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

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

F***ers...


81 posted on 02/08/2014 10:21:54 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: chessplayer

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?


82 posted on 02/08/2014 10:22:03 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: left that other site

22+ years. WWII, Korea, Vietnam.


83 posted on 02/08/2014 10:30:12 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: chessplayer
What the hell does that have to do with Japanese officials denying WWII atrocities?

You seriously don't see the connection?

84 posted on 02/08/2014 10:35:08 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
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.

85 posted on 02/08/2014 10:37:04 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Sir Napsalot
So the Hiroshima and Nagasaki also made-up?

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

86 posted on 02/08/2014 10:39:18 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: xrmusn
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)

87 posted on 02/08/2014 10:39:39 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: chessplayer
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.

88 posted on 02/08/2014 10:41:50 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: null and void

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.


89 posted on 02/08/2014 10:49:21 AM PST by Taylor42 (Hillary - Not now NOT EVER!)
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To: KC_Lion

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.


90 posted on 02/08/2014 10:51:57 AM PST by fish hawk (no tyrant can remain in power without the consent and cooperation of his victims.)
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To: chessplayer

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!


91 posted on 02/08/2014 10:53:40 AM PST by Exit148
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To: chessplayer
Two words:

Nanking

Bataan

92 posted on 02/08/2014 10:54:06 AM PST by stboz
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To: chessplayer
The "bomb", made in America and tested in Japan.

Obviously this is a photo shopped picture. /sarc


93 posted on 02/08/2014 10:54:21 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: stboz

A third one and fourth one...

“Unit 731”.


94 posted on 02/08/2014 10:54:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: central_va

I believe that was an Aussie.


95 posted on 02/08/2014 10:55:11 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: chessplayer

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.


96 posted on 02/08/2014 11:06:55 AM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: null and void

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.


97 posted on 02/08/2014 11:17:44 AM PST by volunbeer
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To: coldflamingo
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.

98 posted on 02/08/2014 11:35:45 AM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter
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.

99 posted on 02/08/2014 11:38:00 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Taylor42

Yeah. Sad.


100 posted on 02/08/2014 11:40:33 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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