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Smiling Japanese Soldier Displays Severed Head

A Japanese soldier displays the severed head of a Chinese man, and the samurai sword he presumably cut it off with. Shanghai, August 28, 1937

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/japanese-forces/21836/smiling-japanese-soldier-displays-severed-head
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Stevey, I don’t think the credits are there to show who uploaded it, but rather whose image it is… And the picture showcases the Japanese Army’s ideology of the time - if you kill you’re strong, if you surrender your weak and deserve to be killed. Something that from our modern western point of view can only be summed up in one word: Disgusting.

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