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It was during this period that the bulk of Japanese war crimes were committed. By 1941, Japan had occupied much of north and coastal China, but the KMT central government and military had retreated to the western interior to continue their resistance, while the Chinese communists remained in control of base areas in Shaanxi. In the occupied ...
At the end of the campaign, the 2nd War Area claimed that 13,770 Japanese killed or wounded. The 1st War Area reported that 5,130 Japanese killed, and seems to have accomplished its mission of tying down Japanese troops in its area of operations. The 8th War Area, after a see-saw campaign, had succeeded in rolling the Japanese back to Baotou in ...
The Tokyo Charter defines war crimes as "violations of the laws or customs of war," [22] which involves acts using prohibited weapons, violating battlefield norms while engaging in combat with the enemy combatants, or against protected persons, [23] including enemy civilians and citizens and property of neutral states as in the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Gegenmiao massacre or the Gegenmiao incident [1] was a war crime by the Red Army and a part of the local Chinese population against over half of a group of 1,800 Japanese women and children who had taken refuge in the lamasery Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (葛根廟) on August 14, 1945, during the Khingan–Mukden Operation in Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
Imperial Japanese Army, police and vigilantes 6,000+ Multiple incidents, including the Fukuda Village Incident: May 1928: Kobe shooting: Kobe: Chinese man 7 [13]-12 [14] (including the perpetrator) 11 or 7 Japanese were shot to death by a Chinese man in Kobe in revenge for the Jinan incident and then he committed suicide [14] [13] 5 June 1931
Japanese troops guarding Chinese refugees displaced by war and the Yellow River Flood, China Jun-Jul 1938. The immediate drowning deaths were estimated to range from 30,000 (Kuo Tai-chun, 2015) [11] [12] to 89,000 (China Academy of Sciences, 1995). [13] Estimates of total deaths resulting from floods, famine and plague varied wildly.
China World War I: 15–22 million [15] [16] 1914–1918 Allied Powers vs. Central Powers: Global Conquests of Timur: 7–20 million [9] 1369–1405 Timurid Empire vs. various states in Asia Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia An Lushan rebellion: 13 million [17] 754–763 Tang Dynasty and Uyghur Khaganate vs. Yan Dynasty: China Thirty ...
They were also tried by the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal. On trial with them was Gunkichi Tanaka, a captain from the 6th Division who personally killed over 300 Chinese POWs and civilians with his sword during the massacre. All three men were found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death. They were executed by shooting together on January 28 ...