Remorseless Japan

Taken care of. Why don't they simply do what Germany and Italy did decades ago?

And America refuses to come clean on it's latest escapades in Libya and Syria. Hypocrite.

For the record, despite my screen name I am not Jewish and do not sit next to Lord Rothschild in meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion.

Try oil rich Muslim Saudi Arabs. They been buying off America for decades.

Complaining about the moral failings of other countries while dismissing the corruption in our own is shortsighted and stupid.

I for one would welcome a rearmed Japan. Why should we foot the bill for defending one of the wealthiest nations on Earth? Moreover, a militarily strong Japan would be a much-needed regional counterweight to China and a bulwark against North Korea.

Refusing modern-day Japan, which has been nothing but friendly towards US and Western interests for decades, the right to arm because of their WWII crimes is suspiciously similar to forcing Americans to grovel in apology for slavery, wars against the Indians, etc. We shouldn't accept politically correct groveling as Americans, nor should we demand it of other nations.

Japan was the rogue Axis power in the triumvirate of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Combine Japan's Bushido Code (Way of the Warrior) and the fact they were not signatories on the Geneva or Hague Conventions — you have the perfect storm for the Pacific War.

The Japanese were the ones that set the rules for a war characterized by brutality and cruelty. Small wonder so few Japanese were taken prisoner — their code did not permit it and they routinely abused, starved, and murdered both civilian and military prisoners. As the lands the Empire had conquered in the heady early days of the were liberated by the Allies, the Japanese high command issued orders to kill the prisoners being held. Civilized behavior? Hardly.

One of the most ghastly revelations was the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731. This unit specialized in chemical and biological warfare. Run by Lt. General Shiro Ishii, Unit 731 surpassed the Third Reich for war crimes of this kind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731. Cold war politics prevented Ishii and his subordinates being tried as war criminals. Instead, the Allies granted immunity when all the records of Unit 731 were turned over to them. Ishii died from throat cancer in 1959, aged 67.

The sad thing is that far too many Americans are totally ignorant about the bad guys in the most destructive war of the 20th century. Worse, what they do know is compromised by revisionist history that tries to paint America, in particular, as a bad guy. Disgusting.

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