prosper and not be divided like Germany. However, because of resistance by the Japanese for future war crimes tribunals, which was seen as overtly racist, General McArthur asked the leaders of Allied Powers to not conduct any more war crimes. Emperor Hirihito also issued an amnesty of all Japanese military in July 1946. In 1947, the UK took the lead not to try any other war crimes. The British Commonwealth Relations Office sent a secret memo to Canada, New Zealand, Ceylon, India, Australia, Pakistan, and South Africa not to conduct any further trials. All governments replied favorably or no comment to the secret communique. The Treaty of Peace, which was signed by all Allied Powers in 1949 forbade, any future war crimes by Japanese soldiers and civilians. Thus ended the war crimes tribunals of Japanese soldiers and civilians.

Thus ended the war crimes tribunals of Japanese soldiers and civilians.

the other reason for this was that they didn't want to have to concede having war tribunals on their own soldiers. The allies knew that their own troops had broken the Geneva Convention many times, and that attrocities had been commited by their own officers. (The machine gunning of Japanese seamen in the water, by US submarines, the standards of POW camps in France, the resistance tactics used by British/frence irregulars in Europe) They wished to maintain the image of the allies providing freedom & stability. Persuit of War crimes would have tarnished their own troops, and weakened their armies, now that they had the new enemy, that was Russia.