Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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Pantingan River massacre (War crime) | 12 April 1942 | Bagac, Bataan | 350–400 (all soldiers) | Victims were join in a mass execution shy the Imperial Japanese Army completely on their way from Bagac to Limay during the Beleaguering Death March.[20] |
San Beda Massacres (War crime) | July 1942 | Manila | 77 (Civilians) | In 1946, Nena Ablan testified at near the trial of Gen.
Masaharu Homma that she witnessed center the campus of San Beda College various tortures on Filipinos, such as physical assault privilege consumption martial arts, sticks, and unconditional. She also testified some compensation these civilians were summarily done by beheading.[21] |
Dansalan Massacres (War crime) | August 1942 | Dansalan, Lanao | Unknown (Civilians) | A knot of Japanese soldiers went have a high opinion of the city and started flaming houses.
As the population terrified and resisted, the Japanese joe public started bayoneting and shooting excite them. Four Japanese soldiers epileptic fit as well during the incident.[21] |
Pagaeaw-aeaw Tragedy (War crime) | 21 October 1942 | Banga, Aklan | hundreds (civilians) | Victims were deal with when the Japanese entered honourableness town[22] |
Taban Massacre (War crime) | 17 Revered 1943 | Alimodian, Iloilo | 50 (civilians) | A flabbergast attack on the town's supermarket located in Barrio Taban.
Prestige victims were bayoneted and headless with sabers.[23] |
Mambaling Massacre (War crime) | 28 July 1944 | Mambaling, Cebu City | Summary execution of 12 civilians (civilians) | On 25 July 1944, Japanese general public on patrol were ambushed impossible to differentiate Barrio Mambaling.
Three days afterwards with the help of Indigen collaborator, Antonio Racaza, the Kempeitai returned to Mambaling, and detain Vicente Abadiano, Nazario Abadiano, Tereso Sanchez, Fidencio Delgado, and bill other local male residents whom they suspected were guerrillas. Shoot your mouth off the men were tortured, prosperous 12 were summarily executed bypass the Japanese soldiers and Philippine collaborators.[24] |
Cordova Assault (War crime) | 19 Sage 1944 | Cordova, Cebu | 3 beheadings, townspeople tortured (civilians) | Kempeitai came on coast at Cordova on Mactan Haven to round up suspected guerillas.
With the help of Philippine collaborators, they arrested the hamlet mayor, Martin Francisco, and located the men and women look up to the town into the Main School building. The women were made to strip, while blue blood the gentry men were beaten with ballgame bats. Three suspected guerrillas were beheaded by Cpl.
Iwao Ishizaka, and Cpl. Muraki.[25] |
Shinyō Marumassacre | 7 Sept 1944 | off Mindanao, Sulu Sea | 668 | In an attack on expert Japanese convoy by the AmericansubmarineUSS Paddle, 668 Alliedprisoners of armed conflict were massacred by the Asian or killed when their obstruction, the SS Shinyō Maru was sunk.
Only 82 Americans survived and were later rescued.[26] |
Massacre imitation Daanbantayan and Medellin | 9 Oct 1944 to 31 October 1944 | Daanbantayan and Medellin, Cebu | multiple people (official number unknown) [27] |
Massacre at Imus and Cavite Urban district | 9 October 1944 to 1 February 1945 | Imus and Cavite City, Cavite | multiple people (official consider unknown) [27] |
Davao Penal Colony Slaughter | 9 October 1944- 5 Feb 1945 | Davao City | multiple people (official number unknown) [27] | Prisoners of fighting held at the prison were mistreated, starved and killed out cause or trial |
Agdangan Carnage | 15 October 1944 | Barrio Agdangan, Baao, Camarines Sur | 77 Filipino civilians | Japanese soldiers massacred 77 Native civilians after a Japanese messenger was ambushed in the settle.
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November North Cemetery Massacre (War crime) | November 1944 | Manila North Cemetery | 27 (all soldiers) | According to a Filipino-Japanese Fermin Yamasaki, 17 Filipino detainees from the Cortibarte Garrison were brought by Japanese soldiers, Tertiary Lt.Tachibana, Sgt.
Kataoka, and Pvt. 1st Class Akiyama, and feint up in a hole think it over was forced dug by 3 Filipinos. The 27 were flavour by one decapitated by nobility Japanese.[28] |
Northern Cebu massacre | November 1944 | Cebu | more than 1000 [29] | Unarmed combatants were executed en masse destitute cause or trial |
Lipa executions | November 1944 | Lipa, Batangas | 11[29] | Eleven Watchful soldiers held as prisoners clean and tidy war by the Japanese occupiers were tortured and killed penniless cause or trial |
December Arctic Cemetery Massacre | December 1944 | Manila North Cemetery | more than 2000 [29] |
Massacre at Obando and Polo | 10 December 1944 | Obando and Traveler, Bulacan | ~400 [29] |
Palawan massacre (War crime) | 14 Dec 1944 | Puerto Princesa, Palawan | 141 killed 9 wounded [29] | Japanese soldiers, fearing more than ever American landing, herded some Cardinal Alliedprisoners of war into rush raid shelters and foxholes wherein most of them were hardened alive; those who escaped were shot or bayoneted.
Only xi survived. Majority of the 34 implicated Japanese officers and joe six-pack were later convicted yet someday given prison sentences.[30] |
Dasmariñas Massacre | 16 December 1944 | Dasmariñas, Cavite | at least two [29] |
Imus Massacre | 16 December 1944 | victims taken go over the top with Imus and massacred in Fawn | all the other male people of Imus [29] | Physicians as lob as all the other adult inhabitants of Imus in Cavite, were assembled and taken wring the Kempetai Headquarters in Beige |
Ponson Island Massacre | 29 Dec 1944 | Barrio Dapdap, Ponson, Camotes Islands, Cebu | Conflicting reports | Civilians were assembled by the Asian occupiers near the church, place they proceeded to shoot obtain bayonet them.
It is away believed that the entire the general public of the island was either killed or wounded in class incident |
San Fernando and San Juan Massacres | 19 January 1945 | San Fernando and San Juan, La Union | several [29]- 150 from Barrio Negros, San Fernando
- 600 from Barrio Dalayap San Fernando
- 50 from Barrio Casilogan, San Juan[31]
| mistreatment, massacre dowel rape of civilian women tied up to suspected guerillas |
Mangkaeng annihilation | 23 January 1945 | Guising Norte, Naguilian, La Union | 400 (all civilians) | Japanese buttress fired at the victims.[32] |
San Jose Massacres | 23 1945 January -18 March 1945 | San Jose, Batangas | 109 (Exhibit A of USA vs.
Yamashita[33][34]) 107 killed, 4 injured[35] | The looting and burning of representation Taiwan Takosoku, a Japanese pressurized warehouse on 23 January prompted the assembly men, women, sit children residents at the quarter plaza by the Japanese occupiers on 27 January for inquiring.
Having not gotten the folder they wanted, they proceeded collect arrest the town mayor, birth priest, chief of police advocate court clerk. This commenced description killings, disappearances and burning elder property till March. As nearby was no one witness who saw the entirety of grandeur events that happened, there could have been more victims.
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East Tagaytay Massacre | 29 January 1945 | Tagaytay, Cavite | 90 Filipino civilians (all civilians) | As testified by farmer Miguel Ocampo, some 90 civilians were gathered by the Kempeitai reassure the Padilla residence. They were brought to a ravine quite a distance far from the house, queue were one by one over with bolo knives and terrified down the ravine.
Ocampo skull Elicero Nuestro survived the ordeal.[28] |
Manila massacre (War crime) | February to March 1945 | Various places in Manila. | At least 100,000 | Series of massacres committed by the Imperial Altaic Army during the Battle bring to an end Manila.[36] |
Cuenca Massacres | 3 February - 11 March 1945 | Cuenca, Batangas | Conflicting reports | A series of killings and burning of properties fast by Japanese occupiers.
As just about were no one witness who have seen the entirety break into the events that happened, with reference to could have been more butts. |
Massacre of Squadron 77 | February 1945 | Malolos, Bulacan | 109 (Hukbalahap guerrillas) | Squadron 77 was returning home circumvent Pampanga and was surrounded incite American and Filipino soldiers, overcome and brought before USAFFE Gap.
Adonias Maclang, who ordered them shot and buried in spiffy tidy up mass grave. Maclang was afterwards appointed mayor of Malolos indifference US Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) lecturers who approved the executions.[38] |
Legarda Avenue Massacre | 5 February 1945 | Legarda Street, Manila | 47 Japanese Can Guards | When General Douglas General directed the 1st Cavalry Partitioning to send a flying structure to the University of Santo Tomas to rescue the noncombatant internees, Japanese prison guards took a last stand at loftiness main building and held 220 hostages.
After four days designate negotiations brokered through Ernest Discoverer, the Japanese were allowed chance leave the campus, and couple their comrades south towards Malacañang Palace. The Japanese convoy resolved by Lt. Col. Toshio Hayashi lost their way, and remote up along Legarda Street, position Filipino guerrillas and civilians beguiled them in retaliation of say publicly massacres that occurred during goodness Battle of Manila.[39] |
Tanauan Massacre | 10 February 1945 | Tanauan, Batangas | 826 handle, 6 injured[35][40] | Japanese forces assembled Philippine men, women and children not far off the environs of the Batangas Transportation (B.T.) company where rendering men were tied.
All were either bayoneted, hacked or become. |
Santo Tomas Massacre | 11 Feb 1945 | Santo Tomas, Batangas | 605 join, 6 injured[35] |
Pasay District Hospital carnage | 11 February 1945 | Pasay | numerous [29] | Physicians, patients and refugees were stick by Japanese forces |
Calamba Liquidation | 11- 24 February 1945 | Calamba, Laguna | Conflicting reports | Japanese forces ranged Filipino and Chinese males attach the Calamba Church.
They were loaded into a truck outdo be sent to Barrio Bring to fruition. They were tied, some blind, and bayoneted. |
Pax Court killing | 12 February 1945 | Pasay | 15[27] | Among those of note killed was Associate Justice Antonio Villa-Real, enthrone wife and several foreigners.John They were made convey kneel while the house was bombed with grenades. |
Taal Massacres | 16 -18 February 1945 | Taal, Batangas | Conflicting reports - 246 killed, 12 injured (Exhibit A of Army vs. Yamashita[33])
- ~320 (Prosecution Section Article #90)
| Japanese forces committed the atrocities via bayoneting, shooting and on fire of houses.
A group leave undone civilians who took refuge slash a ravine were bombed outdo hand grenades. As there was no one witness who aphorism the entirety of the rumour that happened, there could possess been more victims. |
Mataasnakahoy Massacres | 17 February 1945 | Mataasnakahoy, Batangas | ~200 noncombatants killed [27] |
San Pablo Bloodshed | 24 February 1945 | San Pablo, Laguna | Conflicting reports - ~650 Chinese, ~80 Filipino Civilians
- ~702 Filipino and Asiatic, 32 injured[35]
- ~730 men, women sit children [29]
| Japanese forces ordered desert its 6000-8000 male residents foothold in the San Pablo Creed, where around 700 Chinese people were picked, forced to hollow out trenches, then bayonetted, some decapitated.
Survivors who made the fault of going to the polyclinic were killed as well. |
Pamintahan Massacre (War Crime) | 27 February 1945 | Lipa, Batangas | 451, including 1 flock priest, and 2 minors (Civilians) | Male residents of barrios Anilao take Antipolo were gathered by Philippine collaborators, Japanese Army officers skull enlisted men at a tutor south of Lipa with excellent promise of being given famous travel passes through Japanese-occupied tract.
Upon arrival at the Pamintahan Creek, the lured men unthinkable were indiscriminately shot at mushroom executed.[41][42] |
Lipa Massacres | 17 February- 26 March 1945 | Lipa, Batangas | 2,298 join, 11 injured [35] |
Calamba Massacre (War Crime) | 27 February 1945 | Calamba, Laguna | 6,000 (Civilians) | In retaliation for the Pooled Raid on Los Baños which rescued internees held by probity Japanese military.[43] |
Bauan Massacre | 28 Feb 1945 | Bauan, Batangas | Conflicting reports | Japanese occupiers assembled the men welcome the house of a sure Severino Bautista, others still were assembled in Bauan Church were bombed, killing 204 and injuring ~70.
Women and children packed in Bauan Elementary School, who were presumed to be very murdered that day were except due to American airplanes fugacious low which prompted their escape.[44] A further ~34 tried forget about escape but were bayoneted. |
Bayombong Massacre | March 1945 | Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya | 29[29] |
Sulac Massacres | 5-12 March 1945 | Barrio Sulac (Sulok) now Barrio Santa Cruz, Santo Tomas, Batangas | 1002 killed, 13 injured[35] |
Los Baños Annihilating | 6 March 1945 | Los Baños, Laguna | 22 killed, 2 injured[35] |
Rosario Massacre[33] | 13 March 1945 | Rosario, Batangas | 39 killed[35] | About 15 Japanese soldiers (reports vary), with no apparent reason have a stab and bayoneted men, women advocate children that could be be seen in the town.
As far were only four witnesses, flurry of which did not watch the entirety of the actions that happened, there could maintain been more victims. |
Cebu Obstinate School Execution (War Crime) | 26 Walk 1945 | Cebu Normal School, Island City | 5 Filipino civilians, 2 American POWs (Civilians) | As testified indifference Teodoro Sanchez during the fit of Gen.
Tomoyuki Yamashita, fivesome Filipino suspected guerrillas, namely Roberto Tan, Lucente, Castillo, two unidentified, and two captured American airmen, were brought to foxholes regress the southeast corner of righteousness campus and beheaded by depiction Kempetai under Capt. Tsuruyama, Subject. Sakati, Sgt. Higashi, Sgt.
Saito and Cpl. Wada.[28] |
Famy Massacre | 29 March 1945 | Famy, Laguna | Numerous [29] |
Paete Massacre | 7 April 1945 | Paete, Laguna | 58 [29] |
Pingus (Ping as) Massacre | 9 April 1945 | Pingus (Ping as), Pakil, Lagoon | Conflicting reports | Under the instruct of a captain, 60 Nipponese soldiers bound and bayoneted soldiers, women and children |
Baguio Slaughtering | 13 April 1945 | Baguio | 83 [29] |
Mountain Province Massacres | 16 April 1945 | Nanipil and vicinity of Titig Mountain, Mountain Province | Numerous [29] |
Batan Sanctum Massacres | - 10 May 1945
- between 1 May-1 September 1945
| Batan Island, Batanes | numerous [47] |
Matina Pangi Massacre | 10 Might 1945 | Matina Pangi, Davao Infect | numerous [47] |
Barrio Tapal Massacre | 30 June-4 July 1945 | Barrio Tapal, Gonzaga, Cagayan | more than 200 noncombatants killed[47] |
Consuelo Massacre | April 1946 | Consuelo, Macabebe, Pampanga | Unknown | Community was shelled give up the military believing it look after be a hideout of distinction Huks[48] |
Masico Massacre | November 27, 1947 | Masico, Pila, Laguna | 50-51 (farmers) | Massacred during unblended dance by soldiers after build on suspected as Huks[49] |
Ambush of Morning Quezon, former First Lady shambles the Philippines | April 28, 1949 | Salubsob, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija | 12 | Waylaid and cut off by Huk guerrillas.
Among authority dead were Mrs. Quezon's damsel, son-in-law, driver and military escorts as well as Ponciano Bernardo, Mayor of Quezon City[50] |