The evil of Japan during WWII

[TomSea]

The evil of Japan during WWII
Posted on February 10, 2017 by dirkdeklein

Many people forget that the Japanese war crimes were as bad if not worse then those committed by the Nazi’s albeit it on a marginal lesser scale. Beside the crimes and experiment committed by Unit 731 there were a great number of other atrocities, including cannibalism.

In “The Knights of Bushido”, Lord Russell of Liverpool describes an unprovoked murder of two Dutch civilian administrators at Balikpapan in Borneo after the Japanese invaded that Dutch colony in 1942. An eyewitness to the murders gave the following horrific account:

“I saw a district officer and a police inspector, both in uniform, in conversation with a Japanese Army officer. During the interview, the officer had been continually ill-treating the district officer (a Dutchman), slapping his face and hitting him all over his body with the scabbard of his sword. Suddenly, the officer drew his sword and hacked off both the Dutchman’s arms just above the elbows, and then both his legs above the knees. The trunk of his body was then tied to a coconut tree and bayoneted until life was extinct. The Japanese officer then turned his attention to the Dutch policeman, who had his arms and legs hewed off in like manner. The policeman struggled on to the stumps of his legs and managed to shout ‘God save the Queen’

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[truth_seeker]

Japan's fanaticism and brutality had no equal before and during WWII.

[geronl]

The war crimes in Manchuria alone should be enough to unsettle any stomach.

or maybe "war crimes" isn't apt since Japan was not a signatory of the Geneva Conventions

[Free Vulcan]

The Germans might have scale and efficiency, but the Japs were utterly random and brutal. Most WWII vets I was around that fought the Germans didn't really care for them particularly, but weren't especially emotional about it. The ones that fought the Japs hated them till the day they died and didn't feel one whit of regret that we nuked them.

[driftdiver]

Read With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge.  He was a mortar man in the Pacific.   

[Joe Wooten]

The war crimes in Manchuria alone should be enough to unsettle any stomach.

or maybe "war crimes" isn't apt since Japan was not a signatory of the Geneva Conventions

There are areas in China where Anthrax is still endemic due to the Japanese using it against the population.

[Hondo69]

Genocide is not a word often used in the high school history books when covering the war in the Pacific.  Why it is not used is a darned good question.

[Sanguine]

I think the Chinese still remember.

[Hondo69]

I think the Chinese still remember.

Yep, I'll bet they do.  So do the Filipinos.

[dfwgator]

Yep, I'll bet they do.  So do the Filipinos.

And the Koreans.

[skeeter]

An allied prisoner of the Germans stood about a 90% chance of surviving captivity, while one in three died in Japanese prisons.

[geronl]

And the Koreans.

They had occupied Korea long before WW2, forced Koreans to use Japanese names, tried to wipe out Korean history and heritage and finally when the big war came used them as chattel slaves and 'comfort women'.

Adding insult to injury, FDR threw Koreans and Taiwanese into internment camps right along with the Japanese for a long while.

[mountaineer]

Genocide is not a word often used in the high school history books when covering the war in the Pacific.  Why it is not used is a darned good question.

The American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor museum is in my town, and I'm happy to say they have tried to educate both American and Japanese youth about what happened. Last summer they hosted a group of Japanese students and a TV crew. Needless to say, the visitors learned some things they'd never been taught in school!

[Frank Cannon]

The Japs were evil past WWII. Anyone ever drive a Hondamatic? Designed by SATAN!

[geronl]

The American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor museum is in my town, and I'm happy to say they have tried to educate both American and Japanese youth about what happened. Last summer they hosted a group of Japanese students and a TV crew. Needless to say, the visitors learned some things they'd never been taught in school!

Japanese schools purposely white-wash their own history while playing up how they suffered.

[geronl]

The Japs were evil past WWII. Anyone ever drive a Hondamatic? Designed by SATAN!

The Japanese domestic version was far weaker though. lol

[Hondo69]

The American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor museum is in my town, and I'm happy to say they have tried to educate both American and Japanese youth about what happened. Last summer they hosted a group of Japanese students and a TV crew. Needless to say, the visitors learned some things they'd never been taught in school!

I'm veering off on a side topic here, but I'll bet good money not a one of them have anything good to say about MacArthur.

[mountaineer]

Not sure, hondo. I'll ask the curator.