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The massacre occurred over a period of three weeks starting in October 1920, the day of the Hunchun Incident after the Battle of Qingshanli. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Korean civilians who numbered an estimated at least 5,000, and perpetrated widespread rape. [1] [2] [3]
Beginning on September 18, the Japanese government arrested 735 participants in the massacre, but they were reportedly given light sentences. The Japanese Governor-General of Korea paid out 200 Japanese yen in compensation to 832 families of massacre victims, although the Japanese government on the mainland only admitted to about 250 deaths.
The Jeamni Massacre (Korean: 제암리 학살 사건; lit. Jeamni Massacre Incident) was a mass murder of 20 to 30 unarmed Korean civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army on April 15, 1919, in Jeamni, Suwon , Korea, Empire of Japan .
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.
Imperial Japanese Army 29 Killing of Korean civilians inside a church in Hwaseong October 1920: Gando massacre: Jiandao: Imperial Japanese Army 5,000+ [9] July 1922: Shinano River incident: Shinano River: Okura zaibatsu: 100+ [10] Massacre of up to 100 Korean laborers who tried to escape the construction site by the Plant foremen [11] [12 ...
In Japan, attitudes toward Koreans were deeply shaped by the Nissen dōsoron (日鮮同祖論, "Theory of Japanese-Korean Common Ancestry"), which claimed Koreans and Japanese shared mythological ancestors: Susanoo (Koreans) and Amaterasu (Japanese). According to this theory, Koreans were inherently Japanese, though unaware of their true identity.
The Mimizuka (耳塚, "Ear Mound" or "Ear Tomb"), which was renamed from Hanazuka (鼻塚, "Nose Mound"), [1] [2] [3] is a monument in Kyoto, Japan.It is dedicated to the sliced noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians, [4] [5] [6] as well as those of Ming Chinese troops, [7] taken as war trophies during the Japanese invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598.
The Sinhanch'on Incident (Korean: 신한촌사건; Hanja: 新韓村事件) or the April Disaster (4월참변) was a massacre of Korean civilians by Japanese soldiers in the Korean enclave Sinhanch'on, Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic beginning on April 4, 1920. The massacre lasted for several days.