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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God bless YOU, Too, my FRiend!
I have been in a WW2 Sub, and a modern sub, and the difference in “Elbow Room” is quite amazing!
I have seen pics of WW2 subs, I cannot believe men went down in those willingly.
That’s why they are the “Greatest Generation”.
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This is precisely the problem.
Japan gets away with it because as a "non-white" nation (though Apartheid South Africa classified them as white, unlike other Asians), they are protected by political correctness.
And no, I am not anti-Japanese. But come on, people; don't you think almost seventy years of denial is enough???
True That!
It's Hard to Blame the Japanese School System when back in 2012 a bunch of Dumb Kids on Twitter didn't know the Titanic was a real event!
Indeed.
It would be delusional to assume that the US skool system is free of an agenda.
The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes by Lord Russel of Liverpool.
At 350+ pages, "short" is a relative term.
The Japanese definitely have a big problem a few hundred miles to their west ... and I don’t mean North Korea.
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