Documents reveal Japanese atrocities
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A TOTAL of 89 wartime documents made public yesterday show details of Japanese atrocities committed in China during World War II.
The files, once kept by the invading Japanese army in northeast China, are a response to Japan’s right-wing politicians’ denial of Japan’s wartime crimes in China.
The documents represent only a small portion of the nearly 100,000 wartime Japanese files retrieved underground during construction work in the early 1950s, said Yin Huai, president of the Jilin Provincial Archives in Changchun, capital of Jilin Province. Ninety percent of the files are in Japanese.
The invading troops buried some of their archives while fleeing Changchun, the then “capital” of the puppet Manchu State, in wake of a war with the Soviet Union, as they had no time to burn the documents.
Twenty-five files revealed conditions at some “comfort stations,” including ratios between Japanese soldiers and “comfort women” and details of gruesome rapes.
The files also showed that the Japanese troops used “public money,” evidence of organized activities, when setting up “comfort stations” and abducting and trafficking Chinese women and forcing them into sex slavery.
Among six other documents, there are Japanese newspapers published on December 23, 1937 depicting gruesome killings during the Nanjing Massacre. The newspaper reported that Japanese invaders killed 85,000 people within three days.
Japanese soldiers wrote about troops raping local women. “Japanese armies raped tens of thousands of women in Nanjing, including a 12-year-old girl, and many were even killed thereafter. The crimes were appalling,” said one letter.
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