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Intro to Cannibalism in the Pacific  People ate their fellow humans during the WW2, especially the Japanese soldiers. But they didn't do it merely because they were hungry. Prisoners of war where coldly killed, then their bodies were completely stripped of all consumable flesh (usually hands and feets were left untouched). Some unlucky victims had their flesh ripped from their arms and legs while they were still alive. During the Second World War, cannibalism was committed by Imperial Japanese soldiers across the entire Pacific theater for a variety of reasons. Over the course of the war, occupying Japanese officers and soldiers in their conquered territories would face food shortages and supplies. Over time, Allied efforts of attacking and harassing Japanese supply routes intensified leading to ever increasing scarcity of military rations in Japanese occupied countries. This was especially true with positions far from the Japanese home islands and would only get worse as the war p...