Posted on 04/04/2002 8:51:39 AM PST by SkyPilot
JAPANESE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS REVEALED
Tokyo, 31 August 1945 ...Stars and Stripes
Horrific details of atrocities carried out by Japanese doctors are emerging as Allied PoWs are released. Prisoners have been subjected to vivisection. Others have been used as human guinea-pigs and injected with acid, inoculated with fatal diseases, or frozen at minus six degrees Fahrenheit (-20 C).
Eight U.S. airman shot down after B-29 raids in May died in vivisection experiments carried out by Professor Fukujior at Kyushu University. One PoWs stomach was removed, and an artery cut to see how long it was before he died.
Many of the atrocities have been at Japan's top-secret bacteriological warfare unit 731 at Harblin, in Manchuria. Prisoners were inoculated with anthrax, typhoid and cholera to test germ potency. Others have been boiled or dehydrated to death. Experiments included prolonged exposure to X-rays and prisoners subjected to a pressure chamber where the blood was forced out of their skin as they died in agony.
PoWs fear that 731's commander, Shiro Ishii, will escape prosecution in return for turning over germ warfare data to the U.S. Two released U.S. doctors also revealed today how they were made to prepare lethal acid-based solutions for Japanese doctors to inject into U.S. PoWs at a Tokyo hospital.
Maybe not US citizens of German descent, but what about citizens who were card-carrying members of the Nazi Party?
The issue is a loathsome ideology which is every bit as nasty as National Socialism, even though it cloaks itself as a religion
What I said was that internment of American Citizens without trial, was not a correct response to things done in other countries. Do you believe that we should jail people of English descent in response to English actions in Ireland?
What English actions in Ireland?
Beating the Irish at soccer and Rugby, perhaps?
[Bit naughty, that!]
Subsidising them and providing them Billions of Pounds in aid and jobs for their immigrants, for centuries, perhaps?
Oh yes -- and the West Coast Japanese were mostly loyal to Japan -- and made no bones about it. And in any case the "DemocRATS who rounded them up and interned them wanted to steal their money and confiscate their property!
[And did just that!]
You got that right.
And, by projection it on to SkyPilot, demonstrated your own rascist bigotry.
I know a family who owned a swath of land extending to the Pacific, roughly 10 miles deep along Wilshire on East past Little Tokyo.
Today this land is worth several billion dollars.
While they were held captive in a variety of camps, 100% of it ended up in the hands of wealthy white Californians, there being no wealthy black Californians at the time.
They recovered 5 cents on the dollar of loss and purchased a very large chunk of Anaheim. Part of that farm is now the Disneyland parking lot.
Disney is the only white man who ever paid them a penny for any property.
Anyway, that's just the way it seemed to me at the time. Possibly others would agree. You might ask them.
As a practical matter, most of the Issei would be considered political refugees under today's understanding of the term. In any case, the greater part of the JA population were children. By Constitutional right they were citizens.
There are numerous books written about the situation. You should read them first.
It is rather startling to see the old WWII anti-Japanese racist propaganda popping up here in FR.
This is your statement and it seems to indicate that you think the American citizens of japanese descent are not americans but are in fact japanese. In fact, you seem to think that because the Japanese military abused US servicemen, that is somehow justification for the US govt. to abuse the rights of the japanese american citizens in the US.
I stand by my statement that you do not view the americans interned in WWII unless you correct the above statement.
This is old news. This is not anti japanese propaganda but it is accurate. But why Freepers would condone US govt. abuse of japanese americans and justify said abuse because of the Japanese military's actions in WWII is unacceptable.
Here is the dichotomy. White people want to point fingers at the past history of a barbaric japan, but then when it comes to slavery, killing the indians, etc., they want to convieniently forget about it.
Although the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II is generally regarded as a very disgraceful episode-- the U.S. government interning U.S. citizens for reasons suspiciously racist [German-Americans and Italian-Americans were not interned in anything like such numbers, although many were interned] -- it was not, in the circumstances, not at all a deplorable action.
Your hyperbolic claim to the contrary notwithstanding, every internee, including those with United States Citizenship, was a Japanese citizen.
[At that time, Japanese automatically inherited citizenship from their fathers]
Only Japanese-Americans in likely infiltration areas were interned. Those in New York, Nebraska and Hawaii were not.
Japan had attacked American Territory; Germany and Italy had not. The camps were comfortable and contained beauty parlors, for example; in at least one case a Kabuki theater -- and were regularly visited by all the major news organizations of the time.
Japanese-Americans were given the choice of returning to Japan, and many did so. The Japanese authorities regarded them with deep suspicion and put them to forced labor in concentration camps.
Those Japanese-Americans who were interned all argue that they were not security threats and I am sure most were not. And am equally sure that a great many were. The record shows that the phrase "Nihon ga kateba ii" -- "I hope Japan wins"-- was very often heard among Japanese-Americans at the time.
That said, I thank you also for your haughty presumption as to my reading habits. Soory to disappoint but I have not only read modern history but also have lived quite a bit of it.
Half of my family spent all of World War Two under Japanese rule and several members of my wife's family were murdered by them. [As were forty million other innocents -- Hirohito, despite subsequent whitewashing and revisionism remains Human History's fourth most prolific mass-murderer!] Two of my Uncles; my mother's brother and brother-in-law; endured four years as Japanese prisonors in Singapore's Changi Prison.
That you would call our vivid memories of those appalling years of Japanese rape, torture, casual murder and fearsome and of loathesome brutality almost beyond the ability of the Human mind to comprehend: "the old WWII anti-Japanese racist propaganda;" is beyond, "rather startling."
It is bloody contemptible!
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