Posted on 02/08/2014 8:32:51 AM PST by chessplayer
In the clearest signal yet of U.S. unhappiness with the rightward tilt of Japan’s political leadership — and by extension, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — the U.S. embassy in Tokyo has strongly condemned charges by a top official at Japan’s national public broadcaster that Americans fabricated war crimes against Japanese leaders during World War II in order to cover up American atrocities.
The charges were made this week by Naoki Hyakuta, a nationalist writer and close friend of Abe, who was recently appointed to the board of governors of the Japan Broadcasting Corp., commonly known as NHK.
In campaign speeches on behalf of a far-right candidate for the governorship of Tokyo, Hyakuta claimed that the infamous Nanjing Massacre in 1937 never occurred, and that Americans staged the postwar trials of Japanese leaders to cover up U.S. war crimes. He said those crimes included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the mass firebombings of Tokyo.
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Absolutely agree.
Sad that no one remembers, let alone has learned from any of the mistakes either side made.
We can forgive later generations, but they have a responsibility to acknowledge the truth because forgiveness depends on it.
That, and because knowing the truth insures a longer and more peaceful future.
Indeed.
May G-d bless him.
I love the USS Bowfin. I have been on it a number of times. The man in Charge of the “exhibit” was a veteran , and he kept the boat so beautifully polished and clean that you could see your face in the brass fittings.
I have, but not in the same quantities .
I actually had a conversation about it with the Park Ranger and he agreed with me.
I am sorry if my statement caused you offense, but I was just sharing an observation. The truth is sometimes unpleasant.
In that respect it was very successful — far fewer civilian casualties than a typical bombing-run; having a military/civilian casualty ration of about 34:1. (About twenty times better than WWII rate… and that's counting the American UXO casualties.)
Pearl Harbor is not an atrocity: tragedy, yes; atrocity, no.
[Wikipedia: The civilian to combatant fatality rate in World War II lies somewhere between 3:2 and 2:1, or from 60% to 67%.]
[Wikipedia: Ninety minutes after it began, the attack was over, as 2,386 Americans died (48 - 68 were civilians, most killed by unexploded American anti-aircraft shells landing in civilian areas), a further 1,139 wounded.]
I think you are too generous with your timeline. I believe we are already there - just look at the Democrat Party. Only conservatives can see the coming war, World War IV. I am among those who consider the Cold War to have been WW III. As others have noted, we have already entered an essential Cold War with Red China. The Democrat Party, as usual, has failed to recognize it.
Japanese Animation Executive: We Don’t Do Tentacle Porn, The U. S. Just Made That Up
Well you do realize that the 2020 Summer Olympic Games are going to be held in Tokyo and this is the warmup controversy for it.
One thing we have going for us moving forward is that modern trade is far different than the procurement of raw resources was in the 1930’s. Today you can have industries in two nations that have a mutually dependent relationship where one finds, gathers, and processes the raw materials and exports it to the other who uses it to manufacture things supporting jobs in each nation.
The Japanese industrial surge was a good example of this. How does the modern world change this? Interesting question that will impact wars in the future.
Forgot to add the end of my thought to 110.
The question I asked will be one of the main factors in determining how the China story ends in the decades ahead. China has built a huge economy on trade with other nations... at some point that beneficial trade may outweigh desire for conquests with the people who have veto power over war - bankers.
Something to ponder.
please note my comment was sarcastic.
All these years later, I still remember the brass looking particularly well cared for. I remember racking my shins and knocking my forehead passing through hatches, as well. :-)
There are people here that think dumBO is a natural born citizen.
Suggest people stay away from the book “Flyboys,” unless they can get a free copy.
The author, James Bradley, is a hard core Leftist. Flyboys and Flags of our Fathers may have been good (although Flags was really a thinly disguised indictment of the US war “propaganda” effort, but he really showed his true self with “The Imperial Cruise”. Any historical accuracy and relevancy in the book are completely overshadowed by his chip on the shoulder ideological editorializing.
BTW I thought Flyboys was terrible. Couldn't decide whether I was reading about the war in the pacific or atrocities committed against the American indians.
Pictures are hung. Criminals are hanged. John Holmes was a mutant.
I once was supposed to introduce a group of Jap businessmen at a luncheon back in the 80’s. I told my boss there was no f’ing way that was going to happen. He was incredulous, and asked me why—in front of these guys. I told him that I lost an uncle, another uncles leg, and another’s eye in the War, and unless they went with me to apologize to them, I wasn’t really interested in making them comfortable.
They understood. One of them quietly came up to me later and we discussed it.
Really not a fan of Japan.
It was rather cramped. I can’t I imagine being 100 feet UNDERWATER in it! Eek!
God Bless our Vets!
I was entirely comfortable with that- seemed kind of...cozy. I ended up in the Marine Corps, carrying heavy metal objects up and down mountains at night in the rain. If I had it to do again...
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