Kokoda Diggers 'eaten' by Japs

Herald Sun ^ | 8/18/02 | SHELLEY HODGSON

[BlessingInDisguise]

The Asian Nazi's have gone far too long without being held accountable for any of their horrible crimes against humanity. The Japanese government to this day denies the massacre at Nanking ever took place. Over 300,000 Chinese were brutally murdered, mutilated and buried in mass graves.

[weikel]

I agree the Japs did bad things and were generally more sadistic than the Germans about doing them. That being said if your supply lines are cut I think cannibalizing enemy dead is perfectly sensible.

[weikel]

Theres something well not entirely valiant about surrendering at least until your out of ammo. Besides given how the Japanese atrocities had pissed off the allied soldiers if you surrendered( this went for both sides in the Pacific) there was a good chance they'd just execute you on the spot anyway.

[weikel]

When I said went for both sides I mean both sides had a good chance of being simply executed on the spot by the enemy if they surrendered. The initial atrocities were all commited by the Japanese.

[BlessingInDisguise]

Perfectly sensible?

[piasa]

If I was a commander and my forces were the only thing between the freedom of the US and the enemy's advance, and all we needed to keep fighting was food that wasn't to be had anywhere but the carcasses of dead enemy soldiers...

I'd apologize to God but I would be eating roast as long as I had ammo and ingenuity. Tastes almost as good as wild pig, according to some South American indians.

As a soldier, if you still have ammo you should be fighting- your surrender endangers other American soldiers and may even cost you the war. Would you let your family be killed because you preferred to surrender? Surrender is a last resort, and I mean LAST. If you're willing to give up your life or kill enemies to stay free, you sure shouldn't get picky or weak-kneed over bad cuisine. The man's soul is already gone and he won't be needing the container anyway.

[piasa]

Re #4 The japs were the masters of torture and inhumane execution. -Recall reading about captured pilots who were made to kneel, and hacked with a samurai sword, to the left of thier heads, and through the heart, down to the bottom of thier rib cage, then pissed on by jap soldiers while they died.

And you would surrender to them ?

[Hoplite]

The Japanese of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere are not the Japanese of today.

Banzai.

[Hoplite]

I get the distinct impression that you don't know very many actual Japanese.

[meenie]

On the subject of cannibilism, I would advise a look at the battle of Stalingrad. When the German siege lifted after four years, a third of the population had survived. They were cut off of any supplies from outside. You figure out the rest.

Were the four hundred thousand that survived heros or demons? I can't make that judgement. The survival instinct of humans is the basic instinct. That is the last thing that goes before death.

[RushLake]

I get the distinct impression that you don't know very many actual Japanese.

I worked with a number of japs about 12 years ago on a vehicle launch at Ford Motor. The managers were abusive, arrogant and aloof, just like the japanese offices of WWII. They loved it when the young American engineers would call them san and bow to them. I wasn't saning and bowing for a minute. The one jap manager that deigned to speak to me did so in a loud and abusive manner. I responded in kind and advised him that I hadn't forgotten about Pearl Harbor. He worked hard to try to be my friend after that, which wasn't going to happen.

Last year wife and I went to Oahu on vacation. In the evening we'd stroll Waikiki Blvd. and encounter a number of japs. The men made no effort to make way on the sidewalk and I finally had enough of my wife being bumped. It was a lot of fun throwing the shoulder into them to clear the way for my wife. They are still arrogant. Had they won WWII, I'm sure our country wouldn't have been rebuilt. Screw them!

[Hoplite]

Well I'm glad to see you didn't escalate your labor relations issues to hand to hand combat level.

And you can get the same treatment for your wife in any mainland city at the hands or shoulders of your countrymen.

My point still stands - militarism in Japan died with Hirohito, no matter how hard a bunch of blowhards at the Yakusuni shrine try to revive it.

[Hoplite]

Ok, since I'm in full blown insomnia mode, I may wind up spotting you this one - are you sure you don't mean St. Petersburg rather than Tsaritsyn, and did you really have me in mind for the cannibalism comment?

I mean, I liked Ravenous and all, but I prefer other genres.

[Tickle Me Pank]

Enjoy that new Toyota!

I prefer my Lexus SC 430.

[RushLake]

Enjoy your Toyota.