STILL Slavery, same Democrats, just different Masters. 
And, the Judas Goats
Posted on 02/15/2015 4:26:23 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Survivors and descendants of the victims of the 1945 Battle of Manila are pressing Japan to apologize for atrocities committed by its forces that left tens of thousands dead.
Juan Jose Rocha, head of the Memorare-Manila 1945 Foundation, a group of survivors and descendants of noncombatant victims of the battle, said during a memorial ceremony Saturday that an apology by Japan “is long overdue.”
“The purpose of our group is not to recriminate, nor to seek compensation, but just to commemorate and request Japan to recognize what they did here,” Rocha said at the ceremony held in front of a monument erected by his group 20 years ago. The monument memorializes the approximately 100,000 civilians who died during the Battle of Manila, which lasted from Feb. 3 to March 3, 1945, toward the end of World War II.
According to Rocha, around 70,000 of the civilians who died were “victims of heinous crimes or massacres” perpetrated by Japanese forces.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
The Japanese were sub-human in their viciousness. Thank God for the atomic bombs we had, and the men who had the courage to use them.
While I’m sure that atrocities were committed during this time I also believe that very few people are alive today in Japan that had anything directly to do with it. This is kind of like asking someone living in Alabama today to apologize for slavery in the Antebellum South. At some point you just need to remember the past but move on.
WW II began 76 years ago (1939). Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 - 84 years ago. Time to move on. Moreover, going back decades and centuries, looking for this and that leads to nothing but animosity for current and future generations. American Blacks today want "reparations" for slavery - and ZERO of these people have experienced slavery. Enough is enough.
I more or less agree with your point but the problem is that this generation is being lied to by the Japanese government. The Japanese leadership is sliding back to the fantasyland of Japan’s being “forced” into the war and hinting that atrocities never happened.
This generation and the ones that follow need to know the truth, not fiction.
If the Japanese histories and school textbooks described what really happened, I’d agree with you. The problem is though that the Japanese leadership and media and schools are either suppressing the truth or even glorifying an artificial view of their conduct during the war they started.
The last thing the world needs is a resurgent, militant Japan.
Which you may get as the PRC moves on the South China Sea and the US turns it back on it's treaty obligations.
I asked one young woman why she wanted to visit the wreck and she admitted she and her friends wanted to see what her grandfathers and great grandfathers had done. They couldn't believe Japan had deliberately attacked the island, killing so many young Americans.
With US foreign policy abandoning her allies, the global village is in for a wild ride.
Japan has no choice but to re-arm. One of my uncles was in the Bataan Death March, so my family has some understanding of Japanese inhumanity. However, citing mis-education of Japanese children as a concern is ironic given the state of American education.
The great danger the world faces is not a nuclear Japan, but an emasculated America, bereft of her own history and opposed to the very ideals she once epitomized.
In Japan, the Japs believe they didn’t do anything wrong.
In REALITY—the Japs were FAR WORSE than the NAZIs—they just didn’t document their horrors as well as their allies did.
Hitler when briefed about the Japaneses behavior in Nanking he indicated he thought his ally was being too cruel.. When Hitler thinks you are being too cruel there is a huge problem.
STILL Slavery, same Democrats, just different Masters.
And, the Judas Goats
The reason we didn't go after the Japanese and German people as hard after WW II as we did after WW I, was two reasons:
1) The American leadership saw that embittering a former enemy will only lay the groundwork for another war within a generation.
2) We needed allies and bases to stand up to the Russkies during the Cold War.
The various atrocities the Japanese and Germans committed were horrible acts, pushing them out of our minds should never happen, they need to be kept in history so future generations will realize there was and still is, evil in this world. Hopefully, things like that will never be allowed to happen again, which brings us to today. ISIS has been doing much the same things, are we to just ignore them too?
Not completely true. The Japanese population is not unaware of what their grand parents did.
We let many, many Axis war criminals off the hook for the reasons you listed. There was quite a lot of: The war criminal is sentenced to death, or life imprisonment...soon after the sentence is reduced...soon after the war criminal is released because of "poor health".
I certainly understand the reasoning there. But it made a mockery of the victims of the Axis.
People should read the book Fly Boys. The first chapter gives a brief but very good perspective of the war from the Japanese side. It is not meant as an excuse, but to present their logic. Very interesting.
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