Three Alls policy

Three Alls Policy
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War
LocationNorth China: Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, Chahar
DateLate 1941 - 1942
Attack type
Mass murder, looting, arson, wartime rape, terrorism
VictimsAt least 2.7 million civilians murdered
PerpetratorsImperial Japanese Army

The Three Alls policy (Chinese: 三光政策; pinyin: Sānguāng Zhèngcè, Japanese: 三光作戦 Sankō Sakusen) was a Japanese scorched earth policy adopted in China during World War II, the three "alls" being "kill all, burn all, loot all".[1] This policy was designed as retaliation against the Chinese for the Communist-led Hundred Regiments Offensive in December 1940.[2]

The Chinese expression "Three Alls" was first popularized in Japan in 1957 when former Japanese soldiers released from the Fushun War Criminals Management Centre wrote a book called The Three Alls: Japanese Confessions of War Crimes in China (Japanese: 三光、日本人の中国における戦争犯罪の告白, Sankō, Nihonjin no Chūgoku ni okeru sensō hanzai no kokuhaku) (new edition: Kanki Haruo, 1979) in which Japanese veterans confessed to war crimes committed under the leadership of General Yasuji Okamura. The publishers were forced to stop the publication of the book after they had received death threats from Japanese militarists and ultranationalists.[3]

  1. ^ Fairbank, J. K.; Goldman, M. (2006). China: A New History (2nd ed.). Harvard University Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780674018280.
  2. ^ Grasso, June; Corrin, Jay; Kort, Michael. Modernization And Revolution In China: From the Opium Wars to World Power, pg. 129
  3. ^ Bix 2000, p. 657.

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