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Article: Crimes and misdemeanors.(Japanese reluctantly accept guilt for World War II crimes)
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- Newsweek
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- March 27, 1995
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When first Lt. Ray Halloran's B-29 was shot down in January 1945, he parachuted into a Tokyo suburb and began seven months of hell as a POW. He was locked into a 4-foot-by-5-foot cage with two other prisoners. He was put on display, naked. Halloran was one of the lucky ones. Other captured U.S. airmen were beaten to death, beheaded, buried alive, cut to pieces in medical experiments and, in a few cases, eaten by vengeful Japanese. After the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Halloran survived a final spasm of atrocities against Allied prisoners and made it safely home. "I've had nightmares for 39 years," he said last week, "but a guy doesn't go out and ...