[BW2221]

"The Japanese were every bit as genocidal as the Nazis, and were even more brutal and inhuman on the battlefield."

Very true. One of the major differences was that during the war trails, most German officials took responsibility for their actions and were executed. Most of the Japanese denied their involvement. If memory serves me correctly, Tojo was the only one executed. A lot of Japanese accused of war crimes became millionaires in the 1950s and 1960s.

But, because the Japanese are not Caucasian and the Germans are, revisionist history is permissible in the Pacific.

[investigateworld]

Actually, about 950 Japanese were hung/executed by the combined war crimes tribunal. A tiny fraction of what was deserved. Even those given life imprisonment were out by 1955 or so.

[kms61]

Homma was executed as well. There may have been others, but I know he was.

[annelizly]

yes, when my mom was younger she knew a man(a local grocer) who had been a POW during WWII in germany and she got up the nerve to ask him one day "do you hate all germans now"(he had lost a foot in the camp)

he replied that he didn't. he said that they were all starving too and that most of them were very nice to them and even brought them some food from what little they had to feed themselves and their families.

somehow i don't think this ever would have happened with the japanese.

[GB]

No, there were about the same number of Japanese war criminals executed as there were Germans executed at Nuremberg. I'll have to check my records, I have all the names somewhere, but it wasn't just Tojo.