Many Historians debate when the Second World War actually began, and some consider that it began with the Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937. But during the whole conflict, the Japanese conducted scores of war crimes and one of the worst atrocities in History conducted by them occurred at Nanking. It's estimated that 200,000 people were killed in the massacre around the city as the Japanese forces carried out a huge war crimes around the large city.
Inside of Nanking, there was huge scale looting, stealing and executions. On the banks of the River Yangtze, thousands of Chinese soldiers were killed by the Japanese forces. The war crimes committed inside of the city were so brutal the it's alleged that even General Iwane Matsui, the commander in charge of the Japanese Army was shocked by what his soldiers had done. After the end of the Second World War, a number of the war criminals were placed on trial and were executed for their involvements in the Nanking Massacre and other Japanese war crimes.
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No one believes how racist the Japanese really where. They made slaves out of any race and viewed all others as inferior races little bit above rats.
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DeleteRead the book The Rape of Nanking. Brutal.
ReplyDeleteThe Japs were some of the most brutal people ever. Now, they buy little girl's panties from vending machines. Weird...
ReplyDeleteI learned it as "The Rape Of Nanking"
ReplyDeleteThe brutality is beyond imagine.
The Japanese are a paradox. While the Western armies sent to lift the Seige of Peking ran amok, the Japanese army behaved themselves. During the Russo Japanese war, Russian POWs were treated well. But like Jekyll and Hyde, in the early 2000'd in the very general area of Tokyo, a large number of skeletal remains were discovered and they had all been beheaded.
ReplyDeleteThe book "The Rape Of Nanking" set the number of murdered Chinese at about 600,000. The horrors of her research for the book led her to kill herself in her late thirties.
ReplyDeleteI never heard that last part. I remember when Gordon Liddy interviewed her. I had never heard of that monstrosity before then. We definitely covered their atrocities up, just so we would have a base near the eastern Soviet Union.
DeleteMaking a sort of ally out of Japan was one reason for downplaying Japanese atrocities, but there are other reasons.
Delete1. "Ah, it happened to coloreds. So yeah it was bad, but it doesn't count as much."
2. Competing narrative. There is only one genocidal atrocity that is worthy of learning about in schools. It begins with "H" and sure as hell doesn't end in "-domor".
My understanding is she took her life after years of harassment from the deniers of the massacre.
DeleteShe was suicided by CIA. Even her suicide notes indicate this. The Japs are pure evil. Her next book was to be about the Bataan death march, another mark against the Japanese, who worked and starved to death tens of thousands if not more. My ancestors were among them.
DeleteFuck the Japanese. We should have wiped them out to the last one standing.
ReplyDeleteTheir culture is not only self destructive and self demeaning, it proffers no appreciation for any life at all.
I know that at least in some prefectures in Japan, this history is not taught - actively forbidden - in schools and universities.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
DeleteNot just "some" ... most or all. The Japanese Nationalists see to that through their control of the educational system.
DeleteThe Chinese certainly haven't forgotten. As a vassal now to the US, the Japanese have some serious negative karma. Oh, and if something "pops off", did I mention the Chinese don't forget and forgive?
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"The City of Life and Death" is an excellent film on the topic. Watched it once. Great film. Won't watch it a second time, left me feeling sick when it was done.
ReplyDeleteThe Japanese also had unit 731, and those people were just as brutal.
ReplyDeleteI'm recycling a comment I made at Glenfilthie's place:
ReplyDeleteMy parents came from China. Their families were well off. They lost everything because of the Japanese and the Communists and had to start from scratch in the US. (And were pretty damned grateful they had the opportunity.) The Pretty Korean Girl's family is from Korea (duh). Neither of us are particularly fond of Japan (which by the way has never groveled and apologized the way the Germans were forced to do). But I bear the average Japanese person absolutely zero ill will. I wish them well and hope they can lead peaceful, productive, and happy lives. Because no living Japanese today is responsible for what Imperial Japan did to China, Korea, and the rest of Asia.
I have no desire for "revenge" on Japan. This is because I am a psychologically healthy (mostly) human who is not personally narcissistic. Nor do I suffer from Group Narcissism. Compare and contrast with those whose culture remembers every slight (real or imagined) and thirsts for revenge across the millennia. Germany can NEVER be punished enough. Nor can Russia.
I'd add that while there are majorly fucked up things about Japanese culture and society, THEY aren't debasing our currency, running hedge funds, demonizing whites, glorifying miscegenation (entirely the opposite!), engineering "let's you and him fight" situations where the US pays the bill and takes the hits, nor generally pushing "progressive" woke evil on the West. So there are worse people out there.
Look up Camp 731. I never heard of any of that staff being tried for war crimes. Maybe but if so I haven't read it. The Japs cry the blues about the bomb. I wish we had dropped two more specificlly on Japan proper.
ReplyDeleteAs the saying goes, 'Sometimes you have to dance with the devil', which applies here. The U.S., needed (so it thought) intelligence of the bio-warfare research (crimes) Japan committed in China, opted not to hold those responsible to justice.
DeleteThis is purely anecdotal but remembering the comments of my father and his peers, it seemed the guys who fought in the pacific were less forgiving of their enemies.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the PLA/PRC Chinese did/do the same to their own and those they've conquered, too, including organ harvesting from live prisoners; just no surviving and collaborated stories.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I have been trying to console myself that nobody yet has come up to the level of war criminality as The Rape of Nanking... but, this creepy coke-addled actor in charge of Ukraine seems to me to be getting there in a twisted sense. I mean, he's nearly as sadistic toward his own people as the Japanese were toward the Chinese... and, yeah, same mentality running around in DC right now, too, but who's counting? --nines
ReplyDeleteThe Ukrainians aren’t his people. At least not in the sense of “kin”. If they’re “his” it’s like a rancher and his cattle. Zelenskyy is “adam” (uh-DAHM) a real human being. Ukes, like all Slavs, like all the rest of us, are subhumans, put on earth by G-d to serve actual humans like Z.
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