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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Japanese war crimes in Korea" ... The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan; Korean Language Society incident; M.
3.3.1.3 Republic of Korea. 3.3.2 Communist states. 4 See also. ... List of U.S. Army weapons by supply catalog designation ... Korean War weapons; Japanese weapons in ...
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.
Japanese neo-nationalists argue that Allied war crimes and the shortcomings of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal were equivalent to the war crimes committed by Japanese forces during the war. [ citation needed ] American historian John W. Dower has written that this position is "a kind of historiographic cancellation of immorality—as if the ...