[Rule of Law]

Lest we forget.

[isthisnickcool]

I knew someone that was in the Bataan Death March (may he R.I.P.). What the Japanese did was horrific.

[maro]

The Japanese were brutes, but so were the Germans. May I suggest that international politics sometimes requires us to ally with people who are not at all nice. We need the Japanese to re-arm and have nukes because we need an ally against the ChiComs, who are currently much more of a threat. Since WWII, the Japanese have at least outwardly acted as a friendly power. We cannot let Communist China dominate all of Asia. (In the best of all worlds, we would split up the behemoth into 4 or 5 nations.)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I do understand the point you are trying to make and hold no love of the Japanese, but let me ask you a question.
Using the same logic you apply to the Japanese and these atrocities, do you suppose that you or I should be made to feel responsible for what was done to Native North Americans by members of the U.S Army back in the mid-1800s?
Do you feel that the current generation of Japanese are responsible for, are capable of or even know about what was done largely by their military 57 years ago?

[CW_Conservative]

Maybe the rice rocket in the driveway and the big color TV means more to them than what our "friends" did in WWII.

Maybe they remember what "we" did to them during World War II. Maybe they remember our "terror-bombing" of civilians in Tokyo, where most died in the horrible fires we created.

And who could forget the greatest terrorist attack of all-time, the unleashing of two atomic bombs, so as to save our military from harm.

That's what happens when a government is run by communists, fellow-travelers and pompous-ass, former hat makers.

Maybe the Japanese are looking out for their own best interests, instead of relying on the USA.

[Libertina]

Kinkeseki in Taiwan

[185JHP]

The nice Japanese are wonderful people - there was a "Japanese Schindler" (a diplomat) who saved a lot of Jews by writing visas for them to get out of Germany. The Germans finally expelled him - and he kept writing visas on his way out of the country! The worst Japanese combine racism and zenophobia like few other people on earth, and IMO they fully earned the bombs dropped on H & N...

[Ken H]

The Japanese who ordered and carried out these atrocities are in their 80's or dead.

For the most part, Japan has been a good friend to the US for the last 57 years. Certainly better than some other allies I could name.

The younger generations need to learn the truth about their country's atrocities from 1936-1945, as the Germans learned about their Nazi past .

However, we should not punish innocent Japanese people for what prior, vanishing generations did in the 20th century.

[Rule of Law]

I don't think I pinged you on this one. You might find the links interesting.