history and memory… Pu Yi as Witness 12 Apr 201512 Apr 2015 In his 1946 testimony at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the Tokyo Trials), Pu Yi, the former Emperor of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, proved to be…
Uncategorized Germ Warfare and Panda Diplomacy in Tokyo: Unit 731 Excavations 23 Feb 2011 This is a cross-post from my Japanese War Crimes blog. -- AC Unit 731, the bacteriological warfare research wing of the Kanto Army in Manchuria, has been discussed in Japan…
history and memory… Stories to Follow 15 Jul 201015 Jul 2010 I recommend you watch how these stories develop, since most of them have yet to be really reported in the Anglophone press: 1. Legacies of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria Chinese…
Korean War… BW Use in the Korean War: Questioning the Record 25 Mar 2010 Although Russian documents have allegedly put this controversy to rest, scholars and governments continue to probe at the question of communist allegations of American bacteriological weapons use in the Korean…
history and memory… Unit 731: Korean Victims and World Heritage 19 Feb 201019 Feb 2010 As anyone who has read Sheldon Harris' essential book Factories of Death can tell you, the actions of the Japanese Kwantung Army's "Water Purification Unit" 731 based outside of Harbin…
American Foreign Policy… Stories 10 Feb 201010 Feb 2010 Everybody loves stories, facts mixed in with dangerous interpretive tinctures. But today is a day of no comment, of comet-less commas, of post-somatic traumas which embalm us with twisted tatoos…
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