“Rigg’s thorough exploration of Japanese atrocities in China and during the Pacific War drives home the totality and scale of the utter depravity of the Japanese government and its armed forces. He makes it clear that this trait was ingrained in the very culture of the Imperial Army and pervasive in every locale and against everyone it encountered, civilian or military. One cannot fully understand the conflict without comprehending this aspect of the Japanese approach to war.”

– Colonel Jon T. Hoffman USMC (Retired), author of Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller and Once a Legend: Red Mike Edson of the Marine Raiders

“Once again Bryan Rigg has shown himself to be a distinguished military historian, writing with passion, power, and flair about Japanese actions in Asia and the Pacific during World War II. His grasp of the battles and atrocities are deep, his passion for the codes of war fierce as only one schooled in those codes and respectful of them as essential to the morality of war can be. His portrayal of the battles and mass-murder actions are vivid and his grasp of their geopolitical implications insightful. I learned a lot, and I thought ever more deeply about the ethics of war.”

– Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and distinguished professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University

“Exploding onto the historical scene with Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers Bryan Rigg exposed a long-held secret. In this book, he exposes an international tragedy of epic proportions, and exposes the shameful, willful, and determined ignorance of the history he has chronicled by the nation responsible for it. An instant classic.”

– Colin D. Heaton, author of Above the Pacific: Three Medal of Honor Fighter Aces of World War II Speak

“Japan’s Holocaust is a very important and groundbreaking work. Rigg has done tremendous research once again.”

– Richard Frank, author of Downfall and Tower of Skulls

“Most discussions of the Holocaust of World War II center around the atrocities perpetrated by Nazi Germany. Much less studied or even acknowledged is the Holocaust perpetrated by Imperial Japan. Historian Bryan Rigg has documented in his exhaustive research possibly the definitive work on the subject. The reader will learn about the sick culture of Japan in the first part of the twentieth century that gave rise to a warrior society that decreed Emperor Hirohito an infallible god, and the Japanese race as the superior militaristic race destined to rule the world. Rigg documents the wanton killings of civilians, the widespread rape committed by the Japanese troops and the sickening treatment of POWs in violation of the Hague Convention to which Japan was a signatory. In addition, the Japanese military was instructed to die rather than surrender or else lose their honor. Even more sobering is the failure of Japan, unlike Germany, to this day to acknowledge the horrors that they committed from the 1920s through the end of the war. Japan’s Holocaust is must reading for any student of World War II.”

– Retired Captain (USN) Lee R. Mandel, author of A Pacifist at Iwo Jima: Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn from Pulpit to the U.S. Marine Corps' Bloodiest Battle

"Bryan Rigg's Japan's Holocaust is an important book, and it deserves a wide readership."

– Sir Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny and The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War