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Registration System Enforced Paranoia
- Occupiers imposed a hierarchical household registration system requiring identity cards and loyalty attestations.
- The system enforced surveillance, prevented migration, and punished whole families for harboring unregistered people.
Return To A New Normal
- As Japanese forces were redeployed, displaced civilians gradually returned and the city repopulated to roughly 700,000 by 1942.
- Even after repopulation, tens of thousands of occupying soldiers continued to commit violence with impunity.
Postwar Trials Were Preplanned And Imperfect
- Allied powers planned war crimes tribunals before WWII ended, leading to multiple postwar trials including Nanking and Tokyo.
- Trials exposed atrocities but were legally imperfect and selective in who faced justice.