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Wow. It's been 69 years since the end of WWI, and Japan still isn't all that well viewed by other Asian countries. To this day, unlike Germany, they have been reluctant to fully own up to what they did in that war. And now they unload this crap? I think the NHK is Japans version of Britain's BBC.
1 posted on 02/08/2014 8:32:51 AM PST by chessplayer
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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.


52 posted on 02/08/2014 9:18:05 AM PST by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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He said those crimes included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the mass firebombings of Tokyo.That old saw again.

Those two nukes saved over five million Japanese deaths and one million American casualties by avoiding an invasion of the home islands.

53 posted on 02/08/2014 9:18:09 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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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.


55 posted on 02/08/2014 9:20:59 AM PST by skeeter
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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.


56 posted on 02/08/2014 9:21:45 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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The average Japanese citizen has been grossly misinformed about such details of their governments actions prior to and including WWII, by their own media and educational institutions.

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.

60 posted on 02/08/2014 9:26:46 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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War should be fought to win, and everything must die to achieve that goal.
Peace may only be brought for a few decades but at least it's a few decades.
Islam must be destroyed in such a way that the religion will be gone forever.

I do not like the rules of war because only the Good will respect those laws.
The evil will not obey rules and so the rules are only a roadblock to any
fast victory to those who follow them, and costs more lives than otherwise would have.
Our nuke was the perfect demonstration of saving lives. Back then we understood that.

74 posted on 02/08/2014 9:52:35 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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Back in the days when it is was permissible to voice your opinion, one of the ‘good lines’ was

“IF IT WEREN’T FOR PEARL HARBOR, HIROSHIMA PROBABLY WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED”.

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


79 posted on 02/08/2014 10:15:37 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --Every wonder why when they refer to People of Color it doesn't include Asians??)
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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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Two words:

Nanking

Bataan

92 posted on 02/08/2014 10:54:06 AM PST by stboz
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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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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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Japanese Animation Executive: We Don’t Do Tentacle Porn, The U. S. Just Made That Up


108 posted on 02/08/2014 11:59:05 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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Well you do realize that the 2020 Summer Olympic Games are going to be held in Tokyo and this is the warmup controversy for it.


109 posted on 02/08/2014 12:07:50 PM PST by xp38
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There are people here that think dumBO is a natural born citizen.


114 posted on 02/08/2014 1:25:06 PM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To this day, unlike Germany, they have been reluctant to fully own up to what they did in that war.

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???

125 posted on 02/08/2014 4:33:27 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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