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Article: Justice Department adds 16 suspected Japanese war criminals to 'watch list'.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 4, 1996
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ In a major victory for U.S. veteran and Asian-American groups that have lobbied Washington to ostracize suspected Japanese war criminals, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday that it was barring 16 Japanese from ever entering the country.
It was the first time Japanese citizens had been placed on the U.S. government's ``watch list,'' created by Congress in the late '70s to keep out Nazi war criminals and other Europeans who had engaged in persecutions and wartime atrocities.
Most of those put on the list were members of Japanese Imperial Army units that performed grotesque experiments on prisoners and civilians. Others were ...