Whenever I think about atrocities Japanese had committed to innocent civilians during the war time, the first thing that comes to my mind is Burma railway construction. The second one is no other than the notorious unit 731.
The Japanese Army during World War II committed many crimes against humanity. There were proofs of Nanking massacre and similar genocide in other countries.
1). Burma Railway construction (June 1942–October 1943)
The Death Railway – supply line to maintain forces in Burma (Myanmar)
A total of 13,000 POWS (British, Dutch, Australian and American) along with approximately 80,000–100,000 Asian laborers died constructing the railway.
Due to forced labour, the workers died from malnutrition and diseases as they didn’t get medical care.
2) Unit 731 — Japan’s biological warfare project
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II
Estimated 200,000 or 300,000–400,000 or higher from biological warfare
Over 3,000 from inside experiments
At least 10,000 prisoners died
Nazis weren’t the only ones who performed cruel experiments on humans.
Vile experiments were done using humans conducted by the unit.
This is a harsh truth about Japanese germ warfare to innocent people.
Deliberately infected with plague, anthrax, cholera and other pathogens, an estimated 3,000 of enemy soldiers and civilians were used as guinea pigs (human logs).
The most horrifying experiments included vivisection without anesthesia, pressure chambers, frostbite experiments and testing the limits of human suffering.
The place was set up in 1938 in Japanese-occupied China with the aim of developing biological weapons and was supported by Japanese universities and medical schools which supplied doctors and research staff.
Human prisoners were referred to as maruta (wooden logs) and were used to breed and develop killer diseases as they’re raped and tested alive.
In a secret deal, the post-war American administration gave them immunity for prosecution in return for details of their experiments.
3). The Rape of of Nanking or Nanjing Massacre (1937)
Japanese troops responded to Chinese resistance to their invasion by embarking on an orgy of murder, rape, and looting.
At least 200,000 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war were slaughtered by the Japanese in the six weeks after Nanking fell.
Non-Japanese historians are prepared to accept that the slaughter at Nanking could have reached as high as 370,000 victims.
4). Manila Massacre
February–March 1945
100,000 civilian casualties
Committed crimes – rape, murder, bayonetting, beheading, setting fire to building
5). Conscripting women for sexual slavery in Japanese Army brothels (1937-1945)
Historians have estimated that as many as 200,000 civilian women were forcibly conscripted in Japanese-occupied countries between 1931 and 1945 and forced to serve as sexual slaves in Japanese Army brothels.
The Imperial Japanese Army assigned these victims the euphemistic term “comfort women”. The majority of these women were conscripted in China and Korea, but this barbarous practice occurred in every country occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army.
6). Sook Ching Massacre
February–March 1942
Estimated death range from 5,000–6,000 (Japanese sources) to a high of 30,000–100,000 (Singaporean and Chinese sources).
7). The Bangka Island Massacre (1942) Slaughter of Australian Army Nurses
On 16 February 1942, Imperial Japanese soldiers machine-gunned 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members who had survived the sinking of Vyner Brooke by Japanese bombers.
8). The Bataan Death March
April 1942
Estimates range from 5,650 to 18,000 POW deaths.
The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O’Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. The transfer began on April 9, 1942, after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II.
The march was characterized by severe physical abuse and wanton killings.
Catherine Washington
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