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Anti-Japanese sentiments range from animosity towards the Japanese government 's actions and disdain for Japanese culture to racism against the Japanese people. Sentiments of dehumanization have been fueled by the anti-Japanese propaganda of the Allied governments in World War II; this propaganda was often of a racially disparaging character.
The Japanese occupation of New Guinea was the military occupation of the island of New Guinea by the Empire of Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II when Japanese forces captured the city of Rabaul.
His definition of democide includes not only genocide, but also an excessive killing of civilians in war, to the extent this is against the agreed rules for warfare; he argues the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes, and thus democide.
Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives.
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 ...
Violence against women ( VAW ), also known as gender-based violence [1] [2] and sexual and gender-based violence ( SGBV ), [3] is violent acts primarily or exclusively committed by men or boys against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, [4] committed against women or girls specifically because they are female ...
The Japanese military also systematically forced young Filipino women and girls into sexual slavery as "comfort women". Of the four Japanese military governors of the Philippines, three were tried and convicted of war crimes.
The My Lai massacre(/ˌmiːˈlaɪ/; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai[tʰâːmʂǎːtmǐˀlāːj]ⓘ) was a war crimecommitted by United States Armypersonnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murderof unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.[1]