| | Powell's Books - Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Transitions--Asia and Asian America) by Yukiko ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | 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. |
 | | 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. |
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