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Because most of the information on this topic are her stories, how should their irregularities be interpreted? Should they be recorded to the wiki as is? Is it even possible to correct them? For now I've omitted a number of details, but perhaps It may be better to simply remove this page entirely, as it seems to be mostly based on a single source (cited by numerous other sources used in the page). This wasn't even one of the major crimes Imamura was convicted of, yet only this testimony receives a page. Until the court records are publicly accessible (or at least accessible by someone here), I think it would be irresponsible to leave this page up.

A small example: Japanese internment in January/Early-Feburary of 1942? The Japanese had just barely reached Java in early March of 1942, and her father was apparently one of the last men to be interned. A better source (ideally more than one) than this is needed. KnowledgeableHrvatica (talk) 20:38, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just moved the PROD (my bad!). Also, I've just looked back at the history of the page. Coincidentally, the creation of the page occurred shortly after the publishing of a certain Dutch book (popularized this story) on the occupation of the East Indies by the Japanese during the war back in 2020. Although the interviews in it have a lot of value, it also makes a lot of terrible unacademic/ahistoric claims, like the supervillain-tier "feeding to sharks" and the infamously unsourced "he built a replica of his prison cell" story that got popular recently. I'm unsure how much more of this page is based on weird post-war orientalism, but it certainly couldn't hurt to at least start from scratch with better sources (if I can find any). KnowledgeableHrvatica (talk) 20:24, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]