https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlcU1OtbnEc


The 
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 
began on September 18, 1931, 
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded 
Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. 
The Japanese established a puppet statecalled Manchukuo, 
and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.

japanese war crimes 

occurred in many Asian and Pacific countries during the period of 

Japanese imperialism, 

primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. 

These incidents have also been described as an 

Asian Holocaust^[1] and Japanese war atrocities.^[2][3][4] 

Some war crimes were committed by military personnel from the 

Empire of Japan in the late 19th century, 

although most took place during the first part of the

Shōwa Era, 

the name given to the reign of 

Emperor Hirohito, 

until the 

surrender of the Empire of Japan, in 1945.

• 3.1Attacks on Pearl Harbor, Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong
• 3.2Mass killings
• 3.3Human experimentation and biological warfare
• 3.4Use of chemical weapons
• 3.5Torture of prisoners of war
• 3.6Execution and killing of captured Allied airmen
• 3.7Cannibalism
• 3.8Forced labor
• 3.9Comfort women
• 3.10Looting
• 3.11Perfidy
  
  
  Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
  on board USS Missouri as
  General Richard K. Sutherland watches, September 2, 1945