According to the ogre code
It is widely believed that Japan is a unique Eastern civilization, the quintessence of the best in Asia. Maybe. But not only the best. The atrocities of the Japanese in the period from 1900 to 1945 a year in all the territories they occupied - from our Sakhalin and Primorye to China, Korea, and the Pacific island countries - are hard to even describe.
An excerpt from the book of Valentin Pikul “Katorga”: “On Gilyak boats, on foot or on pack horses, carrying children, through the mountains and impassable swamps in Aleksandrovsk, refugees from South Sakhalin began to get out, and at first no one wanted to believe their monstrous stories about samurai atrocities: “They kill everyone. From them, even the small guys have no mercy. And what non-Christians! First he will give candy, pat on the head, and then ... then head against the wall. We all abandoned that they were making money, just to stay alive ... ”The refugees spoke the truth. When, in the vicinity of Port Arthur or Mukden, the bodies of Russian soldiers who were mutilated by torture were found, the Japanese said that this was the work of the Hunhuzes of the Chinese Empress Cixi. But there was never a Hunhuz on Sakhalin, and the inhabitants of the island saw the real look of a samurai. It was here, on the Russian land, that the Japanese decided to take care of the cartridges: they pierced the military or the warriors who had been captured with cuttings, and cut off the heads of the locals with swords. According to the exiled political prisoner, only in the first days of the invasion they beheaded two thousand peasants. ”
The villages of Mazhanovo, Sokhatino and Ivanovka on Sakhalin fully learned what the real Bushido way is. The occupants burned houses together with people, brutally raped women, shot and stabbed the inhabitants with bayonets, cut their heads to swords with defenseless people.
In 1918, Japan began intervention in the Far East, predatory on targets and punitive on actions. In Transbaikalia, the population of the region decreased from 55 thousand to 30 thousand people. In Vladivostok, killed seven thousand Russian. Only from January to April of 1920 in the Amur Region did occupants burn 25 villages along with residents. The terrible massacre was arranged by the Japanese in Khabarovsk on the night of 4 on 5 on April 1920 of the year. The Koreans who lived in the city were burned to death without exception.
The local authorities had to conclude an agreement with the invaders, nicknamed "Far Eastern Brest", on the cessation of fighting and the withdrawal of troops from the Japanese garrisons and the railway that remained under their control. But in the captured cities: Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Nikolsk-Ussuriysk, Blagoveshchensk - murder and abuse of the living and the dead continued.
During World War II, it was an everyday matter for Japanese soldiers and officers to chop civilians with swords, pin bayonets, rape and kill women, children and the elderly. In the Kwantung Army, there were “Basic Rules” that taught how to “torture” prisoners of war “correctly”. For example, paragraph 65 stated: “The methods of torture must be such that they can be easily applied, that large and long-lasting sufferings can be maintained without a sense of pity, and that as a result there are no wounds or scars left ... Methodically continue torture and instill thought: "Now you will be killed." The following are some types of torture. “Putting the interrogated person on his back, dripping water at the same time into the nose and into the mouth ... Or putting the interrogated sideways, trampling his ankle ...”
In July, 1937-th, the Japanese-Chinese war (which lasted until 1945 year). December 13 was captured by Nanjing, and there was a mass slaughter for five days. The Japanese army acted on the basis of the three principles of "clean": burn, kill, rob. The number of victims of the Nanking Massacre, some sources estimate at half a million. Tens of thousands of Chinese women were raped, many of them killed.
In the judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the events in Nanking are described as follows: “By the time the Japanese army entered the city in the morning of December 13 of 1937, all resistance had ceased. Japanese soldiers roamed the city, committed various kinds of atrocities ... Many were drunk, they walked the streets, indiscriminately killing Chinese: men, women and children, until squares, streets and alleys were littered with corpses. Even teenage girls and old women were raped. Many women, having been raped, were killed, their bodies were disfigured. After the robbery of shops and warehouses, Japanese soldiers often set fire to them. ”
The book by Iris Chan, Rape in Nanking, is dedicated to these events. The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II ”(The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II). Only one of the episodes: “The Japanese began by taking out of the city and pinning thousands of men of military age with 20 bayonets so that they would not be able to lift weapon against japan Then the invaders moved to the destruction of women, old people, children. Mad samurai ended the sex with murder, squeezed out their eyes and pulled out of their hearts still living people ”.
Since 70-x Tokyo denies the crimes committed in China. Some Japanese politicians call the falsification of the Nanking massacre. However, in December, the Japanese newspaper 1937, which painted the exploits of the army, enthusiastically reported about the gallant competition of two officers who had argued who would be the first to kill more than a hundred Chinese. Won the samurai Mukai, who stabbed 106 man against 105. Even the German consul in the official report described the behavior of Japanese soldiers as brutal. It is known that the slaughter was led by the senior military commander of the Japanese - the uncle of the emperor, Prince Asaka Takahito. The killings were committed with extreme cruelty. The victims were pinned down with bayonets, their heads were cut off, people were burned, buried alive, women had their stomachs ripped out and the inside turned inside out. They raped, and then brutally killed girls, old women.
The Japanese widely used weapons of mass destruction. They were not at all worried about the consequences. Chemical weapons were used from 1937 to 1945 in the 18 provinces of China. Ching Side, a professor at the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Academy of Social Sciences of the People's Republic of China, writes: “More than two thousand battles were registered in which chemical weapons were used that caused the death of more than 60 thousand people. The real number of casualties is much higher: according to Japanese statistics, chemical weapons were used much more often. ”
In July, the Japanese 1938 dropped a thousand chemical bombs on the city of Wotsuy, Shanxi Province, and during the Wuhan battle, 48 thousands of shells with poisonous gas. In March, 1939-th chemical weapons were used against Kuomintang troops stationed in Nanchang - the full staff of the two divisions died as a result of poisoning. Since August 1940, chemical weapons 11 have been used in North China along railway lines once, the number of casualties among military personnel exceeded 10 thousands.
In the squadron 731, a special unit of the Japanese army, bacteriological weapons were developed. Experiments were conducted on people (prisoners of war, abductees). They were tested for vaccines against typhus, cholera, anthrax and dysentery, venereal diseases (on women and their fruits) were investigated. Experiments were called "logs." People were slaughtered for "scientific purposes", infected with the most terrible diseases, then dissected while still alive. Experiments were made on the survivability of "logs": how many will hold out without water and food, scalded with boiling water, after X-ray irradiation, electric shocks, without any cut-out organ.
Diseases among prisoners of war were fought simply: the whole camp was burned, where the infected were met. The story is a miracle surviving American veteran of the war in the Pacific: “The crowd of prisoners on the island of Baatan began to overtake the Japanese motorcycle. One of the Japanese sided a bayonet to a rifle, set it at the throat level of Americans standing on the sidelines and the motorcycle sped up. ”
When there were problems with food, the Japanese soldiers decided that eating prisoners was not considered sinful or shameful. Eyewitnesses say that "gourmets" cut off pieces of meat from living people. By the end of the war, cannibalism became commonplace. Officers in remote theaters of war called for subordinates to eat only killed enemies. Since on the Pacific Islands the Japanese switched to guerrilla warfare tactics, special “groups of hunters” were created, and enemy soldiers and local residents were fowling. In New Guinea, the occupiers had a division of human flesh into white and black "pork". The first was understood as Americans and Australians, under the second - Asians. Although eating their comrades was strictly forbidden, such incidents were in the Philippines.
On Titizime, the Japanese ate eight American pilots. The case turned out to be documented, since not only the officers, but also the highest army authorities were “helping themselves”. In 1946, 30 people got sued for this case. Five were hanged: General Tatibama, Admiral Mori, Major Matoba, Captain Isi, doctor Teraki. Interestingly, there is no article for cannibalism in international law, but lawyers have found a way out - cannibals were executed for “obstructing the honorary burial”.
From the memoirs of the Indian Lens Naik Khatam Ali, who was captured in New Guinea: “Every day, soldiers killed and ate one prisoner. I myself have seen it happen. About a hundred prisoners were eaten. ”
Experts point out that the soldiers did not commit atrocities because they carried out the order, they liked to bring pain and torment. There is an assumption that cruelty against the enemy is caused by the interpretation of the Bushido military code: no mercy for the defeated, a prisoner worse than death, the enemies should be exterminated so that they could not take revenge in the future.
Opinion ex-Soviet Ambassador Alexander Panov: “The Japanese do not recognize the many atrocities that were committed in China, as well as against the Koreans. There is a statement at the highest level, including that made by Prime Minister Abe, that there is no clear definition of aggression in international law and everything depends on what country’s actions are called into question. ”
Inhumanity, elevated to the absolute, was and remains in Japan one of the main "virtues." Shinto theorists consider this the “firm unshakable spirit” of the Land of the Rising Sun, which gives emperor's subjects the right, coupled with the samurai code of honor, to a special place among the powerful of the world. The barbarous extermination of innocent people is more than a peculiar notion of honor.
An excerpt from the book of Valentin Pikul “Katorga”: “On Gilyak boats, on foot or on pack horses, carrying children, through the mountains and impassable swamps in Aleksandrovsk, refugees from South Sakhalin began to get out, and at first no one wanted to believe their monstrous stories about samurai atrocities: “They kill everyone. From them, even the small guys have no mercy. And what non-Christians! First he will give candy, pat on the head, and then ... then head against the wall. We all abandoned that they were making money, just to stay alive ... ”The refugees spoke the truth. When, in the vicinity of Port Arthur or Mukden, the bodies of Russian soldiers who were mutilated by torture were found, the Japanese said that this was the work of the Hunhuzes of the Chinese Empress Cixi. But there was never a Hunhuz on Sakhalin, and the inhabitants of the island saw the real look of a samurai. It was here, on the Russian land, that the Japanese decided to take care of the cartridges: they pierced the military or the warriors who had been captured with cuttings, and cut off the heads of the locals with swords. According to the exiled political prisoner, only in the first days of the invasion they beheaded two thousand peasants. ”
The villages of Mazhanovo, Sokhatino and Ivanovka on Sakhalin fully learned what the real Bushido way is. The occupants burned houses together with people, brutally raped women, shot and stabbed the inhabitants with bayonets, cut their heads to swords with defenseless people.
In 1918, Japan began intervention in the Far East, predatory on targets and punitive on actions. In Transbaikalia, the population of the region decreased from 55 thousand to 30 thousand people. In Vladivostok, killed seven thousand Russian. Only from January to April of 1920 in the Amur Region did occupants burn 25 villages along with residents. The terrible massacre was arranged by the Japanese in Khabarovsk on the night of 4 on 5 on April 1920 of the year. The Koreans who lived in the city were burned to death without exception.
The local authorities had to conclude an agreement with the invaders, nicknamed "Far Eastern Brest", on the cessation of fighting and the withdrawal of troops from the Japanese garrisons and the railway that remained under their control. But in the captured cities: Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Nikolsk-Ussuriysk, Blagoveshchensk - murder and abuse of the living and the dead continued.
During World War II, it was an everyday matter for Japanese soldiers and officers to chop civilians with swords, pin bayonets, rape and kill women, children and the elderly. In the Kwantung Army, there were “Basic Rules” that taught how to “torture” prisoners of war “correctly”. For example, paragraph 65 stated: “The methods of torture must be such that they can be easily applied, that large and long-lasting sufferings can be maintained without a sense of pity, and that as a result there are no wounds or scars left ... Methodically continue torture and instill thought: "Now you will be killed." The following are some types of torture. “Putting the interrogated person on his back, dripping water at the same time into the nose and into the mouth ... Or putting the interrogated sideways, trampling his ankle ...”In July, 1937-th, the Japanese-Chinese war (which lasted until 1945 year). December 13 was captured by Nanjing, and there was a mass slaughter for five days. The Japanese army acted on the basis of the three principles of "clean": burn, kill, rob. The number of victims of the Nanking Massacre, some sources estimate at half a million. Tens of thousands of Chinese women were raped, many of them killed.
In the judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the events in Nanking are described as follows: “By the time the Japanese army entered the city in the morning of December 13 of 1937, all resistance had ceased. Japanese soldiers roamed the city, committed various kinds of atrocities ... Many were drunk, they walked the streets, indiscriminately killing Chinese: men, women and children, until squares, streets and alleys were littered with corpses. Even teenage girls and old women were raped. Many women, having been raped, were killed, their bodies were disfigured. After the robbery of shops and warehouses, Japanese soldiers often set fire to them. ”
The book by Iris Chan, Rape in Nanking, is dedicated to these events. The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II ”(The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II). Only one of the episodes: “The Japanese began by taking out of the city and pinning thousands of men of military age with 20 bayonets so that they would not be able to lift weapon against japan Then the invaders moved to the destruction of women, old people, children. Mad samurai ended the sex with murder, squeezed out their eyes and pulled out of their hearts still living people ”.
Since 70-x Tokyo denies the crimes committed in China. Some Japanese politicians call the falsification of the Nanking massacre. However, in December, the Japanese newspaper 1937, which painted the exploits of the army, enthusiastically reported about the gallant competition of two officers who had argued who would be the first to kill more than a hundred Chinese. Won the samurai Mukai, who stabbed 106 man against 105. Even the German consul in the official report described the behavior of Japanese soldiers as brutal. It is known that the slaughter was led by the senior military commander of the Japanese - the uncle of the emperor, Prince Asaka Takahito. The killings were committed with extreme cruelty. The victims were pinned down with bayonets, their heads were cut off, people were burned, buried alive, women had their stomachs ripped out and the inside turned inside out. They raped, and then brutally killed girls, old women.
The Japanese widely used weapons of mass destruction. They were not at all worried about the consequences. Chemical weapons were used from 1937 to 1945 in the 18 provinces of China. Ching Side, a professor at the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Academy of Social Sciences of the People's Republic of China, writes: “More than two thousand battles were registered in which chemical weapons were used that caused the death of more than 60 thousand people. The real number of casualties is much higher: according to Japanese statistics, chemical weapons were used much more often. ”
In July, the Japanese 1938 dropped a thousand chemical bombs on the city of Wotsuy, Shanxi Province, and during the Wuhan battle, 48 thousands of shells with poisonous gas. In March, 1939-th chemical weapons were used against Kuomintang troops stationed in Nanchang - the full staff of the two divisions died as a result of poisoning. Since August 1940, chemical weapons 11 have been used in North China along railway lines once, the number of casualties among military personnel exceeded 10 thousands.
In the squadron 731, a special unit of the Japanese army, bacteriological weapons were developed. Experiments were conducted on people (prisoners of war, abductees). They were tested for vaccines against typhus, cholera, anthrax and dysentery, venereal diseases (on women and their fruits) were investigated. Experiments were called "logs." People were slaughtered for "scientific purposes", infected with the most terrible diseases, then dissected while still alive. Experiments were made on the survivability of "logs": how many will hold out without water and food, scalded with boiling water, after X-ray irradiation, electric shocks, without any cut-out organ.
Diseases among prisoners of war were fought simply: the whole camp was burned, where the infected were met. The story is a miracle surviving American veteran of the war in the Pacific: “The crowd of prisoners on the island of Baatan began to overtake the Japanese motorcycle. One of the Japanese sided a bayonet to a rifle, set it at the throat level of Americans standing on the sidelines and the motorcycle sped up. ”
When there were problems with food, the Japanese soldiers decided that eating prisoners was not considered sinful or shameful. Eyewitnesses say that "gourmets" cut off pieces of meat from living people. By the end of the war, cannibalism became commonplace. Officers in remote theaters of war called for subordinates to eat only killed enemies. Since on the Pacific Islands the Japanese switched to guerrilla warfare tactics, special “groups of hunters” were created, and enemy soldiers and local residents were fowling. In New Guinea, the occupiers had a division of human flesh into white and black "pork". The first was understood as Americans and Australians, under the second - Asians. Although eating their comrades was strictly forbidden, such incidents were in the Philippines.
On Titizime, the Japanese ate eight American pilots. The case turned out to be documented, since not only the officers, but also the highest army authorities were “helping themselves”. In 1946, 30 people got sued for this case. Five were hanged: General Tatibama, Admiral Mori, Major Matoba, Captain Isi, doctor Teraki. Interestingly, there is no article for cannibalism in international law, but lawyers have found a way out - cannibals were executed for “obstructing the honorary burial”.
From the memoirs of the Indian Lens Naik Khatam Ali, who was captured in New Guinea: “Every day, soldiers killed and ate one prisoner. I myself have seen it happen. About a hundred prisoners were eaten. ”
Experts point out that the soldiers did not commit atrocities because they carried out the order, they liked to bring pain and torment. There is an assumption that cruelty against the enemy is caused by the interpretation of the Bushido military code: no mercy for the defeated, a prisoner worse than death, the enemies should be exterminated so that they could not take revenge in the future.
Opinion ex-Soviet Ambassador Alexander Panov: “The Japanese do not recognize the many atrocities that were committed in China, as well as against the Koreans. There is a statement at the highest level, including that made by Prime Minister Abe, that there is no clear definition of aggression in international law and everything depends on what country’s actions are called into question. ”
Inhumanity, elevated to the absolute, was and remains in Japan one of the main "virtues." Shinto theorists consider this the “firm unshakable spirit” of the Land of the Rising Sun, which gives emperor's subjects the right, coupled with the samurai code of honor, to a special place among the powerful of the world. The barbarous extermination of innocent people is more than a peculiar notion of honor.
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