Posted on 12/07/2016 1:10:16 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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.
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It is important to remember this when people start whining about us dropping the Bomb on them.
The Japs got civilization real fast when the A-bombs were dropped. I mean that.
I never gave a #### about those people.
The deed was done already :)
I had one liberal boss (a woman) who considered her father and father in law war criminals for fighting against japan in WWII because we dropped the bomb.
You can’t get mad at insanity like that. You just laugh to yourself.
Unit 731. Horrible stuff. But mostly forgiven because of the value of the human medical experimentation results.
No this was at a medical school in Japan. This shows that even their med students and doctors, their finest civilians, were sick in the head.
I’d have been out the door after telling that deranged bitch what she could do with herself. My grandfather was an (U.S. Army) officer stationed in Australia. Had the Japanese made it that far, he’d have ended up dead or as a P.O.W.
The Japanese were completely vicious in WW2.
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I was personally acquainted with two survivors of the Bataan Death March. Yes vicious is the word.
One black and one white and the Japs did not discriminate in their cruelty.
And Obama was close to apologizing for atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The Japs were even worse in China, using plague and biochemical WMDs. They even attempted to balloon and drop plague-infested fleas over the USA.
When psychos are in charge of a submissive species, bad things happen.
I have an Australian friend whose mother was Dutch from Sumatra and whose Australian father was captured at the fall of Singapore. Both survived over four and a half years of Japanese captivity. His mother was marched from place to place around Sumatra with other women as they dropped one by one from tropical diseses, malnutrition and bayonetting. Of hundreds of women taken in 1942 she said "several" were still alive at the end of the war and that she doubted any of them would have lasted another month.
True that
The POW camps in Manchuria were some of the most horrific hell holes ever
As recounted (and roughly remembered) in “The Rape of Nanjing” the Chinese wished to kill all male Japanese over the age of 10 use the kids as slave labor until they dies, sterilize all the women and use them as concubines. That was there plan after WWII ended and wanted the US to allow it, but first a Chinese General wanted to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After he saw, he said, “You Americans do good work.” The Chinese then dropped their demand.
Thanks for posting this.
A friend has an officer’s katana, complete with bullet hole.His father brought it home from the war. He wanted to find some way of IDing it, with the thought of returning it to the family. I’m happy he couldn’t
The Japanese were completely without morals when it came to their conquered territories and peoples.
Their treatment of POW’s was even worse.
Any captured allied soldier was lucky if they died of their wounds quickly.
Junior Japanese officers were ordered by their superiors to behead perfectly healthy prisoners.
It was to “teach them how lessor species should be treated “,
Some healthy prisoners were killed so that officers could dine on their internal organs, the liver being especially desired.
Since I learned of the way they treated conquered people and military prisoners I have refused to forgive them of their crimes.
At least the Germans took some responsibility of their actions.
The Japs never have and never will.
Sometimes I wish we had possessed enough atomic bombs to turn their homeland into an island of glass.
Then my Christian upbringing kicks in and I relent.
It isn’t PC to say but I wish we had the intestinal fortitude to rid the world of Islamic terrorism in the same way.
Yep, this makes one want to Nagasaki all over again. Just on principle.
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