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After the war, 148 Koreans were convicted of Class B and C Japanese war crimes, 23 of whom were sentenced to death (compared to 920 Japanese who were sentenced to death), including Korean prison guards who were particularly notorious for their brutality during the war. The figure is relatively high considering that ethnic Koreans made up a ...
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 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 arson. [2]
Japan’s government has long avoided discussing wartime atrocities, including the sexual abuse of Asian women known as “comfort women” and Korean forced laborers at Japanese mines and ...
The church was immediately engulfed in flames, and the Japanese soldiers committed atrocities by stabbing and eventually exterminating all those who jumped out of the fire. [5] [4] After the Japanese army returned, the distraught families retrieved the charred bodies, barely dressed it, and held a funeral.
In 2005–2010, a South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigated atrocities and other human rights violations through much of the 20th century, from the Japanese colonial period through the Korean War and beyond. It excavated some mass graves from the Bodo League massacres and confirmed the general outlines of those political ...
Beginning on September 18, the Japanese government arrested 735 participants in the massacre, but they were reportedly given light sentences. The Japanese Governor-General of Korea paid out 200 Japanese yen in compensation to 832 families of massacre victims, although the Japanese government on the mainland only admitted to about 250 deaths.
The Mimizuka (耳塚, "Ear Mound" or "Ear Tomb"), which was renamed from Hanazuka (鼻塚, "Nose Mound"), [1] [2] [3] is a monument in Kyoto, Japan.It is dedicated to the sliced noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians, [4] [5] [6] as well as those of Ming Chinese troops, [7] taken as war trophies during the Japanese invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598.