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Japanese war crimes. During its imperial era, the Empire of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. These incidents have been referred to as "the Asian Holocaust ", [3] [4] as "Japan's Holocaust", [5] and also as the "Rape of ...
List of war apology statements issued by Japan. This is a list of war apology statements issued by Japan regarding war crimes committed by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The statements were made at and after the end of World War II in Asia, from the 1950s to present day. Controversies remain to this day about the nature of the war ...
Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an Indian jurist who was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1966. He was one of three Asian judges appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the "Tokyo Trials" of Japanese war crimes committed during the Second World War.
During the Second World War, approximately 80,000-200,000 Korean comfort women and 50,000-70,000 forced laborers of the Korean Women's Volunteer Labor Corps were coerced and recruited into the Japanese war efforts. After the war, these victims of the Japanese colonial rule were not properly compensated nor publicly discussed. South Korea being ...
The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery was a private People's Tribunal organised by Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan). [1] As with the Russell Tribunal in 1967, which was not organized by any government or international institution, the verdict of this trial was not legally ...
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East ( IMTFE ), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during the Second World War. [1]
With territories of India being a British colony and the other regions of India being princely states or Protectorates of Britain, India fought against the Japanese Empire during the Second World War, wherein Japanese forces committed various atrocities and war crimes on the Burmese Front. Political relations between the two nations have warmed ...
Kuznick said the atomic bombing of Japan "was not just a war crime; it was a crime against humanity." [137] Takashi Hiraoka , mayor of Hiroshima, upholding nuclear disarmament , said in a hearing to The Hague International Court of Justice (ICJ): "It is clear that the use of nuclear weapons, which cause indiscriminate mass murder that leaves ...