What were the Japanese "death camps" like?
A collection of photographs taken during the liberation of prisoners from the Japanese death camps has been published in Britain. These photos are as shocking as the pictures from German concentration camps. Japan did not support the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, and cruel jailers were free to do anything with prisoners: starve them, torture and mock them, turning people into emaciated half-corpses.
When, after the surrender of Japan in September 1945, Allied forces began to free prisoners of war from Japanese concentration camps, their eyes met a terrifying sight. The Japanese, who did not support the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, mocked captured soldiers, turning them into living skeletons covered with leather.
The emaciated prisoners were constantly tortured and humiliated by the Japanese. The inhabitants of the camps with horror pronounced the names of the guards, who became famous for their special sadism. Some of them were subsequently arrested and executed as war criminals.
The prisoners in the Japanese camps were fed extremely poorly, they were constantly starving, most of the survivors were in an extreme state of exhaustion by the time of liberation.
Tens of thousands of starving prisoners of war were constantly subjected to abuse and torture. The photo shows torture devices found in one of the prisoner of war camps by the Allied troops who liberated the camp. The tortures were numerous and inventive. For example, "water torture" was very popular: the guards first poured a large volume of water into the prisoner's stomach through a hose, and then jumped on his swollen stomach.
Some of the guards were especially notorious for their sadism. The picture shows Lieutenant Usuki, known among the prisoners as the "Black Prince". He was an overseer on the construction of the railway, which the prisoners of war called the "road of death." Usuki beat people for the slightest offense or even without any guilt. And when one of the prisoners decided to run away, Usuki personally cut off his head in front of the rest of the prisoners.
Another brutal overseer - a Korean nicknamed "Mad Half-Blood" - also became famous for brutal beatings. He literally beat people to death. He was subsequently arrested and executed as a war criminal.
Very many British prisoners of war in captivity were subjected to amputation of the legs - both because of the brutal torture, and because of the numerous inflammations, which in a humid warm climate could be caused by any wound, and in the absence of adequate medical care inflammation quickly developed into gangrene.
In the picture - large group amputee prisoners after being released from the camp.
Many prisoners by the time of release literally turned into living skeletons and could no longer stand up on their own.
The horrifying pictures were taken by officers of the allied forces who liberated the death camps: they were supposed to be evidence of Japanese war crimes during World War II.
During the war, more than 140 thousand soldiers of the allied forces were captured by the Japanese, including representatives from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Great Britain, India and the United States.
The labor of prisoners was used by the Japanese in the construction of the highway, railways, airfields, for work in mines and factories. The working conditions were unbearable and the amount of food was minimal.
Especially terrible fame was enjoyed by the "road of death" - a railway line built on the territory of modern Burma. More than 60,000 Allied prisoners of war were involved in its construction, about 12,000 of them died during construction from starvation, disease, and abuse.
The Japanese overseers abused the prisoners as best they could. The captives were loaded with work that was clearly beyond the power of emaciated people, and severely punished for failing to comply with the norm.
In such wrecked huts, in constant dampness, crowding and crowding, prisoners of war lived in Japanese camps.
About 36,000 prisoners of war were transported to central Japan, where they worked in mines, shipyards, and munitions factories.
The captives ended up in the camp in the clothes in which they were captured. Japanese troops. They were not given other things: only sometimes, in some camps, they received work clothes, which was worn only during work. The rest of the time the prisoners wore their own things. Therefore, by the time of liberation, most of the prisoners of war remained in perfect rags.
It is well known that wars are a time when people wake up, sometimes, all the darkest and cruelest that is in human nature. Reading the memoirs of eyewitnesses of the events of the Second World War, getting acquainted with the documents, you are simply amazed at human cruelty, which at that time, it seems, simply knew no bounds. And it's not about fighting, war is war. We are talking about torture and executions that were applied to prisoners of war and the civilian population.
Germans
It is well known that the representatives of the Third Reich during the war put the matter of extermination of people simply on stream. Mass executions, killing in gas chambers amaze with their soulless approach and scale. However, in addition to these methods of killing, the Germans used others.
On the territory of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, the Germans practiced burning entire villages alive. There were cases when people were thrown into pits and covered with earth while still alive.
But even this pales in comparison with the cases when the Germans approached the task in a particularly “creative” way.
It is known that in the Treblinka concentration camp two girls - members of the Resistance were boiled alive in a barrel of water. At the front, soldiers had fun tearing up prisoners tied to tanks.
In France, the Germans used the guillotine en masse. It is known that with the help of this device more than 40 thousand people were beheaded. Among others, the Russian princess Vera Obolenskaya, a member of the Resistance, was executed with the help of a guillotine.
At the Nuremberg trials, cases were made public when the Germans sawed people with hand saws. This happened in the occupied territories of the USSR.
Even to such a time-tested type of execution as hanging, the Germans approached "out of the box." To prolong the torment of the executed, they hung not on a rope, but on a metal string. The victim did not die immediately from a fracture of the vertebrae, as in the usual method of execution, but suffered for a long time. In this way, the participants in the conspiracy against the Fuhrer in 1944 were killed.
Moroccans
One of the least known pages in the history of the Second World War in our country is the participation in it of the French Expeditionary Force, which included the inhabitants of Morocco - the Berbers and representatives of other native tribes. They were called Moroccan Gumiers. The Gumiers fought against the Nazis, that is, they were on the side of the allies who liberated Europe from the "brown plague". But with their cruelty towards local population the Moroccans, by some estimates, surpassed even the Germans.
First of all, the Moroccans raped the inhabitants of the territories they captured. Of course, first of all, women of all ages suffered - from little girls to old women, but boys, teenagers and men who dared to resist them were also subjected to violence. As a rule, gang rape ended with the murder of the victim.
In addition, the Moroccans could mock the victims, gouging out their eyes, cutting off their ears and fingers, since such “trophies” raised the status of a warrior according to Berber ideas.
However, this behavior can be explained: these people lived in their Atlas Mountains in Africa, almost at the level tribal system, were illiterate, and, finding themselves in the theater of military operations of the 20th century, they transferred their medieval, in fact, ideas to it.
Japanese
If the behavior of the Moroccan Gumiers is understandable, then it is extremely difficult to find a reasonable interpretation for the actions of the Japanese.
There are a lot of memories of how the Japanese mocked prisoners of war, representatives civilian population occupied territories, as well as over their own compatriots suspected of espionage.
One of the most popular punishments for espionage was cutting off fingers, ears, or even feet. Amputation was performed without anesthesia. At the same time, they carefully monitored so that the punished during the procedure would continuously feel pain, but at the same time survived.
In the prisoner of war camps for Americans and the British, this type of execution for rebellion was practiced as burial alive. The convict was placed vertically in a pit and covered with a heap of stones or earth. The man suffocated and died slowly, in terrible agony.
The Japanese also used the medieval execution by decapitation. But if in the era of the samurai, the head was cut off with one masterful blow, then in the 20th century there were not so many such blade masters. Inept executioners could thrash on the neck of the unfortunate many times before the head was separated from the neck. The suffering of the victim in this case is even difficult to imagine.
Another type of medieval execution that was used by the Japanese military was drowning in the waves. The convict is tied to a post dug into the shore in the tide zone. The waves slowly rose, the man choked and, finally, died painfully.
And, finally, the most, probably, the most terrible way of execution, which came from antiquity - tearing by growing bamboo. As you know, this plant is the fastest growing in the world. It grows by 10-15 centimeters per day. A man was chained to the ground, from which young shoots of bamboo looked out. For several days, the plants tore apart the body of the sufferer. After the end of the war, it became known that during the Second World War the Japanese used such a barbaric method of execution for prisoners of war.
japanese thriller brutality movies
Before starting a review of the theme of cruelty in Japanese cinema, in my opinion, it is worth paying attention to how cruelty and violence were manifested in Japan in real life and can we say that cruelty is part of Japanese character. It is worth noting that we can see the manifestation of cruelty in different periods Japanese history- from antiquity to today. Violence manifested itself in different areas Japanese life.
The things that will be described above, such as the behavior of samurai, torture, executions, and other manifestations of violence were, part of Everyday life Japanese for a long time. All this is reflected in the art of cinema, as it often depicts the realities of society.
A striking example of the manifestation of cruelty is the behavior of the samurai. A samurai could kill absolutely any person who, as it seemed to the samurai, showed disrespect to him or made any mistake in his actions. There were absolutely normal situations when samurai without apparent reason chopped off ordinary people heads. Their barbaric cruelty was neither condemned nor punished. During the hostilities, the samurai resorted to various tortures, mockery and humiliation of the enemy. Absolutely common practice considered rape and murder of women. For the samurai, this was not something too cruel and immoral, it was one of the ways to humiliate the enemy.
Also a prime example manifestations of cruelty can serve as torture of the Edo period (1603 - 1868). AT medieval japan torture was common as a punishment for a prisoner or his interrogation. They were pretty commonplace for residents and were not perceived by the Japanese as a manifestation of cruelty. Most often, torture was used on a person to obtain from him a confession to a crime. Until 1742, Japan had too many cruel torture such as tearing out the nostrils, chopping off fingers, dipping limbs in boiling oil. But in 1742, the "Code of a Hundred Articles" was adopted, which abolished such cruel measures. After that, only four types of torture remained Prasol A.F. From Edo to Tokyo and back. - M .: Astrel, 2012. - 333 .. The easiest was beating with sticks. The victim was stripped to the waist, put on his knees and started to beat her on the shoulders and back. During this procedure, a doctor was present in the room. Torture was applied to the prisoner until he told the truth or confessed to his deed. Ibid. S. 333..
Pressure torture was also used. Stone slabs were placed on the victim's knees, the weight of each slab was 49 kilograms. A case is described when a prisoner withstood the pressure of 10 plates - it is believed that this is the maximum weight that a prisoner could withstand. Ibid. S. 333..
Torture by binding with a rope was considered the third most cruel. The defendant was twisted into a “shrimp” position and left like that for about 3-4 hours.
And the last kind of torture is hanging on a rope. This technique was used extremely rarely. Ibid. pp. 334 - 335. .
I would also like to say a few words about death penalty. There were six main types of execution, which depended on the severity of the crime committed. Types of death penalty:
cutting off the head when the body was handed over to relatives;
beheading when the body was not handed over to relatives;
decapitation and public display;
burning at the stake;
execution on the cross;
cutting off the head with a bamboo saw and public demonstration 5 Prasol A.F. From Edo to Tokyo and back. - M.: Astrel, 2012. - 340 - 341. .
It should be noted that cruelty Japanese torture Vasily Golovnin noted in his diaries: “... in the Japanese criminal law it is ordered, in case of denial of the accused, to use the most terrible torture that malice could invent in barbarian times ...” Golovnin V. M. Notes of fleet captain Golovnin about his adventures in captivity at Japanese. M .: Zakharov, 2004. In addition to Golovnin, the cruelty of the Japanese towards the guilty was also noted by the Americans who participated in forced opening Japan in the second half of the 20th century.
In 1893, Sakuma Osahiro, a representative of a family of city government employees, compiled a treatise "A true description of the practice of torture", which contained a description of the practice of using torture against a prisoner. In the treatise, the author gave a description of the main tortures before the Edo era - torture by water, fire, torture in the "water prison" and torture of the "wooden horse". The rejection of these methods and the transition to new types of torture, which we described earlier, the author of the treatise considered as a real evolution. important information for us is the role assigned by the author of the treatise to torture. Torture was not considered punishment or revenge for a crime committed. Torture was one part of the crime investigation. Torture was intended to bring the prisoner to repentance and was not considered a barbaric practice. It was one of the parts litigation Sakuma Osahiro. A true description of the practice of torture. [ Electronic resource]. - Access Mode: http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Documenty/Japan/XIX/1880-1900/Sakuma_Osahiro/frametext.htm.
Cruelty was also applied to people who were trained in various crafts and arts. The teacher could punish the student in the most cruel way, but this was done only for the benefit of the student. For example, the most different torture, the main thing was not to cause any harm to her face and not to disfigure the girl.
Of course, the most indicative bloody period of the manifestation of cruelty by the Japanese is the first half of the 20th century, when the country was actively military activities. Cruelty was manifested both to enemies and to close people. For example, during Russo-Japanese War(1904-1905) some soldiers killed their children and wives so as not to doom them to starvation. But it is worth noting that the Japanese did not consider this a manifestation of cruelty, but on the contrary, it was a manifestation of nobility, devotion to their emperor.
Insane cruelty was shown by Japanese warriors to their enemies. The numbers speak for themselves: an average of 300,000 people died during the Nanjing operation, 250,000 people died during the Zhejiang-Jiangxi operation, in addition, Japanese soldiers killed about 100,000 Filipinos and 250,000 Burmese. It is believed that wartime Japanese soldiers had a "three clean" policy, namely "burn clean", "kill everyone clean", "rob clean". And looking at what the Japanese soldiers were doing, it becomes clear that the Japanese soldiers observed these slogans very clearly.
It was absolutely normal for Japanese soldiers total annihilation entire towns and villages. The Japanese researcher Teruyuki Hara wrote the following about the intervention in Siberia: “Of all the cases of the “complete liquidation of villages, the largest in scale and most cruel was the burning of the village of Ivanovka.”
In 1937, an event took place that was called the "Nanjing Massacre". It all started with the fact that the Japanese stabbed about 20 thousand young people of military age with bayonets so that they would not be able to fight against Japan in the future. The Japanese did not spare either the elderly, or children, or women. They were not just killed, they were abused in the dirtiest ways. Women were exposed brutal violence people had their eyes and other organs torn out. Eyewitnesses say that Japanese soldiers raped all women in a row: both very young girls and old women. The weapons that the soldiers had were practically not used to kill victims, since other, more bloody types of murder were used Terentyev N. The focus of the war on Far East. [Electronic resource]. - Access mode:
http://militera.lib.ru/science/terentiev_n/05.html.
The Japanese showed toughness in Manila as well. Many people were shot dead, some were burned alive, after having been doused with gasoline.
With their victims, the soldiers were photographed "for memory". The faces of the soldiers in these photographs do not express an iota of remorse.
During the wars, the Japanese actively created and used "comfort stations" - places where Japanese soldiers "relaxed" with women. An estimated 300,000 women passed through the comfort stations, many of whom were under the age of 18. But, as Japanese scientists note, no one was forced into prostitution by force, the girls went to work at the comfort station only of their own free will.
It is also worth noting the special unit for the development bacteriological weapons or Detachment 731. The bacteria of plague, typhoid, dysentery and other deadly diseases were tested on civilians. Japanese scientists used the term "logs" in relation to the experimental subjects. Scientists conducted experiments not only in scientific purposes, but also for the sake of interest. The degree of atrocity cannot be ascertained. But you can also look at it from the other side, many scientists say that the Japanese did all these atrocities for the benefit of their own compatriots. They didn't want their soldiers to get sick and looked for ways to treat various ailments.
One more fact can explain the cruelty of soldiers. At that time the orders inside Japanese army were very harsh. For any oversight, a soldier could be punished. Most often these were blows or slaps, but sometimes the punishment could be more severe. During the exercises, cruelty and humiliation also reigned in the army. Young soldiers were "cannon fodder" for the top. Naturally, the young officers could only throw out the accumulated aggression on the enemy. This, in fact, was one of the tasks of such a cruel upbringing of Seiichi Morimura. Devil's Kitchen. - M.: Progress, 1983. .
Do not forget about the factor of loyalty to the emperor. In order to show their devotion to the emperor, the Japanese soldiers went to any lengths. Special attack shock troops or kamikazes went to certain death for the sake of the emperor.
If we talk about modernity, then cruelty is manifested in our days. Of course, these are not the atrocities that took place in medieval Japan or during the Second World War. But sometimes it is very strange to see that in one of the most developed countries of the world show such strange outbursts of cruelty towards their citizens.
Modern entertainment programs can serve as a striking example. In them, people are forced to swim in boiling water, perform various tasks that are harmful to health. On many TV shows, you can see how people break their limbs and, what is most strange, the viewers of such TV shows bring great pleasure. During these programs, we can hear the perky laughter of the audience. A favorite joke of the Japanese is the falling floor - when a person steps on it, the floor falls through and the person falls into boiling water. The Japanese like to use such jokes during various kinds of awards. The test-check has gained fame when people come for an interview and after a while a “drowned boy” approaches them in silence. Employers, therefore, study the applicant's reaction to the job.
Do not forget about a serious problem in life Japanese schoolchildren. It has long been known that in Japanese system education exists school bullying or ijime- bullying, harassment, harassment. Some schoolchildren are bullied by their peers to the point of suicide. Ijime directed to psychological suppression personality. For bullying, a child is usually chosen who is somehow different from others. Moreover, children of quite successful parents are involved in bullying. Year after year, the number of bullying against schoolchildren continues to grow, and Nurutdinova A.R. has not yet been very successful in solving this problem. On the other side " Japanese miracle", or "Ijime": the social disease of Japanese life and the education system. - M.: 2012. .
Recent times Japanese cruelty to dolphins is being discussed more and more in the world. Dolphin hunting season is open in the country from September to April, and during this time the Japanese kill great amount fish. The world community is outraged by the behavior of the Japanese. But it is worth noting that for the Japanese, this is a long tradition that has become part of everyday life, and not a manifestation of cruelty to animals.
Thus, we see that cruelty has been present in the life of the Japanese since ancient times, and often what was considered cruel and immoral for a Westerner was not such for the Japanese. Therefore, we can say that the Japanese and Western people have different concepts and attitudes towards cruelty.
It is also worth noting the fundamental differences in the perception of cruelty by the Japanese and Western people. For the Japanese, the manifestation of cruelty, as we have already mentioned, was quite business as usual so they treated him with calmness. In addition, people from childhood were introduced with the awareness that it may be necessary to sacrifice oneself for the sake of others. It also had an effect on a rather calm perception of death. Unlike Western people, death for the Japanese was not something terrible and terrible, it was a transition to new stage and therefore it was perceived with little or no fear. Apparently, this is why Japanese directors depict scenes of cruelty in their works, because they do not see anything terrible in them. And the Japanese audience also treats scenes of violence in films quite calmly.
For our work, the analysis of the manifestation of cruelty is important in that it shows the difference in the concept of cruelty among Western people and among the Japanese. We have seen that often what seems cruel Western people, for the Japanese it seems absolutely normal. Besides, historical events, which we described above, served as material for the work of many directors.
Japanese atrocities - 21+
I present to your attention the photos that were taken by Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. Only thanks to quick and tough measures, the Red Army managed to tear out the Japanese army very painfully on Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin Gol River, where the Japanese decided to test our strength
Only thanks to a serious defeat, they put their ears back and postponed the invasion of the USSR until the moment the Germans took Moscow. Only the failure of the Typhoon operation did not allow our dear Japanese friends to arrange a second front for the USSR.
Trophies of the Red Army
Everyone has somehow forgotten about the atrocities of the Germans and their lackeys on our territory. Unfortunately.
I want an example Japanese photos to show what kind of joy it was - the imperial Japanese army. It was a powerful and well-equipped force. And its composition was well prepared, drilled, fanatically devoted to the idea of domination of their country over all other monkeys. They were yellow-skinned Aryans, which was reluctantly recognized by other long-nosed and round-eyed superior people from the Third Reich. Together they were destined to divide the world for the benefit of the smallest.
In the photo - a Japanese officer and soldier. I pay special attention - all the officers in the army had swords in without fail. The old samurai clans have katanas, the new ones, without traditions, have an army sword of the 1935 model. Without a sword - not an officer.
In general, the cult of edged weapons among the Japanese was at its best. As the officers were proud of their swords, so the soldiers were proud of their long bayonets and used them where possible.
In the photo - practicing bayonet fighting on prisoners:
It was a good tradition, so it was applied everywhere.
(well, by the way, it also happened in Europe - the brave Poles practiced saber felling and bayonet techniques on captured Red Army soldiers in exactly the same way)
However, shooting was also practiced on prisoners. Training on captured Sikhs from the British Armed Forces:
Of course, the officers also flaunted the ability to use a sword. especially honing his ability to take off human heads with a single blow. Supreme chic.
In the photo - training in Chinese:
Of course, the Unter-Leshes had to know their place. In the photo - the Chinese greet their new masters as expected:
If they show disrespect - in Japan, a samurai could blow his head off any commoner who, as it seemed to the samurai, greeted him disrespectfully. In China it was even worse.
However, low-ranking soldiers also did not lag behind the samurai. In the photo - the soldiers admire the torment of a Chinese peasant flogged with their bayonets:
Of course, they chopped off their heads both for the sake of training and just for fun:
And for selfies:
Because it is beautiful and courageous:
The Japanese army especially developed after the storming of the Chinese capital - the city of Nanjing. Here the soul unfolded accordion. Well, in the Japanese sense, it's probably better to say like a cherry blossom fan. Three months after the assault, the Japanese slaughtered, shot, burned, and in various ways more than 300,000 people. Well, not a person, in their opinion, but the Chinese.
Indiscriminately - women, children or men.
Well, it’s true, it was customary to cut the men first, just in case, so as not to interfere.
And women - after. With violence and entertainment.
Well, children, of course.
The officers even had a competition - who will chop off in a day more goals. Purely like Gimli and Legolas - who will fill more orcs. Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun, later renamed Mainichi Shimbun. On December 13, 1937, a photograph of Lieutenants Mukai and Noda appeared on the front page of the newspaper under the headline "Competition to be the first to cut off the heads of 100 Chinese with sabers is over: Mukai has already scored 106 points, and Noda - 105." One point in the "bounty race" meant one victim. But we can say that these Chinese are lucky.
As mentioned in the diary of an eyewitness of those events, the leader of the local Nazi party John Rabe, "the Japanese military chased the Chinese throughout the city and stabbed them with bayonets or sabers." However, according to a veteran of the Japanese imperial army, who participated in the events in Nanjing, Hajime Kondo, for the most part, the Japanese "thought it was too noble for a Chinese to die from a saber, and therefore they often stoned them to death."
Japanese soldiers began to practice their popular "three clean" policy: "burn clean", "kill everyone clean", "rob clean".
More selfies. The warriors tried to document their bravery. Well, because of the prohibitions, I can’t post photos of more sophisticated fun, such as stuffing a cola into a raped Chinese woman. Because it's softer. The Japanese shows what kind of girl he has.
More selfies
One of the brave athletes with prey ^
And these are just the results of some outsider ^
Then the Chinese could not bury all the corpses for a long time.
The case was long. There are a lot of dead, but there is no one to bury. Everyone has heard about Tamerlane with the pyramids of skulls. Well, the Japanese are not far behind.
White got it too. The Japanese did not chime with the prisoners.
They were lucky - they survived:
But this Australian does not:
So if the brave Japanese crossed our border, one could imagine that they would be worthy comrades-in-arms of the Germans. In the photo - the result of the work of the German Einsatzkommando.
Because - just look at the photo
Until December 7, 1941, there was not a single military conflict with the Asian army in the history of America. There were only a few minor skirmishes in the Philippines during the war with Spain. This led to underestimation of the enemy American soldiers and sailors.
The US Army has heard stories of the cruelty that the Japanese invaders inflicted on China's population in the 1940s. But before the clashes with the Japanese, the Americans had no idea what their opponents were capable of.
Regular beatings were so common that it's not even worth mentioning. However, in addition, captured Americans, British, Greeks, Australians and Chinese had to deal with slave labor, forced marches, cruel and unusual torture, and even dismemberment.
Below are some of the more shocking atrocities of the Japanese army during World War II.
15. CANNIBALISM
The fact that during the famine people begin to eat their own kind is no secret to anyone. Cannibalism took place on the Donner-led expedition, and even on the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes, which is the subject of the movie Alive. But this always happened only in extreme circumstances. But it's impossible not to shudder when hearing stories of eating the remains of dead soldiers or cutting off parts from living people. Japanese camps were in deep isolation, surrounded by impenetrable jungle, and the soldiers guarding the camp often starved like the prisoners, resorting to horrific means to satisfy their hunger. But for the most part, cannibalism was due to mockery of the enemy. A report from the University of Melbourne states:
“According to the Australian lieutenant, he saw many bodies that were missing parts, even a scalped head without a torso. He argues that the condition of the remains clearly indicated that they had been dismembered for cooking."
14. NON-HUMAN EXPERIMENTS ON PREGNANT WOMEN 
Dr. Josef Mengele was a famous Nazi scientist who experimented on Jews, twins, dwarfs and other concentration camp prisoners, for which he was wanted the international community after the war for trial for numerous war crimes. But the Japanese had their own scientific institutions where no less terrible experiments were performed on people.
The so-called Detachment 731 conducted experiments on Chinese women who were raped and impregnated. They were purposefully infected with syphilis so that it could be known whether the disease would be inherited. Often, the state of the fetus was studied directly in the mother's womb without the use of anesthesia, since these women were considered nothing more than animals for study.
13. COLLECTION AND SUITATION OF THE GENITALS IN THE MOUTH 
In 1944 on volcanic island Peleliu soldier marines during lunch with a friend, I saw the figure of a man heading towards them along open area battlefields. When the man approached, it became clear that he was also a Marine Corps soldier. The man walked bent over and moved his legs with difficulty. He was covered in blood. The sergeant decided that it was just a wounded man who had not been taken from the battlefield, and he and several colleagues hurried to meet him.
What they saw made them shudder. His mouth was sewn shut and the front of his trousers was cut open. His face was contorted in pain and horror. Having taken him to the doctors, they later learned from them what really happened. He was captured by the Japanese, where he was beaten and severely tortured. The Japanese army soldiers cut off his genitals, stuffed them into his mouth, and sewed him up. It is not known if the soldier could survive such a horrific abuse. But the certainty is that, instead of intimidating, this event produced reverse effect, filling the soldiers' hearts with hatred and giving them additional strength to fight for the island.
12. SATISFYING THE CURIOSITY OF DOCTORS 
People involved in medicine in Japan did not always work to alleviate the plight of the sick. During World War II, Japanese "doctors" often performed brutal procedures on enemy soldiers or civilians in the name of science or simply to satisfy curiosity. Somehow they were interested in what would happen to the human body if it was twisted long time. To do this, they put people in centrifuges and twisted them sometimes for hours. People were thrown back against the walls of the cylinder, and the faster it turned, the more pressure appeared on internal organs. Many died within a few hours and their bodies were removed from the centrifuge, but some were spun until they were in literally the words did not explode or fall apart.
11. AMPUTATION 
If a person was suspected of espionage, then for this he was punished with all cruelty. Not only were the soldiers of the enemy armies of Japan tortured, but also the inhabitants of the Philippines, who were suspected of intelligence intelligence for the Americans and the British. The favorite punishment was simply cutting them up alive. First one hand, then maybe a leg and fingers. Next came the ears. But all this did not lead to a quick death in order for the victim to suffer for a long time. There was also a practice of stopping bleeding after cutting off a hand, when several days were given to recover in order to continue the torture. Men, women and children were subjected to amputations, for no one there was no mercy from the atrocities of Japanese soldiers.
10 Drowning Torture 
Many believe that drowning torture was first used by US soldiers in Iraq. Such torture is contrary to the constitution of the country and looks unusual and cruel. This measure may or may not be considered torture. Certainly, for a prisoner, this ordeal but it doesn't put his life at risk. The Japanese used water torture not only for interrogations, but also tied prisoners at an angle and inserted tubes into their nostrils. Thus, water entered them directly into the lungs. It didn't just make you feel like you were drowning, like drowning torture, the victim actually seemed to drown if the torture went on too long.
He could try to spit out enough water to keep from choking, but this was not always successful. Drowning torture was the second most common cause of death for prisoners after beatings.
9. FREEZING AND BURNING 
Another kind of inhuman research human body was the study of the effects of cold on the body. Often, the skin peeled off the victim's bones as a result of freezing. Of course, the experiments were carried out on living, breathing people who, for the rest of their lives, had to live with limbs from which the skin had come off. But not only the impact low temperatures on the body, but also high. They burned the skin on a person's hand over a torch, and the captive ended his life in terrible torment.
8. RADIATION 
X-rays were still poorly understood at the time, and their usefulness and effectiveness in diagnosing disease or as a weapon was questionable. The irradiation of prisoners was especially often used by Detachment 731. The prisoners were collected under a canopy and exposed to radiation. At certain intervals they were taken out to study the physical and psychological effect from irradiation. At particularly high doses of radiation, part of the body burned and the skin literally fell off. The victims died in agony, as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki later, but much more slowly.
7. BURNING ALIVE 
Japanese soldiers from small islands in the southern part Pacific Ocean were hardened cruel people who lived in caves where there was not enough food, there was nothing to do, but there was a lot of time to cultivate hatred for enemies in their hearts. Therefore, when American soldiers were captured by them, they were absolutely ruthless towards them. Often American sailors were burned alive or partially buried. Many of them were found under rocks where they were thrown to decompose. The captives were tied hand and foot, then thrown into a dug hole, which was then slowly buried. Perhaps the worst was that the head of the victim was left outside, which was then urinated on or eaten by animals.
6. DEHEADING 
In Japan, it was considered an honor to die from a sword strike. If the Japanese wanted to disgrace the enemy, they brutally tortured him. Therefore, it was good luck for those captured to die by decapitation. It was much worse to be subjected to the tortures listed above. If the battle ran out of ammunition, the Americans used a rifle with a bayonet, while the Japanese always carried a long blade and a long curved sword. Soldiers were lucky to die by decapitation, not by a blow to the shoulder or chest. If the enemy was on the ground, then he was hacked to death, and not cut off his head.
5. DEATH BY THE TIDE 
Since Japan and its surrounding islands are surrounded by ocean waters, this type of torture was common among the inhabitants. Drowning is a terrible kind of death. Even worse was the expectation of imminent death from the tide within a few hours. The prisoners were often tortured for several days in order to learn military secrets. Some could not stand the torture, but there were those who only gave their name, rank and serial number. For such stubborn people prepared special kind of death. The soldier was left on the shore, where he had to listen for several hours as the water was getting closer and closer. Then, the water covered the prisoner with his head and within a few minutes of coughing, filled the lungs, after which death occurred.
4. BAMBOO TORTURE 
Bamboo grows in hot tropical areas and its growth is noticeably faster than other plants, several centimeters per day. And when the diabolical mind of man invented the most terrible way die, then they became impalement. The victims were impaled on bamboo, which slowly grew into their bodies. The unfortunate suffered from inhuman pain when their muscles and organs were pierced by a plant. Death occurred as a result of organ damage or blood loss.
3. COOKING ALIVE 
Another activity of Detachment 731 was the exposure of victims small doses electricity. With little impact, it caused severe pain. If it was long, then the internal organs of the prisoners were boiled and burned. An interesting fact about the intestines and gallbladder is that they have nerve endings. Therefore, when exposed to them, the brain sends pain signals to other organs. It's like boiling the body from the inside. Imagine that you swallowed a red-hot piece of iron in order to understand what the unfortunate victims experienced. Pain will be felt throughout the body until the soul leaves it.
2. FORCED LABOR AND MARCHES 
Thousands of prisoners of war were sent to Japanese concentration camps, where they led the lives of slaves. A large number of prisoners was a serious problem for the army, as it was impossible to supply them with enough food and medicine. In concentration camps, prisoners were starved, beaten, and forced to work to death. The life of the prisoners meant nothing to the guards and officers watching them. In addition, if labor was needed on an island or another part of the country, then prisoners of war had to march there hundreds of kilometers through unbearable heat. Countless soldiers died along the way. Their bodies were dumped into ditches or left there.
1. FORCED TO KILL COMRADES AND ALLIES 
Most often, during interrogations, beatings of prisoners were used. Documents claim that at first they spoke to the prisoner in a good way. Then, if the officer conducting the interrogation understood the futility of such a conversation, was bored or simply angry, then the prisoner of war was beaten with fists, sticks or other objects. The beating continued until the tormentors got tired. In order to make the interrogation more interesting, they brought another prisoner and forced him to continue under pain own death from decapitation. Often he had to beat the prisoner to death. Few things in war were so hard on a soldier than inflicting suffering on a comrade. These stories filled the Allied forces with even greater determination in the fight against the Japanese.
