Have you ever heard of Japanese soldiers cannibalising POWs during WW2?

Question

Esp. at borneo island?

Answer 1

Yep. Read the book "Flyboys," and be prepared to be REALLY MAD at the Japanese!

Answer 2

It is a singularity in the entire history of the Japanese treatment of prisoners that extreme torture was widely practiced.

In the 1500s, 1600s, and 1700s any western sailor who was accidentally washed up on the shores of Japan could expect no mercy and was horribly tortured for the entertainment of the Samurai class.

It was this peculiar prediliction for torturing helpless sailors which was one of many motivations for Admiral Perry's fleet of warships to 'open up' Japan by force.

The Japanese warrior ethic of torture and certain other archane rituals continued well into the 20th century and reports of ritualistic cannabalism by Japanese soldiers during WWII was widespread, and, documented. Secret societies such as the 'Black Dragon Society' and the Japanese Secret Service or 'Kempen Tai' had their questionable bizarre rituals, like ritualistic cannibalism.

Answer 3

Yes, I have heard of Japanese soldiers eating human flesh during World War II.

Answer 4

Yes, one Japanese officer encouraged his men to do so to dead POWs. I've hear veterens mention finding dead comrades who had been cut up for meat by Japanese troops. It happened. Borneo island I'm not sure about.

Answer 5

by using fact their furnish strains have been cut back so particularly than pull lower back and abandon their submit they resorted to cannibalism. Their refusal to resign and willingness to motel to even the main savage and inhuman of habit is why the Allied forces desperate to drop the bomb particularly than proceed to take them island by ability of island and go through the loads of hundreds of deaths digging out this form of soldier. It replaced right into a extreme low element in eastern subculture lots so as that to this present day the eastern do no longer even communicate WWII. the only 2 notes of their college e book is the date of Pearl Harbor and the date of the atomic bomb.

Answer 6

don't know about that place but i know that they did. on some of the island after they got completely blockade soldiers started to cannibalize. when they higher up heard about this they made a rule that anybody that ate their soldier's flesh would be punish, unless it was enemy flesh.

Answer 7

After a search I discovered these sites on the subject.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:oDajTQdSjNsJ:www.amazon.ca/Hidden-Horrors-Japanese-Crimes-World/dp/product-description/0813327180+Borneo+island+and+cannibalism+in+ww2&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Japanese_war_crimes#Major_incidents

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:_s4R2n2zXHUJ:www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/World_War_II+borneo+island+and+cannibalism+in+ww2&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us

Answer 8

There have been several accounts of it