Posted on 11/04/2007 11:04:40 PM PST by america4vr
Japan's War Crimes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
God Bless the United States of America, and death to all her enemies.
Exactly correct, the enemy by definition is sub-human, if not then 'diplomacy' would work. Unless you want a gentlemenly type war where we line up and volley and accept losses equally and shake hands after every battle, then its got to be a merciless program of death and destruction until they say uncle.
Unfortunately, when we reach that point I still dont think we will be secure, as our enemy has no moral code to exist in the world with infidels, so the slaughter will have to keep going and going ...
“And it is bad when freepers consider the Japanese (or Muslims) to be animals in and of itself.
No double standards.
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Sorry, you are looking for FR circa 1999, please adjust your time machine accordingly.
“Unless you want a gentlemenly type war where we line up and volley and accept losses equally and shake hands after every battle, then its got to be a merciless program of death and destruction until they say uncle. “
The Israeli-palestinian conflict is a good example of how not to fight a war. Since the Israelis are not willing to crush the palis into a fine paste so as to MAKE IT CLEAR TO THEM THEY ARE DEFEATED, the killing has gone on for 40 years and has probably cost many more lives on both sides than a quick, brutal, decisive victory.
Anyone wanting to “apologize” for Hiroshima and Nagasaki needs to be reminded of this — and then impeached or otherwise recalled from office. Thanks indcons.
Because it just talk and banter.
It is not the product of decades of similar teachings in a closed society and governmental system that ultimately led to the murder and death of tens of millions of people.
The FReepers are not running at the japs with sabers to behead them, and there is zero comparison unless you no longer believe that there is a difference between free speech and mass murder.
>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.
You’re welcome, Sunken Civ. As you mentioned in a post on an earlier thread, the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved not only Allied lives but also Japanese ones.
Because the U.S. didn’t want to leave Japan in a way that would lead to WWIII like Europe did to Germany after WW I
I’m not holding innocents accountable for doing atrocities. I am, however, holding the Japanese responsible for whitewashing history books in making themselves look like victims.
Take the numbers of Allied, Japanese and Japanese civilian casualties from the horror of Okinawa and multiply by the ratio of the Okinawa population to that of the Japanese home islands to get some idea of the slaughter that the invasion would have wrought. And bear in mind many of the civilian casualties were suicides brought on by the Japanese propaganda about American servicemen. The casualties from the A-bombs pale by comparison.
Doesn't mean they're wrong, but we need much better sources for the charge than the Chicoms or their running dog lackeys in the Western media.
You need to read your history of that time.
The Japanese considered prisoners and conquered subjects lower than animals.
As for your contention that the Japanese were not animals, talk to a survivor of the Batan Death March, if you can find one.
The difference between Germany and Japan was that Germany was overrun and many documents captured which helped track down war criminals. Japan was occupied peacefully and the Japanese had plenty of time to hide or destroy documents, give false identities to wanted criminals, etc. Their favorite excuse when asked for records was that they were burned in the American bombings.
I also think that some deals were done to get the emperor’s cooperation which spared some high ranking imperial relatives with dirty hands. Read “The Imperial Conspiracy”
My father, who served in the ETO/8th Air Force, was friends after the war with a retired B-52 driver who'd served in Japan postwar and, during the war, had flown P-40's with the Flying Tigers. He was one of Claire Chennault's fighter pilots, served out the war in China. His name was Jim Anning.
He told my father he'd seen combat between the Chinese and Japanese, and considered both to be exponents of civilizations that had grown too old and considered life overly cheap. He said of the Japanese that they were cruel, but that "their cruelty was was that of children" -- brutish and straightforward. The Chinese, on the other hand, made his skin crawl. He saw the Chinese do things to live Japanese prisoners that made his blood run cold. He really didn't like the Chinese. They were esthetes of torture.
Allied plans had already included landings on the mainland of Japan.
Hacklehead,
I wanted to take the time out to thank you for your post to Jedi Master Pikachu. Had I replied to the same person in the manner I was set to do so, I would have been banned from FR.
May you & yours have a Happy Independence Day!
“I wanted to take the time out to thank you for your post to Jedi Master Pikachu. Had I replied to the same person in the manner I was set to do so, I would have been banned from FR. May you & yours have a Happy Independence Day!”
I’ve heard of slow internet connections... 8^)
Best wishes for a happy holiday.
I meant to get back with you sooner but a stagecoach hit my telegraph pole while I was reading your message. The impact caused it to snap, falling on my telegraph machine & that’s when the messages stopped.
Anyway...all the best!
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