[COEXERJ145]

I've read some other articles about the film depicting the Japanese as showing very accurately the cruelity and degrading treatment the soldiers endured. I don't see anything wrong with showing what it was like for the Japanese as long as it doesn't try to rewrite Japan's history vis-a-vis WWII in a favorable light.

This is what I was going to say but I'm glad someone beat me too it. Until the movie comes out for at least the final product is reviewed, there is no way to know what it will be about.

World War II is my area of study as I work to complete my Masters. I don't oppose a movie showing the battle from the Japanese perspective so as long as it is historically accurate and does not attempt to make the Japanese out to the good guys or victims of the evil Americans.

[COEXERJ145]

Ugh, I need to proof read better.

"Until the movie comes out or at least the final product is reviewed..."

[maine-iac7]

Until the movie comes out for at least the final product is reviewed, there is no way to know what it will be about.

Exactly

I'm a bit dismayed at the rush to judgment.

Unless Eastward has changed from the man I knew when I Lived in Carmel - I will trust him and reserve judgment until I see it...

[sig226]

Then how do you portray the Japanese?

They were late in the game, and felt cheated by the Treaty of Versailles. But then they invaded Manchuria, they raped Nanking. We cut off their steel and their oil. They retaliated. Perhaps we can depict Japanese Imperial soldiers claiming their right to Chinese territory, but only in its jingoistic, xenophobic context.

We can justify the attack on Pearl Harbor on that, and the invasion of Attu and Kiska. We can see them justifying themselves in the Bataan Death March and the Owens Stanley Range, too. We can see the Burma railroad, and how they built that.

They were brave, and resourceful. No one can deny that. But we have to see those attributes in the light of their armed assault on the entire Pacific Rim, and their complete disregard for the life of anyone not Japanese.

How this will make the World War II Japanese look like anything other than Satan, I can't see.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We lived in Japan 1951-1961. I was an Army Brat.
Our maid, Masako, was a 10 year old girl in 1945 and was forced to work in a munitions plant in Yokohama. The building featured a large red cross on the roof.
After the city was destroyed by B-29s, some of the machinery was salvaged and production continued in the sandstone caves dug by Japanese a few years earlier. She said if it hadn't been for the A-bombs, the Imperialists would have never surrendered.