Extracts from Badland Media by Erik Carlson:
Reflections from an American Traveling East
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Why don’t we learn in school or see movies depicting the atrocities done by the Japanese during the first half of the 20th century?
During their occupation of China and Korea, Japanese doctors, scientists and their military did experiments on the people they occupied. In the Mancherian region of China, the Japanese military used Chinese civilians for target practice. Imagine going down to your local gun range and using humans rather than paper cutouts of a human. They shot them with different sized ammunition to see how effective each were in killing people. Truly inhumane.
The Japanese raped and impregnated Chinese women to use their babies in experiments. They cut people’s arms off and reattached them on the other side to work on war-time surgical techniques, and they didn’t bother using anesthesia. They infected civilians with diseases and other biological weapons to use later in the war. In fact, Japan was planning to unleash biological weapons on America soon after the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Who knows how many Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos and Americans were saved by the bombs being dropped when they were. The American bombs beat the Japanese to the punch, and didn’t allow them to unleash the biological weapons on US civilians back in the states.
kt remarks:
Why Chinese find it hard to forgive Japs, more so when those modern-day Nippons tried so often to "re-write" their evil barbarous WWII history of war crimes to whitewash their inhumane atrocities and outrageous cruelty to the Chinese (and also Koreans, SE Asians and Australians) - sickening Japanese "historical revisionism".
Yet there r mfers who would go all out to fart about the CONSEQUENCES of WAR & MOVE ON!
ReplyDeleteReflections of another traveler:
ReplyDelete“I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.” —
Muhammad Abduh (1849 – 1905), Egyptian scholar, jurist, reformer, and philosopher
Oooop… as a traveler, touch & go with all the daily cultural interactions. Many of which r just oneupmanship of syioksendirism.
DeleteLikening to that Democratic champion of one Fareed Zakaria!
BTW, u know chettiars? Or r u one to know how hateful that title endured within the poor communities of SEA.
Context (where and when) is important. Yapan was still in the Meiji era.
ReplyDeleteMuhammad Abduh traveled to the West in the late 19th century, specifically to Paris in 1884, and to Britain and Tunisia in 1885. He also went to Ottoman Lebanon for several years. After these brief stays in the West, he returned to Beirut in 1885.
During this time there was no Isaac-land but there were many Isaacs living in the “east”, persecuted as dhimis having to pay jizya. Isaacs had no homeland but Ishmael then had the huge Empire, as big as Brittanis’s and much bigger than Frenchie’s.
At its peak there were hundreds of thousands of Isaacs in Tunisia. Today, maybe 1,000.
Same in Lebanon. At its peak there were
20,000 or more. Today maybe 200.
Sounds like genocide/ethnic cleansing to me. But did anyone protes and demand justice? Did Tunisia or Lebanon ever apologize? Pity there was no ICC then.
Mfer, u forget to mention what were those majority of yr issacs engaging in. Their famous shylok trade. Hence their dislike within the communities they lived in.
DeleteApart from a handful of Japanese centenarians - mostly women, who were very likely not ex soldiers nor politicians - there is nobody left alive who may have been responsible for those atrocities.
ReplyDeleteMuch of Asia and the Aussies have moved on, and have friendly relations with modern day Japan.
History is remembered but nobody is trying to stir up daily rage.
Apart from CCP Propagandists who almost daily attempt to stir up rage against Japan for their political purposes.
cx with Koreans
Delete'almost daily attempt to stir up rage against Japan for their political purposes'
DeleteMfer, what political purposes r u farting about?
Care to enlighten?
The inhumane & past atrocities of the Jap蝗军 can't be forgotten & forgive.
Especially, they r tons of Japanese & those mfering politicians who r still worshippin all those war crime deads in the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo as heroes!
Mfer, who r trying to stir up daily rages?
U? Those residues Imperial Jap蝗军?