U.S. Bars Japanese for Suspected War Crimes
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After tracking Nazi war criminals for 17 years, the Justice Department took its first action against Japanese army veterans suspected of medically experimenting on prisoners and operating forced sex camps during World War II. Sixteen men who served in the Imperial Army were barred from ever entering the United States. They were the first Japanese placed on the government’s “watch list” since it was established in 1979 to keep out people who engaged in persecution on behalf of Nazi Germany or its allies.
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