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As horrible as this was. Many civilians (of all ages) met even worse deaths. To some of them ISIS would be considered pikers.
Of course the Japanese apologized....NOT.
The atomic bombs were necessary.
What strikes me is the formality of this. Most executions of non-combatants in the 20th Century were of two types.
“Heat of the moment” killings by troops, (the SS in Oradour-sur-Glane, France, The Germans across E. Europe, the Russians in East Prussia, Rape of Nanking)
Systemic policy killings (the Holocaust, Soviet Purges, Pogroms across E. Europe)
This one was unique. They simply tried and executed a whole family as suspected spies under the color of law. The fact that one of them was a child seems to have been irrelevant to the Japanese.
Perhaps this man was executed. I did read a book by an Australian prisoner of the Japanese called Russell Braddon. His theme was forgiveness. He expressed regret, because a fellow Australian beat a vicious Japanese guard to death, when the surrender came. The man broke both his hands on the guard.
All hard to understand unless one had those same experiences.
The Japanese army was the 1930s-40s version of ISIS.
Japan deserved every nuke and firebombing it got.
Read about the Japanese Army’s behavior during their invasion of Manchuria. History doesn’t refer to it as the rape of Nanking for nothing! The mother is lucky she wasn’t raped hundreds and hundreds of times by soldiers and then finally by bayonettes. The actions of the Japanese Army defy belief by anyone with a shred of conscience. It’s nearly impossible to accept that people would act like that. They made ISIS look like boy scouts.
American civilian construction workers on Wake Island were murdered by the Japanese as were British civilians on teh island of Nauru.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki evened the score.