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Encyclopedia > List of Japanese War Atrocities
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  1. Nanjing Massacre
  2. March 1st Movement
  3. Sook Ching Massacre
  4. Last Empress of Korea
  5. Bataan Death March
  6. Manila Massacre
  7. Unit 731
  8. Unit 516
  9. Unit 100
  10. Death Railway

External links

  • "History of Japan's biological weapons program". (http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/japan/bw/) In "Federation of American Scientists". 2000-04-16.
  • Green, Shane. "The Asian Auschwitz of Unit 731". (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/28/1030508070534.html) In The Age. 2002-08-29.
  • "Biochemical Warfare - Unit 731". (http://www.sjwar.org) In "Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War (APTSJW)". No date.
  • "Rape of Queen MIN" (http://www.kimsoft.com/2002/jp-rape.htm)
  • "Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG)". (http://www.archives.gov/iwg/) In "National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)". No date.
  • Unit 731 (http://www.technologyartist.com/unit_731/)
  • Japan's sins of the past (http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1338296,00.html) - from The Guardian.
  • "Japan's Holocaust Victims" (http://www.skycitygallery.com/japan/japan.html)

References

  • Gold, Hal. Unit 731 Testimony, Charles E Tuttle Co., 1996. ISBN 4900737399
  • Williams, Peter. Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II, Free Press, 1989. ISBN 0029353017
  • Harris, Sheldon H. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up, Routledge, 1994. ISBN 0415091055 ISBN 0415932149
  • Endicott, Stephen and Edward Hagerman. The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea, Indiana University Press, 1999. ISBN 0253334721
  • Handelman, Stephen and Ken Alibek. Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It, Random House, 1999. ISBN 0375502319 ISBN 0385334966
  • Harris, Robert and Jeremy Paxman. A Higher Form of Killing : The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Random House, 2002. ISBN 0812966538
  • Barnaby, Wendy. The Plague Makers: The Secret World of Biological Warfare, Frog Ltd, 1999. ISBN 1883319854 ISBN 0756756987 ISBN 0826412580 ISBN 082641415X

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