History of Imperial Japan’s Mass Murder and Rape During World War II.” If the book’s title sounds hyperbolic, readers should gird themselves for horrors they’ve either ignored or never ...

It was never discussed at the Tokyo war crimes tribunal. The tribunal was established under the authority of General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the Allied Powers in occupied Japan.

all of the hundreds of prisoners who were alive when Japan surrendered at the end of the war were murdered and buried as the imperial army tried to cover up its crimes. Former commanders ...

all of the hundreds of prisoners who were alive when Japan surrendered at the end of the war were murdered and buried as the imperial army tried to cover up its crimes. Sworn to secrecy by the ...

Now is a good time to be reassessing the Tokyo war crimes trial. Across East Asia and the world, the postwar global settlement is crumbling. This process has been very evident in Japan ...

Imperial Japan, while found guilty of several War Crimes, had no such official policy ... when you find evidence that 6 million people were "ethnically cleansed" by WW2 Japan as they were by the Nazis ...

After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan’s secret police), and ...

Documents, especially those involving Japan's wartime atrocities, were carefully destroyed in the war's closing days and finding new evidence for a proof would be difficult. Akiyama added that a ...