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- catalog abstract ""This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become "comfort women"--Prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived to tell the tale. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war-without denying individual and national responsibility."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Shirarezaru sensō hanzai. English".
- catalog contributor b9516546.
- catalog coverage "Japan Armed Forces Southeast Asia Attitude.".
- catalog coverage "Japan Armed Forces Southeast Asia Attitudes.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become "comfort women"--Prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived to tell the tale. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war-without denying individual and national responsibility."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-249) and index.".
- catalog description "The Sandakan POW camp and the Geneva convention -- The Sandakan death marches and the elimination of POWs -- Rape and war : the Japanese experience -- Judge Webb and Japanese cannibalism -- Japanese biological warfare plans and experiments on POWs -- Massacre of civilians at Kavieng -- Conclusion : understanding Japanese brutality in the Asia-Pacific war.".
- catalog extent "xix, 267 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Hidden horrors.".
- catalog identifier "0813327172 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0813327180 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hidden horrors.".
- catalog isPartOf "Transitions--Asia and Asian America".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng jpn".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder, Colo. : WestviewPress,".
- catalog relation "Hidden horrors.".
- catalog spatial "Indonesia".
- catalog spatial "Indonesia.".
- catalog spatial "Japan Armed Forces Southeast Asia Attitude.".
- catalog spatial "Japan Armed Forces Southeast Asia Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "940.54/05 20".
- catalog subject "Australians Crimes against Indonesia.".
- catalog subject "Australians Indonesia Crimes against.".
- catalog subject "D805.I55 T3613 1996".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Indonesia Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Sandakan POW camp and the Geneva convention -- The Sandakan death marches and the elimination of POWs -- Rape and war : the Japanese experience -- Judge Webb and Japanese cannibalism -- Japanese biological warfare plans and experiments on POWs -- Massacre of civilians at Kavieng -- Conclusion : understanding Japanese brutality in the Asia-Pacific war.".
- catalog title "Hidden horrors : Japanese war crimes in World War II / Yuki Tanaka ; with a foreword by John W. Dower.".
- catalog title "Shirarezaru sensō hanzai. English".
- catalog type "text".