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Japan's Holocaust

History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II

Foreword by Andrew Roberts
Published by Knox Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

Japan’s Holocaust is a comprehensive exploration of Japan’s mass murder and sexual crimes during the Pacific and Asian Wars from 1927 to 1945.

Japan’s Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan’s atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific. This book brings together the most recent scholarship and new primary research to ascertain that Japan claimed a minimum of thirty million lives, slaughtering far more than Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Japan’s Holocaust shows that Emperor Hirohito not only knew about the atrocities his legions committed, but actually ordered them. He did nothing to stop them when they exceeded even the most depraved person’s imagination, as illustrated during the Rape of Nanking as well as many other events. Japan’s Holocaust will document in painful detail that the Rape of Nanking was not an isolated event during the Asian War but rather representative of how Japan behaved for all its campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific from 1927 to 1945.

Mass murder, rape, and economic exploitation was Japan’s modus operandi during this time period, and whereas Hitler’s SS Death’s Head outfits attempted to hide their atrocities, Hirohito’s legions committed their atrocities out in the open with fanfare and enthusiasm. Moreover, whereas Germany has done much since World War II to atone for its crimes and to document them, Japan has been absolutely disgraceful with its reparations for its crimes and in its efforts to educate its population about its wartime past. Shockingly, Japan continues, in general, to glorify is criminals and its wartime past.

About The Author

Bryan Mark Rigg completed his undergraduate studies in 1996 at Yale University, receiving honors in history and the prestigious Henry Fellowship which allowed him to conduct graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England where he completed his master’s in 1997 and his PhD in 2002.

Bryan has served as a volunteer in the Israel Defense Forces and as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He has served on the boards of the Iwo Jima Association of America, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, and the American Jewish Committee Dallas office. He is the author of many works on World War II and the Holocaust, including Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers, Rescued from the Reich, Lives of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers, The Rabbi Saved by Hitler’s Soldiers, Flamethrower, and Conquering Learning Disabilities at Any Age.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Knox Press (March 19, 2024)
  • Length: 304 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781637586891

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