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The Manila massacre was one of several major war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army, as judged by the postwar military tribunal. The Japanese commanding general, Tomoyuki Yamashita, and his chief of staff Akira MutÅ, were held responsible for the massacre and other war crimes in a trial which started in October 1945.
The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) were responsible for a multitude of war crimes leading to millions of deaths. War crimes ranged from sexual slavery and massacres to human experimentation, starvation, and forced labor, all either directly committed or condoned by the Japanese military and government.
World War II Philippine war crimes trials. Between 1947 and 1949, 73 trials were conducted by the newly independent Republic of the Philippines against 155 members of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy who committed war crimes during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. This resulted in the conviction of 138 individuals and the death ...
Plaza Cuartel, Puerto Princesa, site of the massacre. The Palawan massacre occurred on 14 December 1944, during World War II, near the city of Puerto Princesa in the Philippine province of Palawan. Allied soldiers, imprisoned near the city, were killed by Imperial Japanese soldiers. Only eleven men managed to survive.
11 (see list) 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 ...
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 crimes of the past and the appropriate person to ...
The Bataan Death March [a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 [1] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando . The transfer began on 9 April 1942 after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines ...
As the population panicked and resisted, the Japanese soldiers started bayoneting and shooting at them. 4 Japanese soldiers died as well during the incident. Pagaeaw-aeaw Tragedy (War crime) 21 October 1942 Banga, Aklan: hundreds (civilians) Victims were killed when the Japanese entered the town: Taban Massacre (War crime) 17 August 1943