Brutal Japanese Soldiers Butchered 20,000 Allied Seamen in Cold Blood

Daily Mail ^ | November 3, 2007 | Daily Mail Staff

[america4vr]

Japan's War Crimes
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Sex Slaves of Japan's Imperial Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women

The perpetrators of some of the worst atrocities of the Second World War remain alive and unpunished in Japan according to a damning new book.

Painstaking research by British historian Mark Felton reveals that the wartime behaviour of the Japanese Navy was far worse than their counterparts in Hitler's
Kriegsmarine. According to Felton, officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy ordered the deliberately sadistic murders of more than 20,000 Allied seamen and
countless civilians in cold-blooded defiance of the Geneva Convention.

"Many of the Japanese sailors who committed such terrible deeds are still alive today," he said."No one and nothing has bothered these men in six decades.
There is only one documented case of a German U-boat skipper being responsible for cold-blooded murder of survivors. In the Japanese Imperial Navy,
it was official orders."

Atrocity The Japanese executing prisoners

Felton has compiled a chilling list of atrocities. He said: "The Japanese Navy sank Allied merchant and Red Cross vessels,
then murdered survivors floating in the sea or in lifeboats.

"Allied air crew were rescued from the ocean and then tortured to death on the decks of ships. "Naval landing parties
rounded up civilians then raped and massacred them. Some were taken out to sea and fed to sharks. Others were killed
by sledge-hammer, bayonet, beheading, hanging, drowning, burying alive, burning or crucifixion.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

What does that have to do with the price of eggs?

The Chinese are not animals.

Neither are the Japanese.

Your post suggests that Japanese being brought up to consider the Chinese as beasts led to them considering it acceptable to slaughter the Chinese as beasts.

Can you not see the correlation to people referring to the Japanese (or Muslims while at it) as beasts leading them to consider it acceptable to slaughter Japanese (or Muslims) as beasts are slaughtered.

It was bad when the Japanese considered the Chinese to be animals in and of itself

And it is bad when freepers consider the Japanese (or Muslims) to be animals in and of itself.

No double standards.

[Joe Boucher]

I’ve posted in the past of how really bad the japaneese were in WWII.
That I still refrain from purchasing thing made in Japan if possible and have been excoriated by others for not “getting over it”.
Well the japs still to this day refuse to take responsibilities for attrocities they committed before and during the war.
Fact is their attrocities have been expunged from their history books if the info ever was their.
Now as fro that little rape of Nanking thing.

[SkyPilot]

From the article:

According to Blears: "One guy, they cut off his head halfway and let him flop around on the deck. The others I saw, they just lopped them off with one slice and threw them overboard. The Japanese were laughing and one even filmed the whole thing with a cine camera."

Blears waited for his turn, then pulled his hands out of his bindings and dived overboard amid machine-gun fire.

He swam for hours until he found a lifeboat, in which he was joined by two other officers and later an Indian crewman who had escaped alone after 22 of his fellow countrymen had been tied to a rope behind the I-8 and dragged to their deaths as it dived underwater.

Felton said: "Most disturbing is the Japanese amnesia about their war record and senior politicians' outrageous statements about the war and their rewriting of history. "The Japanese murdered 30million civilians while "liberating" what it called the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere from colonial rule. About 23million of these were ethnic Chinese.

"It's a crime that in sheer numbers is far greater than the Nazi Holocaust. In Germany, Holocaust denial is a crime. In Japan, it is government policy. But the evidence against the navy – precious little of which you will find in Japan itself – is damning."

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And the first comment posted on the Daily Mail site:

However, regardless of the extent of evil within the Japanese armed forces, it is never an excuse or justification for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Reading these stories may provoke your deep emotions, but action is always judged according to intention; and indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians can never be excused. Atrocities have been committed on both sides of that war, evil against evil; fighting fire with fire. See it for what it is and excuse neither side.

- Junaid, Bradford, UK

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Notice that even when confronted head on with brutal evidence of evil, the Left always hems and haws - seeking moral equivalence when it doesn't exist.

[PeteB570]

I liked the movie. Saw it on the big screen and got the DVD when it came out.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

'nuff said, dude!

[Northern Yankee]

The Great Raid was a helluva movie.

It beat the heck out of clint eastwood's movies about Iwo Jima. Those were disgraceful to American soldiers who fought in the Pacific.

[Northern Yankee]

However, regardless of the extent of evil within the Japanese armed forces, it is never an excuse or justification for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I agree with you.

This statement is nonsense. The atomic bombs actually saved more lives than it took. Had we invaded the mainland of Japan, casualties on both sides would have been enormous.

Cheers

[proudofthesouth]

I’m not very knowledgeable about WWII war with Japan. Were criminal trials not held for them the way they were for the Nazi’s? And if so, WHY NOT???

[BlazingArizona]

Were criminal trials not held for them the way they were for the Nazi’s? And if so, WHY NOT???

Yes: the "Nuremburg East" trials were held at Sugamo, a prison in Tokyo. The perps cited in this story were apparently some who were missed.

[rightwingextremist1776]

It WAS Tokyo; very likely a million killed, the 80K figures you read are BS. Tokyo had a population density of at least 150K per square mile and they incinerated 16 square miles of it. Somebody caught in that **** would have been clueless as to which direction to run with a 50% chance he’d be running INTO it. People who sought refuge in the river were boiled alive.

Ain't karma a B**CH! Too bad we don't teach the Moosies the same lesson. The Japs deserved evey round...no matter how big or small.

[Bulldawg Fan]

The Imperial Palace should have been ground zero in Tokyo.

[damondonion]

Slammites rate it more than the Japanese did. The Japanese had the decency to have their own national insignia on their planes over Pearl Harbor, i.e. nobody had to sit around for five days trying to guess or figure out who did it.

[damondonion]

Allied leaders weren’t totally stupid and nobody was going to invade Japan after Okinawa. If the two A bombs had failed the next step probably would have been nerve gas.

[muawiyah]

People who were not born, or who were children, or who were noncombatants, etc. probably aren't guilty of doing atrocities.

You have to get into the Liberal doctrine of "group guilt" to hold the innocent accountable for the crimes commited by others.

I'm not a Liberal. I hope you aren't either. If you are, you should be discussing this issue with your own kind somewhere else. This is a Conservative board and Individual accountability is considered a fundamental human responsibility and right.

[HenpeckedCon]

It feels like December 7th here in Boston today. There’s a little Nip in the air.

[Hacklehead]

“And it is bad when freepers consider the Japanese (or Muslims) to be animals in and of itself.”

Sorry, but no one can properly fight a war without considering their enemy to be sub-human. To win you must inflict more death and destruction than they can tolerate until they beg for it to end. You can’t do that if you see him as just a misguided soul. Thats the problem we have today, the media humanizes the enemy so much that we cannot truly defeat them. That said, it doesn’t mean that enemy soldiers/civilians can be tortured, abused or wantonly slaughterered once captured and disarmed.

God Bless the United States of America, and death to all her enemies.

[RinaseaofDs]

This is the thing about the left. There is no justification for war, unless they come up with the justification themselves.

I was following a car, and there was a ‘Free Tibet’ bumper sticker, right next to a bumper sticker with ‘Peace is Patriotic’.

Now, I’m thinking, “How are you going to Free Tibet from China peacefully?”

I’ve always wanted to make a bumper sticker that goes “Surrender is Unpatriotic”

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[america4vr]

I suppose (day of) “infamy” has a cold, bone-chilling character all its own.

[Bringbackthedraft]

If memory serves me right, the 3rd picture is that of an Australian who killed an Indonesian? harbor boat captain during a secret mission. They made a movie out of the incident. However, many of our pilots met the same fate if captured. Some even became dinning fare. Read “Fly Boys”.