Posted on 04/07/2015 12:14:43 PM PDT by drewh
A Japanese university has opened a museum acknowledging that its staff dissected downed American airmen while they were still alive during World War Two. The move is a striking step in a society where war crimes are still taboo and rarely discussed, although the incident has been extensively documented in books and by US officials.
A gruesome display at the newly-opened museum at Kyushu University explains how eight US POWs were taken to the centre’s medical school in Fukuoka after their plane was shot down over the skies of Japan in May 1945. There, they were subjected to horrific medical experiments - as doctors dissected one soldier’s brain to see if epilepsy could be controlled by surgery, and removed parts of the livers of other prisoners as part of tests to see if they would survive.
Another soldier was injected with seawater, in an experiment to see if it could be used instead of sterile saline solution to help dehydration. All of the soldiers died from their ordeal. The horrific episode has been described in previous books, one by a Japanese doctor who took part in the experiments, but the museum represents an official acknowledgement of the atrocity
After the prisoners were killed, Japanese doctors preserved their remains in formaldehyde until the end of the war. Evidence of the experiments was heard at an Allied War Crimes tribunal in 1948 against 30 doctors and university staff, by which time the body parts had been destroyed. In total 23 people were found guilty of vivisection – dissecting and performing surgery on a living thing – and five were sentenced to death. General Douglas MacArthur later commuted all death sentences when he was military governor of Japan.
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The Muslims hate science. They’d just do it for the fun.
Any pain is seen as punishment by Allah for being on the wrong side.
My late Dad was a WWII Navy veteran and would not buy or ride in a jap (as he called them until his death) automobile.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur commuted the sentences of the Japanese war criminals involved in vivisection of U.S. POWs in exchange for turning over the results of their research to the Allies.
And I agree, ISIS and other radical Islamic terror groups would have NO problem subjecting innocents to the same treatment if they sought to establish a bioweapons program.
“General Douglas MacArthur later commuted all death sentences when he was military governor of Japan.”
Wait. So we spent the last seventy years hunting down Nazis but, the Japs were commuted?
Great...
Wasn’t publicized much. I was a history major, focused on 19th, and 20th Century international relations. Never heard of this.
I wish he hadn't.
We hanged National Socialists.
We should have hanged these bastards, too.
Well thank goodness they weren’t Nazis, right? Oh, SARCASM
When I read stories like this, and of the Bataan Death March, I think of the firebombing of Tokyo and the use of atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and say: “Good.”
I think the commutation of sentences was one of those silent deals upon which much diplomacy is based. We agreed quietly under the table to allow the Emperor to keep the ceremonial throne and not aggressively pursue war crimes trials. In exchange, the Japanese “Unconditionally surrendered.”
[ We hanged National Socialists.
We should have hanged these bastards, too. ]
We did Nuke them! Twice!
Next time Japan whines about the two nukings we should remind them of this vivisection atrocity to shut them up.
MacArthur saw that the executions of many Japanese war criminals were expedited.
Yet LbTurds still say we shouldn’t have dropped NUKES on the JAPS.
And now the japs make the best automobiles on earth.
I was no history major of any sort (engineering) but I read about these atrocities no less than 50 years ago. Independent study, of course. No government schools involved. I am not home, so can’t check, but I recall a book, “Prisoners of the Japanese” which might have been one source of information about those war atrocities.
Yeah ... I think we may have chosen the wrong targets. Should have nuked these bastards.
McArthur was too easy on his new subjects.
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