Posted on 05/27/2016 9:12:32 AM PDT by Nachum
The Rape of Nanking and the evil human experiments done by Unit 731 usually come to mind when we think of Japanese war crimes. Unfortunately, those awful incidents weren’t isolated cases. Fueled by racism, fanaticism, and finally desperation as their defeat seemed inevitable, the Japanese in World War II perpetrated several acts on par with Nazi war crimes.
This ghoulish event, which killed more than 300 Australian and Dutch POWs, followed the Japanese capture of the Indonesian island of Ambon. Allegedly as an act of reprisal after the Allies destroyed one of their minesweepers, the Japanese randomly selected prisoners and executed them via beheading and bayonet near the island’s airfield. They then repeated the process three more times during the month.
The magnitude of this atrocity was enough for an Australian military tribunal to prosecute more than 90 Japanese officers and soldiers after the war in one of the biggest war crime trials in history. The tribunal sentenced four of the accused to death and handed out a range of sentences for the others. Unfortunately, they never got to try the mastermind, Rear Admiral Hatakeyama. The Japanese officer died while awaiting his trial.
Just a day before the British surrendered Singapore, Japanese soldiers stormed Alexandra Military Hospital and slaughtered its occupants, including the medical staff and patients. Even those undergoing surgery were not spared.
Following the massacre, the Japanese forced those
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Read “Flyboys: A True Story of Courage” by writer James Bradley, about what happened to downed flyers and other captives on some of the smaller Pacific islands.
POW’s had their livers removed while alive to provide roasted “courage meals” for Jap officers. Some survived to be tried for war crimes. Has a brief bit about GHWB’s ditch and sub recovery.
Excellent account of the Doolittle Raid, its prep and execution.
The author, even after presenting the facts, has a reconciliatory drive which IMO, well......
[ Only ten? And Japan has never acknowledged them nor have they apologized for them. ]
Which is bad, they should acknowledge them.
But I ask you one question comparing Germany and Japan.
Which country today is importing Mooselimb savages en-masse out of “War Guilt”?
Japan is not importing throwbacks and in fact is very strict about allowing Islam into their country.
In 100 year there may be fewer Japanese due to declining demographics, but they were still be a Japanese Culture but the German Culture will be in shambles.
We may have gone too far brow beating Germany over their atrocities building up an internalized cultural guilt that is leading to their cultural suicide.
We should Demand Japan apologize more, but there is a limit to what can be expected and not destroy a culture, just look at Germany.
Whatever MacAurthur did in Japan post war had better results than what was done in Germany in term of their ling term cultural survival.
Maybe the fact that Germany more or less somewhat elected and chose the NAZI to rule them, vs. the Japs already having an Emperor and run away military in that the Civilians were more “victims” of their OWN government than the Germans???? Maybe...
I’ve read several stories re: War in the Pacific. Did you know that Gen. Curtis LeMay is considered a war criminal (rense.com/general29/asdi.htm)? - I’ve read his biography. Yet no air commander in the European theater was ever thought that they were war criminals. Interesting that.
Lots of armchair liberal generals out there today trying to rewrite America’s “atrocities” during WW2.
With China as a global power now, Japan’s war crimes will never be forgotten.
In fact, I wonder if Obama did this just to irritate the Chinese.
Heck, Gen. LeMay himself said something to the effect that if the Allies lost the war they would be considered war criminals.
Mentioned in “Flyboys”, IIRC.
I remember reading that too. It’s interesting that the Allied air commanders didn’t think that when bombing Germany although after the war there were lots of recriminations over the Dresden bombing in that there was nothing of importance there; it was a large refugee center. The Allied thinking was to overwhelm the German relief efforts of their citizens.
[ Lots of armchair liberal generals out there today trying to rewrite America’s “atrocities” during WW2. ]
And American “Atrocities” during WW-II even if you could call them that were not even 10% of the Atrocities of either Germany or Japan or EVEN our “Ally Uncle Joe”’s Russia.
whale.to/b/execution.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_liberation_reprisals
It’s been conditioned into people that America is always the bad guy.
Trust me, the Chinese and Koreans have not forgotten.
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