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War cannibals

Friday 19 November 1993 00:02 GMT
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The Asahi Shimbun reported that starving Japanese soldiers during the Second World War were told they would be executed if they ate dead comrades but were forgiven for eating Allied soldiers, Reuter reports from Tokyo.

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