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After the massacre, Korean survivors painstakingly documented the extent of the massacre. Based on their testimonies, Japanese eyewitness accounts, and additional academic research, current estimates of the death toll range from 6,000 to 9,000. [25] [26] [27] Between 50 and 90 percent of the Korean population of Yokohama was killed. [24]
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 assassination is highly contentious in Korea, where it is remembered as a symbol of Japan's historical atrocities on the peninsula. [13] Information about the assassination comes from a variety of sources, including the memoirs of some of the assassins, [3] the testimonies of foreigners who witnessed varying parts of the attack, [13] [14] the testimonies of Korean eyewitnesses, [15 ...
These cruel atrocities of the Japanese army were vividly exposed by foreign missionaries who were doing missionary work in Manchuria. An American missionary who witnessed the Japanese army's massacre lamented, "The blood-soaked land of Manchuria is a cursed page of human history," and this is vividly proven in the memoirs of missionaries Martin ...
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 ...
SADO, Japan (AP) — South Korea commemorated wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado gold mines in a ceremony Monday, a day after boycotting a similar event organized by Japan, as tensions over historical atrocities continue to strain relations between the two sides.
South Korea: 38 policemen, 163 civil workers, and 73 civilians Bodo League massacre: 1950, Summer South Korea: 100,000–200,000 Mass murder of communists and suspected communist sympathizers [2] [3] Bloody Gulch massacre: 1950, August 12 Masan: 75 Chaplain-Medic Massacre: 1950, 7 (Jul) 16 Tunam 31 POWs Victims included 1 chaplain. 1 survivor ...
The Japanese lieutenant responsible was disciplined, but a group of senior officers decided to attribute the incident to resistance by local people. [ 6 ] In his diary, Japanese commander Taro Utsunomiya wrote that the incident would hurt the reputation of the Japanese Empire and acknowledged that the Japanese soldiers committed murder and ...