Japanese Broadcast Official: We Didn’t Commit War Crimes, the U.S. Just Made That Up

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[Axenolith]

Yea, my late, 84 pounds at liberation from captivity grandfather would beg to differ...

F***ers...

[Gaffer]

History....denying.....rewriting when enough speak with the same voice. It is akin to a multitude of Islamists claiming the Holocaust never happened. How could you not see that?

[null and void]

22+ years. WWII, Korea, Vietnam.

[null and void]

What the hell does that have to do with Japanese officials denying WWII atrocities?

You seriously don't see the connection?

[DoodleDawg]

good grief... the whole world is unraveling after only 5 years of Obama.

You can blame a whole lot on Obama but Japanese revisionism isn't one of them. They have been denial on the actions long before Obama was elected and they'll continue to be in denial long after Obama is out of office.

[DoodleDawg]

So the Hiroshima and Nagasaki also made-up?

Not according to them, but I'll bet Pearl Harbor was.

[null and void]

The gist of that statement isn’t meant to be ‘in retaliation’ but YOU started something and WE finished it.

And if we hadn't cut off Japan's oil and rubber Pearl Harbor wouldn't have happened.

We can take this game back dozens of steps...

(Japan looked at Pearl Harbor the way we looked at surgical strikes a few administrations ago, and drone strikes today, a targeted, measured response, only aimed at combatants, and minimizing civilian casualties)

[null and void]

So we should vaporize thousands of innocent men, women, and children because their govt won’t tell them the truth

Ultimately both sides will. Feel free to substitute 'imam' for 'government' where and as appropriate.

[Taylor42]

When the Chinese come (and come they will) for vengeance, the Japanese people won’t understand what’s happening. The Chinese will be standing in line to get their pound of flesh.

[fish hawk]

The youth of Japan are too busy getting into western fashions and wock and wole to get into history’s truths. They just don’t care.

[Exit148]

Several years ago I had two Japanese exchange students for a week before they returned to Japan after spending a year in high school here.

As I have done in the past, I took them on the Circle Line Tour which is a great boat ride around the island of Manhattan. The tour starts our next to the aircraft carrier, USS Intrepid, which had been attacked by Kami Kazi pilots during WWII. The boat tour guide on the boat always mentions what happened. I forewarned these two girls what would be said, and said it was just a fact of history, and not to be upset. One if the girls said, it was OK ——— that they had forgiven US for what happened in WWII!

I was so stunned, I had no answer!

[stboz]

Two words:

Nanking

Bataan

[central_va]

The "bomb", made in America and tested in Japan.

Obviously this is a photo shopped picture. /sarc

[dfwgator]

A third one and fourth one...

“Unit 731”.

[dfwgator]

I believe that was an Aussie.

[jttpwalsh]

I moved to California from The East Coast in 1981. The company I worked for provided subsidized housing, and my roommate was a technician, on loan, from Japan. He was absolutely one of the nicest people I have ever known. On the night of December 6, I mentioned to him, being Japanese, the next day, might be a problem for him. He had no concept of what I was trying to explain, Pearl Harbor might as well have been Mars, as far as he knew. The next night, as we watched the evening news, and they showed newsreel footage, he sat there, totally transfixed, as if he was watching a movie, for the first time. It occurred to me, at that point, Japanese really are not aware of the horrible things they did, between 1933-45.

[volunbeer]

The lead up to war in the Pacific is convoluted and there were mistakes made on all sides. However, the imperialistic nature of the Japanese regime was overwhelmingly the primary cause. Left to their own devices they would have enslaved hundreds of millions of people and taken control of the entire region. The atrocities would have been horrific and would have continued for decades because this was one of the most racists cultures that ever existed.

There was no modern idea of trade partnerships that benefitted both parties - there was only conquest and theft. Those who deny such evil will be doomed to repeat it. We can forgive later generations, but they have a responsibility to acknowledge the truth because forgiveness depends on it.

[skeeter]

I've read everything I could get my hands on about the Wake Island saga. One Morrison-Knudson fellow escaped the execution and evaded the Japanese for three days (a feat on that island). He was captured and brought before the island commander who personally beheaded him.

Even as he was about to be hung the POS commander didn't think he did anything wrong.

[OneWingedShark]

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.

I disagree; one thing that we should have done was sent missionaries — flood the whole country, one whose worldview was absolutely crushed.

[null and void]

Yeah. Sad.