The atrocities committed by the Japanese military during World War II are so brutal that they are almost impossible to comprehend. In a way, it will be better to forget this scary story, but in doing so we will dishonor those who suffered and died as a result of these crimes. By remembering the past, we better understand the present, especially the hostility of Korea and China towards Japan.
Nanjing massacre
The scale and brutality of the violence committed in Nanjing defies explanation. At the beginning of the conflict between Japan and China in 1937, the Japanese captured Nanjing. The atrocities began in December 1937 and continued until 1938. About 300,000 Chinese civilians were killed, and more than 80,000 Chinese women were raped. The Japanese bayoneted babies, forced family members to rape each other, and beheaded children.
Japanese internment camps
The Japanese set up countless camps throughout East Asia. The prisoners of war who ended up in these camps faced harsh conditions that included starvation, forced labor, and exposure to disease and extreme conditions. weather conditions. Prisoners of war were subjected to beatings, death by beheading and many other cruelties.
Comfort women
During World War II, 200,000 Korean women, many of whom were barely 16 years old, were sent throughout East Asia to work in brothels specifically for the Japanese military.
Death on the Railroad
During the occupation of territories South-East Asia, the Japanese decided to build a railway connecting Thailand and Burma. The railway had to pass through incredibly dense jungle, and was built largely by hand, without the help of machinery. The Japanese forced prisoners of war to work day and night, giving them only rice, and exposing them to fever, cholera, tropical ulcers and other diseases.
Unit 731
Unit 731 was a top-secret Japanese military unit responsible for medical and chemical weapons research. They dropped chemical bombs on Chinese cities to see if this was the cause of the disease outbreak. According to some estimates, these bombs killed more than 300,000 people.
Competition - kill 100 people with a sword
On the way to the destruction of Nanjing, two Japanese army officers entered into a friendly competition with each other - who would be the first to kill 100 people with a sword during the war? The bloodshed began on the road when the Japanese army began to advance towards Nanjing, and continued until the city was destroyed.
Death March to Bataan
In 1942, atrocities began in Bataan when the area was captured by Japan. The Japanese were not prepared for such a large number of prisoners of war, so they decided to march 76,000 people through the jungle, where almost everyone died.
Bangka Island massacre
The Japanese bombed the seas around Singapore to destroy enemy ships. One such ship was filled with 65 Australian nurses, 53 of whom managed to swim to the small Japanese-controlled island of Bangka, where they were killed.
Death March in Sandakan
The worst crime in Australian history that didn't go beyond of this state, is considered to be a death march in Sandakan. This was at a time when the Japanese had already begun to flee. As a result, all who survived the march were executed. Out of 2,700 soldiers, only 6 survived and only because they were able to escape into the jungle.
Ludoyequality
There is evidence that Japanese soldiers ate the meat of dead and even living enemies during World War II. In all likelihood, this practice was widespread throughout Southeast Asia.
Mass killing of enemy pilots
Ignoring all military conventions, Japan issued a decree to execute all enemy pilots. The most tragic incident is considered to be the execution of pilots on the day of Japan's surrender.
Reznya at Laha airfield
Over the course of two weeks in February 1943, ostensibly in retaliation for the destruction of a Japanese minesweeper, the Japanese killed more than 300 Dutch and Australians in the forest near Laha airfield on the island of Ambon and buried them in mass graves.
Alexandra Hospital massacre
In February 1942, the Japanese captured Singapore. On February 14, a Japanese soldier arrived at the British Alexandra Hospital and began walking through the wards and indiscriminately beating patients, doctors, nurses, orderlies, and military personnel who were in charge of the hospital.
Palawan massacree
The Palawan POW camp in the Philippines, like all Japanese POW camps, was a hell of a place. On December 14, 1944, the Japanese left all 150 Americans camped in wooden buildings. They then set these buildings on fire. Only 11 Americans were able to survive.
Occupation of the island of Nauru
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the tiny equatorial island of Nauru and held it until the end of the war. During this time they committed a number of atrocities. The Japanese put the prisoners into boats, swam deep into the sea, and then lowered them. The remaining part of the prisoners on the island died of hunger and disease.
Operation‘’Sook Ching’’
After capturing Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese decided to exterminate all Chinese in the city who could resist the Japanese occupation, including military personnel, leftists, communists, and those who owned weapons. Thus began Operation Suk Ching. The operation killed 5,000 people.
Destruction of Manila
In 1945, when Japan was already forced to surrender Manila to enemy troops, the officers ignored the order and decided to kill as many civilians as possible before leaving. As a result, more than 100,000 Filipino civilians died.
Submarine I-8
The crew of the Japanese submarine I-8 committed several atrocities during World War II. First, they sank a Dutch ship, took 103 prisoners, and beat many of them to death with sledgehammers and swords. Only five people survived. The I-8 crew then sank an American freighter, again taking more than 100 prisoners, who suffered the same fate.
Pig cage
When the Allies surrendered, some soldiers fled to the hills and formed resistance units. When they were caught, they were put in iron cages meant for pigs and transported in 100+ degree heat before they were thrown into the sea with sharks.
Reznya in Port Blair
The Japanese committed countless atrocities during their 3-year occupation of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. They forced local women work in brothels, and enemy officers were bludgeoned over the head until they died.
Reznya in the Andaman Islands
The Japanese committed a number of atrocities towards the end of the war, despairing over their defeat. In the Andaman Islands, they gathered everyone who was opposed to Japan and sent them to an uninhabited island.
Invasion of Hong Kong
A lesser-known incident in the history of the Pacific War is the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong on December 18, 1941. Those who tried to defend the island, including British medical personnel, were taken to the outskirts of the city and bayoneted to death. The massacre lasted 7 days, during which the Japanese took control of the city's water supply, intending to let everyone in the city die of thirst if they did not surrender. The delivery came on Christmas...
Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on Earth. Some of it Chinese varieties They can grow a whole meter in a day. Some historians believe that the deadly bamboo torture was used not only by the ancient Chinese, but also by the Japanese military during World War II.
How it works?
1) Sprouts of living bamboo are sharpened with a knife to form sharp “spears”;
2) The victim is suspended horizontally, with his back or stomach, over a bed of young pointed bamboo;
3) Bamboo quickly grows high, pierces the skin of the martyr and grows through his abdominal cavity, the person dies for a very long time and painfully.
2. Iron Maiden
Like torture with bamboo, the “iron maiden” is considered by many researchers to be a terrible legend. Perhaps these metal sarcophagi with sharp spikes inside only frightened the people under investigation, after which they confessed to anything. The "Iron Maiden" was invented at the end of the 18th century, i.e. already at the end of the Catholic Inquisition.
How it works?
1) The victim is stuffed into the sarcophagus and the door is closed;
2) The spikes driven into the inner walls of the “iron maiden” are quite short and do not pierce the victim, but only cause pain. The investigator, as a rule, receives a confession in a matter of minutes, which the arrested person only has to sign;
3) If the prisoner shows fortitude and continues to remain silent, long nails, knives and rapiers are pushed through special holes in the sarcophagus. The pain becomes simply unbearable;
4) The victim never admits to what she had done, so she was locked in a sarcophagus for a long time, where she died from loss of blood;
5) Some models of the “iron maiden” were provided with spikes at eye level in order to quickly poke them out.
3. Skafism
The name of this torture comes from the Greek “scaphium”, which means “trough”. Skafism was popular in ancient Persia. During the torture, the victim, most often a prisoner of war, was devoured alive by various insects and their larvae who were partial to human flesh and blood.
How it works?
1) The prisoner is placed in a shallow trough and wrapped in chains.
2) He is force-fed large quantities of milk and honey, which causes the victim to have profuse diarrhea, which attracts insects.
3) The prisoner, having shit himself and smeared with honey, is allowed to float in a trough in a swamp, where there are many hungry creatures.
4) The insects immediately begin their meal, with the living flesh of the martyr as the main course.
4. The Terrible Pear 
“The pear is lying there - you can’t eat it,” it is said about the medieval European weapon for “educating” blasphemers, liars, women who gave birth out of wedlock, and men gay. Depending on the crime, the torturer thrust the pear into the sinner's mouth, anus or vagina.
How it works?
1) A tool consisting of pointed pear-shaped leaf-shaped segments is inserted into the client’s desired body hole;
2) The executioner little by little turns the screw on the top of the pear, while the “leaves” segments bloom inside the martyr, causing hellish pain;
3) After the pear is completely opened, the offender receives internal injuries incompatible with life and dies in terrible agony, if he has not already fallen into unconsciousness.
5. Copper Bull 
The design of this death unit was developed by the ancient Greeks, or, to be more precise, by the coppersmith Perillus, who sold his terrible bull to the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris, who simply loved to torture and kill people in unusual ways.
A living person was pushed inside the copper statue through a special door.
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Phalaris first tested the unit on its creator, the greedy Perilla. Subsequently, Phalaris himself was roasted in a bull.
How it works?
1) The victim is closed in a hollow copper statue of a bull;
2) A fire is lit under the bull’s belly;
3) The victim is fried alive, like a ham in a frying pan;
4) The structure of the bull is such that the cries of the martyr come from the mouth of the statue, like a bull’s roar;
5) Jewelry and amulets were made from the bones of the executed, which were sold at bazaars and were in great demand..
6. Torture by rats 
Torture by rats was very popular in ancient China. However, we will look at the rat punishment technique developed by 16th century Dutch Revolution leader Diedrick Sonoy.
How it works?
1) The stripped naked martyr is placed on a table and tied;
2) Large, heavy cages with hungry rats are placed on the prisoner’s stomach and chest. The bottom of the cells is opened using a special valve;
3) Hot coals are placed on top of the cages to stir up the rats;
4) Trying to escape the heat of hot coals, rats gnaw their way through the flesh of the victim.
7. Cradle of Judas 
The Judas Cradle was one of the most torturous torture machines in the arsenal of the Suprema - the Spanish Inquisition. Victims usually died from infection, as a result of the fact that the pointed seat of the torture machine was never disinfected. The Cradle of Judas, as an instrument of torture, was considered “loyal” because it did not break bones or tear ligaments.
How it works?
1) The victim, whose hands and feet are tied, is seated on the top of a pointed pyramid;
2) The top of the pyramid is thrust into the anus or vagina;
3) Using ropes, the victim is gradually lowered lower and lower;
4) The torture continues for several hours or even days until the victim dies from powerlessness and pain, or from blood loss due to rupture of soft tissues.
8. Trampling by elephants 
For several centuries, this execution was practiced in India and Indochina. An elephant is very easy to train and teaching it to trample a guilty victim with its huge feet is a matter of just a few days.
How it works?
1. The victim is tied to the floor;
2. A trained elephant is brought into the hall to crush the martyr’s head;
3. Sometimes before the “head test,” animals crush the victims’ arms and legs in order to amuse the audience.
9. Rack 
Probably the most famous and unrivaled death machine of its kind called the “rack”. It was first tested around 300 AD. on the Christian martyr Vincent of Zaragoza.
Anyone who survived the rack could no longer use their muscles and became a helpless vegetable.
How it works?
1. This instrument of torture is a special bed with rollers at both ends, around which ropes are wound to hold the victim’s wrists and ankles. As the rollers rotated, the ropes pulled in opposite directions, stretching the body;
2. Ligaments in the victim’s arms and legs are stretched and torn, bones pop out of their joints.
3. Another version of the rack was also used, called strappado: it consisted of 2 pillars dug into the ground and connected by a crossbar. The interrogated person's hands were tied behind his back and lifted by a rope tied to his hands. Sometimes a log or other weights were attached to his bound legs. At the same time, the arms of the person raised on the rack were turned back and often came out of their joints, so that the convict had to hang on his outstretched arms. They were on the rack from several minutes to an hour or more. This type of rack was used most often in Western Europe
4. In Russia, a suspect raised on the rack was beaten on the back with a whip and “put to the fire,” that is, burning brooms were passed over the body.
5. B in some cases the executioner broke the ribs of a man hanging on a rack with red-hot pincers.
10. Paraffin in the bladder
A savage form of torture, the exact use of which has not been established.
How it works?
1. Candle paraffin was rolled by hand into a thin sausage, which was inserted through the urethra;
2. Paraffin slipped into the bladder, where solid salts and other nasty things began to settle on it.
3. Soon the victim began to have kidney problems and died from acute renal failure. On average, death occurred within 3-4 days.
11. Shiri (camel cap)
A monstrous fate awaited those whom the Ruanzhuans (a union of nomadic Turkic-speaking peoples) took into slavery. They destroyed the slave's memory with a terrible torture - putting a shiri on the victim's head. Usually this fate befell young men captured in battle.
How it works?
1. First, the slaves' heads were shaved bald, and every hair was carefully scraped out at the root.
2. The executors slaughtered the camel and skinned its carcass, first of all, separating its heaviest, dense nuchal part.
3. Having divided the neck into pieces, they immediately pulled it in pairs over the shaved heads of the prisoners. These pieces stuck to the heads of the slaves like a plaster. This meant putting on the shiri.
4. After putting on the shiri, the neck of the doomed person was chained in a special wooden block so that the subject could not touch his head to the ground. In this form, they were taken away from crowded places so that no one would hear their heartbreaking screams, and they were thrown there in an open field, with their hands and feet tied, in the sun, without water and without food.
5. The torture lasted 5 days.
6. Only a few remained alive, and the rest died not from hunger or even from thirst, but from unbearable, inhuman torment caused by drying, shrinking rawhide camel skin on the head. Inexorably shrinking under the rays of the scorching sun, the width squeezed and squeezed the slave's shaved head like an iron hoop. Already on the second day, the shaved hair of the martyrs began to sprout. Coarse and straight Asian hair sometimes grew into the rawhide; in most cases, finding no way out, the hair curled and went back into the scalp, causing even greater suffering. Within a day the man lost his mind. Only on the fifth day did the Ruanzhuans come to check whether any of the prisoners had survived. If at least one of the tortured people was found alive, it was considered that the goal had been achieved. .
7. Anyone who underwent such a procedure either died, unable to withstand the torture, or lost his memory for life, turned into a mankurt - a slave who does not remember his past.
8. The skin of one camel was enough for five or six widths.
12. Implantation of metals
A very strange means of torture and execution was used in the Middle Ages.
How it works?
1. A deep incision was made on a person’s legs, where a piece of metal (iron, lead, etc.) was placed, after which the wound was stitched up.
2. Over time, the metal oxidized, poisoning the body and causing terrible pain.
3. Most often, the poor people tore the skin in the place where the metal was sewn up and died from blood loss.
13. Dividing a person into two parts
This terrible execution originated in Thailand. The most hardened criminals were subjected to it - mostly murderers.
How it works?
1. The accused is placed in a robe woven from vines and stabbed with sharp objects;
2. After this, his body is quickly cut into two parts, the upper half is immediately placed on a red-hot copper grate; This operation stops the bleeding and prolongs the life of most people.
A small addition: This torture is described in the book of the Marquis de Sade “Justine, or the successes of vice.” This is a small excerpt from big piece text where de Sade allegedly describes the torture of the peoples of the world. But why supposedly? According to many critics, the Marquis was very fond of lying. He had an extraordinary imagination and a couple of delusions, so this torture, like some others, could have been a figment of his imagination. But this field should not refer to Donatien Alphonse as Baron Munchausen. This torture, in my opinion, if it did not exist before, is quite realistic. If, of course, the person is pumped up with painkillers (opiates, alcohol, etc.) before this, so that he does not die before his body touches the bars.
14. Inflating with air through the anus
A terrible torture in which a person is pumped with air through the anus.
There is evidence that in Rus' even Peter the Great himself sinned with this.
Most often, thieves were executed this way.
How it works?
1. The victim was tied hand and foot.
2. Then they took cotton and stuffed it into the poor man’s ears, nose and mouth.
3. Bellows were inserted into his anus, with the help of which a huge amount of air was pumped into the person, as a result of which he became like a balloon.
3. After that, I plugged his anus with a piece of cotton.
4. Then they opened two veins above his eyebrows, from which all the blood flowed out under enormous pressure.
5. Sometimes tied up man They stood him naked on the roof of the palace and shot him with arrows until he died.
6. Until 1970, this method was often used in Jordanian prisons.
15. Polledro
Neapolitan executioners lovingly called this torture “polledro” - “foal” (polledro) and were proud that it was first used in their hometown. Although history has not preserved the name of its inventor, they said that he was an expert in horse breeding and came up with an unusual device to tame his horses.
Only a few decades later, lovers of making fun of people turned the horse breeder’s device into a real torture machine for people.
The machine was a wooden frame, similar to a ladder, the crossbars of which had very sharp angles, so that when a person was placed on them with his back, they would cut into the body from the back of the head to the heels. The staircase ended with a huge wooden spoon, into which the head was placed, as if in a cap.
How it works?
1. Holes were drilled on both sides of the frame and in the “cap”, and ropes were threaded into each of them. The first of them was tightened on the forehead of the tortured, the last tied the big toes. As a rule, there were thirteen ropes, but for those who were especially stubborn, the number was increased.
2. Using special devices, the ropes were pulled tighter and tighter - it seemed to the victims that, having crushed the muscles, they were digging into the bones.
16. Dead Man's Bed (modern China) 
The Chinese Communist Party uses the “dead man’s bed” torture mainly on those prisoners who try to protest against illegal imprisonment through a hunger strike. In most cases, these are prisoners of conscience, imprisoned for their beliefs.
How it works?
1. The arms and legs of a stripped prisoner are tied to the corners of a bed on which, instead of a mattress, there is a wooden board with a hole cut out. A bucket for excrement is placed under the hole. Often, a person’s body is tied tightly to the bed with ropes so that he cannot move at all. A person remains in this position continuously for several days to weeks.
2. In some prisons, such as Shenyang City No. 2 Prison and Jilin City Prison, the police also put hard object to increase suffering.
3. It also happens that the bed is placed vertically and the person hangs for 3-4 days, stretched out by his limbs.
4. Added to this torment is force feeding, which is carried out using a tube inserted through the nose into the esophagus, into which liquid food is poured.
5. This procedure is performed mainly by prisoners on the orders of the guards, and not by medical workers. They do this very rudely and unprofessionally, often causing serious damage to a person’s internal organs.
6. Those who have gone through this torture say that it causes displacement of the vertebrae, joints of the arms and legs, as well as numbness and blackening of the limbs, which often leads to disability.
17. Yoke (Modern China) 
One of the medieval tortures used in modern Chinese prisons is the wearing of a wooden collar. It is placed on a prisoner, causing him to be unable to walk or stand normally.
The clamp is a board from 50 to 80 cm in length, from 30 to 50 cm in width and 10 – 15 cm in thickness. In the middle of the clamp there are two holes for the legs.
The victim, who is wearing a collar, has difficulty moving, must crawl into bed and usually must sit or lie down, as the upright position causes pain and leads to injury to the legs. Without assistance, a person with a collar cannot go to eat or go to the toilet. When a person gets out of bed, the collar not only puts pressure on the legs and heels, causing pain, but its edge clings to the bed and prevents the person from returning to it. At night the prisoner is unable to turn around, and in winter the short blanket does not cover his legs.
An even worse form of this torture is called “crawling with a wooden clamp.” The guards put a collar on the man and order him to crawl on the concrete floor. If he stops, he is hit on the back with a police baton. An hour later, his fingers, toenails and knees are bleeding profusely, while his back is covered in wounds from the blows.
18. Impalement 
A terrible, savage execution that came from the East.
The essence of this execution was that a person was laid on his stomach, one sat on him to prevent him from moving, the other held him by the neck. A stake was inserted into the person's anus, which was then driven in with a mallet; then they drove a stake into the ground. The weight of the body forced the stake to go deeper and deeper and finally it came out under the armpit or between the ribs.
19. Spanish water torture 
In order to best carry out the procedure of this torture, the accused was placed on one of the types of racks or on a special large table with a rising middle part. After the victim's arms and legs were tied to the edges of the table, the executioner began work in one of several ways. One of these methods involved forcing the victim to swallow a large amount of water using a funnel, then hitting the distended and arched abdomen. Another form involved placing a cloth tube down the victim's throat through which water was slowly poured, causing the victim to swell and suffocate. If this was not enough, the tube was pulled out, causing internal damage, and then inserted again and the process repeated. Sometimes cold water torture was used. In this case, the accused lay naked on the table for hours under the spray. ice water. It is interesting to note that this type of torture was considered light, and the court accepted confessions obtained in this way as voluntary and given by the defendant without the use of torture. Most often, these tortures were used by the Spanish Inquisition in order to extract confessions from heretics and witches.
20. Chinese water torture
They sat a man in a very cold room, tied him so that he could not move his head, and in complete darkness cold water was very slowly dripped onto his forehead. After a few days the person froze or went crazy.
21. Spanish armchair 
This instrument of torture was widely used by the executioners of the Spanish Inquisition and was a chair made of iron, on which the prisoner was seated, and his legs were placed in stocks attached to the legs of the chair. When he found himself in such a completely helpless position, a brazier was placed under his feet; with hot coals, so that the legs began to slowly fry, and in order to prolong the suffering of the poor fellow, the legs were poured with oil from time to time.
Another version of the Spanish chair was often used, which was a metal throne to which the victim was tied and a fire was lit under the seat, roasting the buttocks. The famous poisoner La Voisin was tortured on such a chair during the famous Poisoning Case in France.
22. GRIDIRON (Grid for torture by fire) 
Torture of Saint Lawrence on the gridiron.
This type of torture is often mentioned in the lives of saints - real and fictitious, but there is no evidence that the gridiron “survived” until the Middle Ages and had even a small circulation in Europe. It is usually described as an ordinary metal grate, 6 feet long and two and a half feet wide, mounted horizontally on legs to allow a fire to be built underneath.
Sometimes the gridiron was made in the form of a rack in order to be able to resort to combined torture.
Saint Lawrence was martyred on a similar grid.
This torture was used very rarely. Firstly, it was quite easy to kill the person being interrogated, and secondly, there were a lot of simpler, but no less cruel tortures.
23. Pectoral 
In ancient times, a pectoral was a female breast decoration in the form of a pair of carved gold or silver bowls, often sprinkled with precious stones. It was worn like a modern bra and secured with chains.
In a mocking analogy with this decoration, the savage instrument of torture used by the Venetian Inquisition was named.
In 1985, the pectoral was heated red-hot and, taking it with tongs, they put it on the tortured woman’s chest and held it until she confessed. If the accused persisted, the executioners heated up the pectoral again cooled by the living body and continued the interrogation.
Very often, after this barbaric torture, charred, torn holes were left in place of the woman’s breasts.
24. Tickle torture 
This seemingly harmless effect was a terrible torture. With prolonged tickling, a person's nerve conduction increased so much that even the lightest touch initially caused twitching, laughter, and then turned into terrible pain. If such torture was continued for quite a long time, then after a while spasms of the respiratory muscles occurred and, in the end, the tortured person died from suffocation.
At the most simple version torture: sensitive areas were tickled by the interrogated, either simply with their hands, or with hair brushes or brushes. Stiff bird feathers were popular. Usually they tickled under the armpits, heels, nipples, inguinal folds, genitals, and women also under the breasts.
In addition, torture was often carried out using animals that licked some tasty substance from the heels of the interrogated person. The goat was very often used, since its very hard tongue, adapted for eating grass, caused very strong irritation.
There was also a type of tickling torture using a beetle, most common in India. With it, a small bug was placed on the head of a man's penis or on a woman's nipple and covered with half a nut shell. After some time, the tickling caused by the movement of insect legs on a living body became so unbearable that the interrogated person confessed to anything
25. Crocodile 
These tubular metal crocodile pliers were red-hot and used to tear the penis of the person being tortured. First, with a few caressing movements (often made by women), or with a tight bandage, a persistent, hard erection was achieved and then the torture began
26. Tooth crusher 
These serrated iron tongs were used to slowly crush the testicles of the interrogated person.
Something similar was widely used in Stalinist and fascist prisons.
27. Creepy tradition. 
Actually, this is not torture, but an African ritual, but, in my opinion, it is very cruel. Girls aged 3-6 years old simply had their external genitalia scraped out without anesthesia.
Thus, the girl did not lose the ability to have children, but was forever deprived of the opportunity to experience sexual desire and pleasure. This ritual is done “for the benefit” of women, so that they will never be tempted to cheat on their husbands
28. Bloody Eagle 
One of the most ancient tortures, during which the victim was tied face down and his back was opened, his ribs were broken off at the spine and spread apart like wings. Scandinavian legends claim that during such an execution, the wounds of the victim were sprinkled with salt.
Many historians claim that this torture was used by pagans against Christians, others are sure that spouses caught in treason were punished in this way, and still others claim that the bloody eagle is just a terrible legend. 
Until December 7, 1941, there was not a single military conflict with an Asian army in American history. There were only a few minor skirmishes in the Philippines during the war with Spain. This led to underestimation of the enemy American soldiers and sailors.
The US Army heard stories of the brutality with which the Japanese invaders treated the Chinese population in the 1940s. But before the clashes with the Japanese, the Americans had no idea what their opponents were capable of.
Routine beatings were so common that it is not even worthy of mention. However, in addition, captured Americans, British, Greeks, Australians and Chinese had to face slave labor, violent marching, cruel and unusual torture, and even dismemberment.
Below are some of the most shocking atrocities committed by the Japanese army during World War II.
15. CANNIBALISM
It’s no secret that during times of famine people begin to eat their own kind. Cannibalism occurred in the expedition led by Donner, and even the Uruguay rugby team that crashed in the Andes, the subject of the film The Alive. But this always happened only in extreme circumstances. But it is impossible not to shudder when hearing stories about eating the remains of dead soldiers or cutting off parts from living people. The Japanese camps were deeply isolated, surrounded by impenetrable jungle, and the soldiers guarding the camp often starved as well as the prisoners, resorting to horrendous means to satisfy their hunger. But for the most part, cannibalism occurred due to mockery of the enemy. A report from the University of Melbourne states:
“According to the Australian lieutenant, he saw many bodies that were missing parts, even a scalped head without a torso. He states that the condition of the remains clearly indicated that they had been dismembered for cooking."
14. NON-HUMAN EXPERIMENTS ON PREGNANT WOMEN 
Dr. Joseph Mengele was a famous Nazi scientist who experimented on Jews, twins, dwarfs and other concentration camp prisoners for which he was wanted international community after the war to be tried for numerous war crimes. But the Japanese had their own scientific institutions, where they carried out equally terrible experiments on people.
The so-called Unit 731 conducted experiments on Chinese women who were raped and impregnated. They were purposefully infected with syphilis so that they could find out whether the disease would be inherited. Often the condition of the fetus was studied directly in the mother's womb without the use of anesthesia, since these women were considered nothing more than animals to be studied.
13. SCARDING AND SUTUPING OF THE GENITALIA IN THE MOUTH 
In 1944, on the volcanic island of Peleliu, a soldier Marine Corps While having lunch with a friend, I saw the figure of a man heading towards them along open area battlefields. As the man approached, it became clear that he was also a Marine soldier. The man walked bent over and had difficulty moving his legs. He was covered in blood. The sergeant decided that he was just a wounded man who had not been taken from the battlefield, and he and several colleagues hurried to meet him.
What they saw made them shudder. His mouth was sewn shut and the front of his trousers was cut. The face was distorted with pain and horror. Having taken him to the doctors, they later learned from them what really happened. He was captured by the Japanese, where he was beaten and brutally tortured. The Japanese army soldiers cut off his genitals, stuffed them into his mouth, and sewed him up. It is unknown whether the soldier was able to survive such a horrific outrage. But the reliable fact is that instead of intimidating, this event had the opposite effect, filling the hearts of the soldiers with hatred and giving them additional strength to fight for the island.
12. SATISFYING DOCTORS’ CURIOSITY 
People practicing medicine in Japan did not always work to alleviate the plight of the sick. During World War II, Japanese "doctors" often performed brutal procedures on enemy soldiers or ordinary citizens in the name of science or simply to satisfy curiosity. Somehow they became interested in what would happen to the human body if it was twisted for a long time. To do this, they placed people in centrifuges and spun them sometimes for hours. People were thrown against the walls of the cylinder and the faster it spun, the more pressure was exerted on the internal organs. Many died within a few hours and their bodies were removed from the centrifuge, but some were spun until they literally exploded or fell apart.
11. AMPUTATION 
If a person was suspected of espionage, then he was punished with all cruelty. Not only soldiers of Japan's enemy armies were subject to torture, but also residents of the Philippines, who were suspected of providing intelligence information for the Americans and British. The favorite punishment was to simply cut them alive. First one arm, then perhaps a leg and fingers. Next came the ears. But all this did not lead to a quick death so that the victim suffered for a long time. There was also the practice of stopping bleeding after cutting off a hand, when several days were given for recovery to continue torture. Men, women and children were amputated; no one was spared from the atrocities of the Japanese soldiers.
10. TORTURE BY DROWNING 
Many believe that waterboarding was first used by US soldiers in Iraq. Such torture is contrary to the country's constitution and appears unusual and cruel. This measure may be considered torture, but it may not be considered that way. Definitely for a prisoner it is ordeal, but it does not put his life at risk. The Japanese used waterboarding not only for interrogation, but also tied prisoners at an angle and inserted tubes into their nostrils. Thus, the water went directly into their lungs. It didn't just make you feel like you were drowning, like waterboarding, but the victim actually seemed to drown if the torture went on for too long.
He could try to spit out enough water so as not to choke, but this was not always possible. Waterboarding was the second most common cause of death for prisoners after beatings.
9. FREEZING AND BURNING 
Another type of inhumane research on the human body was the study of the effects of cold on the body. Often, as a result of freezing, the skin fell off the victim's bones. Of course, the experiments were carried out on living, breathing people who had to live with limbs from which the skin had fallen off for the rest of their lives. But not only the impact was studied low temperatures on the body, but also high. They burned the skin on a person’s hand over a torch, and the prisoner ended his life in terrible agony.
8. RADIATION 
X-rays were still poorly understood at the time, and their usefulness and effectiveness in diagnosing disease or as a weapon were in question. Irradiation of prisoners was used especially frequently by Detachment 731. Prisoners were gathered under a shelter and exposed to radiation. They were taken out at certain intervals to study the physical and psychological effects of the radiation. With particularly large doses of radiation, part of the body burned and the skin literally fell off. The victims died in agony, as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki later, but much more slowly.
7. BURNING ALIVE 
Japanese soldiers from small islands in the southern part Pacific Ocean were hardened cruel people who lived in caves, where there was not enough food, there was nothing to do, but there was a lot of time to cultivate hatred of enemies in their hearts. Therefore, when they captured American soldiers, they were absolutely merciless to them. Most often, American sailors were burned alive or partially buried. Many of them were found under rocks where they were thrown to decompose. The prisoners were tied hand and foot, then thrown into a dug hole, which was then slowly buried. Perhaps the worst thing was that the victim's head was left outside, which was then urinated on or eaten by animals.
6. BEHAVIORATION 
In Japan it was considered an honor to die from a sword. If the Japanese wanted to disgrace the enemy, they brutally tortured him. Therefore, for those captured, dying by beheading was lucky. It was much worse to be subjected to the tortures listed above. If ammunition ran out in battle, the Americans used a rifle with a bayonet, while the Japanese always carried a long blade and a long curved sword. Soldiers were lucky to die from decapitation and not from a blow to the shoulder or chest. If the enemy found himself on the ground, he was chopped to death, rather than his head being cut off.
5. DEATH BY TIDE 
Since Japan and its surrounding islands are surrounded by ocean waters, this type of torture was common among the inhabitants. Drowning is a terrible type of death. Even worse was the expectation of imminent death from the tide within a few hours. Prisoners were often tortured for several days in order to learn military secrets. Some could not stand the torture, but there were also those who only named their name, rank and serial number. A special type of death was prepared for such stubborn people. The soldier was left on the shore, where he had to listen for several hours to the water getting closer and closer. Then, the water covered the prisoner's head and, within a few minutes of coughing, filled the lungs, after which death occurred.
4. TORTURE WITH BAMBOO 
Bamboo grows in hot tropical areas and grows noticeably faster than other plants, several centimeters per day. And when the devilish mind of man invented the most terrible way to die, it was impalement. The victims were impaled on bamboo, which slowly grew into their bodies. The unfortunates suffered from inhuman pain when their muscles and organs were pierced by the plant. Death occurred as a result of organ damage or blood loss.
3. COOKING ALIVE 
Another activity of Unit 731 was exposing victims to small doses of electricity. With a small impact it caused severe pain. If it was prolonged, then the internal organs of the prisoners were boiled and burned. Interesting fact The thing about the intestines and gall bladder is that they have nerve endings. Therefore, when exposed to them, the brain sends pain signals to other organs. It's like cooking the body from the inside. Imagine swallowing a hot piece of iron to understand what the unfortunate victims experienced. The pain will be felt throughout the body until the soul leaves it.
2. FORCED WORK AND MARCHES 
Thousands of prisoners of war were sent to Japanese concentration camps, where they lived the life of slaves. A large number of prisoners was a serious problem for the army, since it was impossible to provide them with sufficient food and medicine. In concentration camps, prisoners were starved, beaten, and forced to work until they died. The lives of the prisoners meant nothing to the guards and officers monitoring them. In addition, if labor was needed on an island or another part of the country, the prisoners of war had to march hundreds of kilometers there in unbearable heat. Countless soldiers died along the way. Their bodies were thrown into ditches or left there.
1. FORCE TO KILL COMRADES AND ALLIES 
Most often, beatings of prisoners were used during interrogations. The documents state that at first the prisoner was spoken to in a friendly manner. Then, if the interrogating officer understood the futility of such a conversation, was bored or simply angry, then the prisoner of war was beaten with fists, sticks or other objects. The beating continued until the torturers got tired. In order to make the interrogation more interesting, they brought in another prisoner and forced him to continue under pain. own death from beheading. Often he had to beat a prisoner to death. Few things in war were as difficult for a soldier as causing suffering to a comrade. These stories filled the Allied troops with even greater determination in the fight against the Japanese.
Japanese atrocities - 21+
I present to your attention photos taken by Japanese soldiers during World War II. Only thanks to quick and tough measures, the Red Army was able to very painfully tear out the Japanese army on Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin Gol River, where the Japanese decided to test our strength
Only thanks to a serious defeat, they pinned their ears and postponed the invasion of the USSR until the Germans captured Moscow. Only the failure of Operation Typhoon did not allow our dear Japanese friends to organize a second front for the USSR.
Trophies of the Red Army
Everyone has somehow forgotten about the atrocities of the Germans and their lackeys on our territory. Unfortunately.
Typical example:
I want an example Japanese photos to show what a joy the Imperial Japanese Army was. It was a powerful and well-equipped force. And its composition was perfectly prepared, drilled, fanatically devoted to the idea of domination of their country over all other monkeys. They were yellow-skinned Aryans, as other long-nosed, round-eyed top men from the Third Reich reluctantly admitted. Together they were destined to divide the world into smaller ones for their own benefit.
The photo shows a Japanese officer and soldier. I especially draw your attention to the fact that all officers in the army had swords without fail. The old samurai families have katanas, the new ones, without traditions, have an army sword of the 1935 model. Without a sword, you are not an officer.
In general, the cult of edged weapons among the Japanese was at its best. Just as officers were proud of their swords, so soldiers were proud of their long bayonets and used them wherever possible.
In the photo - practicing bayonet fighting on prisoners:
It was a good tradition, so it was applied everywhere.
(well, by the way, this also happened in Europe - the brave Poles practiced saber cutting and bayonet techniques on captured Red Army soldiers in exactly the same way)
However, shooting was also practiced on prisoners. Training on captured Sikhs from the British Armed Forces:
Of course, the officers also flaunted their ability to use a sword. especially honing the ability to remove human heads with one blow. Supreme chic.
In the photo - training in Chinese:
Of course, the Untermenschi had to know their place. In the photo, the Chinese greet their new masters as expected:
If they show disrespect, in Japan a samurai could blow off the head of any commoner who, as it seemed to the samurai, greeted him disrespectfully. In China it was even worse.
However, low-ranking soldiers also did not lag behind the samurai. In the photo, soldiers admire the agony of a Chinese peasant who was gored by their bayonets:
Of course, they chopped off heads both for training and just for fun:
And for selfies:
Because it is beautiful and courageous:
The Japanese army especially developed after the storming of the Chinese capital - the city of Nanjing. Here the soul unfolded like a button accordion. well, in the Japanese sense it’s probably better to say like a fan of sakura flowers. In the three months after the assault, the Japanese massacred, shot, burned, and various other things, more than 300,000 people. Well, not a person, in their opinion, but a Chinese one.
Indiscriminately - women, children or men.
Well, it’s true, it was customary to cut out the men first, just in case, so as not to interfere.
And women - after. With violence and entertainment.
And children, of course
The officers even started a competition to see who could cut off the most heads in a day. Just like Gimli and Legolas - who kills the most orcs. Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun, later renamed Mainichi Shimbun. On December 13, 1937, a photo of Lieutenants Mukai and Noda appeared on the front page of the newspaper under the headline "The competition to be the first to cut off the heads of 100 Chinese with a saber is over: Mukai has already scored 106 points, and Noda has 105." One point in the “bounty race” meant one victim. But we can say that these Chinese are lucky.
As mentioned in the diary of an eyewitness to those events, the leader of the local Nazi party, John Rabe, “the Japanese military chased the Chinese throughout the city and stabbed them with bayonets or sabers.” However, according to Hajime Kondo, a veteran of the Japanese Imperial Army who participated in the events in Nanjing, the majority of the Japanese “believed that it was too noble for a Chinese to die from a saber, and therefore more often stoned them to death.”
Japanese soldiers began to practice their popular “three to three” policy: “burn the clear,” “kill the clear,” “rob the clear.”
Another selfie. The warriors tried to document their bravery. Well, due to prohibitions, I can’t post photos of more sophisticated amusements, such as stuffing cola into a raped Chinese woman. Because it's softer. The Japanese man shows what kind of girlfriend he has.
More selfies
One of the brave athletes with booty^
And these are just the results of some outsider^
Then the Chinese could not bury all the corpses for a long time.
It took a long time. There are a lot of dead, but there is no one to bury them. Everyone has heard about Tamerlane with the pyramids of skulls. Well, the Japanese are not far behind.
Whites got it too. The Japanese did not bother with prisoners.
These were lucky - they survived:
But this Australian doesn't:
So if the brave Japanese crossed our border, one could imagine that they would be worthy comrades of the Germans. The photo shows the result of the work of the German Einsatzkommando.
Because - just look at the photo
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Almost everyone knows about the atrocities of the Gestapo, but few have heard about the horrific crimes committed by the Kempeitai, military police modernized Imperial Army Japan, founded in 1881. The Kempeitai was an ordinary, unremarkable police force until the rise of Japanese imperialism after World War I. However, over time, it became a brutal organ of state power, whose jurisdiction extended to occupied territories, prisoners of war and conquered peoples. Kempeitai employees worked as spies and counterintelligence agents. They used torture and extrajudicial execution to maintain their power over millions of innocent people. When Japan surrendered, the Kempeitai leadership deliberately destroyed most of the documents, so we are unlikely to ever know the true scale of their brutal crimes.
1. Killing prisoners of war
After the Japanese occupied the Dutch East Indies, a group of approximately two hundred British troops found themselves surrounded on the island of Java. They did not give up and decided to fight to the last. Most of them were captured by the Kempeitai and subjected to severe torture. According to more than 60 witnesses who testified at the Hague court after the end of World War II, British prisoners of war were placed in bamboo cages (meter by meter in size) designed to transport pigs. They were transported to the coast in trucks and on open rail carts at air temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius.
The cages containing the British prisoners, who were suffering from severe dehydration, were then loaded onto boats off the coast of Surabaya and thrown into the ocean. Some prisoners of war drowned, others were eaten alive by sharks. One Dutch witness, who was only eleven years old at the time of the events described, said the following:
“One day around noon, during the hottest part of the day, a convoy of four or five army trucks carrying so-called “pig baskets”, which were usually used to transport animals to the market or slaughterhouse, drove down the street where we were playing. Indonesia was a Muslim country. Pork meat was marketed to European and Chinese consumers. Muslims (residents of the island of Java) were not allowed to eat pork because they considered pigs to be “dirty animals” that should be avoided. To our great surprise, the pig baskets contained Australian soldiers in tattered military uniforms. They were attached to each other. The condition of most of them left much to be desired. Many were dying of thirst and asking for water. I saw one of the Japanese soldiers open his fly and urinate on them. I was terrified then. I will never forget this picture. My father later told me that the cages containing the prisoners of war were thrown into the ocean.”
Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, the commander of the Japanese forces stationed on the island of Java, was accused of crimes against humanity, but was acquitted by the Hague court due to insufficient evidence. However, in 1946, an Australian military tribunal found him guilty and sentenced him to ten years in prison, which he spent in prison in the city of Sugamo (Japan).
2. Operation Suk Ching
After the Japanese captured Singapore, they gave the city a new name - Sionan ("Light of the South") - and switched to Tokyo time. They then initiated a program to clear the city of Chinese, whom they considered dangerous or undesirable. Every Chinese male between the ages of 15 and 50 was ordered to appear at one of the registration points located throughout the island for questioning to determine their political views and loyalties. Those who passed the test were given a “Passed” stamp on their face, hands or clothing. Those who did not pass it (these were communists, nationalists, members of secret societies, bearers in English, government officials, teachers, veterans and criminals) were detained. A simple decorative tattoo was sufficient reason for a person to be mistaken for a member of an anti-Japanese secret society.
Two weeks after interrogation, the detainees were sent to work on plantations or drowned in the coastal areas of Changi, Ponggol and Tanah Merah Besar. Methods of punishment varied depending on the whims of the commanders. Some of the detainees were drowned in the sea, others were shot with a machine gun, and others were stabbed or beheaded. After the end of World War II, the Japanese claimed to have killed or tortured to death about 5,000 people, but local estimates put the number of victims at between 20,000 and 50,000.
3. Sandakan Death Marches
The occupation of Borneo gave the Japanese access to valuable offshore oil fields, which they decided to protect by building a nearby military airfield near the port of Sandakan. About 1,500 prisoners of war, mostly Australian soldiers, were sent to work on construction work in Sandakan, where they endured terrible conditions and received meager rations of dirty rice and few vegetables. At the beginning of 1943, they were joined by British prisoners of war, who were forced to make an airstrip. They suffered from hunger, tropical ulcers and malnutrition.
The first few escapes by prisoners of war led to reprisals in the camp. Captured soldiers were beaten or locked in cages and left in the sun for picking coconuts or for not bowing their heads low enough to a passing camp commander. People suspected of any illegal activities were brutally tortured by the Kempeitai police. They burned their skin with a lighter or stuck iron nails into their nails. One of the prisoners of war described the Kempeitai torture methods as follows:
“They took a small wooden stick the size of a skewer and used a hammer to “hammer” it into my left ear. When she ruptured my eardrum, I lost consciousness. The last thing I remembered was excruciating pain. I came to my senses literally a couple of minutes later - after a bucket was poured on me cold water. My ear healed after a while, but I could no longer hear with it.”
Despite the repression, one Australian soldier, Captain L. S. Matthews, was able to create a clandestine intelligence network, smuggling medicine, food and money to prisoners and maintaining radio contact with the Allies. When he was arrested, despite severe torture, he did not reveal the names of those who helped him. Matthews was executed by the Kempeitai in 1944.
In January 1945, the Allies bombed the Sandakan military base and the Japanese were forced to retreat to Ranau. Three death marches occurred between January and May. The first wave consisted of those who were considered to have the best physical fitness. They were loaded with backpacks containing various military equipment and ammunition and forced to march through the tropical jungle for nine days, while only receiving food rations (rice, dried fish and salt) for four days. Prisoners of war who fell or stopped to rest a little were shot or beaten to death by the Japanese. Those who managed to survive the death march were sent to build camps. The prisoners of war who built the airfield near the port of Sandakan suffered constant abuse and starvation. They were eventually forced to go south. Those who could not move were burned alive in the camp as the Japanese retreated. Only six Australian soldiers survived this death march.
4. Kikosaku
During the occupation of the Dutch East Indies, the Japanese had significant difficulty controlling the Eurasian population, people of mixed (Dutch and Indonesian) blood, who tended to be influential people and didn't support Japanese version Pan-Asianism. They were subjected to persecution and repression. Most of them met a sad fate - the death penalty.
The word "kikosaku" was a neologism and derived from "kosen" ("land of the dead", or "yellow spring") and "saku" ("technique" or "maneuvering"). It is translated into Russian as “Operation Underworld.” In practice, the word "kikosaku" was used to refer to summary execution or unofficial punishment that resulted in death.
The Japanese believed that the Indonesians, who had mixed blood in their veins, or "kontetsu" as they pejoratively called them, were loyal to the Dutch forces. They suspected them of espionage and sabotage. The Japanese shared the Dutch colonialists' fears about the outbreak of riots among communists and Muslims. They concluded that the judicial process in investigating cases of lack of loyalty was ineffective and hampered management. The introduction of kikosaku allowed the Kempeitai to arrest people indefinitely without formal charges, after which they were shot.
Kikosaku was used when Kempeitai personnel believed that only the most extreme interrogation methods would lead to a confession, even if the end result was death. A former Kempeitai member admitted in an interview with the New York Times: “At the mention of us, even babies stopped crying. Everyone was afraid of us. The prisoners who came to us faced only one fate – death.”
5. Jesselton Rebellion
The city today known as Kota Kinabalu was formerly called Jesselton. It was founded in 1899 by the British North Borneo Company and served as a way station and source of rubber until it was captured by the Japanese in January 1942 and renamed Api. On October 9, 1943, rioting ethnic Chinese and Suluk (indigenous people of North Borneo) attacked the Japanese military administration, offices, police stations, hotels where soldiers lived, warehouses and the main pier. Although the rebels were armed with hunting rifles, spears and long knives, they managed to kill between 60 and 90 Japanese and Taiwanese occupiers.
Two army battalions and Kempeitai personnel were sent to the city to suppress the uprising. The repression also affected the civilian population. Hundreds of ethnic Chinese were executed for suspicion of aiding or sympathizing with the rebels. The Japanese also persecuted representatives of the Suluk people who lived on the islands of Sulug, Udar, Dinawan, Mantanani and Mengalum. According to some estimates, the number of victims of repression was about 3,000 people.
6. Double Ten Incident
In October 1943, a group of Anglo-Australian special forces ("Special Z") infiltrated Singapore harbor using an old fishing boat and kayaks. Using magnetic mines, they neutralized seven Japanese ships, including oil tanker. They managed to remain undetected, so the Japanese, based on information given to them by civilians and prisoners from Changi Prison, decided that the attack was organized by British guerrillas from Malaya.
On October 10, Kempeitai officers raided Changi Prison, conducted a day-long search, and arrested the suspects. A total of 57 people were arrested on suspicion of participating in sabotage in the harbor, including the bishop of the Anglican Church and former minister British Colonies and Information Officer. They spent five months in prison cells, which were always brightly lit and were not equipped with sleeping beds. During this time, they were starved and subjected to harsh interrogations. One suspect was executed for alleged participation in sabotage, fifteen others died due to torture.
In 1946, a trial took place for those involved in what became known as the "Double Ten Incident". British prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Colin Sleeman described the Japanese mentality of the time:
“I have to talk about actions that are an example of human depravity and degradation. What these people did, devoid of mercy, can only be described as unspeakable horror... Among the huge amount of evidence, I tried hard to find some mitigating circumstance, a factor that would justify the behavior of these people, that would raise the story from the level of pure horror and bestiality and would have ennobled it before the tragedy. I admit, I was not able to do this.”
7. Bridge House
After Shanghai was occupied by the Imperial Army in 1937 Japanese army, the Kempeitai secret police occupied the building known as Bridge House.
The Kempeitai and the collaborationist reform government used the Yellow Road (Huandao Hui), a paramilitary organization of Chinese criminals, to kill and carry out terrorist attacks against anti-Japanese elements in foreign settlements. Thus, in an incident known as Kai Diaotu, the editor of a famous anti-Japanese tabloid was beheaded. His head was then hung on a lamppost in front of the French Concession, along with a banner reading “This is what awaits all citizens opposed to Japan.”
After Japan entered the Second world war Kempeitai employees began to persecute the foreign population of Shanghai. People were arrested on charges of anti-Japanese activity or espionage and taken to Bridge House, where they were kept in iron cages and subjected to beatings and torture. The conditions were terrible: “Rats and lice were everywhere. No one was allowed to take a bath or shower. Diseases at Bridge House ranged from dysentery to typhoid.”
The Kempeitai received particular attention from American and British journalists who reported on Japanese atrocities in China. John Powell, editor of the China Weekly Review, wrote: “When the interrogation began, the prisoner took off all his clothes and knelt in front of the jailers. If his answers did not satisfy the interrogators, he was beaten with bamboo sticks until blood began to ooze from the wounds.” Powell managed to return to his homeland, where he soon died after surgery to amputate a leg affected by gangrene. Many of his colleagues were also seriously injured or went crazy from the shock they experienced.
In 1942, with the assistance of the Swiss Embassy, part of the foreign citizens, who were detained and tortured at Bridge House by Kempeitai officers.
8. Occupation of Guam
Along with the islands of Attu and Kiska (the Aleutian Islands archipelago), whose populations were evacuated before the invasion, Guam became the only inhabited territory of the United States occupied by the Japanese during World War II.
The island of Guam was captured in 1941 and renamed Omiya Jayme (Great Shrine). The capital Agana also received a new name - Akashi (Red City). The island was initially under the control of the Imperial Japanese navy. The Japanese resorted to vicious methods in an attempt to weaken American influence and force members of the indigenous Chamorro people to adhere to Japanese social mores and customs.
Kempeitai personnel took control of the island in 1944. They introduced forced labor for men, women, children and the elderly. Kempeitai employees were convinced that the pro-American Chamorros were engaged in espionage and sabotage, so they brutally dealt with them. One man, José Lizama Charfauros, came across a Japanese patrol while searching for food. He was forced to kneel and a huge cut was made on his neck with a sword. Charfauros was found by his friends a few days after the incident. The maggots stuck to his wound, which helped him stay alive and not get blood poisoning.
9. Women for carnal pleasures
The issue of "comfort women" who were forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II continues to be a source of political tension and historical revisionism in East Asia.
Officially, Kempeitai employees began to engage in organized prostitution in 1904. Initially, brothel owners contracted with the military police, who were assigned the role of overseers, based on the fact that some prostitutes could spy for enemies, extracting secrets from talkative or careless clients.
In 1932, Kempeitai officials took full control of organized prostitution for military personnel. Women were forced to live in barracks and tents behind barbed wire. They were guarded by Korean or Japanese yakuza. Railroad cars were also used as mobile brothels. The Japanese forced girls over 13 years of age into prostitution. The prices for their services depended on the ethnic origin of the girls and women and what kind of clients they served - officers, non-commissioned officers or privates. The highest prices were paid for Japanese, Korean and Chinese women. It is estimated that about 200 thousand women were forced to provide sexual services to 3.5 million Japanese soldiers. They were kept in terrible conditions and received virtually no money, despite the fact that they were promised 800 yen a month.
In 1945, members of the British Royal Marines captured Kempeitai documents in Taiwan that detailed what was done to prisoners in an emergency. They were destroyed using massive bombardment, poisonous gas, beheading, drowning and other methods.
10. Epidemic Prevention Department
Japanese experiments on humans are associated with the infamous "Object 731". However, the scale of the program is difficult to fully assess, since there were at least seventeen other similar facilities throughout Asia that no one knew about.
“Object 173,” for which Kempeitai employees were responsible, was located in the Manchurian city of Pingfang. Eight villages were destroyed for its construction. It included living quarters and laboratories where doctors and scientists worked, as well as barracks, a prison camp, bunkers and a large crematorium for disposing of corpses. "Facility 173" was called the Epidemic Prevention Department.
Shiro Ishii, head of Object 173, told new employees: "By God this mission The doctor's job is to block and treat diseases. However, what we are working on now is the exact opposite of those principles.". Prisoners who ended up in Site 173 were generally considered to be "incorrigible", "with anti-Japanese views" or "of no value or use." Most of them were Chinese, but there were also Koreans, Russians, Americans, British and Australians.
In the laboratories of Object 173, scientists conducted experiments on people. They tested the influence of biological agents on them (bubonic plague viruses, cholera, anthrax, tuberculosis and typhus) and chemical weapons. One of the scientists who worked at Object 173 spoke about one incident that happened outside its walls: “He [we are talking about a thirty-year-old Chinese] knew that it was all over for him, so he did not resist when he was brought into the room and tied to the couch. But when I picked up the scalpel, he started screaming. I made an incision on his body from his chest to his stomach. He screamed loudly; his face twisted in agony. He screamed in a voice that was not his own, and then stopped. Surgeons face this every day. I was a little shocked because it was my first time."
Facilities controlled by Kempeitai and Kwantung Army personnel were located throughout China and Asia. At "Object 100" in Changchun they developed biological weapons, which was supposed to destroy all livestock in China and the Soviet Union. At “Object 8604” in Guangzhou, rats that carried bubonic plague were bred. At other sites, for example, in Singapore and Thailand, malaria and plague were studied.
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