Abstract
By the end of the Asia-Pacific War, 1931-1945, it was estimated that the Japanese Imperial Military killed over 10 million people in China alone. But the numbers convey only part of the story. In the wake of its invasion, the military committed unspeakable atrocities on a grand scale, incurring war responsibility not only from damages it inflicted on invaded countries, but also from the crimes against humanity it perpetrated against individual victims. Subsequent to its surrender in 1945, Japan signed a treaty with the U.S. and over forty other Allied Powers in 1951 that came to be known as the San Francisco Peace Treaty, or SFPT. The Treaty, engineered by the U.S. to eliminate the possibility of war reparations from Japan, presumably settled Japan’s war responsibilities and other war-related issues.
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