Yuki Tanaka

Hidden Horrors

Japanese War Crimes in World War II

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in a significant new edition, this landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during 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.

Produktdetails

• Asian Voices
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9781538102688
• ISBN-10: 1538102684
• Artikelnr.: 48327798

Autorenporträt

Yuki Tanaka was research professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University until his retirement in 2015. He is the author of Japan's Comfort Women and the co-editor of Bombing Civilians.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Foreword by John W. Dower Preface to the Second
Edition: Crime and Responsibility: War, the State, and Japanese Society
Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction: The War Crimes Tribunals and
POWs Chapter 1: The Sandakan POW Camp and the Geneva Convention Chapter 2:
The Sandakan Death Marches and the Elimination of POWs Chapter 3: Rape and
War: The Japanese Experience Chapter 4: Judge Webb and Japanese Cannibalism
Chapter 5: Japanese Biological Warfare Plans and Experiments on POWs
Chapter 6: Japanese Atrocities on Nauru during the Paci¿c War: The Murder
of Australians, the Massacre of Lepers, and the Ethnocide of Nauruans
Chapter 7: Massacre of Civilians at Kavieng Conclusion: Japanese Atrocities
in the Asia-Pacific War Notes Index