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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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of war apology statements issued by Japan regarding war crimes committed by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The statements were made at and after the end of World War II in Asia, from the 1950s to present day. Controversies remain to this day with some about the nature of the war crimes of the past and the appropriate ...
War crimes; Crimes against humanity (Crime of Slaving) 111 Japanese military officials were tried for war crimes for their brutality during the construction of the railway. Thirty-two of them were sentenced to death. The estimated total number of civilian labourers and POWs who died during construction is about 160,000. [citation needed ...
Of the Korean War-era massacres the commission was petitioned to investigate, 82% were perpetrated by South Korean forces, with 18% perpetrated by North Korean forces. [10] [11] [12] The commission also received petitions alleging more than 200 large-scale killings of South Korean civilians by the U.S. military during the war, mostly air attacks.
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