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Word: jap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that the Germans came stunningly close to perfecting this fearful weapon and we are told that the Japanese received from them all the information the Nazis had gathered. It was simply a race to see which of us could complete it first, and the Jap trail of bestiality, thousands of miles long, gives us to understand that they would certainly not have hesitated to use this force, had they won the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1945 | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...tale could be told. It covered the familiar stories of lack of hospitals, lack of food and clothing, vermin-infested camps, corporal punishment of prisoners, death by decapitation of a U.S. airman on New Guinea, name not disclosed. (From Korea came a story of U.S. prisoners on Jap ships, crazed with thirst, biting their arms and drinking their own blood, perishing when the ships were bombed by U.S. planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATROCITIES: Before Hiroshima | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...date was Dec. 14, 1944. The place was Puerto Princesa in the Philippines. On that date in that place Jap guards drove 150 U.S. prisoners into air-raid tunnels, emptied gasoline into the tunnel openings and set them afire. The victims, enveloped in flames and screaming in agony, swarmed from the shelters. As they did, they were bayoneted or machine-gunned. About 40 who threw themselves over a 50-ft. cliff onto a beach were attacked by sentries on the shore. Many, moaning in agony, were buried alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATROCITIES: Before Hiroshima | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Domei continued to pour out propaganda stories, one of them accusing U.S. soldiers of raping Jap girls. At week's end, U.S. reporters discovered that Domei, far from being put out of business, had signed an agreement with the Chinese Central News Agency to transmit its news to China on the regular Domei propaganda broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gentlemen of Japan | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Orders from Tokyo (Jap atrocities in Manila; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 10, 1945 | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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