Obviously this is a photo shopped picture. /sarc
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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Yea, my late, 84 pounds at liberation from captivity grandfather would beg to differ...
F***ers...
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?
22+ years. WWII, Korea, Vietnam.
You seriously don't see the connection?
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.
Not according to them, but I'll bet Pearl Harbor was.
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)
Ultimately both sides will. Feel free to substitute 'imam' for 'government' where and as appropriate.
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.
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.
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!
Nanking
Bataan
Obviously this is a photo shopped picture. /sarc
A third one and fourth one...
“Unit 731”.
I believe that was an Aussie.
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.
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.
Even as he was about to be hung the POS commander didn't think he did anything wrong.
I disagree; one thing that we should have done was sent missionaries — flood the whole country, one whose worldview was absolutely crushed.
Yeah. Sad.
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