[tkathy]

beyond belief. the same supremicist mentality as the out of control islamofascists

[estrogen]

This account of the atrocities committed turns my stomach.

I must be the most naive person in the world to have thought that Aushwitz was the worst inhumanity committed.
What the Nazi's did to their fellow man is unthinkable and now this.......

[NavVet]

If we were fighting that war today, we would have re-deployed to the United States after taking six thousand casualties on Iwo Jima. And the left would be screaming for a Dept. of Peace to hold a conference with Japan and Nazi Germany.

[jim35]

I simply couldn't read it all. It was too horrifying.

[Finalapproach29er]

MacArthur whitewashed most of this in the interests of reconciliation.

Next time you hear bawling about US dropping the A-bomb, remember this.

They were programmed to be fanatics and savages.

[Texas Jack]

The following book was published in the late 50's. I happened upon it while still in my teens and was horrified at what I read. Let me assure you that these acts of brutality were pervasive throughout the Japanese military. It's easy to understand why Allied troops responded so vigorously when they met the Japanese soldier face to face.

The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes by Lord Of Liverpool Russell (Author)

It's in publication again. I warn you, however, it makes this story seem mild by comparison.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

This is disgusting.

There were several scientific discoveries because of things such as this: many human tolerances (such as how long humans could survive in what temperatures, etc.) were discovered by the Japanese experimenting on what were often civilian subjects. Such deliberate gathering of information is not worth the life of people.

[aruanan]

"It was the order of the emperor, and the emperor was a god. I had no choice. If I had disobeyed I would have been killed."

So, it looks as though he did have a choice.

[aruanan]

Hey, everyone in the world is exactly the same. We all want the same things. Some choose means to those ends that are a little different from others, but how can we judge unless we've torn livers out of living logs and infected them with syphillis and frozen and thawed them until their limbs rotted off? And aren't we destroying the whole planet with our CO2-belching SUVs and factories producing trivialities and doing cosmetic testing on poor bunnies who could otherwise have been out frolicking in a coast to coast forest with wolves and foxes and other loving brothers and sisters of their Earth mother Gaia? We who refuse to ratify the Kyoto Accord are the true enemies of mankind! Leave these poor Japanese alone who were only following the orders of their emporer-god. They were following the dictates of their faith and nobody should criticize anyone else's religion until it is Christianity, the only religion that has brought misery and suffering to the world and caused it to be the dark and unhappy and diseased and polluted and poor and cruel place that it is.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

The Japs and Nazi's were unbelievably cruel. It's hard to imagine that they came to power simultaneously.In the book, "Flyboys", there were numerous stories of how the Japs participated in cannibalism, particularly of American POW's. It's no wonder that the Chinese hate the Japs.

[muir_redwoods]

Read The Rape of Nanjing by Iris Chang. The hero of the factual account is a German Nazi who is himself appalled by the actions of the Japanese.

They're digging a home in hell for some of these people because there is no place low enough there for them yet.

[Savage Beast]

"It was the order of the emperor, and the emperor was a god. I had no choice. If I had disobeyed I would have been killed."

Why would you want to live???

No, I did not finish reading this article.

Humanity recoils in disgust and horror at this--perhaps even more those of us who are physicians. It challenges our powers of forgiveness, even as we understand that forgiveness benefits the forgiver more than the forgiven and that the greatest challenge is to forgive the unrepentant.

One can only grasp for grace and bring to mind the truth that goodness is as fundamental to humanity as is evil, heroism as fundamental as savagery, Todd Beamer and Mother Theresa as exemplary as is this wretched Akira Makino creature who somehow managed to go on living to a ripe old age, evidently untortured by the evil that he had committed and that had overwhelmed him.

Mother Theresa said that she decided to go to Calcutta when she looked inside herself and found a Hitler lurking there.

The supreme beauty of Todd Beamer is that he was an unremarkable, average man, who, if the challenge had not presented itself to him, would have remained unknown to most of us.

We cannot redeem ourselves by our own resources. Our redemption can come only through God's grace.

Those who do not recognize the potential for evil lurking within all of us are the most in danger of succumbing to it.

Only by facing the truth about the dark side and the light side of human nature and consciously determing to flee to the light side can we avoid descent into the depravity into which this wretched man descended, and we can cling to the light side only through the strength, wisdom, and grace that comes from surrender to Him, His love, and His truth.

[Hostage]

The key takeaway from this is the reference to the Emperor.

"It was the order of the emperor, and the emperor was a god. I had no choice. If I had disobeyed I would have been killed."

This is what is forgotten in history, especially the decision to A-bomb Imperial Japan, and the decisions to intern Japanese ethnic populations in the USA.

Each person of Japanese heritage was considered a subject of the Emperor and thus a combatant.

Longtime Japanese residents of Hawaii who were known by locals before Pearl Harbor to be law abiding and peaceful were suddenly found to be traitors after they 'received orders' from Imperial Japan. The Japanese in the USA before and during WWII were analogous to what are considered 'sleeper cells' of today.

The arguments today made about the atrocious A-bombing of Japan or the unjust internment of Japanese-Americans conveniently ignore the history that is so abundant about the true nature of Imperial Japan.

The argument that the unjust internment of Japanese-Americans was recognized by the American government and reparations were issued is specious and mistold. It was not the internment that was at issue, rather it was the wrongful confiscation and auction of private and real property that was addressed.

[Dante3]

Horrible.

[Aquinasfan]

The century of atheism.

20th Century Man

This is the age of machinery,
A mechanical nightmare,
The wonderful world of technology,
Napalm hydrogen bombs biological warfare,

This is the twentieth century,
But too much aggravation
Its the age of insanity,
What has become of the green pleasant fields of jerusalem.

Aint got no ambition, Im just disillusioned
Im a twentieth century man but I dont wanna be here.
My mama said she cant understand me
She cant see my motivation
Just give me some security,
Im a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century.

You keep all your smart modern writers
Give me william shakespeare
You keep all your smart modern painters
Ill take rembrandt, titian, da vinci and gainsborough,

Girl we gotta get out of here
We gotta find a solution
Im a twentieth century man but I dont want to die here.

I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in grey
Got no privacy got no liberty
Cos the twentieth century people
Took it all away from me.

Dont wanna get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman,
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
Im a twentieth century man but I dont wanna die here.

My mama says she cant understand me
She cant see my motivation
Aint got no security,
Im a twentieth century man but I dont wanna be here.

This is the twentieth century
But too much aggravation
This is the edge of insanity
Im a twentieth century man but I dont wanna be here.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

From a Chalmers Johnson (a historian according to Wikipedia, as is this quote):

" It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimised. The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians [i.e. Soviet citizens]; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers — and, in the case of the Japanese, as [forced] prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand or Canada (but not Russia) you faced a 4 % chance of not surviving the war; [by comparison] the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30 %.[5] "

[Little Ray]

Are we gonna demand that Japan arrest and extradite these alleged human beings for their crimes?

[NewLand]

PING to those from The Foxhole + assorted patriots...check out this article, then check out posts #38, #75, #88. Just wanted everyone to see what lurks among us and bring in some extra fire power.

[ohioWfan]

I'm sorry. I read about half way through and had to stop.

I knew there were atrocities committed by the Japanese, but I had no idea how vile and barbaric it was.

I am overwhelmed with the horror of it all.

[MEGoody]

I am often aghast at the level of cruelty man is capable of displaying.