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 Japans political leadership and by extension, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the U.S. embassy in Tokyo has strongly condemned charges by a top official at Japans 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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Maybe another nuke would refresh their memory?
I would guess that most Americans under 50 don't know a whole lot about it either.
Which means that after a few decades we will have forgotten all the lessons learned.
Mine was on Okinawa.
Wait.... When was the US unhappy with Japan’s leadership?
Surely you don't think that is accidental?
No they don’t teach about Japan’s atrocities in schools over there.
My dad was too!
There was a documentary on the History Channel about Okinawa, that Dad was watching, and suddenly, he started yelling for my Mom. She ran into the room just in time to see footage of my Dad piloting a landing craft (PA99) with its identifying numbers emblazoned on the prow.
Was your dad a Marine?
No, the Bataan Death March, rape of Nanking; unit 761’s biological warfare experiments on PoWs; the death railway, aka ‘bridge on the river Kwai;’ exceutions of American PoW’s by burning alive in the Philippine Islands; execution and starvation of allied PoW’s, never happened. (sarc
Hmm..,.I think we have another Fat Boy around here somewhere...../s
It is long past the time for the current Japanese emperor to use his influence to put an immediate and abrupt stop to the atrocious denials of the Japanese crimes against humanity and against the people of Japan.
Those two nukes saved over five million Japanese deaths and one million American casualties by avoiding an invasion of the home islands.
It also saved Japan from being divided, like Korea, and from a Korea-like Civil War.
The only thing we did wrong at the Pacific war’s end was not make a more determined effort to go after the noncoms and local commanders who actually ordered many of these atrocities in various combat theaters. Many of them totally escaped justice.
The disciples of the New Liberal World Order are in the process of rewriting history.
From the printed lies of Common Core texts to so-called journalists’ screed and politician dogma, they are crafting a new history under the watching eyes of those who have lived the truth of what they lie about.
They have your children and they are educating the truth right out of them. I hope everyone is happy with that.
Good point. And the Russians were all ready to join in the carving up of Japan free-for-all if the war did not end when it did.
And the Chi-Coms certainly would have tried to get their piece of flesh.
This surprises me. I haven't been in many many years, but last time I went out to the Arizona memorial, I remember seeing groups of Asian tourists yukking it up and mugging for the camera in front of the plaque of the names of the dead at the end of the monument.
I also remember hearing of this happening when there was a (much younger, long ago) group of Pearl Harbor vets there. It turned into an outright brawl with tourists getting chucked overboard into the harbor.
It probably will come back to bite 'em in the rear.
Inside of a decade, China will have the power to do as she wishes in Japan's "sphere of influence" and there will be no allies for Japan.
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