Dark Stories of Japanese Cannibalism in World War Two
Records found how the Japs ate comrades, civilians, and POWs across Asia
Many horror stories occurred during World War Two. In Europe the Axis forces led by the Nazis committed many crimes against humanity. Their counterpart in the Pacific Theatre — Imperial Japan was no different. Under Emperor Hirohito’s control, some experts believed that the Japanese were much worse than Hitler’s Nazis.
In an interview with The Guardian in 2015, Toshio Tono, a Japanese medical doctor, could no longer bear the nightmare he witnessed that made him ashamed of wearing the coveted medical white coat. Tono’s dream was to become a gynecologist. Still, when he was in his first year as a student at Kyushu Imperial University’s medical school in southern Japan, Tono became an unwilling witness to atrocities.
He reckoned that when the U.S. B-29 crashed on the island of Kyushu, the remaining surviving American airmen were captured and brought to their school — blindfolded and injured.
“One day two blindfolded prisoners were brought to the school in a truck and taken to the pathology lab… Two soldiers stood guard outside the room. I did wonder if something unpleasant was going to happen to them, but I had no idea it was going to be that awful.” — Toshio…
