Posted on 08/14/2005 7:46:28 AM PDT by blueminnesota
With the 60th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender on Monday, Mr. Cruz, who is now 78, and other elderly Guam residents hope American politicians will go beyond solemn speeches and act to compensate them for abuses they suffered under Japan's 32-month occupation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Uh, citizens of Japan,.... and Ms. Cindy "stupid traitor" Sheehan,....
Perhaps you've forgotten:
Nanking, Bataan, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Corregidor, the Philippines,....the list is too long. Way too long about Japanese crimes and terrorism.
Read this about Okinawa: http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/okinawa/default.aspx
Guess which part of my butt Japan can kiss.
The Bracero Program, also referred to as the Mexican Farm Labor Supply, lasted 22 years starting during W.W.II and involved 4.5 million people.
Ostensibly to encourage the workers to return to Mexico it was agreed that part of their wages (10 percent) would be paid to the Mexican government -- the corrupt! Mexican government demanded it.
You guessed it. The workers never got paid by Mexicorruption.
A national class action law suit was filed in federal court on behalf of Mexicans to get the U.S. to pay again -- with no doubt 60 years of interest and adjusted every which way.
Boy, I can't wait for them "guest worker" thingies and what they will cost.
"Why doesn't Japan pay for their abuses?"
I agree! But they come after us because they know we have deep pockets and a bunch of PC people who will try to make it happen .. to help our standing in the world .. or some such other garbage.
LOL
NYT has gone off the deep end.
God only know what this 78 year old really said.
"A 1951 treaty between the United States and Japan absolved Japan of future individual American war claims, which means American taxpayers would be asked to pay for abuses committed by Japanese soldiers on American nationals on American territory."
Who signed this lame treaty. Certainly if the American people were asked in 1951, we would have said BULLSH!!. Damn politicians are usually wrong most of the time.
You know how many hundreds of millions will be pouring into guam in the next 5 to 10 years... this guy is freaking nuts.
GUAM -Give Us American Money.
Our gutless government in the past has refused to allow American POWs to sue the Japs for their years of work in Japanese factories and coal mines. The Guamanians are under the same yoke as the POWs.
Guam is going to be the new naval outpost in the pacific.
"is"
I looked this up, at (San Francisco Peace Treaty)
and that is not what it says. From the treaty:
Article 14:
(a) It is recognized that Japan should pay reparations to the Allied Powers for the damage and suffering caused by it during the war. Nevertheless it is also recognized that the resources of Japan are not presently sufficient, if it is to maintain a viable economy, to make complete reparation for all such damage and suffering and at the same time meet its other obligations.
Therefore,
1. Japan will promptly enter into negotiations with Allied Powers so desiring, whose present territories were occupied by Japanese forces and damaged by Japan, with a view to assisting to compensate those countries for the cost of repairing the damage done, by making available the services of the Japanese people in production, salvaging and other work for the Allied Powers in question. Such arrangements shall avoid the imposition of additional liabilities on other Allied Powers, and, where the manufacturing of raw materials is called for, they shall be supplied by the Allied Powers in question, so as not to throw any foreign exchange burden upon Japan.
...(snip)...
(b) Except as otherwise provided in the present Treaty, the Allied Powers waive all reparations claims of the Allied Powers, other claims of the Allied Powers and their nationals arising out of any actions taken by Japan and its nationals in the course of the prosecution of the war, and claims of the Allied Powers for direct military costs of occupation.
All it says is that we waive reparations. It also says that "Such arrangements shall avoid the imposition of additional liabilities on other Allied Powers" with the exception of raw materials used in rebuilding. It says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about US having to pay reparations for JAPAN'S actions. This is nonsense.
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