We already got even...
Posted on 04/28/2015 4:21:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sidestepped a question on whether he would apologize for the sexual enslavement of women by Japan’s army during World War II.
Abe instead said he was “deeply pained” by the suffering of “comfort women.” He was using a euphemism for tens of thousands of Asian women who were forced to serve Japanese troops. …
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You can bet South Korea is watching his trip here like a hawk.
How does he feel about cutting off arms and surgically putting the on the opposite sides, dissecting Chinese and American soldiers alive, putting people out in the cold to test frostbite, bayonetting pregnant women in the stomach, testing germ warfare and disease warfare on the Chinese, walking Americans to their death by way of the Bataan Death March.
Why did the Japanese get away with so much? even the pos at the center of the Unbroken story led a nice long wealthy life.
When I read that some Japanese Army dead were recently discovered in the Aleutians, I said they should only be returned to the Japanese in trash bags or maybe cardboard boxes. No flags, no coffins, no honor guards.
AMEN!!
One of the sadder stories of WW2 is the tale of the Korean “comfort women.” They weren’t the only ones subjected to forced prostitution by the IJA, of course. They were one of the bigger targets, though. I’ve read that right after the war, many of the women so forced were disowned by their families and by much of Korean society. Even worse, the children that they bore from Japanese military personnel were often pariahs in both countries. Japan did not want a reminder of their activities, and the Koreans did not want a child parented by an enemy.
Don’t know if this is still the view or not. I can say that in the early 1990s, all of the South Koreans and Chinese I met had no love for Japan. The Chinese students knew Japanese atrocities (Unit 731, etc) almost by rote.
Take note that the one abuse that the AP reports on is the one Abe mentioned out loud; and the AP evades the terms “sexual assault” or “sexual slavery” with respect to it.
Around 10 years ago there was a show on one of the TV networks, something like 60 minutes but that might not have been what it was.
Anyway there was a Japanese guard they called “the bird” who just took delight in torturing American POWs. After the war he suffered no consequences at all. When they found him and interviewed him, he was completely non apologetic. Actually seemed proud of what he had done.
Abe was born 9 years after WW2 ended. Connect the dots.
Then by your reasoning all those companies paying money to Jewish survivors should not be because they weren’t alive at the time?
Good god man, what did the Japs do to piss you off.
The story is Unbroken and it just broke last year.
I have not seen “Unbroken” but is the brutal guard also called “the bird”? If so it is the same guy.
YES
Why are corporations still paying reparations to anyone?
killed and injured grandparents and uncles in a lot of families. Still hurts.
We already got even...
Fascinating co-incidence.
ending a war you didn’t start isn’t really getting even. It’s just ending it. I’m not calling for a new war, but, geez, an apology wouldn’t hurt. We make the Germans bend at every turn to fix the error of their ways, and rightly so. What’s the difference?
SOB wouldn’t even meet the soldier many years later after he forgave him.
He said he had a sexual fetish and got off hurting Americans
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