Posted on 04/07/2015 12:14:43 PM PDT by drewh
I don't know that it's the Japanese who "whine" about Nagasaki and Hiroshima as much as it's Western liberals who are trying to cast the US in a negative light.
But if references to the rape of Nanking don't shut up the revisionists, nothing will.
“Wait. So we spent the last seventy years hunting down Nazis but, the Japs were commuted?”
In the case of Shiro Ishii and a few of the other senior officers of Unit 731, they escaped punishment completely. The U.S. cut a deal to give them all immunity from prosecution, in exchange for turning over all their “research” on bioweapons and their use on living human beings to our side. The Soviets were furious, as they wanted to prosecute the Japanese officers for war crimes. Likely they also wanted to wring the secrets of the research out of Ishii and the others for themselves.
It’s not a particularly proud moment in WW2 history, to be sure. The depths of evil Unit 731 engaged in were near bottomless. I’ll never forget a story I read in Factories of Death (the book I mentioned in my previous post). Japanese authorities in Nanking, as a show of “kindness”, handed out chocolate candies to Chinese children.
The chocolate was laced with anthrax, and the entire exercise was a test to see if biological weapons could be disseminated through foodstuffs.
With power tools.
I’ve been a history nut since high school. I read With the Old Breed when I was a junior. After HS I joined the Marine Corps. I don’t bear the hard feelings but he does. I can’t say that I agree with him but I can sympathize. The Japanese were brutal.
Bfl
that’s why it’s hard for me to get upset by something as relatively trivial as the interrment camps.
Too bad we couldn’t have dropped a few more bombs on these sub human bastards before they had a chance to surrender!
I arrived in Japan for duty in 1965, 20 years after the surrender. The cities around Tokyo and Yokohama where I was stationed were pretty much rebuilt after the incessant US bombing. I had read some of Jap atrocities in Asia but had pretty much forgiven them. In fact, I treated the Japs I met very civilly. But in the subsequent years, my blood began boiling when I read of their administration in the Philippines. I had done a tour at Clark Air Base and to this day have very good feelings for Filipinos that I have met all over the globe. Seeing “The Great Raid” and reading “The Unbroken” caused me to rethink my position on Jap.
If that Japanese are starting to own up to their atrocities, then it’s a start. If they do it fast enough, they might just prevent having to go to war against China...who still rightly has a few things to talk about.
Well, there are the stories of Saddam Hussein, another well-known Sunni, running his enemies through the plastic shredders - if he didn’t like them, head first, if he really didn’t like them, feet first......
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