37th Army Commanders
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Asia Pacific War
Australian Civilians
Australian Nurses
Australian prisoners of war
Author_Yuki Tanaka
biological warfare experiments
biological warfare research
British prisoners of war
Burma Thailand Railway
Category=JP
Chief Petty Officer
Comfort Women
comfort women history
Emperor Ideology
enforced prostitution
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German Clergymen
Japanese cannibalism
Japanese military atrocities analysis
Japanese Naval
Japanese Pow Camp
Japanese Soldiers
Japanese War Crimes
military ethics
Naval Base Force
Papuan Infantry Battalions
Pow Camp
Pow Labor
prisoner of war treatment
Sandakan death marches
Special Court Martial
St Air
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
Tunnel Hill
War Crimes Section
War Crimes Tribunal
wartime sexual violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780367010157
- Weight: 720g
- Dimensions: 136 x 212mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become “comfort women‗prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived to tell the tale. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war—without denying individual and national responsibility.
Yuki Tanaka is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian National University.
