Japan at war : A beginner's guide
Japan in China
Commentary: 'Manchukuo' lies hurt relations
www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-08/
19/content_256148.htm
The legacy
of the Japanese take-over of Manchuria – the People's
Republic of China's view, from the China Daily.
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism by
Louise Young (University of California Press, 1999) £16.95
This examination
of Japanese imperialism focuses on the domestic impact of Japan's activities
in north-east China between 1931 and 1945, to consider the 'metropolitan
effects' of empire building – how the Japanese
people imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo.
The Chinese War Victims' Lawsuits
http://space.geocities.jp/japanwarres/center/english/Courtcas.htm
Brief account of 12 lawsuits being pursued against the Japanese government, to do with 'the Nanking Massacre, Unit 731, and indiscriminate bombing; forced relocation to Japan and forced labour; 'comfort women'; the Pingdingshan incident (another massacre); and abandoned poison gas and bombs'.
Breaking the Silence
www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.12.96/
cover/china1-9650.html
Magazine
article by a Chinese-American journalist on the Rape of Nanking and other
Japanese atrocities in China.
The Rape of Nanking: The forgotten holocaust of World War II by
Iris Chang (Penguin, 1998) £8.99
In December 1937, the Japanese army
swept into Nanking, then the capital of China, and, within weeks, not
only looted and burned the defenceless city but systematically raped,
tortured and murdered more than 300,000 civilians. Chang describes events
from the points of view of the Japanese, the Chinese and the independent
Westerners living in Nanking.
Factories of Death: Japanese biological warfare 1932-45 and
the American cover-up by Sheldon H Harris (Routledge, 2002) £16.99
In
Manchuria, before and during World War II, the Japanese army conducted
numerous horrifying scientific experiments on living people, including
those relating to bacteriological and chemical warfare. After the war,
the Japanese scientists who had been engaged in these activities were
granted immunity from the US Army's investigation for war crimes in return
for the results of their experiments.
