War crimes were committed by the empire of japan in many asian pacific countries during the period of japanese imperialism primarily during the second sino japanese war and world war iithese incidents have been described as an asian holocaust but this characterisation has been challenged by scholars on the basis of unique features of the holocaust. The japanese gathered 60000 pows and 200000 enslaved local laborers and forced them to work day and night through monsoons and sweltering heat laborers were given nothing but rice to eat and those who were injured were left to perish dangers included dengue fever cholera tropical ulcers and an extreme vitamin b deficiency that led to paralysis. Japanese war crimes nanjing massacre the nanjing massacre took place in 1937 at nanking nanjing china the japanese looted raped burnt massive chemical weapons use the japanese imperial army used chemical weapons like tear gas in their fight beginning insensitive human . In tokyo japan hideki tojo former japanese premier and chief of the kwantung army is executed along with six other top japanese leaders for their war crimes during world war ii seven of the. 10 japanese atrocities from world war ii 10 laha airfield massacre february 1942 this ghoulish event which killed more than 300 australian and dutch pows 9 alexandra hospital massacre february 14 15 1942 just a day before the british surrendered singapore japanese 8 palawan