Posted on 12/13/2014 5:00:31 AM PST by Hostage
Screw the Japs.
So, Mutsu ... your custom is to beat people, to starve them, to rape them, bind them, hang them, stretch them, expose them to the elements ... these things apparently ARE your custom. Or do you dare deny that your military did them?
So ... what were the B-29 firebomb raids? A picnic? You think the Japanese people never saw the resource shortages caused by our VERY effective submarine force? That the people were unaware of soldiers not coming home, of ships leaving and not returning?
Try again.
The Japanese government systematically lied to the people about the progress of the war, but did not, could not, hide from them its existence or its effects.
The Japanese apparently viewed captured soldiers as subhuman, as animals.
WE DON'T EVEN DO THAT TO ANIMALS.
Right.
Has anyone seen “Grave of the Fireflies”, it is very sad
I was making a sarcastic reference to the PC crowd who say the U.S. was wrong to use atomic weapons on Japan. This has been picked up Japan-wide to make them the victims of American “racism” in our dropping the bombs.
History books in Japan make scant reference to the mass atrocities they committed in China and Korea, and for which a formal apology has yet to be made.
What Japanese knew or felt in 1945 was very different from today’s Japan where they float candles down the river through Hiroshima every August 6th and say to America, “you did this to us.”
OK. Thanks.
There’s an anime movie called Twilight of the Cockroaches I watched back in the 90s. It’s a parable for Japanese attitudes on the war. It’s revisionistic in that the roaches are a stand in for the Japanese and the humans are the callous Americans who are indifferent at best and will wipe them out without hesitation.
They still will not acknowledge the rape of Nanking and the murdering that was done there ....
The Japs are very lucky the Chinese could not retaliate for Nanking...and that we only had two bombs...very lucky.
American schooling isn’t helping much. A sad day for me was when my own daughter came home from a day at the local high school to inform me that American’s had put Japanese in internment camps on the west coast during WWII. This was supposedly some sort of “atrocity” on our part. I could only shake my head. It was the most blatant reinterpretation of the past that I had ever heard. My uncle was a marine at Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Japan. He was awarded a bronze star, and later a Silver Star in Korea. He gave me hell once for showing up at his home in a Japanese automobile. Anyway, today the Wreaths Across America people are putting a wreath on his grave at Arlington.
I am outraged as well! The atrocities did occur and the Japanese may not get away with denial. It is outrageous they should even consider it.
As for cannabalism, that is entirely plausible since they believed non-Japanese were sub-human, like a dog. Therefore, eating a sub-human is not cannabalism.
Line up the real torture that occurred during WWII against the discomfort we’ve given today’s terrorists. We’re just pikers in doling out torture.
Indeed in the aftermath of the battle of Midway there was a huge cover up effort by the Japanese authorities to keep the news from the public. But it was hard to hide that a large swath or two of Tokyo was in flames.
It is ironic that the European theater news printed in Japanese newspapers was unfiltered and factual. Not propagandized at all.
The Japanese do indeed have a long and highly cultured history.
Their history is also replete with examples, practiced on their own people, of the kind of barbarity they exhibited on other peoples in WWII.
IOW, being cultured will not prevent a nation from committing atrocities. The Germans, as an obvious example, were perhaps the most highly cultured people in the world in the 1930s.
There was a movie last year on this subject called The Railway Man starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. It was also based on a book written by the lead character. The writer Eric Lomax was a devout Christian but of course the movie deletes that part of his life.
George Papa Bush was shot down just off this island. If he hadn't been rescued by an American sub, he might very well have been captured and eaten by the Japs.
Pretty much impossible to hide a few hundred Superforts, and an entire city up in flames.
Yes there was.
Sorry that truth offends.
"It's not who we are." - Gee that sounds familiar.
Nanking happened in '37, before the nazis had even got warmed up.
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