| Description |
xix, 267 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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Transitions--Asia and Asian America |
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Transitions--Asia and Asian America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-249) and index. |
| Contents |
The Sandakan POW camp and the Geneva convention -- The Sandakan death marches and the elimination of POWs -- Rape and war : the Japanese experience -- Judge Webb and Japanese cannibalism -- Japanese biological warfare plans and experiments on POWs -- Massacre of civilians at Kavieng -- Conclusion : understanding Japanese brutality in the Asia-Pacific war. |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Indonesia -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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Australians -- Crimes against -- Indonesia.
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Japan -- Armed Forces -- Southeast Asia -- Attitude.
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Japan -- Armed Forces -- Southeast Asia -- Attitudes.
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15.75 history of Asia.
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Australians -- Crimes against.
(OCoLC)fst00821512
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Indonesia. (OCoLC)fst01209242
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
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Southeast Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240499
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Oorlogsmisdaden.
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Japanners.
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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| Chronological Term |
1939-1945
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| Indexed Term |
Australians Indonesia Crimes against |
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Geschichte 1939-1945 |
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Japan Armed forces Asia, Southeastern Attitude |
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World War, 1939-1945 Indonesia Prisoners and prisons, Japanese |
| Added Title |
Shirarezaru sensō hanzai. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Tanaka, Toshiyuki, 1949- Shirarezaru sensō hanzai. English. Hidden horrors. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996 (OCoLC)604026077 |
| ISBN |
0813327172 (alk. paper) |
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9780813327174 (alk. paper) |
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0813327180 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780813327181 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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