Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction 1 The Sandakan POW Camp and the Geneva Convention The Forgotten POW Camp Establishment of the Camp and the Labor Issue Escapes and Nonescape Contracts The Sandakan Incident and the Kempeitai The System and Purpose of Gunrítsu Kaigi Mistreatment of POWs and the Formosan Guards 2 The Sandakan Death Marches and the Elimination of POWs The First Death March The Second Death March The Elimination and Crucifixion of POWs Responsibility for Maltreatment and Massacre of POWs Japanese POW Policy The Psychology of Cruelty 3 Rape and War: The Japanese Experience Rape and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal The Massacre of Nurses at Banka Island The Threat of Prostitution The Establishment of Comfort Houses The Universality of Rape in War War, Rape, and Patriarchy 4 Judge Webb and Japanese Cannibalism The Tokyo Tribunal and Cannibalism Evidence of Japanese Cannibalism Allied Victims of Cannibalism Cannibalism of Asian POWs Cannibalism of the Indigenous Population Starvation and Group Psychosis Responsibility and Reaction Aftermath of the Tribunal 5 Japanese Biological Warfare Plans and Experiments on POWs Unit 731 and Biological Warfare Plans Biological Warfare Plans in the Southwest Pacific POWs in Rabaul and Medical Experiments Australian Responses to Experiments on POWs The Ethics of Japanese Military Doctors and "Doubling," 6 Massacre of Civilians at Kavieng The Japanese Invasion of Kavieng Discovery of the Akíkaze Massacre Responsibility Under the Australian War Crimes Act A Clue to the Discovery of the Kavieng Massacre Reconstruction of Events at Kavieng Japanese Soldiers, International Law, and Gyokusai Conclusion: Understanding Japanese Brutality in the Asia-Pacific War The Japanese Concept of Basic Human Rights Japanese Moral Concepts and the Emperor Ideology The Corruption of Bushidõ Toward Further Research Notes About the Book and Author Index