Hidden Horrors
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...
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"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,"
List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsAuthor's NoteIntroduction11The Sandakan POW Camp and the Geneva Convention11The Forgotten POW Camp11Establishment of the Camp and the Labor Issue12Escapes and Nonescape Contracts18The Sandakan Incident and the Kempeitai23The System and Purpose of Gunritsu Kaigi29Mistreatment of POWs and the Formosan Guards342The Sandakan Death Marches and the Elimination of POWs45The First Death March45The Second Death March52The Elimination and Crucifixion of POWs59Responsibility for Maltreatment and Massacre of POWs67Japanese POW Policy70The Psychology of Cruelty743Rape and War: The Japanese Experience79Rape and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal79The Massacre of Nurses a Banka Island81The Threat of Prostitution88The Establishment of Comfort Houses92The Universality of Rape in War100War, Rape, and Patriarchy1054Judge Webb and Japanese Cannibalism111The Tokyo Tribunal and Cannibalism111Evidence of Japanese Cannibalism112Allied Victims of Cannibalism115Cannibalism of Asian POWs120Cannibalism of the Indigenous Population124Starvation and Group Psychosis126Responsibility and Reaction129Aftermath of the Tribunal1315Japanese Biological Warfare Plans and Experiments on POWs135Unit 731 and Biological Warfare Plans135Biological Warfare Plans in the Southwest Pacific139POWs in Rabaul and Medical Experiments145Australian Responses to Experiments on POWs157The Ethics of Japanese Military Doctors and "Doubling"1606Massacre of Civilians at Kavieng167The Japanese Invasion of Kavieng167Discovery of the Akikaze Massacre171Responsibility Under the Australian War Crimes Act179A Clue to the Discovery of the Kavieng Massacre182Reconstruction of Events at Kavieng185Japanese Soldiers, International Law, and Gyokusai193Conclusion: Understanding Japanese Brutality in the Asia-Pacific War197The Japanese Concept of Basic Human Rights197Japanese Moral Concepts and the Emperor Ideology201The Corruption of Bushido206Toward Further Research212Notes217About the Book and Author251Index253
