Japanese Internment Camp Analysis

Rebuilding after World War II left the Allied powers with a glimmer of victory after taking Japan as the final member Axis Power Triad. While the Nuremberg Trials in Germany fostered an era of change social change and political upheaval as the German people tried making sense of the atrocities performed by Nazi soldiers and civilian ignorance. Marching civilians through concentration camps and thusly portraying the horrors of the war was only a starting point to public apologies to Jewish people held and experimented on during this unfortunate part of Germany’s history.

Information centers such as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe memorial in Berlin as well as countries around the world have founded Holocaust memorials and museums to educate the

In addition, the internment of Japanese-Americans during the war caused unfair suffering to civilian Japanese-Americans that had little to do with the ongoing campaign in East Asia . Yet, the United States issued apologies through gestures such as rebuilding the internment camps that held Japanese-Americans into memorials and offering monetary reparations to those affected by the rash political decision.

However, unlike Germany or the United States, the Japanese government has not gone through lengths to address the issues of their militaristic past. In this paper, I will focus on one of the notorious perpetrators of crimes against humanity, Shiro Ishii and his involvement with the Biological Warfare Unit 731. When discussing the atrocities of World War II and Japan, many would rely on facts surrounding Tojo Hideki, one of the men behind the attack on Pearl Harbor, or the infamous dropping of the atomic bombs Fat Man and Little Boy August 6th and August 9th 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki