Posted on 05/27/2016 9:12:32 AM PDT by Nachum
The Rape of Nanking and the evil human experiments done by Unit 731 usually come to mind when we think of Japanese war crimes. Unfortunately, those awful incidents weren’t isolated cases. Fueled by racism, fanaticism, and finally desperation as their defeat seemed inevitable, the Japanese in World War II perpetrated several acts on par with Nazi war crimes.
This ghoulish event, which killed more than 300 Australian and Dutch POWs, followed the Japanese capture of the Indonesian island of Ambon. Allegedly as an act of reprisal after the Allies destroyed one of their minesweepers, the Japanese randomly selected prisoners and executed them via beheading and bayonet near the island’s airfield. They then repeated the process three more times during the month.
The magnitude of this atrocity was enough for an Australian military tribunal to prosecute more than 90 Japanese officers and soldiers after the war in one of the biggest war crime trials in history. The tribunal sentenced four of the accused to death and handed out a range of sentences for the others. Unfortunately, they never got to try the mastermind, Rear Admiral Hatakeyama. The Japanese officer died while awaiting his trial.
Just a day before the British surrendered Singapore, Japanese soldiers stormed Alexandra Military Hospital and slaughtered its occupants, including the medical staff and patients. Even those undergoing surgery were not spared.
Following the massacre, the Japanese forced those
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Waiting for our apology Mr. _resident.
Only ten? And Japan has never acknowledged them nor have they apologized for them.
Did Japan ever apologize for their barbarian, savage, ghoulish behavior during the War? They behaved as badly as ISIS.
Unit 731 was not exceeded by anyone anywhere in WWII in sheer cruelty. Watch the movie “man behind the sun” if you can stomach it.
It’s a literal account of what happened there.
There’s a lot of footage of Japanese doctors torturing prisoners and civilians. Japs should be forced to watch these films.
The Japanese Killed more Chinese than the Nazis did Jews—using bio weapons and murder. 24 Million is a low estimate. It was WAR, and war is Hell.
In October 43' there were still 98 American POW's on Wake Island when the US Navy conducted an airstrike.
In retribution, they were blindfolded and taken to the north side of the island and machine gunned.
One escaped long enough to carve the Wake Island Rock to let people know what happened but was soon captured and beheaded.
War is no excuse for murdering unarmed civilians.
Seems to me that Obama, his cabinet, Hollywood, academe, and media progressives and all other ungrateful America-haters should be forced to watch that movie.
When my daughter was in 8th grade (in Hawaii) her history teacher went on and on about the horrors of the atomic bombings.
I finally convinced her to ask about these specific Japansese atrocities. He just asked her where she heard about them. When she told him that her dad told her he said, “How does he know?”
She told him I wanted to be a history teacher (I no longer do). At that point he said the school didn’t think they (the students) were mature enough to hear/see/read about these things and that they would learn them in high school. But at the same time they were watching films about the Holocaust. When she got to HS they never heard of it there either.
Her teacher was of Japanese descent.
....and those werent just soldiers, sailors, and marines. Most were civilian contractors working on docks, generators, new radar, and seaplane facilities.
The reality is that totalitarian armies kill everyone until way past time their enemy has surrendered.
I caddied with a man on the battan death march. Is this whom our pos apologized for?
Fubo.
Ramree was a better story crocodile vs japs.
In reading WW2 history the Allies were executing German civilians who were still fighting against the Allies, one as young as fifteen. So if America was defeated in a war on our soil would you still fight against the invaders even if our government capitulated? This is a rhetorical question.
Without God, everything is possible. There is no “Good and Evil” just utilitarianism—pragmatism.
The pagan “worldview” of the Japanese throughout their childhood, created these “monsters” because without God, there is no meaning or dignity in a human being-—there is no individualism or Free Will without the Christian Worldview-—so the godless/irrational pagans can always resort to the most vile use of human beings, which to a true Christian is unthinkable.
“In reading WW2 history the Allies were executing German civilians who were STILL FIGHTING against the Allies,”
Conducting war, not surrendering.
“. . .one as young as fifteen. “
So? With a weapon, or planting bombs, as deadly as an adult.
In discussion about Hiroshima at work the other day, a young man said, wow, but that was 200,000 people in one day! He is a Iraq veteran, but I was astounded at the perspective that is lost on younger people who perhaps did not know people or who had family members who fought in the war, relaying how many were slaughtered at the hands of the Japanese. They started it. We finished it. And that should have been the end of it.
I did watch it recently per your suggestion, incredible inhumane cruelty.
There is a good documentary regarding the Nanking massacre on Netflix.
It’s the question of do you surrender because your government did. Would you, as an American, continue the fight against an invader?
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