Japanese Aggression In Asia Pre World War II

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Japanese Aggression In Asia Pre World War II

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Japanese Occupation of Manchuria

• Sept. 8, 1931 Japan occupies Manchuria Province
• Mar. 9, 1932 Japan sets Pu-Yi as the puppet
  emperor of Manchuria
• July 7, 1937 Sino-Japanese War begins

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Nanjing Holocaust

• 300,00 Chinese killed in 6 weeks
• Roughly 8,333 Chinese killed per day, every day,
  for 6 weeks
• In Auschwitz the peak for one day was 6,000
• Japan killed Chinese by hand, Nazis performed
  systematic gassing

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Japanese AggressionIn South East Asia

• Dec 7, 1941 Japan begins attacks on Thailand,
  Malaya, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore
• Dec 14, 1941 Japan attacks Burma

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Japanese Advancement In South East Asia

• Dec 25, 1941 Hong Kong falls to Japan
• Feb 15, 1942 Singapore surrenders to Japan
• Mar 23, 1942 Japan captures Andaman Islands

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Japanese War Crimes In China

• Yangtze River, December, 1937 50,000 Chinese
  slaughtered while attempting to escape across
  river
• 1946-48 200,000 Chinese tortured to death
• Favorite killing methods infect people
  with plague bombs, vivisection, freeze people
  alive, experiments on children, test new weapons
  on prisoners
• Three all campaign kill all, burn all, loot all

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Japanese Prison Camps

• Singapore Changi, a Country Club for most of
  the war
• China Basically every city on east side
• Japan Around 20 jails/prisons
• Korea 4 prisons, 1 hospital(experiments)
• And Numerous Islands built to hold prisoners