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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"Kamikazis’ targets were invariably military. It was a terrifying tactic, but not a war crime."

The Japanese didn't show much quarter to civilians, either...read about Nanking or ask a Korean "comfort girl".

Having said that, it was not so much the fault of the traditional Japanese warrior caste that had in fact, largely been marginalized in the mid-nineteenth century, but rather, it was the modern, industrialized, western-influenced Japanese Army that largely committed the civilian atrocities.

7 posted on 02/29/2008 6:43:36 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Granted, but Kamikazis specifically targeted military assets.

The Japanese certainly did not scruple at war crimes, if they had killed anything like the number of European civilians as they did Asians, there would have been a tribunal that would have made Nurenburg look like a traffic court.


8 posted on 02/29/2008 6:49:19 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The women got the vote and the Nation got Harding.)
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