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According to Peter Schrijvers, rape was "a general practice against Japanese women".H-Net review of The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II According to a New York Times article from June 1, 2000 regarding the 1998 discovery of the corpses of 3 U.S. rapists killed by Okinawan villagers after ...
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 ...
Yasuji Kaneko (金子 安次, Kaneko Yasuji, January 28, 1920 [1] – November 25, 2010 [2]) was an ex-soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army, and a former detainee of both Siberian Internment by the Soviet Union during 1945–1950 and Fushun War Criminals Management Centre in China during 1950–1956. He was known for his extensive war crimes ...
On 20 January 1942, a small vessel was spotted heading for Balikpapan by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force. A flying boat landed near the vessel, which was found to contain two captains of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. The two men had been captured and spared the massacre of 215 Dutch POWs at Tarakan, which oilfields ...
The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry Report, commonly known as the Brereton Report (after the investigation head), is a report into war crimes committed by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) during the War in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016. [1] The investigation was led by Paul Brereton, who is both a New ...
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 ...
The Second Sino-Japanese War was the war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945 as part of World War II. It is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century [25] and has been described as "the Asian Holocaust ", in reference to the scale of ...
Membership (2014) ~30. The Malaya Lolas ( lit. 'Free Grandmothers') [further explanation needed] are an organization based in Pampanga, Philippines composed of people who were formerly "comfort women" or victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial army during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. [1]