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Author Tanaka, Toshiyuki, 1949-

Title Hidden horrors : Japanese war crimes in World War II / Yuki Tanaka ; with a foreword by John W. Dower
Published Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996
Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, 1996

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Description xix, 267 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series Transitions--Asia and Asian America
Transitions--Asia and Asian America.
Contents 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
Summary Chronicles with detail, the depths of human depravity in war, the Sandakan death marches, rape, cannibalism, human experimentation, and the massacres and mistreatments of the POW's
Notes Expanded version of work first published in 1993 as Shirarezaru sensō hanzai
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Australia, 1998
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-249) and index
Subject Japan. Rikugun -- Southeast Asia -- Attitudes.
Australians -- Crimes against -- Southeast Asia.
Australians -- Indonesia -- Crimes against.
Australians -- Crimes against -- Indonesia.
Death marches -- Southeast Asia.
Prisoners of war -- Australia.
Prisoners of war -- Indonesia.
Soldiers -- Japan -- Attitudes.
War crimes -- Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Indonesia -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
SUBJECT Japan -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115601 -- Southeast Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627 -- Attitude
Japan -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115601 -- Southeast Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627 -- Attitudes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006216
Japan -- Armed Forces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115601 -- Southeast Asia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627
Author Tanaka, Toshiyuki, 1949- Shirarezaru sensō hanzai. English.
University of Western Australia. School of Asian Studies.
LC no. 96017735
ISBN 0813327172
0813327180
Other Titles Shirarezaru sensō hanzai. English