Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race
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Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

Nurse on Trial

"A Japanese nurse is sentenced to imprisonment at a trial of accused 'B/C' war criminals convened in Yokohama. She was found guilty of having participated in eating the liver of an American airman executed at Kyushu University, where vivisections were performed on POWs."
From: Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

 

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