Japanese War Crimes
100,000 Pages Declassified in Japanese War Crimes Records, Press Release, January 12, 2007
Resources for Researchers
Events
- "Do U.S. Archives Still Hold Classified Evidence of Japanese War Crimes?" View a transcript from our discussion online, with The Chronicle of Higher Education on January 18.
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Finding Aid: Greg Bradsher's 1700-page guide, "Japanese War Crimes and Related Records: A guide to Records in the National Archives" provides an indispensible source for any researcher on this topic. The Guide is supplied on a CD attached to the volume (see below) "Researching Japanese War Crimes" and is unique as an electronic guide to records.
Download the PDF guide (in Zip format, 4.48 MB)
Request by e-mail: http://www.archives.gov/contact/
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Select Documents on Japanese War Crimes and Japanese Biological Warfare,
1934-2006 (23.2 MB) encompasses several thousand documents on Japanese war crimes & Japanese biological warfare. These selections represent key documentation gathered from a comprehensive search of official record holdings in NARA and from reference materials gathered by the IWG.
For more information:
Please contact our office at http://www.archives.gov/contact/.
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