Posted on 02/03/2018 8:45:55 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
Well we at least want Japan now.
“special bombs designed to deliver millions of plague bearing fleas”
Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was suppose to attack Northern California
The Japanese govt including currently under Shinzo Abe is notorious for historical revisionism. Much grief has been expressed by Chinese and Korean people over the lack of acknowledgment for atrocities like the rape of Nanking in China, and the lack of any voiced repentance over the brutal teatment Koreans received under Japanese occupation pre WWII.
It has a lot to do with shame/honor cultural sensibilities and the notion that confession implies surrender, defeat, or weakness.
Has also something to do with being a U.S. ally, in good economic standing, non-interventionist, and having been on the receiving end of nuclear weapons...which may give a sense of exoneration for their own crimes. (Because the “retaliation” was so massive.)
But honestly its just certain mainstays of toxic mentality that have never truly been erased or meaningfully confronted. Japan is also notorious for being the hardest country for Christian missionaries to have breakthroughs. I think it remains one of the least Christian countries in Asia. This has something to do with it definitely. Spiritual strangleholds where the Devil does not want to give up his grip.
Dr. Cymes is a sensationalist...the preserved bodies of the 86 victims of this experiment were discovered by Allied troops during the liberation of Strasbourg in 1944 and are buried in a Jewish cemetery there.
I just started reading “Samurai William”. I’m up to the point where the Portuguese Jesuits make Nagasaki their base.
We want Japanese economic ties and we want aircraft carrier Japan as forward basing to protect FON and contain China and Russia by various means and we want someone who owes us to fight with us as an ally if the balloon drops in Korea
About the only real deep “ values” shared by our cultures
Concern for all humanity is a veneer applied to the Japanese by the West
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Not sure why this should reopen old wounds in France. This was a German University for about 500 years until the end of WWI, and was a German University again at the time these experiments were going on.
“I have long been puzzled over the near-obsession with Nazi atrocities, while other horrors, such as those committed by the Japanese, are all but ignored.”
Two main things. One, the Japanese didn’t do the Holocaust—i.e. the attempted extermination of an entire race of people.
Two, the USA, esp. 75 years ago, had extensive European heritage...and very little Asian heritage. Hence European suffering meant a lot more to most Americans than Chinese, Philippine, or other Asian suffering. Asia was still quite alien to most Americans a couple generations ago...whereas most Americans were just a couple generations or so away from Europe.
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