[Harmless Teddy Bear]

56.

There were 56 Chinese POW's alive when Japan surrendered.

Not 56 thousand or 56 hundred.

Just 56.

And what they did in Manila shocked even the Nazis.

I lived in Japan. I like the Japanese. Imperial Japan was run by monsters. For decades.

[PIF]

Interesting factoid : many Japanese families resisted being conscripted - the estimate I read somewhere was 20,000 were murdered for that act against the Emperor

[Dead Corpse]

Spent two years in Iwakuni on two different tours in the Marines. Air Wing.

Agreed on all points.

[dfwgator]

56. There were 56 Chinese POW's alive when Japan surrendered. Not 56 thousand or 56 hundred. Just 56. And what they did in Manila shocked even the Nazis.

And now look at China. You think what the Japs did in China, just might have fueled some of the support that Mao got there?

[dfwgator]

And what they did in Manila shocked even the Nazis.

Ironically, however, the Japanese left the Jews alone, especially in Shanghai, which had a sizable Jewish population.