Beheaded at whim and worked to death: Japan's repugnant treatment of Allied PoWs

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | September 17, 2007 | Max Hastings

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[ClearCase_guy]

Well, yeah ... but ... we’ve been known to put panties on a man’s head ...

[yldstrk]

My father spent three years in a Japanese concentration camp as a ten to thirteen year old. He lived in the European section of the Chinese coast when they invaded—his father took him down to the beach to watch the Japanese come in.

[Stoat]

Well, yeah ... but ... we’ve been known to put panties on a man’s head ...

And I understand that our islamofascist prisoners are fed and treated much better than they ever were at home.  We have nothing to be ashamed of.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Shit! I reckon that the Japanese people may have learned their lessons very well. I can only hope that the Damned Muslims are half as smart! Japan has become a productive, constructive participant, Islam is still living in slime, under rocks!
I ride around on a Chinese motorscooter, it is copied from a Japanese motorscooter, and costs less. It runs just fine!
I don’t reckon I’m ready for a Muslim motorscooter, LOL!

[DieHard the Hunter]

It is more than high time that Japan coughed up to its misbehaviors of 70 years ago, starting with their adventure into Manchuoko and ending with the JUSTIFIED nuclear detonations at Nagasaki and Hiroshima — and all the atrocities that they committed in-between.

I would like to hear Japan say “sorry”.

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[Thorin]

>>>>I would like to hear Japan say “sorry”.

So would I. But what incentive do they have to do that, when so many Americans buy Japanese products and trash American products? It's not like the Japanese are paying any price for their barbaric treatment of American POWs and allied civilians.

[Last Dakotan]

The two things the bother me the most of these facts are one; the uniformity of the Japanese in mistreating POW's (you never hear of any good or fair officers) and two; the persistence of the Japanese to this day in their refusal to assume any national guilt for these actions.

[naturalized]

This could have been the fate of the President's father.

[Thumper1960]

We paid them back with Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

It is merely a pity they surrendered so quickly. It would have been fitting had they fought a few more months, and a few more bombs.

Despite the "misgivings" that Hirohito supposedly expressed about the war, I'd have liked to have seen him stripped, paraded through the streets of Tokyo and summarily sliced, julienne style before his imperialist cabinet and warlord officer corps.

[VOA]

“Japanese behaviour vacillated between grotesquery and sadism.
Ted Whincup laboured on the notorious Burma railway, a 250-mile track
carved through mountain and dense jungle. “

Regrettably, I have to admit that PBS did a good job on this subject
in their Burma Railway (River Kwai) episode on “Secrets of The Dead”.

IIRC, an American and Australian researcher were joined by a Japanese
officer who helped construct the railway.
The Japanese officer (engineer) claimed that only Asian workers were
used on his stretch of the roadbed...
then he shared his PERSONAL photos of the work.
In the background of some of the officer’s photos, you can see skeletal
Caucasians in ragged clothing at work, building the roadbed.

I’m glad I wasn’t there...I’d probably have started beating the guy
and calling him a lying b@$tard.

But for all I could tell, the guy was simply in total denial about
WWII (not the only Japanese with that brain dysfunction).
And was simply lost in his pride of telling how he helped get a
working railway constructed under tough conditions.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_kwai/index.html

AND, IIRC, the PBS show mentioned something really not known in
the USA...that many more Asian workers (than Allied POWs) perished
during the building of the railway as well.
I may be mis-remembering, but I thought something like 250,000
Asian workers perished in this ugly chapter of WWII.

[wjcsux]

One of my neighbors survived the Bataan Death March. He was packed into the hold of a Japanese ship, and sent from the Philippines to Mainland Japan. The Allied POWS were literally worked to death in the Japanese coal mines. This soldier told me that hundreds of POWS died every day. Many of the POWS were used for medical experiments.
He was in Nagasaki when the second A-bomb was dropped.

[tet68]

Hmmmm. no mention of the small percentage of German prisoners held in the Soviet union who managed to return home.

Out of the 98,000 captured at Stalingrad, 7,000 made it out alive to return to Germany after the war.

I’m sure the corresponding figures for the rest were probably along that line also.

” Stalin’s Soviet Union never sought to dignify its great killings as the acts of gentlemen,... “

And yes, the Soviets, continued to protray themselves as
heroic victors, saving the world for Socialism, not much different than the Japanese.

[restornu]

My father spent three years in a Japanese concentration camp as a ten to thirteen year old. He lived in the European section of the Chinese coast when they invaded—his father took him down to the beach to watch the Japanese come in.

I am thankful our two nations now get along now!

That said when we had concentration camps they were nothing like that yet we had to paid repartation after the war.

What has Japan paid?

I think in the climate today we should bring back the concentration camps for wisdom sake and the protection of our citizens.

[MarineDad]

"Islam is still living in slime, under rocks!"

But that's the only place - outside of its birthplace, Hell - where it really feels at home.

We've all seen what happens when it comes out into civilized society. It's not a pretty sight at all.

[VOA]

...summarily sliced, julienne style...

I like the old TV commercial (Ronco?) phrase:
"sliced, diced and julienne-friend!"

As for Hirohito, I wouldn't be suprised if Hirohito and his nation
were more mortified during Hirohito's descent from heaven
and submission to gaijins.

Slicing and dicing him would probably have just created some sort
of martyr status and fuel for revenge by unrepentent Japanese officers.

[ARE SOLE]

My father spent three years in a Japanese concentration camp as a ten to thirteen year old. He lived in the European section of the Chinese coast when they invaded—his father took him down to the beach to watch the Japanese come in.

My Grandfather was with the Argyl & Sutherland Highlanders and taken prisoner in the fall of Singapore. He died at ChungKai Prison Camp along the Kwai river.

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