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The Daily Telegraph has reproduced facsimiles of the newspaper printed during WW2, along with a magazine which includes witness accounts. The following account comes from part 22 of the collection, a Japanese Artillery Lieutenants diary.
"Jan 31st.
An American prisoner of war was killed, first Hosogawa bayoneted him from behind, which gave the men much amusement. Then he stuck him in the stomach. He did not die at once, but of course it is not permitted to waste bullets when killing prisoners of war. After dinner we killed three more."
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The only apology from Japan I am aware of was many years after the war ended. Dutch POW's on being released from their captors, handed out the same treatment to their guards as they were given, resulting in the death of the majority of Japanese.
Both the Dutch and Japanese apologised to each other, to my mind the Dutch had nothing to apologise for.
The Daily Telegraph has reproduced facsimiles of the newspaper printed during WW2, along with a magazine which includes witness accounts. The following account comes from part 22 of the collection, a Japanese Artillery Lieutenants diary.
"Jan 31st.
An American prisoner of war was killed, first Hosogawa bayoneted him from behind, which gave the men much amusement. Then he stuck him in the stomach. He did not die at once, but of course it is not permitted to waste bullets when killing prisoners of war. After dinner we killed three more."
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The only apology from Japan I am aware of was many years after the war ended. Dutch POW's on being released from their captors, handed out the same treatment to their guards as they were given, resulting in the death of the majority of Japanese.
Both the Dutch and Japanese apologised to each other, to my mind the Dutch had nothing to apologise for.
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