book suggestions on Japanese war crimes, please

[Sukotto]

I'm looking for a good account of Japanese war crimes during the
WW2 (great anti-fascist) war era. Any suggestions.
Book or online article. Unfortunately English please. My
Japanese skills are not good enough to read a book

[lexico]

Hi, Scott.

Are you writing a thesis or is this personal ? I am not a historian, but these are what I could pull together real quick. I knew very little about these things, but this year 2005 was an eye-opener for me. Some people might misunderstand that reading these constitute the so-called "Japan bashing," even relatively well-educated people, but I think that stems from ignorance and a biased understanding of justice and lack of empathy and universal concern for humanity in general. In the meantime you have my moral support; the world has just begun learning, and there is no stopping the flow of knowledge and study of history. Please share what you learn (if it is not copyright knowledge reserved for publication).

Thanks for the work
Lex
I'm looking for a good account of Japanese war crimes during the WW2 (great anti-fascist) war era. Any suggestions.
Book or online article.
General
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_of_Japanese_Rule_%28Korea%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_War_in_China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responses_of_Germany_and_Japan_to_World_War_II_cri mes
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP3.HTM Rummel's Statistics of Japanese Democide

Invasion of Manchuria 1931
Japan invades Manchuria 1931 (http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/China/JapanManchuria.CP.html)
The League of Nations becomes Powerless (http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/studentprojects/japan/1997b/jap3.htm)
Manchurian Incident (http://www.bartleby.com/65/ma/ManchuriI.html) The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05.
Japan's Quest for Empire 1931 - 1945 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/japan_quest_empire_01.shtml) By Susan Townsend
Exhibit on Japan's 1931 Invasion Moves from US to China (http://www.china.org.cn/english/2002/Apr/31483.htm)
The Second Sino-Japanese War (http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/sinojapan.htm)

July 7, 1937 false disappearence of an IJ conscript at Lugou qiao
Marco Polo Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge)
Second Sino-Japanese War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War)

Nanjing Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
Japanese Views of the Second Sino-Japanese War--
Through the lens of the Nanjing Massacre and Events Connected with It (http://www.east-asian-history.net/textbooks/MJ/war_views.htm).
Above page with extensive, informative links was built as part of Making Japan: Modern Japanese History at Penn. State Univ. (http://www.east-asian-history.net/textbooks/MJ/index.htm) by Gregory Smits.
Other material in topics of histories of Japan and China to be found at main page East Asian History Textbooks (http://www.east-asian-history.net/textbooks/index.htm), Gregory Smits

Tokyo Trials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Trial
http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/warcrimesvid.htm

[Tsukiyono]

Here are some books that I am waiting to buy from amazon...




Documents on the Rape of Nanking (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes

Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up

The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War

The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame (Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute)

Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Transitions--Asia and Asian America)

The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes (Paperback))


Some books i already own:

Iris chang's: The rape of nanking

The Diaries of John Rabe


Both of those are good books. The rabe diaries are a bit abriged.. at least in the edition i got, but i dont know how much.

Hope this helps.

I also got a ton of online sources also that look on this from both sides (chinese and japanese perepectives) I can post those later as well.

[Sukotto]

Thanks.

Uh, I do not consider it Japan bashing. I love Japan.
I love the language, I love the people, and I loved being there for
the short time I was.
I actually think the atomic bombings should not have taken
place and are war crimes.
That said, perhaps I should take a refresher on the great anti-fascist war
in general. See what damage Mussolini and his minions did as well.


Oh, actually it is for personal knowledge.
I can understand that people are ashamed of past things their
ancestors have done. Here in the states we've barely begun
to talk about the holocaust induced upon the native people's
of North America, I've not visited the Black Holocaust Museum
http://www.blackholocaustmuseum.org/
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin yet, and how long will be before we get an
honest accounting of post WW2 history to the general public.
Both US & SU spun propaganda to their own people during that period.

Right now books for me are by library only,
Too expensive.
DON'T forget inter-library loan.

[lonesoullost3]

I'd like to doubly recommend Tsukiyono's list of books. Especially Hidden Horrors. It's an excellent coverage of what went on not only in China, but in Southeast Asia, which some people seem to forget or ignore because Nanjing is what's foremost on most people's minds.

[Tsukiyono]

Thanks.

Uh, I do not consider it Japan bashing. I love Japan.
I love the language, I love the people, and I loved being there for
the short time I was.
I actually think the atomic bombings should not have taken
place and are war crimes.
That said, perhaps I should take a refresher on the great anti-fascist war
in general. See what damage Mussolini and his minions did as well.


Oh, actually it is for personal knowledge.
I can understand that people are ashamed of past things their
ancestors have done. Here in the states we've barely begun
to talk about the holocaust induced upon the native people's
of North America, I've not visited the Black Holocaust Museum
http://www.blackholocaustmuseum.org/
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin yet, and how long will be before we get an
honest accounting of post WW2 history to the general public.
Both US & SU spun propaganda to their own people during that period.

Right now books for me are by library only,
Too expensive.
DON'T forget inter-library loan.


Yeah i dont consider this japan bashing either. I also have a fond interest in japan. I research this right now on my own time.

The books i listed can be bought off amazon for usually around $12 dollars, as long as you dont order directly from amazon. Even cheaper if you dont mind buying them used.

Right now all this research is done on my own time, cause as of current, history isnt my major. But once i switch over to a new major, that will change and hopefully i will get more time to devote ot researching.

But, as i said, i have alot of links as well from various web sites. I will post those sometime tomorrow, as i am getting ready to leave here soon.

[lexico]

Sorry, mistaken post... :sorry: