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The camp's buildings once housed a Japanese cavalry unit. The 24th Division was stationed here during the occupation of Japan until the start of the Korean War. [1] Americans stationed in Japan post-World War II were rated by ability in their closeness to MacArthur. Camp Wood was the farthermost post in Japan and the poorest class soldiers were ...
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The Japanese Governor-General of Korea paid out Japanese ¥ 200 (1923) (equivalent to ¥ 98,969 or US$908 in 2019) [44] in compensation to 832 families of massacre victims, although the Japanese government on the mainland only admitted to about 250 deaths. [45]
The Tokyo Charter defines war crimes as "violations of the laws or customs of war," [22] which involves acts using prohibited weapons, violating battlefield norms while engaging in combat with the enemy combatants, or against protected persons, [23] including enemy civilians and citizens and property of neutral states as in the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The army fought in China and Burma, and prepared for its return to Korea as the tide of World War II turned against Japan. [146] This culminated in the Eagle Project, a mission for the KPG and KLA to return to the peninsula and fight the Japanese.
Japanese forces occupied large portions of the Empire of Korea during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, and a substantial Korean Garrison Army (韓国駐剳軍, Kankoku Chusatsugun) was established in Seoul to protect the Japanese embassy and civilians on March 11, 1904.
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
United States Army in the Korean War. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army. pp. 135– 144. ISBN 978-1410224842. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Appendix B-2 Archived 5 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine; Jager, Sheila Miyoshi (2013). Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea. London: Profile Books.