High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Three Alls Policy was a Japanese scorched earth policy adopted in China during World War II, the three alls being: "Kill All", "Burn All" and "Loot All". In Japanese documents, the policy was originally referred to as "The Burn to Ash Strategy". This policy was designed as a retaliation against Chinese Communists following the Hundred Regiments Offensive. The name "Sank? Sakusen", based on the Chinese term, was first popularized in Japan in 1957 when a former Japanese soldier released from the Fushun war crime internment center wrote a controversial book called "Sank?, Nihonjin no Ch?goku ni okeru sens? hanzai no kokuhaku" ("The Three Alls: Japanese Confessions of War Crimes in China") (new edition: Kanki Haruo, 1979), in which a number of Japanese veterans confessed to war crimes committed under the leadership of General Yasuji Okamura. The publishers were forced to stop the publication of the book after receiving death threats from Japanese militarists and ultranationalists.