[LK44-40]

...if japan had maintained control over China and we had not liberated China millions less Chinese people would have died via murder and famine and torture and China would be a lot wealthier and modern today.

I admire your in-your-face attitude toward the Chicoms, but I must disagree with the outcome of your thought experiment.

Japan is an important US ally and a responsible actor on today's international stage. But Japan has a problem with getting fully in touch with the humanity of non-Japanese people (and they have trouble looking honestly at history). My guess is that China under the Japanese would have been horrific beyond description. It gives me no pleasure to say this.

[dsc]

"But Japan has a problem with getting fully in touch with the humanity of non-Japanese people"

My, but that's a diplomatic way of putting it.

[wimpycat]

I agree with what you said. Whatever the Japanese and the Chinese are now, the fact remains that the Japanese were particularly brutal to the Chinese, and this "good Nazi" did save a lot of Chinese lives and deserves to be honored. The fact also remains that the Japanese have trouble facing up to their WWII past. Even the Germans have done a better job in that respect.

[strategofr]

"I admire your in-your-face attitude toward the Chicoms, but I must disagree with the outcome of your thought experiment.

Japan is an important US ally and a responsible actor on today's international stage. But Japan has a problem with getting fully in touch with the humanity of non-Japanese people (and they have trouble looking honestly at history). My guess is that China under the Japanese would have been horrific beyond description. It gives me no pleasure to say this."

Well spoken.