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Title: Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Transitions--Asia and Asian America) by Yuki Tanaka, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Yukiko Tanaka ISBN: 0-8133-2718-0 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (17 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Important Book to Read even if Author is Lightweight
Comment: This is an important book to read to further an understanding of the magnitude of Japanese war crimes in WWII. The author touches on the fact that these war crimes were part of a pattern of inhumanity; not simply isolated incidents of criminality, but an artifact of Japanese culture which demanded subservience of the individual for the sake of "social harmony". Individual morality or even a desire for morality can play no role in such a regime. Interestingly, even the author provides names of officers , but for the most part treats the enlisted men who carried out the barbarous orders not as men but as mere cogs.
The scary thing is that what was previously demanded is still encouraged as socially desirable -- still for the sake of "social harmony." This means that there is an unwillingness to broach ugly topics like grandpa's inhumanity, thus it is unlikely that books such as this will ever provoke the soul searching that has taken place in other countries that have thrown off fascism or otherwise confronted their past.
Rating: 3
Summary: Book Contains Great Facts, but Lame Excuses
Comment: The most outstanding attribute of this book is its honest depiction of Japan's atrocities. The description of these horrific onslaughts surpasses similar titles in some portions of the book.
But the downside is the author's attempt to explain why the Japanese acted as they did, as if doing so will somehow make us view the Japanese army as something more than the monsters they were. Though Tanaka probaly doesn't mean to, he comes across as making excuses for the Japanese military's barbarism. Nevertheless, when he moves beyond fact description and into analysis, his intentions seem ambiguous at best. But overall, a good read.
Rating: 3
Summary: OK
Comment: Interesting info, but author seems to try and make the point the Japanese did nothing worse than others have done thru out history.
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Title: Unit 731 Testimony by Hal Gold ISBN: 4900737399 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang, William C. Kirby ISBN: 0140277447 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War by George L. Hicks ISBN: 0393316947 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Prisoners of the Japanese : Pows of World War Ii in the Pacific by Gavin Daws ISBN: 0688143709 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 16 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up by Sheldon H. Harris ISBN: 0415932149 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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