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This is the classic, standard account of Japanese war crimes; a best seller in its time, but out of print for many years. Between 1931 and 1945 Japanese troops rampaged through one defeated country after another, executing civilians, despoiling cities, massacring prisoners and cruelly exploiting prisoners of war and native populations. This carefully constructed history charts this brutal swathe of destruction, objectively examines individual crimes and details the reasons behind Japan's unprecedented disregard for accepted humanitarian principles. Japanese troops behaved with considerable brutality in their war against China a campaign designed 'to punish the people of China'. The Nanking massacre of December 1937 was just one example of the appalling series of atrocities the Japanese inflicted on the conquered Chinese. Japan also excelled in the mistreatment of prisoners of war. Allied troops unfortunate enough to fall into Japanese hands were abused, humiliated, starved and forced to serve as slave labor. This sweeping indictment of atrocities committed by the forces of the Rising Sun is a detailed and carefully documented study and one which throws light onto one of the most disturbing episodes of World War II.
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Mario Arico
reviewed Knights of Bushido A Short History of Japanese War Crimes on June 14, 2015
Knights of Bushido A Short History of Japanese War Crimes
The three stars should not be taken as a criticism. This book gives a fairly detailed account of Japanese atrocities in WWII, written by a man who was himself a lawyer and one of the top British legal advisors at Nuremburg and at Tokyo. The first chapter contains a brief, but well focused account of the political rise of the military faction in Japan from 1931 to Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent chapters then present documentary and anecodotal evidence of Japanese war atrocities (from both victim witnesses and from Japanese war diaries) -- mostly (though not exclusively) directed against Chinese and Westerners, or other racial minorities (like the Mantanani Suluks: ).
It is quite a dismal tale.
Originally published in 1958, the book still shows the scars of the trauma, but Lord Russell succeeds in maintaining a fairly even and documentary approach.
One of the more interesting chapters details the use, by the military brass, as a sort of ritual act, of cannibalism:
In general, though, the catalogue of atrocities (though the author does not descend into lurid description) is just that -- hence, the missing star.
That said, a depressing account..., as I've said.
Proof once again that the most dangerous animal known to man... is Man
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