Posted on 11/03/2007 6:56:30 PM PDT by Stoat
Yes. The Japs used anthrax and other types of germ warfare in China and other countries. Some of the cultures they released are still active. There was a show about this on the History Channel.
I wonder if historians generally agree on this number.
It seems high to me, although I don't remember reading any number for Asian civilian deaths attributed to the Japanese.
It’s a shame we stopped at two nukes.
My dad fought them in the Philippines as well. He saw what the japanese did to his fellow soldiers. He never mentioned the bomb or very little else about the war. He just drank to forget. I heard horror stories from some of the guys who served with him.
When my daughter was in eighth grade she learned about the holocaust. She asked about Japanese atrocities they told her they weren’t mature enough to learn that and it was being saved until high school. She is now a senior and heard nothing from the school about it at all. I taught her a lot about the Japs from my own studies.
It started at her school when her 8th grade teacher asked the class if they thought it was right that we dropped the atomic bombs on Japan and my daughter said, “Yes. They started the war.” At which point the teacher (of Japanese descent) told her how terrible the bomb was.
A couple of years ago, I was talking to a local media droid, a tv videographer, who is quite an admirer of Japan and Japanese culture. Unlike me, he has never been there.
The discussion turned to World War 2 and Japanese atrocities, particularly against PoWs. He chided me for condemning this, since the Japanese were taught that it was a disgrace to be captured and that prisoners deserved to be abused and tortured. “So, you see, it was just part of their culture.”
I responded “Well, it’s just part of our culture to fire-bomb people who do that kind of s**t.”
None of them had kids, wives or families that I recall. They just worked and drank.
God Bless them and hold them close as they had a glimpse of Hell while on Earth.
Outstanding response!
btt
“”The Japanese murdered 30million civilians while “liberating” what it called the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere from colonial rule. About 23million of these were ethnic Chinese.”
China’s day of reckoning with Japan ain’t gonna be pretty.
My Father was in the Philippines and New Guinea also. He was a bombardier on a B-24. He once told me the reason that flight crews carried a .45 was not for defense if the plane went down, but to use on themselves in case they survived the crash and were about to be taken prisoner by the Japs.
“We only had one more, and it was intended for Germany. But Truman ordered it shipped to the Pacific when Japan waited so long to surrender after the first two nukes.”
We were going nuke Germany 3 months after it had surrendered?
Fascinating...I don't believe that this is very widely known. Although of course when it comes to Japan's involvement in WW2 it seems that all we in the USA hear about these days is what awful people WE are for the internment camps and for the A-Bombs....we generally don't hear much else about Japan from that era.
I am guessing that unlike the numerous (Leftist) organizations and Governmental bodies both here in the USA and in Europe that take great pains at every possible opportunity to paint America as the quintessential warcrime nation for our dropping of the A-bombs and those rather plush camps, that there are no similar organizations in Japan or elsewhere that castigate the Japanese for the germ warfare that you mention as well as innumerable other atrocities.
From the article:
"The Japanese murdered 30million civilians while "liberating" what it called the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere from colonial rule. About 23million of these were ethnic Chinese.
"It's a crime that in sheer numbers is far greater than the Nazi Holocaust. In Germany, Holocaust denial is a crime. In Japan, it is government policy. But the evidence against the navy – precious little of which you will find in Japan itself – is damning."
The geographical breadth of the navy's crimes, the heinous nature of the acts themselves and the sadistic behaviour of the officers and men concerned are almost unimaginable.
True justice never slumbers nor sleeps muawiyah, the Japanese behaved shamefully in WW2, from the ghosts of Battan to the murdered via bayonet in Nanking, some never forget what they did in WW2.
Now they are backing away from even supporting the War in Iraq, and want us to leave Okinawa.
Tough nokkie, there is a reason why MacArthur stipulated that the Japanese Command staff et al had to dispose of their swords in Tokyo Bay....
They were extremely brutal...tough fighters too....glad we nuked ‘em.
They’ll have to fight that out with Murtha, won’t they? Doesn’t Murtha want our troops in Iraq to be redeployed to Okinawa?
Devious and cruel people.
when european descent people are murdered at the hands of others, it is ignored. it is only the mean disgusting white people who are condemned for their actions.
I recently read that syphillus was one of the diseases the american indians gave europeans. I am sure there is more.
“They’ll have to fight that out with Murtha, won’t they? Doesn’t Murtha want our troops in Iraq to be redeployed to Okinawa?”
That’s because Ol’ John “jack” Murtha is culturally insensitive...
Or he is so busy condemning fellow Marines that he doesn’t know the difference....
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