Yuki Tanaka – författare

This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become “comfort women‗prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived to tell the tale. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war—without denying individual and national responsibility.

This book documents the previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War ll, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.

Japan's Comfort Women tells the harrowing story of the "comfort women" who were forced to enter prostitution to serve the Japanese Imperial army, often living in appalling conditions of sexual slavery. Using a wide range of primary sources, the author for the first time links military controlled prostitution with enforced prostitution. He uncovers new and controversial information about the role of the US' occupation forces in military controlled prostitution, as well as the subsequent "cover-up" of the existence of such a policy. This groundbreaking book asks why US occupation forces did little to help the women, and argues that military authorities organised prostitution to prevent the widespread incidence of GI rape of Japanese women, and to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Japan's Comfort Women tells the harrowing story of the "comfort women" who were forced to enter prostitution to serve the Japanese Imperial army, often living in appalling conditions of sexual slavery. Using a wide range of primary sources, the author for the first time links military controlled prostitution with enforced prostitution. He uncovers new and controversial information about the role of the US' occupation forces in military controlled prostitution, as well as the subsequent "cover-up" of the existence of such a policy. This groundbreaking book asks why US occupation forces did little to help the women, and argues that military authorities organised prostitution to prevent the widespread incidence of GI rape of Japanese women, and to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become “comfort women‗prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived to tell the tale. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war—without denying individual and national responsibility.

This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. Another chapter traces the fate of 65 shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers. Thirty-two other nurses, who landed on another island, were captured and sent to Sumatra to become “comfort women‗prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs died in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945. Those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. Only six escapees lived to tell the tale. Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a landmark analysis of Japanese war crimes. The author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war—without denying individual and national responsibility.

Numerous books on the topic of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been published hitherto. Yet, no one has written about the fire and atomic bombings in the context of the U.S. justification of the crime of indiscriminate bombings and its relationship to Japan’s political exploitation of the atomic bombing to cover up Hirohito’s war responsibility. Further, no one has analyzed the fundamental contradiction in Japan’s peace constitution between the concealment of Hirohito’s war crimes and the responsibility of the U.S. Readers will learn how Japanese and U.S. official war memories were crafted to justify their respective wartime performances, exposing the flaws and failing of present-day democracy in Japan and the U.S. This book also explores how Japanese people could potentially create a truly powerful cultural memory of war, utilizing various forms of artwork including Japan’s traditional performing art, Noh. It should appeal to many readers—historians (both modern American and Japanese history specialists), constitutional scholars, students, peace and anti-nuclear activists, intellectuals as well as general readers.“Japanese historian Yuki Tanaka presents here his life work on the grand subjects of Japanese war responsibility, the US-Japan relationship, US and Japanese war crimes and the emperor system. Matching meticulous archival research with personal and political advocacy, he concludes by calling upon Japanese and American civil society to confront the present-day Japanese state and inter-state system as a fundamentally flawed, seven-decade long design of obfuscation, concealment, and manipulation. It is also, he argues, increasingly precarious. Tanaka’s radical, wide-ranging thesis deserves to be read.”—Gavan McCormack, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University“This fascinating book caps decades of careful thinking about why nominally democratic Japan seems so undemocratic and so trapped in self-destructive foreign policies today. The author zeros in on postwar Japanese and American government collaborations to explain this phenomenon, including joint evasion of responsibility for bombing civilians during World War II, when, ironically, they themselves were bitter enemies. This is a genuinely thought-provoking contribution with many arresting observations based on little-known research about such topics as the emperor’s place in the postwar Japanese political system, the 1945 surrender decision, Japan’s history of empire, and the politics of nuclear weapons in postwar Japan.”—Laura Hein, the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History, Northwestern University, USA

This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka’s case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. He traces the fate of sixty-five shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by their captors. Another thirty-two nurses were captured and sent to Sumatra to become “comfort women”—sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs were massacred in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945, while those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. This new edition also includes a powerful chapter on the island of Nauru, where thirty-nine leprosy patients were killed and thousands of Naurans were ill-treated and forced to leave their homes. Without denying individual and national responsibility, the author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war. In his substantially revised conclusion, Tanaka brings in significant new interpretations to explain why Japanese imperial forces were so brutal, tracing the historical processes that created such a unique military structure and ideology. Finally, he investigates why a strong awareness of their collective responsibility for wartime atrocities has been and still is lacking among the Japanese.

This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka’s case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the flesh of their own comrades killed in fighting as well as that of Australians, Pakistanis, and Indians. He traces the fate of sixty-five shipwrecked Australian nurses and British soldiers who were shot or stabbed to death by their captors. Another thirty-two nurses were captured and sent to Sumatra to become “comfort women”—sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. Tanaka recounts how thousands of Australian and British POWs were massacred in the infamous Sandakan camp in the Borneo jungle in 1945, while those who survived were forced to endure a tortuous 160-mile march on which anyone who dropped out of line was immediately shot. This new edition also includes a powerful chapter on the island of Nauru, where thirty-nine leprosy patients were killed and thousands of Naurans were ill-treated and forced to leave their homes. Without denying individual and national responsibility, the author explores individual atrocities in their broader social, psychological, and institutional milieu and places Japanese behavior during the war in the broader context of the dehumanization of men at war. In his substantially revised conclusion, Tanaka brings in significant new interpretations to explain why Japanese imperial forces were so brutal, tracing the historical processes that created such a unique military structure and ideology. Finally, he investigates why a strong awareness of their collective responsibility for wartime atrocities has been and still is lacking among the Japanese.

From British bombing in Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, this detailed analysis explores the history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental questions of how strategies of mass killing originated and have been employed for decades. The book includes contributions from scholars in the US and Europe as well as a bold new argument by Japanese historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa claiming that it was the Soviet invasion rather than atomic bombing that led to the Japanese surrender of the Pacific.

Chronicle of Driftingenacts a restless quest for belonging, interweaving dreamlike imagery and Japanese lyricismYuki Tanakas stunning debut, Chronicle of Drifting, explores rootlessness, its beauty and perils. Tanakas restless imagination roams among places and personaea village mermaid, a geisha in the Midwest, a flneur in Tokyosearching for a permanent self and a sense of community. In the feverish world of these poems, inspired by the Japanese tradition of tanka and haiku, as well as by timeless surrealism, one meets a light-lashed horse, an imaginary chauffeur, an out-of-business psychic, a girl who skewers a fish with a flower stalk. In poems ranging from lyric to prose, Tanaka creates a poignant dreamlike realm where the inner and outer worlds, the self and others, mergelike the train passenger who, looking out the window and seeing the sky through his reflection, feels empty, a blue outline.

Dieses Japan-Kochbuch ist voll von köstlichen, leicht zuzubereitenden Rezepten! Mit über 101+ Rezepten zur Auswahl, finden Sie in diesem Kochbuch bestimmt das, wonach Sie suchen...Möchten Sie die……authentischen japanischen Aromen zelebrieren, indem Sie zu Hause köstliche und einheimische japanische Gerichte zubereiten? Dann sind Sie hier genau richtig! Dieses Kochbuch wird Ihnen einige der beliebtesten japanischen Rezepte und Gerichte vorstellen, die Sie lieben werden. Ob aus dem Süden oder dem Norden Japans, die ganze Insel bietet eine einzigartige Kultur und eigene Traditionen. Die Geschichte hat große Einflüsse auf die kulinarischen Normen und die Küche Japans hinterlassen.Hinzu kommen einige geografische und klimatische Einflüsse, die zusammen die japanische Küche in Geschmack und Form so vielfältig machen. Heute werden Sie also alles über den Reichtum und die Vielfalt dieser asiatischen Küche erfahren. Das ultimative japanische Kochbuch wird Ihnen die japanische Küche und ihre kulinarische Kultur auf eine Weise näher bringen, die Sie sicher noch nie ausprobiert haben.Dieses Kochbuch ist ideal für alle, die gerne gesund kochen und neue und einzigartige Geschmacksrichtungen ausprobieren möchten. Mit Hilfe dieses Kochbuchs der japanischen Küche können Sie zu Hause ein komplettes japanisches Menü zusammenstellen oder all die besonderen japanischen Rezepte für besondere Anlässe und Feiern zubereiten.Warum japanische Küche?Die japanische Küche ist unvergleichlich, und man kann sie nicht mit anderen asiatischen Küchen verwechseln, da sie eine andere Mischung von Soßen und Gewürzen verwendet, um jedem Rezept eine einzigartige japanische Note zu verleihen. Sie ist stark von den asiatischen Esskulturen beeinflusst, was sich in der Verwendung verschiedener Nudel- und Reissorten zeigt. Auch bei der Verwendung verschiedener Zutaten wie Reiskuchen, Fischkuchen und scharfen Chilisaucen, die ausschließlich japanischen Ursprungs sind, findet man eine große Vielfalt. Das ist es, was ich an dieser Küche liebe, ihre Originalität und Einzigartigkeit.Die Japaner legen großen Wert auf eine gesunde und nahrhafte Ernährung. Deshalb werden Sie in diesem Kochbuch eine Menge nahrhafter Lebensmittel entdecken.Es wird viel verwendet von:•Sojabohnen•Sojasauce•Schweine-, Lamm- und Rindfleisch•Geflügel und Ente•ReisDie geografischen Gegebenheiten Japans haben die Küche und die Gerichte stark beeinflusst. Es werden vor allem Meeresfrüchte verwendet, einschließlich aller Fische, Austern und Tintenfische.Außerdem gibt es Gerichte wie Schweinefleischeintöpfe, Geflügel und heiße Meeresfrüchtesuppen, die mit Nudeln und weißem Reis serviert werden. Das Servieren von Gerichten mit weißem Reis ist eine gängige kulinarische Tradition: von Sushi bis hin zu Currys mit Schweine- und Lammfleisch wird alles mit gekochtem Reis serviert.(mehr Informationen finden Sie im Buch)

Dieses Japan-Kochbuch ist voll von köstlichen, leicht zuzubereitenden Rezepten! Mit über101+ Rezepten zur Auswahl, finden Sie in diesem Kochbuch bestimmt das, wonach Sie suchen...Möchten Sie die……authentischen japanischen Aromen zelebrieren, indem Sie zu Hause köstliche und einheimische japanische Gerichte zubereiten? Dann sind Sie hier genau richtig! Dieses Kochbuch wird Ihnen einige der beliebtesten japanischen Rezepte und Gerichte vorstellen, die Sie lieben werden. Ob aus dem Süden oder dem Norden Japans, die ganze Insel bietet eine einzigartige Kultur und eigene Traditionen. Die Geschichte hat große Einflüsse auf die kulinarischen Normen und die Küche Japans hinterlassen.Hinzu kommen einige geografische und klimatische Einflüsse, die zusammen die japanische Küche in Geschmack und Form so vielfältig machen. Heute werden Sie also alles über den Reichtum und die Vielfalt dieser asiatischen Küche erfahren. Das ultimative japanische Kochbuch wird Ihnen die japanische Küche und ihre kulinarische Kultur auf eine Weise näher bringen, die Sie sicher noch nie ausprobiert haben.Dieses Kochbuch ist ideal für alle, die gerne gesund kochen und neue und einzigartige Geschmacksrichtungen ausprobieren möchten. Mit Hilfe dieses Kochbuchs der japanischen Küche können Sie zu Hause ein komplettes japanisches Menü zusammenstellen oder all die besonderen japanischen Rezepte für besondere Anlässe und Feiern zubereiten.(mehr Informationen finden Sie im Buch)

The aim of this new collection of essays is to engage in analysis beyond the familiar victor’s justice critiques. The editors have drawn on authors from across the world — including Australia, Japan, China, France, Korea, New Zealand and the United Kingdom — with expertise in the fields of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, Japanese studies, modern Japanese history, and the use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The diverse backgrounds of the individual authors allow the editors to present essays which provide detailed and original analyses of the Tokyo Trial from legal, philosophical and historical perspectives.Several of the essays in the collection are based on the authors’ extensive archival research in Japan, Australia, the United States and New Zealand, providing rich insights into Japanese societal attitudes towards the Trial, biological experimentation by the Japanese Army in China, as well as the trial of Korean prison guards and prosecutions for rape and sexual assault in the post-war period. Some of the essays deal with particular participants in the Trial, examining the role of individual judges, and the selection of defendants and the decision not to prosecute the Emperor. Other essays analyse the Trial from a legal perspective, and address its impact on concepts such as command responsibility, conspiracy and war crimes. The majority of the essays seek to identify and address some of the ‘forgotten crimes’ in the Tokyo Trial. These include crimes committed in China and Korea (particularly the activities of the infamous Unit 731), crimes committed against comfort women, and crimes associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conventional firebombing of other Japanese cities and the illicit drug trade in China. Finally, the collection includes a number of essays which consider the importance of studying the Tokyo Trial and its contemporary relevance. These issues include an examination of the way in which academics have ‘written’ the Trial over the last 60 years, and an analysis of some of the lessons that can be drawn for international trials in the future.

From British bombing in Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, this detailed analysis explores the history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental questions of how strategies of mass killing originated and have been employed for decades. The book includes contributions from scholars in the US and Europe as well as bold new argument by Japanese historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa claiming that it was the Soviet invasion rather than atomic bombing that led to the Japanese surrender of the Pacific.