Giving him some credit for his subordinate role at Singapore, he seems tactically vastly overrated, no doubt at least partly because of his high opinion of himself in his autobiography.
Best regards. S&W R.I.P.
The slander that the United State was somehow indirectly involved or covered up Imperial Japanese "medical" war crimes is bizarre on its face, but the timing is also curious. Quoted in your post is a certain Doctor Nie Jing-bao, so:
Victims of the "forgotten medical atrocities" were mainly Chinese and included people from Hong Kong, said Dr Nie Jing-bao, a lecturer from the University of Otago's Bioethics Centre in New Zealand. The US had been involved in covering up Japanese human experimentation similar to that of Nazi Germany, said Dr Nie, who is visiting Baptist University.He said none of the Japanese doctors involved had been prosecuted and had instead gone on to take up prominent positions.
"Justice has never been done yet, even after 50 years . . . Thousands of people died," Dr Nie said. "When I work on this topic, I often feel the ghosts of the victims are watching me."
All very dramatic and emotional, but if these atrocities were "forgotten", how did the good, sleepless Doctor come to remember them and be haunted in his dreams, especially, er, just now?
Couldn't somehow be through the National Archives and Records Administration's War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group established by a Presidential Executive Order of 11 January 1999, could it?
The putative purpose was to investigate Nazi War Crimes, but Japanese War Crimes were also included, and by September of 2000, indeed, this working group had already hired a few new employees to sift through recent records ordered declassified from various American Intelligence agencies, including the CIA, and one of the new employees, a certain Professor Mayo seems to have suddenly become familiar with such matters as the Japanese medical atrocities and Col. Masanobu Tsuji as well:
Dr. Mayo reported on the U.S. Government decision in 1947 not to prosecute General Ishii Shiro, head of Japan's biological warfare program, in exchange for information resulting from experiments, which included experiments on humans, including POWs. She also reviewed the case of Col. Tsuji Masanobu, who was wanted by both British and Americans for various war crimes, including the brutalities against Americans during the Bataan Death March. He eluded capture, changed identities and by the '50s was elected to Japan's House of Representatives.
My heavens, how fast news, and bizarre anti- American slanders, seem to travel in certain little vicious, pseudo-academic circles, eh?
Best regards. S&W R.I.P.