The ex-HQ of the Kempetai in Singapore is now a museum with some deeply disturbing exhibits.
This is the second post I've read today about Japanese attempts to obfuscate what they did. I think that it's much too early for them to get away with it, as there are many in Asia still living who remember very well. The Japanese have done a masterful job of raising an entire generation with either no knowledge or a very glossed over version of it.
Thank you, gentlemen, and my deep admiration for the survivors of Cabanatuan (my Dad was on his way to the Pacific Theater when Little Boy and Fat Man greatly improved my chances of being born).
Kempetai.... Dad was stationed at HQ 8th Army in Yokohama 1956-58. We American kids played with Japanese kids. But later upon adulthood I learned the horrors perpetrated by the Imperial Japanese Army. And it seems that as time goes on and information technology improves, Japanese atrocities of the WWII period just seem to increase in number and crowd closer to those who choose to remember.
“We were victims, too!” is heard quite a lot lately in the new Germany and the new Japan.
Kempetai.... that very word once struck terror in the hearts of millions. Today’s Japanese may soon grow proud of it. Like the Yasekune Shrine, where butcher Tojo is worshipped, godlike.