A SMALL CROSS-SECTION OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMES
Crimes of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, 1937-1945
Reasons of space permit only a small selection of the atrocities mentioned in the previous section to receive more detailed examination here, but a comprehensive treatment of Japanese atrocities can be found in the books and web-sites listed at the end of this chapter. Because China suffered more than any other country from Japanese atrocities, it is appropriate to mention the horrors visited by Japanese troops on the people of that country first, and I have given particular attention to the Rape of Nanking in 1937 (now called the Nanjing Massacre) which is acknowledged outside Japan to be one of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century.
Following Japan's brutal invasion of China in 1937, Japanese soldiers frequently rounded up Chinese to provide them with bayonet practice. After the fall of Nanking (Nanjing), these unfortunate Chinese were herded into one of many slaughter pits and are shown providing Japanese soldiers with bayonet practice using live victims. This photograph was taken by a Japanese and processed in a Japanese-owned photographic shop. A Chinese photographic technician made copies that were smuggled out of China.
INDEX TO SELECTED IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY WAR CRIMES
The Rape of Nanking (1937), also known as the Nanjing Massacre
The Bangka Island Massacre (1942): Slaughter of Australian Army Nurses
The Sandakan Death March (1945)
Murder and cannibalism on the Kokoda Track (1942)
Conscripting women for sexual slavery in Japanese Army brothels (1937-1945)
Mutilation and murder of Dutch civilians in Borneo
Murder and cannibalism - captured American pilots
INDEX TO SELECTED IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY WAR CRIMES
Murder of American pilots and aircrew at Midway (1942)
The bombing of the hospital ship Manunda (1942)
The sinking of the hospital ship Centaur (1943)
Extermination of survivors of merchant vessels sunk by the Japanese (1943-45)