BladeFisher wrote:
No racial slurs from me just facts. The Japanese were absolute bastards. For me they should have dropped more A bombs on the place.You struggle to get an apology out of them for anything from the rape of Nanking, the rape of females in Dutch East Indies and the bestial nature they treated British and Commonwealth PoW's. The only ones who come close are the Russians, but much as I wouldn't support them at least they (the Russians) had an excuse.
No the Japanese were total scum which is why I have no respect for them whatsoever. And I didn't lose anyone as such in the Burmese/Japanese PoW camps. But I've watched enough and read about the suffering. Truly horrific.
I don't blame the current generation but when you have brutalist leaders 'worshipped' in the Yasukuni shrine in Japan still, who were responsible for untold suffering on millions you cant forgive that. Not in my book. Amazing they bleat on about Hiroshima/Nagasaki but conveniently forget they started it. Whilst referring to Germany Sir Arthur Harris' words were never more apt or appropriate than to the Japanese.
Excuse me, but as a Japanese person, what you’ve just said is absolutely abhorrent. You obviously feel no guilt for the 200,000 victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (as well as the countless people who were exposed to radiation in subsequent years) as if we aren’t even human. How would you like it if someone nuked Boston or New York?
First of all, everybody knows that the R@pe of Nanking was a staged attack by the Chinese Communists to make people afraid of the Japanese and enlist in the Communist army to fight the Nationalist Chinese. In China and elsewhere, we only killed people if we absolutely had to, and definitely didn’t run concentration camps like Germany, Russia, or heck the United States. By the way, do you know what the USA did to it’s Japanese citizens during the war?
Japan’s objective in the war was to establish a “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”, which would have united the peoples of East Asia (including Japan, Korea, China, Indo-China, the Filipines, Indonesia, Burma, Malaya, and possibly India) under a common government that would advocate for our collective interests and protect the peoples of East Asia from colonialism and imperial empires.
Furthermore, internees in Japanese POW camps were treated like royalty compared to the ones in Germany, Russia, and the USA. No forced labor, and no torture as long as you obeyed your orders.
During the war, we fought and died for the Emperor. We did whatever the Emperor told us to do, which sometimes meant sacrificing our own lives. Several of my ancestors made the ultimate sacrifice for our Emperor and our Nation during the war.
