[jmacusa]

I read the book. It's inspiring and in many places brutal. I've read WW2 history since I was twelve and I'm more than familiar with the unbelievable brutality and cruelty that was the hallmark of the Imperial Japanese Army. Often it was cruelty for it's own sake as the Japanese of that time were among the most racist people on Earth. Some 36% of Allied prisoners died in Japanese captivity, most of them through deliberate neglect, torture and starvation. And today Japan still refuses to accept it's guilt for these crimes and even for their part in starting the war. The world always gets weepy on the anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. It never gets weepy on December 7th. though.

[Kaslin]

BTTT

[Sivad]

The book was great and I can’t wait for the movie. However, for mostly PC reasons you can be assured that the movie will not portray the Japanese as harshly as they were in reality.

My dad was a 11th AB paratrooper in the Philippines in WWII.
Part of his regiment rescued over 2100 mostly American civilians from a Japanese prison camp called Los Banos.
Among the prisoners were Jerry and Margaret Sams. My folks met them at an Airborne reunion in the early 80s and discovered they resided w/in 5 miles of each other in rural CA. They became close friends. Margaret wrote a fantastic book called Forbidden Family about meeting Jerry in the prison camp and the hell they endured under the Japanese.

[catnipman]

“as the Japanese of that time were among the most racist people on Earth.”

they still are.