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Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes In World War II de Yuki Tanaka

Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes In World War II

Autor Yuki Tanaka
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 dec 1997

Considerăm că Hidden Horrors vine să completeze o lacună persistentă în literatura academică dedicată celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial, oferind o documentare riguroasă a atrocităților japoneze care, timp de decenii, au fost fie ignorate, fie marginalizate în discursul istoric oficial. Această a doua ediție revizuită nu se limitează la o simplă trecere în revistă a faptelor, ci propune o analiză profundă a mecanismelor instituționale și psihologice care au permis dezumanizarea extremă în teatrul de operațiuni din Pacific.

Structura volumului este organizată tematic, debutând cu o analiză a tribunalelor pentru crime de război și evoluând spre studii de caz cutremurătoare: de la masacrele și marșurile morții din lagărul Sandakan (Borneo), până la capitole dedicate canibalismului și experimentelor biologice. Un element distinctiv al acestei ediții este capitolul nou despre insula Nauru, unde Yuki Tanaka investighează uciderea pacienților cu lepră și strămutarea forțată a populației native. Această lucrare reprezintă o alternativă necesară la Japanese War Crimes during World War II de Frank Jacob pentru cursurile de istoria Asiei, având avantajul unei ancorări mai adânci în arhivele japoneze și a unei perspective critice asupra lipsei de asumare a responsabilității colective în societatea niponă contemporană.

În contextul operei sale, Hidden Horrors consolidează temele explorate în Comfort Woman, extinzând cercetarea de la sclavia sexuală la spectrul complet al violenței sistematice. Stilul autorului este precis și clinic, lăsând faptele și hărțile incluse să vorbească despre amploarea fenomenului, în timp ce concluzia substanțial revizuită oferă interpretări noi asupra proceselor istorice care au modelat structura militară imperială.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813327181
ISBN-10: 0813327180
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 20 photographs, maps, notes, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Avalon Publishing
Colecția Westview Press

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Recomandăm această carte studenților și cercetătorilor în istorie și științe politice care doresc o înțelegere nuanțată a conflictului din Pacific. Hidden Horrors nu este doar o cronică a brutalității, ci un instrument esențial pentru a înțelege cum ideologia și structura statală pot justifica atrocitățile. Cititorul câștigă acces la date de arhivă rare și la o analiză sociologică a modului în care memoria istorică este construită sau reprimată în Japonia postbelică.

Despre autor

Yuki Tanaka este un istoric de renume mondial, fost profesor de cercetare la Institutul de Pace din cadrul Universității din Hiroshima până în 2015. Cariera sa a fost dedicată scoaterii la lumină a aspectelor ascunse ale istoriei militare japoneze, fiind un critic vocal al politicilor de negare a crimelor de război. Pe lângă lucrarea de referință Hidden Horrors, acesta este autorul volumului Japan's Comfort Women și co-editor al lucrării Bombing Civilians. Expertiza sa îmbină rigoarea academică cu un angajament profund pentru pace și dreptate istorică în regiunea Asia-Pacific.

Descriere scurtă

This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become “comfort women”—prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived to tell the tale.Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war—without denying individual and national responsibility.

Notă biografică

Yuki Tanaka is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian National University.

Descriere

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This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka's case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. He traces the fate of sixty-five shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by their captors. Another thirty-two nurses were captured and sent to Sumatra to become "comfort women"-sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs were massacred in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945, while those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. This new edition also includes a powerful chapter on the island of Nauru, where thirty-nine leprosy patients were killed and thousands of Naurans were ill-treated and forced to leave their homes. Without denying individual and national responsibility, the author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war. In his substantially revised conclusion, Tanaka brings in significant new interpretations to explain why Japanese imperial forces were so brutal, tracing the historical processes that created such a unique military structure and ideology. Finally, he investigates why a strong awareness of their collective responsibility for wartime atrocities has been and still is lacking among the Japanese.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Foreword by John W. Dower
Preface to the Second Edition: Crime and Responsibility: War, the State, and Japanese Society
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Introduction: The War Crimes Tribunals and POWs
Chapter 1: The Sandakan POW Camp and the Geneva Convention
Chapter 2: The Sandakan Death Marches and the Elimination of POWs
Chapter 3: Rape and War: The Japanese Experience
Chapter 4: Judge Webb and Japanese Cannibalism
Chapter 5: Japanese Biological Warfare Plans and Experiments on POWs
Chapter 6: Japanese Atrocities on Nauru during the Paci?c War: The Murder of Australians, the Massacre of Lepers, and the Ethnocide of Nauruans
Chapter 7: Massacre of Civilians at Kavieng
Conclusion: Japanese Atrocities in the Asia-Pacific War
Notes
Index

Recenzii

Tanaka offers a stunning review of Japanese atrocities, mostly against Chinese and Australian POWs, with some accounts of atrocities against Americans in Japan and the Philippines. More prominent are the needless murders of POWs and civilians in Sandakan and Kavieng and aboard the Japanese destroyer Akikaze. Throughout the book, Tanaka uses reliable reports and testimonies from the Australian War Crimes Commission as his sources, but there is a wide variety of secondary Japanese, British, and US sources. The essential focus is the present Japanese notion of victimhood and ignorance of the aggression and cruelty done in the name of the emperor.. Tanaka does an outstanding job presenting the development of emperor ideology that changed traditional Bushido from the 'way of the warrior' to the dangerous cult of emperor worship. This very challenging book is expertly written and very welcome in POW studies.

Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.

How can we understand the inhumanity of war? Yuki Tanaka's book remains the most searingly honest attempt to make sense of the cruelty of the Japanese military forces during the Asia-Pacific War. Drawing attention to the relationship between atrocity and the everyday lives of ordinary people, it is a warning to us all.
Yuki Tanaka writes with compelling authenticity and refreshing candor on Japanese atrocities during World War II. His eagerly anticipated second edition of Hidden Horrors provides a seminal and authoritative analysis. This scholarly contribution is welcome and constitutes compulsory reading for any who take the subject matter seriously.
For years, Yuki Tanaka's book has been essential, harrowing reading on the effects of Japanese imperialism on Asia in the mid-twentieth century. This revised edition draws on new thinking and research to make its powerful case with even more clarity.
Praise for the first edition:
In a shocking brief . . . Japanese historian Tanaka challenges the idea of Japan as a victim in WWII. The core of his thesis is that in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, an 'Emperor ideology' based on the 'family state' came to dominate Japan. Responsibility was seen as unlimited, while rights existed only in a collective context; this set the stage for various tragedies and atrocities.

Praise for the first edition:
A scholar's harrowing . . . briefing on largely unpunished and long-ignored atrocities committed by Japan's military during WW II. Drawing on hitherto untapped archives, Tanaka documents a series of appalling war crimes that, with few exceptions, have escaped notice in standard histories of the global conflict. . . . After reviewing the frightful particulars of his case studies, moreover, the author offers anecdotal evidence of similar behavior by other belligerents, eventually concluding, however, that Japanese barbarity was sui generis. . . . Shocking annals that bear gruesome witness to the darker realities of what historian John W. Dower (who contributed a thoughtful foreword to the American edition) called a war without mercy.