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Fumimaro Konoe and the Taisei Yokusankai
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Fumimaro Konoe
Prime minister of Japan
Founder/leader of the Taisei Yokusankai
Tried to avoid war with the US
December 1945, last call for war criminals
to report. Committed suicide
The Taisei Yokusankai nationalized the news media and labor unions in preparation for war against China. The war's purpose was to secure the raw material, food, and labor resources. Their attacks against China are considered part of the "Pacific War" portion of WWII
The Taisei Yokusankai were considered
para-fascist. Fascism is defined as "a political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the market place, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights.
The UN defines genocide as
"acts committed with intent
to destroy, in whole or in part,
a national, ethnical, racial or
religious group."
War Crimes Commited by Japan
Killing over 20 million Chinese
Unit 731, the "Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army"
Use of biological weapons on the Chinese
Nanking Massacre
Burma–Thailand Death Railway (102,399 deaths)
"Three Alls" policy-Kill All, Burn All and Loot All
Comfort Women (enslaved prostitutes)
"Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.