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College Catalog 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 378 - War Crimes and Memory in East Asia

Cross-Listed as ASIA 378 
This course’s main goal is to introduce evidence of the major crimes and atrocities during World War II in East Asia such as the Nanjing Massacre, biochemical warfare (Unit 731), the military sexual slavery (“comfort women”) system, the forced labor system, and inhumane treatment of POWs. The course will also help students understand the contemporary geo-political and socio-economic forces that affect how East Asians and Westerners collectively remember and reconstruct World War II. Offered occasionally. (4 Credits)