Posted on 12/07/2016 1:10:16 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode
A Japanese university has opened a museum acknowledging that its staff dissected downed American airmen while they were still alive during World War Two.
The move is a striking step in a society where war crimes are still taboo and rarely discussed, although the incident has been extensively documented in books and by US officials.
A gruesome display at the newly-opened museum at Kyushu University explains how eight US POWs were taken to the centre’s medical school in Fukuoka after their plane was shot down over the skies of Japan in May 1945.
There, they were subjected to horrific medical experiments - as doctors dissected one soldier’s brain to see if epilepsy could be controlled by surgery, and removed parts of the livers of other prisoners as part of tests to see if they would survive.
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McCarther pardoned all of the Japanese criminals that conducted vivesections of our troops? What was with that guy?
And then there's Guantanamo...
You should read the Nevil Shute novel, A Town Like Alice. It is a story about British women, POWs, marching all over the Malay peninsula during WWII.
Results? They've been extremely well behaved for 71 years
Evil, cruel savages who didn’t get half of what they deserved. Unforgivable.
Makes me feel even better that we resorted to using nukes to end that war.
Yes. He didn’t do it on his own, though...that directive came from above. It was a general amnesty. (and I generally dislike MacArthur)
I wasn’t alive then, but the mood after the war was, in some circles, to move as rapidly away from it as possible and forget about it.
An egregious example of this injustice was described in the book and movie “Unbroken”. The prison guard officer who murdered men faked his own death, but came out into the open and became a successful businessman after the amnesty.
BTW, my father was shot down over Tokyo in 1945, was a POW, and said they were beaten to near death. Like most WWII vets, he didn't talk much about the war.
I celebrate what would have been his 101st birthday today! He was, and will always be, my ULTIMATE HERO!
I’d have posted something very similar to that, if you hadn’t first. I really like Nevil Shute’s books.
His novels are wonderful.
The Japs...read “The Rape of Nanking” as well as “Unit 731” and you’ll find out about the Japs...
if Jap atrocities in WWII had been broadcast the way the holocaust was, Japan would forever be a third world craphole...
After I read the book, “Unbroken” I had absolutely no question in my mind why we dropped the bomb. We had to, and the fact that we had to drop a second one really tells the rest of the story. Let that sink in, one wasn’t convincing to them.
They were just like ISIS, religiously driven by their deity emperor to take over the world and every non Japanese was considered a lower form of life.
Save this and then make, force, every #*#* that says we were wrong to NUKE them read a copy.
Give a copy to as many school teachers as you can.
The doctors of unit 731 went back to join the Japanese medical establishment. They were all successful. One of them became head of Green Cross. A war criminal was elected prime minister. A thousand war criminals were put in the national shrine at in Yasukuni temple. Including the guy in charge of the rape of Nanking.
My first job after my residency was with Caterpillar in Peoria. It was around 1979. There were many ex WWII guys there. Cat was in war with Komatsu. These guys at Cat took it personally. Komatsu basically were making carbon copies of the Cat products. Everyone of these guys hated the Japanese viscerally. I couldn’t understand it until I learned about the Japs did to our POWs and to the Chinese. Funny, how the Chinese were our friends back then, the Russians too.
I have Cousins who were captured in the Philippines and spent 3 1/2 years under steady starvation in an internment camp. The Japanese were animals and we should never forget what they and others like them are capable of.
Yup. Whenever any of my liberal friends start whining about the destruction caused by Fat Man and Little Boy, I tell them to go research 'Nanking atrocities'. There's also a good movie about it "City of Life and Death".
My late father in law had one too. After hus death his wife had it returned to the family of the Jap officer from which it was acquired.
Remember Pearl Harbor today !
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