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Yasuji Kaneko

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118:"They cried out, but it didn't matter to us whether the women lived or died," Kaneko said in an interview with The Associated Press at his Tokyo home. "We were the emperor's soldiers. Whether in military brothels or in the villages, we raped without reluctance." 133:, Kaneko describes an incident in which he and his unit surrounded and wiped out an entire village for the thrill of it, rather than any threat it offered. The reviewer notes that all soldiers interviewed in Minori Matsui's film were ex- 169:, far Northern China. Hata concluded that if Kaneko did commit any atrocities, it was on his own initiative. Kaneko responded by saying that Hata had not experienced the horrors of war and did not know what it was like. 396: 376: 421: 110:
were expensive. Therefore, I kidnapped, raped, and killed the Chinese women." In an interview with the Washington Post he claimed that he raped many Chinese women during the
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Kaneko started giving public testimony around 1996, at the age of 76. According to his testimony, he joined the army in 1940, and spread
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felt that "they give impression of being not communist-controlled robots but elderly men who have little time and nothing to lose" .
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during 1950–1956. He was known for his extensive war crimes testimony, including his alleged involvement in the
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He testified during an interview with English professor and activist Yun Chung-Ok in December 2000: "
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which features 14 Japanese soldiers retelling their roles in war crimes committed by Japan during
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Otake, Tomoko. " Kill all, rob all, burn all" . Japan Times, September 26, 1996
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on 26 September 1996, Yasuji stated "I murdered 100 people or more by
92: 88: 103:." He also stated that he murdered and raped many Chinese people. 51: 204:熊谷伸一郎 『金子さんの戦争——中国戦線の現実』 リトルモア、2005年、pp. 44ff, 183ff, 211f, 222f。 141:" that may call their testimony into question. However, the 341:「終戦特集を検証する-「空想虚言症」の記憶にさいなまれる『朝日新聞』」 諸君 30(11) 1998.11 137:
of the Chinese government and subjected to a long "
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Index

Imperial Japanese Army
Siberian Internment
Soviet Union
Fushun War Criminals Management Centre
China
Unit 731
Japanese Devils
Iris Chang
Nanjing Massacre
Association of Returnees from China
cholera
Linqing
Japan Times
torture
Comfort women
invasion of China
Japanese Devils
World War II
POWs
re-education
Mark Schilling
Ikuhiko Hata
Qingdao
Manchuria
Japanese war crimes
Japan and weapons of mass destruction


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