> Yup, the Japanese were about as bad as...and maybe even a bit worse than...the Germans during the 1930s/1940s. <
My father was a WW2 veteran. He served on convey patrol in the North Atlantic, guarding against the U-Boats. I never heard him same anything bad against Germans.
But he hated the Japanese. For that reason I never bought a Japanese car while he was alive. He would have disowned me. I suspect Pearl Harbor made the difference.
[My father was a WW2 veteran. He served on convey patrol in the North Atlantic, guarding against the U-Boats. I never heard him same anything bad against Germans.
But he hated the Japanese. For that reason I never bought a Japanese car while he was alive. He would have disowned me. I suspect Pearl Harbor made the difference.]
This isn’t some random musing. For better or worse, it was a very different milieu with attitudes very different from today’s. Until the 1940s, for instance, Asian Canadians weren’t allowed to vote. A significant part of the debate over a universal draft there revolved around of letting them have the franchise.
https://cwp.missouri.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/03/wwii_propaganda.jpg
Do you know what ship your dad was on, after fighting the Japanese my father’s ship moved to North Atlantic duty.