Comments by "August Hayek" (@hayek218) on "PragerU"
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1) On August 10, the Emperor issued an Imperial decree to accept the Potsdam Declaration. The reason for surrender, according to the Emperor as recorded in the Imperial Record (昭和天皇実録), was not the atomic bombs since at this stage Japan was not sure about what the bombs were. But it was the Soviet’s invasion because Japan no longer had an ability to hold a two-front war. (Already 66 other civilian cities were completely destructed by the US’s indiscriminately bombing that the destruction of two more cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was not enough to trigger capitulation.) Subsequently, Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration on August 15.
2) I am sure you are not assuming you know more about the operational situation than MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy.
3) Influenced by Marx. So?
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Nanking Massacre:
All the evidences for the Nanking Massacre were fabricated by Kuomintang for raising funds in US; used after the War by GHQ and US for Tokyo Trial and WGIP to record Japan as the aggressor and to lessen the guilt for the dropping of atomic bombs; and today exploited in CCP’s propaganda as a weapon to break up the ties among US, Japan, Taiwan and other US allies for their military expansion into the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
If you are confident, show your primary source evidence that convinced you that this fabrication is in fact a true story. So far all I saw from the people like yourself are: photos fabricated by the Publicity Section of Kuomintang to raise funds in US through Chang-kai Shek's wife, Mei-soon Lin, of so-called "Japanese soldiers" wearing look alike outfits made in China; hearsay from Kuomintang like the diary of Rabe who admitted that he did not see any civilian massacre, and thus did not testify at Tokyo Trial nor his diary was used in it; news articles distributed to the world mainly through an Australian journalist, Harold John Timperley, who was revealed by Kuomintang's documents in Taiwan in 2015 to be one of their five chief agents, and was responsible as the head of the London Brunch of Kuomintang’s Publicity Section regularly receiving money.
Also, all the confessions from Japanese veterans, which were presented by CCP and registered in UNESCO as evidences for the massacre in China, were made by members of a communist group called Chukiren. All of them, without an exception. They were brainwashed by CCP during their captivities. The CCP's objectives was to use them as activists in order to emotionally separate Japanese citizens from the government by brainwashing the Japanese how bad Japan behaved during the War, for a later communist revolution in Japan that the CCP was planning.
GHQ cooperated with this CCP's plan for their War Guilt Information Program, and the document for the operation was declassified in 2014 by The National Archives United Kingdom, TNA, in England under the name, Norman File KV2/3261, after a Canadian diplomat in charge, Egerton Herbert Norman, who committed suicide when he was suspected as a communist spy.
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Atomic Bombs:
The Atomic bombs were never needed for the Japanese to surrender and US knew it. But still they used them as human experiments. This is clearly shown in the following sequence of events:
(1) After Nazi surrendered on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on pushing Truman to hold Potsdam meeting immediately in a hope to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first test of the ABomb on July 16, 1945. The first Potsdam meeting was postponed until July 17.
(2) On May 8, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender."
(3) However, the "Unconditional surrender” that Truman strongly insisted, is a military term used for an army and not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and thus bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
(4) US found that Japan started negotiating to surrender through Soviet in June 1941, to which MacArthur said to the General Staff Office that the War is over. The resolution for starting to negotiate the terms of surrender through Soviet was passed on June 22, 1945 in Japan WITHOUT atomic bombs.
(5) Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan, knew from his experiences and suggested to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if US agreed to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
(6) Both Eisenhower and Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and to proposed it to the President on July 20, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945, disagreed and opposed.
(7) Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs, and thought that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
(8) Preservation of the Emperor was included in the final US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
(9) However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
(10) Truman heard the ABobm test was successful on July 16, 1945 during the Potsdam meeting with a message “Babies satisfactorily born."
(11) Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the Abomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly opposed to the idea and refused by saying "you can go home if you do not like it."
(12) At the meeting in Potsdam on August 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that if Soviet aggresses on August 15, Jap will end, meaning that if Truman used Abombs BEFORE August 15, his purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
(13) The Potsdam declaration was issued July 26, but it was not signed by Soviet, delaying the sign by the Japanese. It was Truman that refused the signature by Stalin.
(14) On the same day, July 26, Truman gave a command to drop the first ABomb on the earliest clear day after August 3.
(15) Just before Soviet's invasion, US dropped the ABombs, on August 6 and 9, 1945. On hearing this news, Soviet started invading Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date by breaking the non-aggression pact.
(16) The Japanese did not even know what the bombs were, but they surrendered when they found Soviet started invading Manchuria, because with almost no power to fight back even against US, they could not hold a two-front war; Japan did not have other route than through Soviet for negotiating the terms of surrender.
(17) Truman said on US TV that they used the ABombs that they "invested" so much money.
(18) US intervened treating patients at hospitals for collecting medical data. In some cases, they let patients die without treatment to collect intestines for studies back in US.
(19) The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
(20) In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
(21) A famous book, "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. This book is used as a must-read text book at West Point today.
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Atomic Bombs:
The Atomic bombs were never needed for the Japanese to surrender and US knew it. But still they used them as human experiments. This is clearly shown in the following sequence of events:
(1) After Nazi surrendered on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on pushing Truman to hold Potsdam meeting immediately in a hope to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first test of the ABomb on July 16, 1945. The first Potsdam meeting was postponed until July 17.
(2) On May 8, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender."
(3) However, the "Unconditional surrender” that Truman strongly insisted, is a military term used for an army and not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and thus bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
(4) US found that Japan started negotiating to surrender through Soviet in June 1941, to which MacArthur said to the General Staff Office that the War is over. The resolution for starting to negotiate the terms of surrender through Soviet was passed on June 22, 1945 in Japan WITHOUT atomic bombs.
(5) Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan, knew from his experiences and suggested to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if US agreed to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
(6) Both Eisenhower and Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and to proposed it to the President on July 20, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945, disagreed and opposed.
(7) Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs, and thought that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
(8) Preservation of the Emperor was included in the final US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
(9) However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
(10) Truman heard the ABobm test was successful on July 16, 1945 during the Potsdam meeting with a message “Babies satisfactorily born."
(11) Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the Abomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly opposed to the idea and refused by saying "you can go home if you do not like it."
(12) At the meeting in Potsdam on August 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that if Soviet aggresses on August 15, Jap will end, meaning that if Truman used Abombs BEFORE August 15, his purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
(13) The Potsdam declaration was issued July 26, but it was not signed by Soviet, delaying the sign by the Japanese. It was Truman that refused the signature by Stalin.
(14) On the same day, July 26, Truman gave a command to drop the first ABomb on the earliest clear day after August 3.
(15) Just before Soviet's invasion, US dropped the ABombs, on August 6 and 9, 1945. On hearing this news, Soviet started invading Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date by breaking the non-aggression pact.
(16) The Japanese did not even know what the bombs were, but they surrendered when they found Soviet started invading Manchuria, because with almost no power to fight back even against US, they could not hold a two-front war; Japan did not have other route than through Soviet for negotiating the terms of surrender.
(17) Truman said on US TV that they used the ABombs that they "invested" so much money.
(18) US intervened treating patients at hospitals for collecting medical data. In some cases, they let patients die without treatment to collect intestines for studies back in US.
(19) The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
(20) In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
(21) A famous book, "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. This book is used as a must-read text book at West Point today.
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Pearl Harbor:
Why Americans were in Hawaii in the first place? The King and Queen of Hawaii asked Japan to help the Kingdom against US invasion in 1880-90s, and this was the true beginning.
Cutting life lines like oil is an act of war. Enforcing the ABCD Encirclement together with sending the Hull Note can also be regarded as an act of declaring a war by the International Law. Because of the oil embargo by US, Japan’s oil was running out in January 1942. Then any country could have invaded Japan without too much effort.
The Pearl Harbor attack was two months before that.
On top of these, even though the US was a neutral country, it was supplying weapons to ROC and helping by way of the Flying Tigers, which is a blatant violation of the International Law.
After the War, when everything became clear, Douglas MacArthur testified on May 3, 1951 at the US Senate Committee on Armed Services which is the highest rank committee in which US military officers can testify, that Japan fought for its security (not for invasion), while Charles Willoughby, a major general in the U.S. Army, said that the Tokyo Trial was the worst hypocrisy in the history of mankind and that any country would go to a war like Japan did if they were treated the same way.
Hamilton Fish III, the Republican Leader at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack wrote after the WWII that nobody in the Congress knew such a provocative note (Hull Note) was delivered to Japan. Even though he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, he was not informed. Because of the Note, Japan was left with no choice but to fight back or starve to death.
The former President Hoover told MacArthur that Pearl Harbor was a mad man’s (FDR) plot to get a way into the War to help Britain. FDR's contemptuous refusal of the Japanese Prime Minister's peace proposal in September were the crucial precursors to Pearl Harbor. If the US did not provoke Japan, they would not have attacked us.
VENONA Project declassified in 1995 revealed that there were more than 300 Soviet agents in the FDR’s administration. Also, after the collapse of Soviet, a former KGB’s spy, Vitali Pavlov, admitted in front of a TV camera that he was working with Harry Dexter White, who wrote the Hull Note, about the contents of the Note to lure Japan southwards. The name of operation was "Operation Snow," from the name, Harry Dexter “White.” Harry White committed suicide in 1948 after being susupected of being a Soviet spy.
Legally, there was no definition of aggression then and even now in the International Law. Plus, in the Pact of Paris, all countries were assured of self-interpretation rights. Kellogg and Briand send a letter to Japan confirming this, and this letter still exists.
The truth is that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was neither an illegal invasion nor cowardly action.
“Freedom Betrayed” by George Nash
“Tragic Deception” by Hamilton Fish III
“Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government” by M. Stanton Evens
"The Tokyo Trial and Beyond” by Judge Bernard Roling at Tokyo Trial
VENONA files
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Fabrication of history:
Unfortunately the modern history is a source of government legitimacy, territorial rights, national security, military advantage, economical profits, among other thing, so that lies and fabrications are more than a common place.
After the War, the US sacked 200,000 Japanese academics and public servants; burnt more books than Hitler did; and imposed pressure on media to rewrite the history as Churchill proudly said "History is written by the victors.” The pressure is being imposed even today.
Plus, China is ANNUALLY spending 10 billion US dollars to spread fabrications in US, Japan, UN and other US allies to use as a weapon to break up their ties for their expansions into the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
Several years ago, in response to China's and Korean's claims on Japan's history education, Stanford Uni. conducted research on the history education of five countries: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and USA. They concluded that the history taught in Japan was the fairest; in China, propaganda; in Korea, fantasy.
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Atrocities by US soldiers:
You can read confessions by US soldiers for their atrocities they committed during the War in books like "Summer, 1945: Germany, Japan and the Harvest of Hate” by Thomas Goodrich.
"We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is right and wrong in the world.
What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought, anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers....
We mutilated the bodies of enemy dead, cutting off their ears and kicking out their gold teeth for souvenirs, and buried them with their testicles in their mouths....
We topped off our saturation bombing and burning of enemy civilians by dropping atomic bombs on two nearly defenseless cities, thereby setting an all-time record for instantaneous mass slaughter.
As victors we are privileged to try our defeated opponents for their crimes against humanity; but we should be realistic enough to appreciate that if we were on trial for breaking international laws, we should be found guilty on a dozen counts. We fought a dishonorable war, because morality had a low priority in battle.
The tougher the fighting, the less room for decency, and in Pacific contests we saw mankind reach the blackest depths of bestiality." ---- Edgar Jones, WWII Veteran
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Korean comfort women:
All the Korean comfort women were highly paid prostitutes recruited by Korean dealers. There is NO primary source evidence whatsoever to indicate that there was coercion except for the dodgy statements made by the comfort women who only appears in places where no questions are allowed.
The reason for no questions is that in the past they made stupid mistakes that exposed their lies like they were kidnapped by Jeep (Jeep was used by US during Korean War and Japan does not have a single Jeep); the soldier opened his fastener (Japanese was using buttons); and some even mentioned base where only American bases were located during the Korean War.
Instead, there are many evidences to show that they were nothing but prostitutes such as recruitment ads, comfort women’s bank account recordings, diaries, police records of arresting bad Korean dealers who kidnapped girls, newspapers articles on arresting bad Korean dealers, US official report on a station in Burma, etc.
The biggest investigation conducted by a Korean professor at Seoul Uni, Prof. An, for which both Korean and Japanese government cooperated and in which he interviewed all the comfort women who claimed they were coerced, concluded that they are either making mistake or deliberately lying and that there is NO primary source evidence that indicate there was coercion in Korea or Japan. He also said that the objective of the Korean political group behind all this move is not the truth or justice, but it is to bash Japan. This is an investigation conducted by Koreans using Korean money.
Also, subsequently, US government conducted a huge investigation in its official archive during and after the war upon request from South Korean and China. But there found NO evidence whatsoever, and all they found were evidences to indicate that they were professional prostitutes.
So there is absolutely no nothing in Korea, Japan or US.
If you try to find an evidence, you will realize that there are many Korean who say there are plenty of evidences. But when you ask them to show or point to one, nobody can. Not only that, nobody knows what it is, where it is, or even who saw it.
This is what Koreans talk about themselves: according to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in S Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.
“The Sex History of the World War” by Magnus Hirschfeld
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US's 100 Year Secret Policy:
Towards the end of the 19th century, while the British Empire was losing its power, Alfred Mahan proposed to T. Roosevelt that US should fill this vacuum. To do that, he also proposed to secure the mastery of sea first in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, and then in the entire Atlantic Ocean; and then using this as a leverage, expand the mastery into the Pacific Ocean.
However, for this to be successful, Mahan stressed that US should never allow the rise of two countries which could potentially be the dominant powers in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, namely Germany and Japan.
More than a hundred years ago, this policy was secretly adopted by the US Government, and it is still intact today: the policy was confirmed with Mao when Nixon went to China in 1972; it was incorporated in the 1991 Defense Planning Guidelines, which was created as the US’s grand strategy for the new world order without Soviet, as exposed by Washington Post.
Even today, Japan does not have full sovereignty or diplomatic right as its national security is controlled by the US. The same is true for Germany also.
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Atomic Bombs:
The Atomic bombs were never needed for the Japanese to surrender and US knew it. But still they used them as human experiments. This is clearly shown in the following sequence of events:
1. Following the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on urging Truman to hold the Potsdam meeting to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the ABomb test day on July 16, 1945. The first Potsdam meeting was held on the next day, July 17.
2. On May 8, 1945, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender.” (The idea for summoning unconditional surrender to Germany, Japan and Italy was a FDR’s idea, and was first mentioned at Casabranca Conference on Janurary 24, 1943.)
3. However, the “unconditional surrender” is a term used for an army but not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and under the Law of War, “unconditional surrender” in the sense used before the modern period could never be established legally in the 20th century. Thus the term bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
4. The Imperial Council of Military Leaders passed a resolution to negotiate terms of surrender through Soviet on June 22, 1945, without any knowledge of the US Abombs. The US found Japan starting this negotiation in the same month of June 1945, for which MacArthur said to the General Staff Office that the War is over.
5. Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan suggested from his experiences to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if the US agrees to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
6. Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and proposed it to the President on June 16, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if the US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945, disagreed and opposed.
7. Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs with a view that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
8. Preservation of the Emperor was included in the US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
9. However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
10. On July 16, 1945, in Potsdam, Truman received a message “Babies satisfactorily born," meaning the ABobm test was successful.
11. Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the Abomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly refused by saying you can go home if you do not like it.
12. During the first meeting in Potsdam on July 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that "He'll be in the Jap War on August 15th. Fini Japs when that comes about.” This means that if Truman used Abombs BEFORE August 15, the purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
13. On July 25, 1945, Truman told Stimson to use the atomic bombs on Japan, and wrote on this day's diary that he is sure that the Japs will not accept the Potsdam Decleration.
14. The Potsdam declaration was issued on July 26, but it was not signed by Soviet, confusing the Japanese and delaying in their decision. It was Truman that refused the signature by Stalin.
15. On the same day, July 26, Truman gave commands to drop the ABombs on the earliest clear day after August 3. Note that the both commands for the two atomic bombs, the first uranium one dropped in Hiroshima and the second plutonium one dropped in Nagasaki, were given on the same day.
16. Just before Soviet's invasion, the US dropped the ABombs, on August 6 and 9, 1945. On hearing this news, Soviet started invading Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date.
17. On the following day, August 9, the emperor issued an Imperial decree to accept the Potsdam Declaration. The reason for surrender, according to the emperor as recorded the Impearial Record, is not the atomic bombs since at this stage Japan was not sure about what the bombs were, but it was the Soviet’s invasion because Japan was not left with an ability to hold a two-front war. (Already 66 other civilian cities were completely destructed by the US’s indiscriminately bombing that the destruction of two more cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was not too much of an impact.) Subsequently, Japan accepted the Potsdam Decleration on August 15.
18. Truman said in a TV announcement that the US used the ABombs that they "invested" so much money.
19. As early as in September 1945, "The Armed Forces Joint Commission for Investigating Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan" was formed and commenced large scale investigations. Some 1,300 Japanese doctors were pulled into the investigation examining more than 20,000 patients, 17,000 of which were children. Intestines of 200 bodies were sent to Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., for further study.
20. Based on the investigations, "Medical effects of the atomic bomb in Japan” was published from which a graph of mortality rates by atomic bombs vs distance from hypocenter was created. This became the basis of the US nuclear strategy as it gave the crucial figures to calculate the number of atomic bombs required to attack each enemy cities. Some example numbers of Hiroshima-type atomic bombs required to annihilate cities as calculated by the US Air Force from the graph are as follows: Moscow 6, Stalingrad 5, Vladivostok 3, Kirov 2, Tallin 4, Chelyabinak 3, etc.
As such, through these experiments, the US now became the only country in the world with Big Data for the effects of atomic bombs on target cities as well as on human bodies.
21. The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
22. In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
23. A famous book, "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. This book is used as a must-read text book at West Point today.
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Asia:
Japan fought against the whites who were enslaving Asia for hundreds of years, not against the natives. What do you think the whites were doing in Asia?
Charity?
There were only about 60 countries in the world at the time, of which only 10 non-white countries were not yet colonized by the whites, and the figure was decreasing. Japan was the last country in Asia remaining totally independent, and within several years of the War all the countries were freed.
Who do you think formed and trained their armies in Asian countries, which fought against the West when they came back to recolonize after the WWII?
You think the Asians were holding US guns or Japanese guns?
Or, do the guns grow on trees?
For example, today, some 3,000 Japanese lay buried with decorations in Kalibata Heroes Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia. Everybody in Indonesia including those in the first subsequent independent Government and Army like the first President Sukarno, Hatta, Bun Tomo, Aramasa, Sanpas, etc. were holding Japanese guns and fighting with the Japanese.
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Greater East Asia Conference:
On November 5th and 6th, 1943, the first Greater East Asia Conference was held in Tokyo, Japan in which seven Asian countries participated: Japan (Prime Minister Tojo); Republic of China (Wang Jingwei); Manchuko (Prime Minister Zhang Jinghui); Republic of Philippine (President José Paciano Laurel); Burma (Prime Minister of Independent Burma); Thailand (Wan Waithayakon, the Prince of Thailand); India (Chandra Bose, the military legend for the independence of India, and representing the Provisional Government of Free India).
Note that Japan participated as Japan, not as the Empire of Japan, because after the War when order is restored, Japan was going to disband the empire.
This is the first international meeting held by non-white nations and the Greater East Asian Joint Declaration was unanimously adopted:
1. The countries of Greater East Asia through mutual co-operation will ensure the stability of their region and construct an order of common prosperity and well-being based upon justice.
2. The countries of Greater East Asia will ensure the fraternity of nations in their region, by respecting one another’s sovereignty and independence and practicing mutual assistance and amity.
3. The countries of Greater East Asia by respecting one another’s traditions and developing the creative faculties of each race, will enhance the culture and civilization of Greater East Asia.
4. The countries of Greater East Asia will endeavour to accelerate their economic development through close co-operation upon a basis of reciprocity and to promote thereby the general prosperity of their region.
5. The countries of Greater East Asia will cultivate friendly relations with all the countries of the world, and work for the abolition of racial discrimination, the promotion of cultural intercourse and the opening of resources throughout the world, and contribute thereby to the progress of mankind.
The significance of this declaration was that for the first time in the human history, the equality of countries as well as the abolition of racial discrimination were adopted.
After the French Revolution in the 18th century France, the human rights were declared for the first time in the human history, challenging the order ruled by royal families. But against this new order, Coalition Wars were waged by military alliances of old order countries. Even though France lost the wars in the end, the spirits of human rights prevailed, and all European countries subsequently adopted democracy.
Likewise, it was Japan that proposed for the first time in human history the abolition of all racial discrimination to the League of Nations in 1919 in an attempt to end the white colonization and enslavement that lasted for hundreds of years. This proposal was rejected by the US, and soon anti-Japan encircling net was formed. Even though Japan lost the War in the end, the spirits prevailed, and within several years of the War, all the Asian countries gained independence, followed by African countries.
To erase this fact from written history, and to record Japan as an aggressor, the US banned Japan to use this word, the Greater East Asia War, in academies, education and media; burned more books than Hitler did; and rewrote the history as Churchill proudly said “History is written by the victor."
This censorship still continues today.
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Comments by Leaders of South East Asian Countries:
Malaysia
"If Japan was to be blamed, what about the responsibilities of the West which continued that inhumane domination and exploitation of us?”
- Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia
"When the Japanese army marched into the Malay Peninsula, we all let out a whoop of joy. And when we saw the retreating British army, I shivered as if I had never experienced before. The Japanese removed all the Western forces that had been colonizing Asia for such a long time. We had almost given up our hope but the Japanese gave us the sensation and confidence.”
- Ungku Abdul Aziz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in Malaysia
India
"The Japanese did nothing to us that they have to apologize for. This is the reason that we will not attend the San Francisco Pease Conference, and refuse to sign on its Peace Treaty.”
- Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, in his speech addressed to the Indian National Diet in 1951
"For the independence of India, our army will fight through with the Japanese friends.”
- Subhas Chandra Bose, a legendary figure in India’s independence who fought against the British
Burma
"There is no country that contributed more to Asia than Japan did. And there is no country that is more misunderstood than Japan is. It was the Japanese who freed us from the white domination. The true friend of Independent Burma was General Tojo and Japan.”
- Ba Maw, Prime Minister of Burma (an activist for independence)
"The training in the Imperial Japanese Army was so harsh that I almost committed suicide. However, when we saw the fall of Rangoon, we became convinced that what we had been doing was right.”
- Aung San (father of AungSan SuuKyi), the legendary figure of Burma independence who fled to Japan with 30 other soulmates to train in the Imperial Japanese Army to gain independence of Burma from the British
Indonesia
"The reason that Indonesia was able to win its independence from Netherland was that the same colored Asian nation of Japan had fought that much, and that gave us the confidence that we could do the same.”
- Sukarno, 1st Prime Minister of Indonesia
"That war was really our war. We should have fought it ourselves. But we put everything on the Japan’s shoulders, and that plunged her into an almost total destruction. I’m sorry.”
- Bung Tomo, Minister of Information of Indonesia and an Indonesian military leader against Netherland
Philippine
"The Japanese proved their lofty spirits and ideals by eventually abolishing its military government to authorize the establishment of the Republic of Philippine. The Japanese sincerely honored all of its pledges and manifestos by providing us the opportunity to establish a country of our own cultures and traditions, and with constitutions set up by our citizens.”
- F. B. Vargas, Philippine Ambassador to Japan
Sri Lanka
"Why does Asia want Japan to be free again? It is because Japan was the only country that Asia could trust. We should never forget how the people of Asia, who hoped for their independence, find sympathy with the Japanese ideal.”
- Junius Jayewardene, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, at the San FranciscoPeace Conference (1951)
Thailand
"Asia gained independence because of Japan. Japan, who acted as our mother, bore babies of Asian countries but destructed her maternal body. Who made us talk equally with the West today? It is because of the mother, Japan, who almost killed herself to give the birth. We should never forget December 8.”
- Seni Pramo, Prime Minister of Thailand
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Atomic Bombs:
Truman knew ABombs were never needed to end the War. They were nothing but horrendous human experiments. The former KKK member was thinking Japanese as beasts, and this played a big role in his decision as shown below:
(1) In September 1944, FDR met Churchill in Hyde Park, New York, and made the Hyde Park Agreement, in which both agreed that if the US succeeds in the ABomb development, it would be used on Japan, and not on Germany.
(2) Following the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on urging Truman to hold the Potsdam meeting to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first ABomb test day on July 16, 1945. The Potsdam meeting was scheduled to be held on the following day, July 17.
(3) On May 8, 1945, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender.” (The idea of unconditional surrender was a FDR’s idea, and was first mentioned at Casablanca Conference on January 24, 1943.)
(4) However, the “unconditional surrender” is a term used for an army but not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and under the Law of War, “unconditional surrender” in the sense used before the modern period could never be established legally in the 20th century. Thus the term bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
(5) Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan suggested from his experiences to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if the US agrees to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
(6) Pursuant to the Quebec Agreement (August 19, 1943), which imposed restrictions on US’s use of atomic bombs without prior consent by Britain, Truman requested Churchill at the beginning of June 1945 to sign in consent to use of ABombs on Japan. Churchill signed on this agreement “Operational Use of Tube Alloys” on July 1. Note that neither FDR nor Truman had never asked Britain for the same consent for Germany.
(7) Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and proposed it to the President on June 16, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if the US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Later, only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945 disagreed and opposed.
(8) The Imperial Council of Military Leaders in Japan passed a resolution to negotiate terms of surrender through Soviet on June 22, 1945, without any knowledge of the US ABombs. The US found Japan started this negotiation in the same month of June 1945, and Omar Bradley, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the US Army, reported to Truman after the Battle of Okinawa that Japan was in effect defeated and that it was trying to negotiate the terms of surrender. MacArthur also said to the General Staff Office that the War is over.
(9) Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs with a view that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
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China:
It is the Han Chinese that attacked Japan first.
Japan first got that part of Manchuria from Russia, not from China. The Han Chinese had never ruled Manchuria in their history. Never. Also they hate the Hans. When Qing fell, ROC asked Manchuria, Inner Mongol, Uighur, and Tibet to join. But they all refused.
In case you did not know, even though they boast about their five thousand year history, China was first united only less than three thousand years ago, and it was not by the Han Chinese. Since then, China was united for two of the three thousand years, and the Han Chinese only ruled for a total of six hundred years during the Former Han, the Latter Han and Ming. Other dynasties were established by other races, so Manchuria, Mongol, Uighur and Tibet were never ruled by the Han Chinese.
Before the 20th century, China was the name of the land, not of a country: there were just different dynasties or country of different races occupying the land called “China."
Even though you may think Panda are Chinese, they were always Tibetan's and never belonged to the Han Chinese in history. The Whites are brainwashed and fooled by the Han Chinese.
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Manchurian Incident
Manchuria:
Historically the people in the northern part of China were always militarily stronger than the Han Chinese as they were good at riding horses. That is why the southern Chinese built the Great Wall of China. Manchuria was never ruled by the Han Chinese, and it was a land of Manchurians (Jurchens) or their relatives like Mongols. Though the Han Chinese were allowed into the land towards the end of the Qing Dynasty, this region was one of the least populated area in today’s China.
However, though as simple as it seems, the issue surrounding the region was so complex that even the Lytton’s report said that the complication is unparalleled like none in the world, and that nobody is entitle to judge anything unless fully aware of the situation.
The Great Game:
The Great Game came eastward all the way to the Far East. They even fought Crimean War in Kamchatka Peninsula. As such, for the Japanese in Edo Era, Russians were the biggest threat, appearing in Hokkaido every now and then and at one point taking over Tsushima. Even after the Meiji Restoration, with Nicholai II calling himself the Commodore of the Pacific, they were always eager to expand into the Pacific Ocean.
Russia had Vladivostok, but its port freezes during the winter. That is why they had set an eye to the Yellow Sea and Liaodong Peninsula where there are some good ports at which today’s North Sea Fleet of People's Liberation Army Navy is stationed.
Thus Russians led the Triple Intervention so that Japan had to return the peninsula which they obtained after the Sino-Japan War. But soon after the return, of course Russia bribed their way to buy rights from Qing for the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Peninsula. The British and the US were concerned about this since if it connects to the Trans-Siberian Railway as planned to be completed in 1904, the Soviet’s advantage in material transportation to the Far East could change the balance of power in the region, handing over Soviet the mastery of sea in the Pacific.
That is why Russo-Japan War broke out in 1904 with the help of the British and the US. That is why the southern part of the Chinese Eastern Railway was taken by the Japanese in the Treaty of Portsmouth with the mediation by the US.
Development of Manchu:
So Japan took Liaodong Peninsula. But Manchuria at the time was nothing but rugged deserted land just like the western US with poor soil short in phosphor and freezes during winter. Even Dalian was nothing as the Manchurians were land people. Russian started this city (that is why the name Dalian is a part of Russian name meaning Far East) for a few years but it was Japan that developed the entire city. As you can see some photos in internet, the city was just like Shanghai developed by the Sassoon. In the first year alone, Japan invested an equal amount to its national budget.
Japan then developed a new-type soybeans, Manchurian soybeans, that could grow on this poor and cold soil, and started running farms in other parts of Manchuria by leasing and buying lands and hiring locals. Japan could have cultivated lands by machines, but instead it hired locals purposely so they could become well off, too. The export of the Manchurian Soybeans to Europe subsequently grew rapidly and Manchuria become the world’s biggest exporter of soybeans that accounted for over 50% of its total export. Soybean oil was first developed here too. Soybeans were grown throughout the region, and within 20 years, the desert of Manchuria became a prosperous green farm land.
Japan also developed other agricultural products like wheat but they also developed heavy industries like steel, coal, electricity, petroleum, automobile, airplanes, among other things by investing a huge amount of money.
Manchuria became a rich land from nothing.
The Incident:
Then all of sudden, the Han Chinese started saying it is all theirs and Japan has to go home leaving everything behind for free.
On January 1, 1912, ROC established itself following the Xinhan Revolution in 1911. Then Qing Dynasty fell in the following month. But no non-Han Chinese regions, Manchuria, Inner Mongol, Uighur or Tibet wanted to join, and with countless wars and plunders among Kuomintang, CCP, many warlords, bandits were going on, the place was in total turmoil like today’s Syria. As all Japan’s contracts were made with the Qing Dynasty and because there was no Manchurian government, Japan formed new contracts with ROC of Yuan Shikai.
However, the Han Chinese started saying this new contract was invalid. Behind this was the Comintern too. Right from the beginning, the Comintern targeted Japan for the following reasons: Japan had monarch; Japan won the Russo-Japan War; Japan intervened Soviet’s revolution in Siberia with the British and others; Soviet wanted Manchuria also. Not only blatant breaches of the agreements such as death penalties on people leasing lands to Japanese were imposed, crimes like destructions of railways, factories, facilities, and mines, and burglaries were being reported more than ten thousand cases a year. In the name of “Revolution,” they did anything to get Japanese out of the place.
Although Japan did not originally have its army in Manchuria like Soviet did, they could not maintain the safety and order, and had to station Kwantung Army in 1919. Incidentally, Kwantung literally means the east of a barrier, specifically meaning the east of the barrier where Great Wall touches Bohai Sea. So by definition, Kwantung Army was not mean to cross the Great Wall.
However, crimes and harassment kept on increasing, and in the end, the Manchurian Incident broke out. It was not a cause, but it was a result of what happened in the previous 15 years.
Helen Mears, a US historian and an author of “Mirrors of America: Japan” says in her book that Japan can sue ROC with the information collected in the Lytton’s report; the armed force that Japan used in the Incident was no more than other country used for retaliations against China’s crimes and threats. A US diplomat in China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, says in his book “How the Peace was Lost” that Japan kept all international treaties and it was ROC that broke them, and because US did not treat Japan equally on this matter, it became unbearable for the Japanese. Also another US diplomat Ralph Townsend wrote in his book, “Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China,” that Japan did what we had been thinking we should do; every foreigners in the Far East was on the Japan’s side; everyone scornfully laughed at Stimson who criticized Japan on this; but because newspaper did not report the truth, anti-Japan sentiment grew in the US.
Behind all this in Manchuria was Zhang Xueliang who was later found to be a member of Kuomintang, and Timperley was already in China, so of course all the lies were being spread out. But the Incident was not even against the International Law.
Manchukuo:
One day Puyi, China’s last emperor, escaped into the Japanese Embassy from the Forbidden City, where he was confined after being dethroned. He asked for help. The Han Chinese was keeping him to make it look as if Manchuria belong to ROC. But with all his ancestor graves being destroyed and all the treasures stolen, Puyi really became sick of the Han Chinese and demanded to go back to Manchuria as an emperor. Since then some 700 representatives of Manchurians, Mongols, Koreans, youth, and other groups living in Manchuria got together in Fengtian and decided to found Manchukuo.
So the Machukuo was established with the help of the Japanese government but all of its ministers and politicians were Manchurians. And with the return of the emperor, all the robbers, bulgars and the like got together under him, and soon the order was restored in Manchuria.
Some people call it a puppet state. But if this was a puppet state, what about all the Latin American and Caribbean countries of the time supported by US? What about Hawaii? What about India supported by the British? The truth is that it was a country all Manchurian wanted and welcomed.
After the War in Tokyo Trial, Puyi testified that he did not want to be an emperor and the whole thing was forced by the Japanese. But at the time he was kept in Soviet’s concentration camp; escorted by Soviet’s soldiers; and was taken back to the camp. He later wrote in his memoir that he hid the truth in the Tokyo Trial. Also in “Twilight in the Forbidden City” written by Reginald F. Johnston, a Puyi’s personal teacher, Johnston says that Puyi wanted to found his own country. This is a first class primary source evidence.
Lytton’s report:
Right or left, and Great Powers or Japanese, they more or less all agree that the report written by the Lytton Commission was thorough and good, but except for its conclusion. The report literally says that just about everything Japan said is right, and respects all its rights in Manchuria. But in its conclusions, it suggests the Manchukuo to be under the control of the League of Nations.
Of course, the League of Nations was heavily controlled by the Great Powers and the members of Lytton Commission were all commanders of European countries, so in a way, this conclusion was understandable. But for the Japanese it was not acceptable. At the time, the Japanese politicians were pacifists and the Kwantung Army was aggressive. But it was really the media that fueled the whole thing everyday.
One of the communists and a Soviet spy arrested in the Sorge Incident was a Japanese journalist, Hotsumi Ozaki, at the leading newspaper company, Asahi Shinbun, who was executed in jail. He was also a brain to the Prime Minister Konoe, but previously he stationed in China as an analyst of Asahi for the Manchurian Railway.
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Marco-Polo Bridge Incident:
If the name of your game is truth rather than propaganda, you should look into what the Comintern and CCP were doing behind all this.
On July 25, 1935, at the 7th Comintern meeting, they decided to target Japan in Asia, especially the Japanese troops in China. In the following month, CCP announced "August 1 Declaration” and started acting against Japan. Their objective was to pit Japan against Kuomintang so both gets exhausted for a later communist revolution, and this is why they released Chang-kai Shek in December 1936, whom they captured in the Xi'an Incident.
Upon release by CCP after talking with Zhou Enlai, Chang-kai Shek returned to Nanking, and soon changed Kuomintang’s fundamental policies as follows: one, abandoning the unification policy of China; two, concluding a cease-fire with CCP; three, replacing pro-Japan high-rank officers in Kuomintang (Chang-kai Shek himself was first pro-Japan as he studied abroad in Japan for several years); four, preparing for a war against Japan by raising funds from overseas including millions of dollars from Stalin.
Then the Marco-Polo Bridge Incident happened in July 7,1937. Chinese blame Japan shot first while Japanese blamed the Chinese. But as decided before, it was the top priority for CCP to make Japan fight against Kuomintang while there was no incentive for Japan for this, and actually Japan did have a command not to aggress into China.
However, a cease-fire agreement was soon reached between Kuomintang and Japan. But immediately after that, a series of many provocative incidents by Chinese happened again in succession including Dahongmen Incident on July 13, whereby four Japanese soldiers were killed; Tungchow mutiny on July 29, whereby 223 Japanese civilians were tortured and massacred in the most cruelest way; Oyama Incident on August 9, whereby a Japanese first lieutenant Oyama was assassinated.
If you google some photos of Tungchow mutiny, you will see most cruel Chinese traditional methods of killing people, and they are the same methods as the ones used in what they call “Nanking Massacre.”
But Japan did not still retaliate.
Then finally on August 13, Chang-kai Shek attacked the Japanese Settlement in Shanghai with 50,000 Kuomintang soldiers, and this triggered Japan to fight back.
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The Han Chinese:
The Han Chinese are the only people in the world who kept on invading after the War.
In their entire history, they had never conquered or ruled Tibet, Uighur, Inner Mongol and Manchuria. But after the WWII, they invaded all of the above, as well as Korea and Vietnam.
Look at Manchuria and Inner Mongol. The people who were against the Han Chinese were all butchered and the land is almost entirely occupied by the Han Chinese.
Look at Tibet. There was no Han Chinese in the region after the WWII but now the Han Chinese account for more than 30%. They killed, forced women to marry with Han Chinese men, forced sterilization to Tibetan married couples. All the temples have been destructed except for a few with a big photo of Mao before Buddha.
Look at Uighur. I am sure you heard a news that more than one million people are in concentration camps. Not only that, the Han Chinese sent Uighur men to other parts of China so they cannot marry to Uighur women. They ban their language, destroy their cultures, religions, you name it. And they are happening right at this moment.
Soon, there will be no more Tibetans or Uighur.
All this is happening because the Great Powers made Lytton report to write that Manchuria is a part of ROC for their benefit. Because of this big lie, nobody can deny the claim by the Han Chinese on Tibet, Uighur and Inner Mongol; Nixon and Kissinger were made to swallow One China Policy by Mao; their issues became internal issues of “China”; and any local oppositions become terrorists.
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Nanking Massacre:
All the evidences for the Nanking Massacre were fabricated by the Kuomintang’s Publicity Section for raising funds in US; used after the War by GHQ and US for Tokyo Trial and WGIP to record Japan as the aggressor and to lessen the guilt for the dropping of atomic bombs; and today exploited in CCP’s propaganda as a weapon to break up the ties among US, Japan, Taiwan and other US allies for their military expansion into the Pacific and Indian Ocean. China is spending 10 billion dollars for these issues in UN, US, Japan and other US allies annually since the modern history is a source of government legitimacy, territorial rights, national security, military advantage, economical profits.
If you are confident, show your primary source evidence that convinced you that this fabrication is in fact a true story. So far all I saw from the people like yourself are: photos of so-called "Japanese soldiers" wearing look alike outfits made in China, which were fabricated by the Publicity Section of Kuomintang to raise funds in US through Chang-kai Shek's wife, Mei-soon Lin; hearsay from Kuomintang like the diary of Rabe who admitted that he did not see any civilian massacre, and thus did not testify at Tokyo Trial nor his diary was used in it; news distributed to the world mainly through an Australian journalist, Harold John Timperley, who was revealed by Kuomintang's documents in Taiwan in 2015 to be one of their five chief agents, and was responsible as the head of the London Brunch of Kuomintang’s Publicity Section regularly receiving money. Timperley wrote the famoust book "What War Means: The Japanese Terror in China,” which first spread this fabrication to the Western world but he later refused to testify at the Tokyo Trial.
The head of the International Publicity Section of Kuomintang, Zeng Xubai, later admitted in his autobiography that they paid Tmeperley and Smythe to write two books to propagate Nanking Massacre to overseas and the books achieved their goals.
Also, all the confessions from Japanese veterans, which were presented by CCP and registered in UNESCO as evidences for the massacre in China, were made by members of a communist group called Chukiren. All of them, without an exception. They were brainwashed by CCP during their captivities. The CCP's objective was to use them as activists in order to emotionally separate Japanese citizens from the government by brainwashing the Japanese how bad Japan behaved during the War, for a later communist revolution in Japan that the CCP was planning.
GHQ cooperated with this CCP's plan through the Japan’s Communist Party for their War Guilt Information Program, and the document for the operation was declassified in 2014 by The National Archives United Kingdom, TNA, in England under the name, Norman File KV2/3261, after a Canadian diplomat in charge, Egerton Herbert Norman, who committed suicide when he was suspected as a communist spy.
Before the Japanese Army marched into Nanking, the International Committee for Nanking Safety Zone, for which Rabe was the leader, notified them where the Safety Zone was, and subsequently sent a latter of appreciation to the Army for not bombing it. The population of the city as counted by the Committee before the Japanese entry was about 200,000, much less than the CCP’s claim for a massacre of 300,000, and the number increased to about 250,000 in the following months because the Chinese civilians who escaped to outside of the city returned once they found that it was safe. It was the CCP and Kuomintang who were killing the civilians, and they were the ones that civilians were scared of.
That is why tens of western media journalists who were in Nanking or along the way to the city from Shanghai at the time never reported any civilian massacre by the Japanese Army.
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The Atomic bombs were never needed for the Japanese to surrender and US knew it. But still they used them as human experiments. This is clearly shown in the following sequence of events:
(1) After Nazi surrendered on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on pushing Truman to hold Potsdam meeting immediately in a hope to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first test of the ABomb on July 16, 1945. The first Potsdam meeting was postponed until July 17.
(2) On May 8, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender."
(3) However, the "Unconditional surrender” that Truman strongly insisted, is a military term used for an army and not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and thus bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
(4) US found that Japan started negotiating to surrender through Soviet in June 1941, to which MacArthur said to the General Staff Office that the War is over. The resolution for starting to negotiate the terms of surrender through Soviet was passed on June 22, 1945 in Japan WITHOUT atomic bombs.
(5) Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan, knew from his experiences and suggested to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if US agreed to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
(6) Both Eisenhower and Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and to proposed it to the President on July 20, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945, disagreed and opposed.
(7) Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs, and thought that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
(8) Preservation of the Emperor was included in the final US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
(9) However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
(10) Truman heard the ABobm test was successful on July 16, 1945 during the Potsdam meeting with a message “Babies satisfactorily born."
(11) Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the Abomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly opposed to the idea and refused by saying "you can go home if you do not like it."
(12) At the meeting in Potsdam on August 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that if Soviet aggresses on August 15, Jap will end, meaning that if Truman used Abombs BEFORE August 15, his purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
(13) The Potsdam declaration was issued July 26, but it was not signed by Soviet, delaying the sign by the Japanese. It was Truman that refused the signature by Stalin.
(14) On the same day, July 26, Truman gave a command to drop the first ABomb on the earliest clear day after August 3.
(15) Just before Soviet's invasion, US dropped the ABombs, on August 6 and 9, 1945. On hearing this news, Soviet started invading Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date by breaking the non-aggression pact.
(16) The Japanese did not even know what the bombs were, but they surrendered when they found Soviet started invading Manchuria, because with almost no power to fight back even against US, they could not hold a two-front war; Japan did not have other route than through Soviet for negotiating the terms of surrender.
(17) Truman said on US TV that they used the ABombs that they "invested" so much money.
(18) US intervened treating patients at hospitals for collecting medical data. In some cases, they let patients die without treatment to collect intestines for studies back in US.
(19) The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
(20) In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
(21) A famous book, "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. This book is used as a must-read text book at West Point today.
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Nanking Massacre:
All the evidences for the Nanking Massacre were fabricated by the Kuomintang’s Publicity Section for raising funds in US; used after the War by GHQ and US for Tokyo Trial and WGIP to record Japan as the aggressor and to lessen the guilt for the dropping of atomic bombs; and today exploited in CCP’s propaganda as a weapon to break up the ties among US, Japan, Taiwan and other US allies for their military expansion into the Pacific and Indian Ocean. China is spending 10 billion dollars for these issues in UN, US, Japan and other US allies annually since the modern history is a source of government legitimacy, territorial rights, national security, military advantage, economical profits.
If you are confident, show your primary source evidence that convinced you that this fabrication is in fact a true story. So far all I saw from the people like yourself are: photos of so-called "Japanese soldiers" wearing look alike outfits made in China, which were fabricated by the Publicity Section of Kuomintang to raise funds in US through Chang-kai Shek's wife, Mei-soon Lin; hearsay from Kuomintang like the diary of Rabe who admitted that he did not see any civilian massacre, and thus did not testify at Tokyo Trial nor his diary was used in it; news distributed to the world mainly through an Australian journalist, Harold John Timperley, who was revealed by Kuomintang's documents in Taiwan in 2015 to be one of their five chief agents, and was responsible as the head of the London Brunch of Kuomintang’s Publicity Section regularly receiving money. Timperley wrote the famoust book "What War Means: The Japanese Terror in China,” which first spread this fabrication to the Western world but he later refused to testify at the Tokyo Trial.
The head of the International Publicity Section of Kuomintang, Zeng Xubai, later admitted in his autobiography that they paid Tmeperley and Smythe to write two books to propagate Nanking Massacre to overseas and the books achieved their goals.
Also, all the confessions from Japanese veterans, which were presented by CCP and registered in UNESCO as evidences for the massacre in China, were made by members of a communist group called Chukiren. All of them, without an exception. They were brainwashed by CCP during their captivities. The CCP's objective was to use them as activists in order to emotionally separate Japanese citizens from the government by brainwashing the Japanese how bad Japan behaved during the War, for a later communist revolution in Japan that the CCP was planning.
GHQ cooperated with this CCP's plan through the Japan’s Communist Party for their War Guilt Information Program, and the document for the operation was declassified in 2014 by The National Archives United Kingdom, TNA, in England under the name, Norman File KV2/3261, after a Canadian diplomat in charge, Egerton Herbert Norman, who committed suicide when he was suspected as a communist spy.
Before the Japanese Army marched into Nanking, the International Committee for Nanking Safety Zone, for which Rabe was the leader, notified them where the Safety Zone was, and subsequently sent a latter of appreciation to the Army for not bombing it. The population of the city as counted by the Committee before the Japanese entry was about 200,000, much less than the CCP’s claim for a massacre of 300,000, and the number increased to about 250,000 in the following months because the Chinese civilians who escaped to outside of the city returned once they found that it was safe. It was the CCP and Kuomintang who were killing the civilians, and they were the ones that civilians were scared of.
That is why tens of western media journalists who were in Nanking or along the way to the city from Shanghai at the time never reported any civilian massacre by the Japanese Army.
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Rapes:
Japan always had the world’s lowest crime rates in its history, especially rapes. You can read Spanish and Portuguese missionary letters of old times or compare today’s police statistics among OECD countries.
If rapes happen, there will be babies born at a certain percentage.
When US occupied Japan, the very first thing they did was to force the Japanese government to provide three types of brothels for officers, white soldiers and black soldiers using Japanese tax payers money (this order in writing by MacArthur still exists). Japan did so, but still, there were over 20,000 rapes (reported only) in the first six months, for which some 6,000 amerasian were born. GHQ found this and forced the Japanese Police to stop collecting the data, but subsequently the US’s 80 Amerasian Act was enacted for one million amerasians around the world: God know how many you have to rape for that.
Koreans also raped and massacred so many civilians during the Vietnam War, and now there is a big issue of Lai Dai Han.
But where are the Japanese babies? Has anybody seen any?
If you say they killed the women, has anybody found any bodies yet?
If you say they burnt the women, has anybody found the ashes yet?
Where are they?
Or, they keep silent about rapes because of the shame factor?
But wait, they only talk about Koreans and Americans but not about Japanese? ....That makes sense.
The Japanese were the defeated and supposed to be the "bad guys.” So shouldn't they talk about the Japanese babies and keep silent about Koreans and Americans? After the War, US was frantically looking for Japanese war crimes for Tokyo Trial and WGIP, so the Japanese rapes are the ones that should be most talked about…...
In any wars, rapes and assaults are always used to bash the defeated.
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Atomic Bombs:
The Atomic bombs were never needed for the Japanese to surrender and US knew it. But still they used them as human experiments. This is clearly shown in the following sequence of events:
(1) After Nazi surrendered on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on pushing Truman to hold Potsdam meeting immediately in a hope to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first test of the ABomb on July 16, 1945. The first Potsdam meeting was postponed until July 17.
(2) On May 8, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender."
(3) However, the "Unconditional surrender” that Truman strongly insisted, is a military term used for an army and not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and thus bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
(4) US found that Japan started negotiating to surrender through Soviet in June 1941, to which MacArthur said to the General Staff Office that the War is over. The resolution for starting to negotiate the terms of surrender through Soviet was passed on June 22, 1945 in Japan WITHOUT atomic bombs.
(5) Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan, knew from his experiences and suggested to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if US agreed to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
(6) Both Eisenhower and Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and to proposed it to the President on July 20, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945, disagreed and opposed.
(7) Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs, and thought that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
(8) Preservation of the Emperor was included in the final US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
(9) However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
(10) Truman heard the ABobm test was successful on July 16, 1945 during the Potsdam meeting with a message “Babies satisfactorily born."
(11) Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the Abomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly opposed to the idea and refused by saying "you can go home if you do not like it."
(12) At the meeting in Potsdam on August 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that if Soviet aggresses on August 15, Jap will end, meaning that if Truman used Abombs BEFORE August 15, his purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
(13) The Potsdam declaration was issued July 26, but it was not signed by Soviet, delaying the sign by the Japanese. It was Truman that refused the signature by Stalin.
(14) On the same day, July 26, Truman gave a command to drop the first ABomb on the earliest clear day after August 3.
(15) Just before Soviet's invasion, US dropped the ABombs, on August 6 and 9, 1945. On hearing this news, Soviet started invading Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date by breaking the non-aggression pact.
(16) The Japanese did not even know what the bombs were, but they surrendered when they found Soviet started invading Manchuria, because with almost no power to fight back even against US, they could not hold a two-front war; Japan did not have other route than through Soviet for negotiating the terms of surrender.
(17) Truman said on US TV that they used the ABombs that they "invested" so much money.
(18) US intervened treating patients at hospitals for collecting medical data. In some cases, they let patients die without treatment to collect intestines for studies back in US.
(19) The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
(20) In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
(21) A famous book, "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. This book is used as a must-read text book at West Point today.
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Atomic Bombs:
The Atomic bombs were never needed for the Japanese to surrender and US knew it. But still they used them as human experiments. This is clearly shown in the following sequence of events:
1. After Nazi surrendered on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on urging Truman to hold Potsdam meeting in a hope to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first test day of the ABomb on July 16, 1945. The first Potsdam meeting was held on July 17.
2. On May 8, 1945, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender.” (The idea for summoning unconditional surrender to Germany, Japan and Italy was a FDR’s idea, and it was first mentioned at Casabranca Conference on Janurary 24, 1943.)
3. However, the "Unconditional surrender” that the US strongly insisted, is a military term used for an army but not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and in the 20th century order under the Law of War, “unconditional surrender” as in the sense used prior to the modern period would never be established legally. Thus it bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
4. US found that Japan started negotiating to surrender through Soviet in June 1945, to which MacArthur said to the General Staff Office that the War is over. The resolution for starting to negotiate the terms of surrender through Soviet was passed on June 22, 1945 in Japan WITHOUT any knowledge of the US atomic bombs.
5. Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan, knew from his experiences and suggested to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if US agreed to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
6. Both Eisenhower and Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and proposed it to the President on July 20, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945, disagreed and opposed.
7. Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs, and thought that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
8. Preservation of the Emperor was included in the final US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
9. However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
10. On July 16, 1945, Truman heard the ABobm test was successful in Potsdam with a message “Babies satisfactorily born."
11. Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the Abomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly opposed to the idea and refused by saying "you can go home if you do not like it."
12. At the meeting in Potsdam on July 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that "He'll be in the Jap War on August 15th. Fini Japs when that comes about.” This means that if Truman used Abombs BEFORE August 15, the purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
13. On July 25, 1945, Truman told Stimson to use the atomic bombs on Japan, and wrote on this day's diary that he is sure that the Japs will not accept the Potsdam Decleration.
14. The Potsdam declaration was issued July 26, but it was not signed by Soviet, confusing and delaying the sign by the Japanese. It was Truman that refused the signature by Stalin.
15. On the same day, July 26, Truman gave a command to drop the first ABomb on the earliest clear day after August 3.
16. Just before Soviet's invasion, US dropped the ABombs, on August 6 and 9, 1945. On hearing this news, Soviet started invading Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date.
17. The Japanese did not even know what the bombs were, but they surrendered when they found Soviet started invading Manchuria, because with almost no power to fight back even against US, they could not hold a two-front war; Japan did not have other route than through Soviet for negotiating the terms of surrender.
18. Truman said on US TV that they used the ABombs that they "invested" so much money.
19. In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
20. As early as in September 1945, The Armed Forces Joint Commission for Investigating Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan was formed and commenced large scale investigations. Some 1,300 Japanese doctors were pulled into the investigation examining more than 20,000 patients, 17,000 of which were children. Intestines of 200 bodies were sent to Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., for further study.
21. Based on the investigations,"Medical effects of the atomic bomb in Japan” was published from which a graph of mortality rates of atomic bombs vs distance from hypocenter was created. This became the basis of the US nuclear strategy as it gave the crucial figures to calculate the number of atomic bombs required to attack each enemy cities. Some example numbers of Hiroshima-type atomic bombs required to annihilate cities as calculated by the US Air Force from the graph are as follows: Moscow 6, Stalingrad 5, Vladivostok 3, Kirov 2, Tallin 4, Chelyabinak 3, etc.
As such, through these experiments, the US now became the only country in the world with Big Data for the effects of atomic bombs on target cities as well as on human bodies.
22. The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
23. A famous book, "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. This book is used as a must-read text book at West Point today.
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On June 30, 1946, a confidential report, "United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” prepared by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was reported to Truman concluding that "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
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Nanking Massacre:
All the evidences for the Nanking Massacre were fabricated by Kuomintang for raising funds in US; used by GHQ and US for Tokyo Trial and WGIP; and today exploited by CCP as a weapon to break up the tie between US and Japan for their military expansion into the Pacific.
If you are confident, then show your primary source evidence that convinced you that this fabrication is in fact a true story. So far all I saw from the people like yourself are: photos fabricated by the Publicity Section of Kuomintang to raise funds in US through Chang-kai Shek's wife, Mei-soon Lin, of so-called "Japanese soldiers" wearing look alike outfits made in China; hearsay from Kuomintang like the diary of Rabe who admitted that he did not see any civilian massacre, and thus did not testify at Tokyo Trial nor his diary was used in it; news articles distributed to the world mainly through an Australian journalist, Harold John Timperley, who was revealed by Kuomintang's documents in Taiwan in 2015 to be one of their five chief agents, and was resopnsible as the head of the London Brunch of Kuomintang’s Publicity Section regularly receiving money.
Also, all the confessions from retired Japanese soldiers, which were presented by CCP and registered in UNESCO as evidences for the massacre in China, were made by members of a communist group called Chukiren. All of them, without an exception. They were brainwashed by CCP during their captivities. The CCP's objectives was to use them as activists in order to emotionally separate Japanese citizens from the government by brainwashing the Japanese how bad Japan behaved during the War, for a later communist revolution in Japan that the CCP was planning.
GHQ cooperated with this CCP's plan for their War Guilt Information Program, and the document for the operation was declassified in The National Archives United Kingdom, TNA, in England under the name, Norman File KV2/3261, after a Canadian diplomat in charge, Egerton Herbert Norman, who committed suicide when he was suspected as a communist spy.
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Massacre:
In the world's longest history of tens of t
housand years, much longer than that of China, there was NO civilian massacre in Japan. All the arrowheads found are small for killing little animals for foods; no broken bones killed in massacre are found; and there is no record for massacre despite the fact that Japan always had the one of the world’s highest literacy rates since a thousand years ago. None.
The biggest body count was in the 16th century Battle of Sekigahara in which 5,000 to 10,000 were killed. But all were samurai. There were many records like diaries, memo, letters, etc. saying farmers were eating bento while watching the battle; selling foods and goods to the samurai. After all, unlike in the West, samurai needed farmers for cultivating rice paddies.
Also, all the killing and touturing methods described in the massacre of Chinese by the Japanese are Chinese traditional methods repeatedly appearing in their history books, but never in the Japanese history books. Killing, torturing and suicide methods are rooted in traditions and cultures: the most popular suicide method, for instance, in US is by guns; in UK, gas; and in Japan, by hanging. They are not something you can imagine out of blue.
On the contrary, China is the exact opposite. Massive civilian massacres like the Cultural Revolution were commonplace every time their dynasties changed, to the extent that the country's entire population dropped very severely. Massacres are a part of their history, tradition and culture.
In the early 20th century too, during the civil war between CCP and Kuomintang, i.e. at the time of the war between Japan and China, both were heavily involved in massacring civilians. In Yellow River Flood Incident alone, Kuomintang killed up to one million civilians.
One thing is that many Chinese soldiers were fighting in ordinary clothes, which is against the International Law. They are regarded as spies and can be executed by the Law.
But what is the reason for the Japanese to kill Chinese civilians? To annihilate the entire one billion Chinese? They were always short in supply of aminitions, and were strick on their use.
So the Japanese, who had never committed civilian massacre in their tens of thousands years of history, massacred tens of millions of Chinese civilians using killing methods described repeatedly in the Chinese history books while at the same time saving tens of thousand lives of jews by allowing them into their Shanghai Settlement through Manchuria, and for which there is no legit primary source evidence or witnesses?
Does that make sense?
There is NO reason to kill Chinese civilians apart from Kuomintang and CCP soldiers wearing civilian clothes.
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China:
It is the Han Chinese that attacked Japan first.
Japan got that part of Manchuria first from Russia, not from China. The Han Chinese had never ruled that part of present day China in their history. Never. Also they hate the Hans. When Qing fell, ROC asked Manchuria, Inner Mongol, Uighur, and Tibet to join. But they all refused.
In case you did not know, even though they boast about their five thousand year history, China was first united only less than three thousand years ago, and it was not by the Han Chinese. Since then, China was united for two of the three thousand years, and the Han Chinese only ruled for a total of six hundred years during the Former Han, the Latter Han and Ming. Other dynasties were established by other races, so Manchuria, Mongol, Uighur and Tibet were never ruled by the Han Chinese.
Before the 20th century, China was the name of the land, not of a country: there were just different dynasties or country of different races occupying the land called “China."
Even though you may think Panda are Chinese, they were always Tibetan's and never belonged to the Han Chinese in history. The Whites are brainwashed and fooled by the Han Chinese.
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Atrocities by US soldiers:
You can read confessions by US soldiers for their atorocities they committed during the War in "Summer, 1945: Germany, Japan and the Harvest of Hate” by Thomas Goodrich.
"We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is right and wrong in the world. What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought, anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers.... [W]e mutilated the bodies of enemy dead, cutting off their ears and kicking out their gold teeth for souvenirs, and buried them with their testicles in their mouths.... We topped off our saturation bombing and burning of enemy civilians by dropping atomic bombs on two nearly defenseless cities, thereby setting an all-time record for instantaneous mass slaughter. As victors we are privileged to try our defeated opponents for their crimes against humanity; but we should be realistic enough to appreciate that if we were on trial for breaking international laws, we should be found guilty on a dozen counts. We fought a dishonorable war, because morality had a low priority in battle. The tougher the fighting, the less room for decency, and in Pacific contests we saw mankind reach the blackest depths of bestiality." ---- Edgar Jones, WWII Veteran
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Asia:
Japan fought against the whites who were enslaving Asia for hundreds of years, not against the natives. What do you think the whites were doing in Asia?
Charity?
There were only about 60 countries in the world at the time, of which only 10 non-white countries were not yet colonized by the whites. And the figure was decreasing. Japan was the last country in Asia remaining totally independent, and within several years of the War all the countries were freed.
Who do you think formed and trained their armies in Asian countries, which fought against the West when they came back to recolonize after the WWII?
You think the Asians were holding US guns or Japanese guns?
Or, do they grow on trees?
For example, today, some 3,000 Japanese lay buried with orders in Kalibata Heroes Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia. Everybody in Indonesia including those in the first subsequent independent Government and Army like the first President Sukarno, Bun Tomo, Aramasa, Sanpas, Hatta, etc. were holding Japanese guns and fighting with the Japanese.
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Rapes:
Japan always had the world’s lowest crime rates in its history, especially rapes. You can read Spanish and Portuguese missionary letters of old times or compare today’s police statistics among OECD countries.
If rapes happen, there will be babies born at a certain percentage.
When US occupied Japan, the very first thing they did was to force the Japanese government to provide brothels using Japanese tax payers money (this order in writing by MacArthur still exists ). Japan did so, but still, there were over 20,000 rapes (reported only) in the first six months, for which some 6,000 amerasian were born. GHQ found this and forced the Japanese Police to stop collecting the data, but subsequently the US’s 80 Amerasian Act was enacted for one million amerasians around the world: God know how many you have to rape for that.
Koreans also raped and massacred so many civilians during the Vietnam War, and now there is a big issue of Lai Dai Han.
But where are the Japanese babies? Has anybody seen any?
If you say they killed the women, has anybody found any bodies yet?
If you say they burnt the women, has anybody found the ashes yet?
Where are they?
Or, they keep silent about rapes because of the shame factor?
But wait, they only talk about Koreans and Americans but not about Japanese? ....That makes sense.
The Japanese were the defeated and supposed to be the "bad guys.” So shouldn't they talk about the Japanese babies and keep silent about Koreans and Americans? After the War, US was frantically looking for Japanese war crimes for Tokyo Trial and WGIP, so the Japanese rapes are the ones that should be most talked about…...
In any wars, rapes and assaults are always used to bash the defeated.
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On June 30, 1946, a confidential report, "United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” prepared by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was reported to Truman concluding that "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
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@hansheisenberg8737 Since you are half Japanese, I tell you an aspect of Japanese history that you have never heard about.
Believe it or not, the world’s oldest polished stoneware, earthenware, and lacquerware are fond in Japan. The polished stoneware goes back to 38,000 years ago, some 10,000 years older than the rest of the world. Since then, human has been living on this archipelago without discontinuation, and there are more than 10,000 archeological sites of 10,000 years ago in Japan. Then Japan, the world’s oldest country, started 2,600 years ago.
However, for over 38,000 years, there is no massacre in Japan. There are no bones of humans who were killed in wars before 2,000 years ago, and the wall the arrowheads are small for hunting small animals. In fact, the Jomon period, which lasted for 14,000 years is recently reviewed in the world as the most sustainable and peaceful society.
Wars started since people started accumulating wealth with rice. However, all the wars are between warriors or samurai in the later period. There are NO bones of the civilian massacre, records, legends, stories, no nothing, despite the fact that Japan always had one of the highest literacy rates in the world. In fact, the biggest death toll in a war in Japan is about 5,000 in the battle of Sekigahara. But all were samurai. There are many records of farmers selling foods to samurai or watching the battle from the top of the mountains. After all, samurai, whichever the side winds, need farmers for cropping rice.
Not only that, but Japan also did not have religious wars and killings among religions or sects like Europe did.
So, for tens of thousands of years, half of you have NO record of the civilian massacre. It did not even occur to you.
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@hansheisenberg8737 Another part of your history that you have never heard about.
Japan was allied with Germany but it also passed a cabinet resolution on December 6, 1938, not to assist any killing of Jews, and to treat all Jews equally to others in all aspects. In fact, two Japanese officers in Manchuria, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi, and Colonel Norihiro Yasue, are now in the Golden Book in Jerusalem for saving tens of thousand lives of Jewish refugees under a command of Tojo. They also had a plan called Fugu Plan to save up to a million European Jew refugees.
The refugees who escaped from Europe into Manchuria via Trans-Siberian Rail were then moved to the Japanese Shanghai Settlement where they were able to live under the protection of the Japanese government because that was the only place in the whole world at the time where the Jews could enter without a visa. Of course, the whole process was condemned by Hitler.
Rabi M. Tokayer, the author of the book “Fugu Plan," says in his book that to be in the Golden Book, you have to know at least one Jewish person. If Tojo knew one, he would also have been in the Golden Book.
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Great Tokyo Air Raid on March 10, 1945, incinerated more than 100,000 civilians in one day.
344 B-29s first dropped incendiary bombs on the circumference of a 40 km2 area so that the 100,000 people get trapped inside and could not escape. Then they dropped oil bombs, yellow-phosphorus incendiary bombs, and Elektron incendiary bombs (totaling about 400,000 bombs) as if painting out the entire area. They also conducted a low-level strafing run at the people who were running around.
Times Magazine (June 26, 2009) revealed that the Allied also considered a chemical attack on Tokyo using mustard gas.
Curtis LeMay, then the major general, who planned the Great Tokyo Air Raid said after the War that if they lost the war, he would have been a war criminal.
Robert McNamara, then lieutenant colonel, who was also involved in the planning of the air raid confessed in the movie “The Fog of War” that “If we lose the war, we’ll be tried as war criminals.”
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Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs with a view that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
On June 30, 1946, a confidential report, "United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” prepared by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was reported to Truman concluding that "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
An acclaimed book "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. Waltzer also accuses the US Government for not even trying to negotiate with the Japanese to surrender before the dropping of the bombs. He says it was a double crime in the sense that the US did not try to avoid, and the bombs were dropped on civilians cities. This book is used as a text book at West Point today.
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Atomic Bombs:
The Atomic bombs were never needed for the Japanese to surrender and US knew it. But still they used them as human experiments. This is clearly shown in the following sequence of events:
(1) After Nazi surrendered on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on pushing Truman to hold Potsdam meeting immediately in a hope to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first test of the ABomb on July 16, 1945. The first Potsdam meeting was postponed until July 17.
(2) On May 8, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender."
(3) However, the "Unconditional surrender” that Truman strongly insisted, is a military term used for an army and not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and thus bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
(4) US found that Japan started negotiating to surrender through Soviet in June 1941, to which MacArthur said to the General Staff Office that the War is over. The resolution for starting to negotiate the terms of surrender through Soviet was passed on June 22, 1945 in Japan WITHOUT atomic bombs.
(5) Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan, knew from his experiences and suggested to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if US agreed to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
(6) Both Eisenhower and Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and to proposed it to the President on July 20, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945, disagreed and opposed.
(7) Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs, and thought that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
(8) Preservation of the Emperor was included in the final US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
(9) However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
(10) Truman heard the ABobm test was successful on July 16, 1945 during the Potsdam meeting with a message “Babies satisfactorily born."
(11) Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the Abomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly opposed to the idea and refused by saying "you can go home if you do not like it."
(12) At the meeting in Potsdam on August 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that if Soviet aggresses on August 15, Jap will end, meaning that if Truman used Abombs BEFORE August 15, his purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
(13) The Potsdam declaration was issued July 26, but it was not signed by Soviet, delaying the sign by the Japanese. It was Truman that refused the signature by Stalin.
(14) On the same day, July 26, Truman gave a command to drop the first ABomb on the earliest clear day after August 3.
(15) Just before Soviet's invasion, US dropped the ABombs, on August 6 and 9, 1945. On hearing this news, Soviet started invading Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date by breaking the non-aggression pact.
(16) The Japanese did not even know what the bombs were, but they surrendered when they found Soviet started invading Manchuria, because with almost no power to fight back even against US, they could not hold a two-front war; Japan did not have other route than through Soviet for negotiating the terms of surrender.
(17) Truman said on US TV that they used the ABombs that they "invested" so much money.
(18) US intervened treating patients at hospitals for collecting medical data. In some cases, they let patients die without treatment to collect intestines for studies back in US.
(19) The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
(20) In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
(21) A famous book, "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. This book is used as a must-read text book at West Point today.
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Thank you for your reply.
The following is what I think about your comments as numbered in your posting.
1) That maybe one way to end the War, but not the only way. It implies to me that for Truman to chose this way, he must have other objective(s) than simply ending the War.
What US did since Germany’s surrender was Japanese city bombing, in which one million Japanese civilian died. In total, two million Japanese soldiers died in this War so the ratio is 1:2, and almost all the civilians died during this period.
In the raids, US first burnt the edges of civilian cities with incendiary bombs to engulf and trap the civilians inside so they could not escape. Then they burnt the inside again with incendiary bombs to incinerate slowly to death, which even LeMay called a warcrime.
I believe that Truman did this to completely beat out Japan, never to regain its total independence as US did in the past when it almost annihilate native Americans, and when it massacred up to one million civilians on Leyte in order to kill only 28,000 Aguinaldo soldiers.
Towards the end of the 19th century, with the fall of British Empire, Alfred Mahan proposed to T. Roosevelt that US should fill the vacuum. To do that, he proposed to secure the mastery of sea first in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, and then in the entire Atlantic Ocean; and then using this as a leverage, expand the mastery into the Pacific Ocean. However, for this to be successful, Mahan stressed that US should never allow the rise of two countries, namely Germany and Japan.
More than a hundred years ago, this policy was secretly adopted by US government. This was confirmed with China when Nixon talked to Mao in 1972. Also, this was incorporated in the 1991 Defense Planning Guidelines, which was created as the US’s grand strategy for the new world order without Soviet, as exposed by Washington Post.
Even today, Japan does not have full sovereignty or diplomatic right as its national security is controlled by the US.
What FDR and Truman did for the WWII make sense with this policy, ie, to control Japan as it is doing today, and to control the entire Pacific.
2/3) This I disagree. Nobody understood what it means in the context of the International Law.
4) Sorry, this is my typo. It should be June 1945.
But before Hull Note, in September, Japan was going to give up everything other than Manchuria, but FDR was refusing a peace talk with Japan. As Cuba is a knife pointing at US’s throat, the Korean Peninsula is a knife pointing at Japan’s throat, and for the security of the peninsula, Manchuria was critical to Japan.
After the War, when everything became clear, Douglas MacArthur testified at US Congress that Japan fought for its security (not for invasion); Charles Willoughby said any country would go to a war like Japan did if they were treated the same way.
But in fact, I believe it was FDR that deliberately cornered Japan into a war against US.
“Freedom Betrayed” by George Nash
“Tragic Deception” by Hamilton Fish
"The Tokyo Trial and Beyond" by Bernard Roling
VENONA files
5/6) Regardless of what Truman thought, it has nothing to do with the International Law. Imposing constitutions to another country is a clear breach of the International Law. Thus the preservation of Emperor should be none of his business by the Law. So what US did to Japan was clearly illegal. Japan did not have independence then, so it was not even fair.
“Unconditional surrender” means Japan should accept even illegally imposed conditions?
What MacArthur said was just a metaphorical expression.
7) In the Tokyo Air Raid, US killed 100,000 civilians, much more than the atomic bombs. So in terms to damage to Japan, there is no practical difference, as US had the mastery of the air and Japan was totally defenseless against B29.
All the more it indicates that the ABombs were for experiments.
8) I am not sure about the exact meaning of this question.
12) First there was a mistake of a date again. The Potsdam day in the first line should be July 17, not August 17, of course. Sorry.
Truman wrote this in his diary on this day of July 17, 1945. He said "He'll be in the Jap War on August 15th. Fini Japs when that comes about."
Source: http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/correspondence/truman-harry/corr_diary_truman.htm
https://www.trumanlibrary.org/flip_books/index.php?tldate=1945-07-17&groupid=3701&titleid=&pagenumber=1&collectionid=ihow
I think that Truman realized the mistake that FDR made in inviting Russia into the War against Japan, having seen what Stalin did in Europe after the Germany's surrender. But he cannot undo it. So what he did was to postpone the Potsdam meeting long enough for the atomic bomb to be successfully created, but short enough before Stalin would become ready to aggress into Japan.
13) Truman gave only a week to decide. But this is not something you can make a decision in that short period of time. Japan was by no means a fascist country, and any governmental decision involves many democratic and bureaucratic process.
“Mokusatsu” is a journalistic jargon to mock the situation, and really has no meaning.
Soviet was not yet involved in the War but nevertheless bewildered Japan as Japan was negotiating to surrender through Soviet, and they knew Soviet was in Potsdam. Japan also knew that US knew Japan was negotiating so it made Japan wonder why US did not say anything about Soviet.
Stalin could have signed if Japan was going to give up some parts to Soviet, or at least US should have said something about the involvement or non involvement of Soviet. It just createsd confusions and delayed the process unnecessarily or by an intention.
15) When MacArthur fought in Korean War, he realized why Manchuria was important to Japan for its national security, like West Indies to US. That is why he tried to go over the 38th Parallel.
16) That is my point. That is why Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration.
17) Nothing by itself alone proves they were human experiments. There are only circumstantial evidences. However, it makes you wonder why he used the word “invested,” which he didn’t have to.
18) As early as in September 1945, The Armed Forces Joint Commission for Investigating Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan was formed and commenced large scale investigations on the effect of atomic bombs on human bodies under Colonel Ashley Oughterson of Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission who arrived in Japan on September 1, 1945. Some 1,300 Japanese doctors were pulled into the investigation involving more than 20,000 patients, 17,000 of which were children. They sent intestines of 200 bodies to Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for further study, and they are now returned and kept in Hiroshima Uni. and Okayama Uni.
Based on the investigation Oughterson subsequently published a report "Medical effects of the atomic bomb in Japan,” (http://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I000006293475-00), in which he made the most important graph of mortality rate of atomic bombs vs distance from hypocenter. This graph became one of the basis of the US nuclear strategy because this is the numbers they needed when they calculate the number of atomic bombs required to attack each enemy cities. The following are some actual numbers of Hiroshima-type atomic bombs required to annihilate cities as calculated by the US Air Force: Moscow 6, Stalingrad 5, Vladivostok 3, Kirov 2, Tallin 4, Chelyabinak 3, etc.
20) Again, nothing by itself alone proves they were human experiments. There are only circumstantial evidences. However, it is reasonable assumption that this factor played a big role.
21) Even though Geneva Conventions did not know atomic bombs, the spirts behind them prohibits uses of MDWs, and atomic bombs are a MDW. If you read them, it is obvious.
If you want to talk about ex post fact laws, it is really the crimes against peace applied in the Tokyo Trial, which was really nonsense.
In fact, nobody in the field of International Law treats the Tokyo Tribunal seriously today. Not only that just about everyone including the judges of the trial, MacArthur, law philosopher, academics around the world say it was a failure. The only people who take it seriously are the people in media to control the mass.
The following are some of the reasons:
There was no defined jurisdiction for the trial, and it was military trial, only disguised as a judicial one by the International Law: all the judges were from victor countries and there was none from neutral countries; out of the 11 judges, there was only one judge of the International Law, Judge Radhabinod Pal, a member of Inernational Law Commettee of United Nations, who handed down not guilty verdicts to all the defendants at the Tokyo Trial; ex-post laws were applied; wars as a sovereign right of a nation (belligerent rights) were incriminated; individuals were brought to trial by acts of a country though the International Law assumes the state authority theory; all the witness from the accusers were given immunity from perjury; more than 90% of evidences from the defendants were automatically rejected; interpretation for the defendants during the court proceedings was stopped and ignored when it got difficult for the Allies; Manchurian Incident amongst others were included in the judgement as invasion despite the fact that they were not included in the condition of Potsdam Declaration and that Litton's Report in effect said that the Manchurian Incident was not an invasion; there was no charge against anybody from the victors, the Allied countries ...... and this goes on and on.
To sum it all up, it was a revenge trial by victors against the defeated, and it was also a trial to lessen the guilt of dropping atomic bombs, which was even held BEFORE Japan regained its sovereignty. In all fairness, it is a huge dark stain in the history of International Law.
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Thank you for your reply.
The following are my opinions about your comments in the order of your posting.
> While I maintain from my OP that dropping the bomb was justified in stopping the spread of communism
I wonder if you would say the same thing if your families were incinerated to death or if your kids were crippled from radiation, for the purpose of stopping communism or for the action of your government.
> Although digressing somewhat, the US certainly, even until today, wants to maintain/grow its sphere of influence.
I think this is OK. In fact, the vast majority of the Japanese today prefer US to China taking that role, not to mention that nobody wanted to fight that War against the US in the first place. The key words here, however, is rule of law, rule by law, and the International law.
> he didn't want the Russians involved with the Japanese surrender, rightly or wrongly.
I believe FDR was tricked by the Comintern as the VENONA files suggests. But now having witnessed what Stalin did to Europe following Germany’s surrender, Truman quickly realized that it was a wrong decision of FDR for US to split the world with Soviet at Yalta.
This played a part in Truman’s decision to use ABombs as you said, though I stay firm that other circumstantial evidences suggest that human experiments to see the effects to the target cities, as well as to human bodies played a much bigger role.
Thus, long enough for ABombs to complete, but short enough before Soviet becomes ready.
> I think we'll have to agree to disagree that…
I also think that we can generally agree to disagree, and that every country is allowed to have its own “history” to teach its citizens so long as it does not interfere with or impose onto others. However, I also believe that there can be a common ground on which history can be discussed in the absence of political or religious ideologies, exceptionalism, or any prejudice, whereby the only criteria in establishing facts is the truth, and facts are only based on carefully authenticated primary source evidences, rather than being imposed by power of who won the War, which is stronger, or the titles of the claiming “historians."
Unfortunately, the modern history especially in the Far East Asia is a source of government legitimacies, territorial rights, national security, military advantage, and economical profits, among others, and needless to say, lies, propaganda and fabrications are more than a commonplace. For a start, it was the US that rewrote the history in the first place: after the War, they sacked 200,000 academics and public servants; burnt more books than Hitler did; an impose pressure on media to rewrite the history as Churchill proudly said "History is written by the victors.” The political pressure on academism and media by US is continuing even today.
On top of this, China is annually spending 10 billion US dollars for spreading fabrications in US, Japan, UN and other US allies to break the ties among them for China’s expansion in to the Pacific.
However, some joint research between non liberal historians of US and Japan are now underway. The US side’s main interest is to find the roots of the policies and events that allowed the prevalence of today's monstrous China. But the difficulty is that more than likely it is going to harm the FDR's reputation.
1) That is because Germany had a bitter experience of loosing a war, having lost in the WWI. They knew what to expect and how to avoid them.
Japan on the other hand had never lost own war in its tens of thousands of year history. The only exception was 1400 years ago when it fought for Korea against Tang Dynasty and lost as Korea ran away like Korean War of US (Koreans always run away).
This is why Germany refused to accept a constitution imposed by the Allies, and established it as the Fundamental Law instead.
You can read how just about everyone in the US administration, UK and even Soviet was confused about the meaning of “unconditional surrender” and were against it. The only exceptions were FDR and Truman.
2) Manchuria:
Japan got that part of Manchuria first from Russia, not from China. The Han Chinese had never ruled that part of present day China in their history. Never. Also they hate the Hans. When Qing fell, ROC asked Manchuria, Inner Mongol, Uighur, and Tibet to join. But they all refused.
Even though they boast about their five thousand year history, China was first united only less than three thousand years ago, and it was not by the Han Chinese. Since then, China was united for two of the three thousand years, and the Han Chinese only ruled for a total of six hundred years during the Former Han, the Latter Han and Ming. Other dynasties were established by other races, so Manchuria, Mongol, Uighur and Tibet were never ruled by the Han Chinese.
Before the 20th century, China was the name of the land, not of a country: there were just different dynasties or country of different races occupying the land called “China."
Even though you may think Panda are Chinese, they were always Tibetan's and never belonged to the Han Chinese in history. The Whites are brainwashed and fooled by the Han Chinese, this is why the West cannot complain what is happening in Tibet and Uighur right at this moment.
Korea: Japan did NOT invade Korea, Japan did not even fight with Korea. They were so poor and hopeless that they asked Japan to annex and modernize.
There was no war, and it was a sign deal and an internationally accepted one.
They change their minds AFTER the War. However, their claims have been declined in the International academic field.
Japan’s Manchuria rights and Korea’s annexation had nothing to do with WWII.
(Russia / Soviet was always trying to come down into Manchuria and interfere with Korea looking for unfrozen ports. Though MacArthur might have wanted glory, I believe geopolitical and military common sense made him want to go cross the line.)
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Thank you for your reply.
The following are my comments in the order of your last posting.
(1) Certainly not, though you are appealing to my emotion, not my logic.
Actually, I was asking your logical opinion including your emotions. We should not forget that we are not dealing with just maps and numbers. There are people behind them, and that is the spirit behind the Hague Conventions and other related human rights laws.
In the legal sense, if we allow Abombs because someone hate communism, there is no stopping but we also have to allow communists and Muslims to use them too.
(2) At the time of the Hiroshima or Nagasaki, nobody foresaw Korean War. Also I will definitely chose to live in a communist country rather than having my family incinerated or crippled.
(3) As I said before, seeing what happened in Europe following Germany’s surrender, I think Truman realized the mistake of FDR in inviting Stalin into Japan in the first place. And that played some part in his decision on the Abombs. That much I agree. But not about the link. I believe Truman, a former KKK member, wanted to test it on the beast so that the US get big data about the Abombs on target cities and human bodies.
In September 1944, FDR met Churchill in Hyde Park, New York, and made Hyde Park Agreement, in which both agreed that if the US succeeds in the ABomb development, it would be used on Japan, and not on Germany.
Pursuant to the Quebec Agreement (August 19, 1943), which imposed restrictions on US’s use of atomic bombs without prior approval by Britain, Truman requested Churchill at the beginning of June 1945 to sign in consent to use of ABombs on Japan. Churchill signed on this agreement “Operational Use of Tube Alloys” on July 1. Note that the US (neither FDR nor Truman) had never asked Britain for the same consent for Germany.
On July 26, Truman gave BOTH commands for the two atomic bombs, the first Uranium one dropped in Hiroshima and the second Plutonium one dropped in Nagasaki, on the SAME day.
(4) Japan was trying to create an empire on the level of the European colonial powers to help pay for their modernisation.
That is not simply true. Look at Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria. They are all green, prospered and are prospering because Japan invested in their education and fundamentals of countries. Japan did not take out money, but invested instead. The money and wealth went out of Japan. But look at where Europeans colonized. They did not invest or teach, but took out the wealth. That is why until quite recently they were still poor.
(5) They felt (and arguably still feel) superior to their neighbours and were happy to impose their will on them.
This is quite the opposite too, though it may be difficult to understand if you have not lived in this part of the world. Throughout its history, the “Chinese” considered the “China” the center of the world, and their hierarchy or ranks of countries and people goes down as you go further from the center. It is called Hua-Yi distinction and it is rooted in Confucianism. Koreans also believe in Confucianism and they have a related doctrine called Sojunghwa. Likewise, Japan and Japanese are lower than them because Korea is closer to China. There is nothing logical about this but it is in their deeply rooted beliefs, cultures, traditions, languages, customs and identities.
On the contrary, there is no such belief in Japan. Again you can read Portuguese and Spanish missionary letters about how the Japanese form the time were treating outsiders without discrimination. Even black Samurai existed!
Also as I mentioned before, it was Japan that proposed a draft in 1919 for abolition of ALL racial discrimination in the League of Nations, only to be rejected by US.
Japan was allied with Germany but it also passed cabinet resolution not to assist any killing of Jews. In fact, two Japanese officers in Manchuria are now in the Golden Book for saving tens of thousand lives of Jewish refugees under a command of Tojo. They also had a plan called Fugu Plan to save up to a million European Jew refugees.
The refugees who escaped from Europe into Manchuria via Trans-Siberian Rail were then moved to the Japanese Shanghai Settlement where they were able to live under the protection of the Japanese government because that was the only place in the whole world at the time where the Jews could enter without a visa. Of course, the whole process was condemned by Hitler.
Rabi M. Tokayer, the author of a book “Fugu Plan," says in his book that to be in the Golden Book, you have to know at least one Jewish person. If Tojo knew one, he would also have been in the Golden Book.
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(6) Manchurian Incident and Manchukuo
Manchuria:
Historically the people in the northern part of China were always militarily stronger than the Han Chinese as they were good at riding horses. That is why the southern Chinese built the Great Wall of China. Manchuria was never ruled by the Han Chinese, and it was a land of Manchurians (Jurchens) or their relatives like Mongols. Though the Han Chinese were allowed into the land towards the end of the Qing Dynasty, this region was one of the least populated area in today’s China.
However, though as simple as it seems, the issue surrounding the region was so complex that even the Lytton’s report said that the complication is unparalleled like none in the world, and that nobody is entitle to judge anything unless fully aware of the situation.
The Great Game:
The Great Game came eastward all the way to the Far East. They even fought Crimean War in Kamchatka Peninsula. As such, for the Japanese in Edo Era, Russians were the biggest threat, appearing in Hokkaido every now and then and at one point taking over Tsushima. Even after the Meiji Restoration, with Nicholai II calling himself the Commodore of the Pacific, they were always eager to expand into the Pacific Ocean.
Russia had Vladivostok, but its port freezes during the winter. That is why they had set an eye to the Yellow Sea and Liaodong Peninsula where there are some good ports at which today’s base for North Sea Fleet of People's Liberation Army Navy is stationed.
Thus Russians intervened in the Triple Intervention so that Japan had to return the peninsula which they obtained after the Sino-Japan War. But of course, soon after the return, Russia bribed their way to buy the right from the Qing to build the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Peninsula. The British and the US were concerned about this a lot since if it connects to the Trans-Siberian Railway as planned to be completed in 1904, the Russian’s advantage in material transportation to the Far East could change the balance of power in the region and the Pacific.
That is why Russo-Japan War broke out in 1904 with the help of the British and the US. That is why the southern part of the Chinese Eastern Railway was taken by the Japanese in the Treaty of Portsmouth with the mediation by the US.
Development of Manchu:
So Japan took Liaodong Peninsula. But Manchuria at the time was nothing but rugged deserted land just like the western US with poor soil short in phosphor and freezes during winter. Even Dalian was nothing as the Manchurians were land people. Russian started this city (that is why the name Dalian is a part of Russian name meaning Far East) for a few years but it was Japan that developed the entire city. As you can see some photos in internet, the city was just like Shanghai developed by the Sassoon. In the first year alone, Japan invested an equal amount to its national budget.
Japan then developed a new-type soybeans, Manchurian soybeans, that could grow on this poor and cold soil, and started running farms in other parts of Manchuria by leasing and buying lands and hiring locals. Japan could have cultivated lands by machines, but instead it hired locals purposely so they could become well off, too. The export of the Manchurian Soybeans to Europe subsequently grew rapidly and Manchuria become the world’s biggest exporter of soybeans that accounted for over 50% of its total export. Soybean oil was first developed here too. Soybeans were grown throughout the region, and within 20 years, the desert of Manchuria became a prosperous green farm land.
Japan also developed other agricultural products like wheat but they also developed heavy industries like steel, coal, electricity, petroleum, automobile, airplanes, among other things by investing a huge amount of money.
Manchuria became a rich land from nothing.
The Incident:
Then all of sudden, the Han Chinese started saying it is all theirs and Japan has to go home leaving everything behind for free.
In 1912, ROC established itself following the Xinhan Revolution in 1911. Then the Qing Dynasty fell in the following month. But no non-Han Chinese regions, Manchuria, Inner Mongol, Uighur or Tibet wanted to join, and with countless wars and plunders among Kuomintang, CCP, many warlords, bandits were going on, the place was in total turmoil like today’s Syria. As all Japan’s contracts were made with the Qing Dynasty and because there was no Manchurian government, Japan formed new contracts with ROC of Yuan Shikai.
However, the Han Chinese started saying this new contract was invalid. Behind this was the Comintern too. Right from the beginning, the Comintern targeted Japan for the following reasons: Japan had monarch; Japan won the Russo-Japan War; Japan intervened Soviet’s revolution in Siberia with the British and others; Soviet wanted Manchuria also. Not only blatant breaches of the agreements such as death penalties for people leasing lands to Japanese were imposed, crimes like destructions of railways, factories, facilities, and mines, and burglaries were being reported more than ten thousand cases a year. In the name of “Revolution,” they did anything to get Japanese out of the place.
Although Japan did not originally have its army in Manchuria, they could not maintain the order and had to station Kwantung Army in 1919. Incidentally, Kwantung literally means the east of a barrier, specifically meaning the barrier where Great Wall touches Bohai Sea. So by definition, Kwantung Army was not mean to cross the Great Wall.
However, crimes and harassment kept on increasing, and in the end, the Manchurian Incident broke out. It was not a cause, but it was a result of what happened in the previous 15 years.
Helen Mears, a US historian and an author of “Mirrors of America: Japan” says in her book that Japan can sue ROC with the information collected in the Lytton’s report; the armed force that Japan used in the Incident was no more than other country used for retaliations against China’s crimes and threats. A US diplomat in China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, says in his book “How the Peace was Lost” that Japan kept all international treaties and it was ROC that broke them, and because US did not treat Japan equally on this matter, it became unbearable for the Japanese. Also another US diplomat Ralph Townsend wrote in his book, “Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China,” that Japan did what we had been thinking we should do; every foreigners in the Far East was on the Japan’s side; everyone scornfully laughed at Stimson who criticized Japan on this; but because newspaper did not report the truth, anti-Japan sentiment grew in the US. Behind all this in Manchuria was Zhang Xueliang who was a member of Kuomintang, and Timperley was already in China, so of course all the lies were being spread out. But the reality was that the Incident was not even against the International Law.
Manchukuo:
One day Puyi escaped into the Japanese Embassy from the Forbidden City, where he was confined after being dethroned. He asked for help. The Han Chinese was keeping him to make it look as if Manchuria belong to ROC. But with all his ancestor graves being destroyed and all the treasures stolen, Puyi really became sick of the Han Chinese and demanded to go back to Manchuria as an emperor. Since then some 700 representatives of Manchurians, Mongols, Koreans, youth, and other groups living in Manchuria got together in Fengtian and decided to found Manchukuo,
So the Machukuo was established with the help of the Japanese government but all of its ministers and politicians were Manchurians. And with the return of the emperor, all the robbers, bulgars and the like got together under him, and soon the order was restored in Manchuria.
Some people call it a puppet state. But if this was a puppet state, what about all the Latin America and Caribbean countries of the time supported by US? What about India supported by the British? The truth is that it was a country all Manchurian wanted and welcomed.
After the War in Tokyo Trial, Puyi testified that he did not want to be an emperor and the whole thing was forced by the Japanese. But at the time he was kept in Soviet’s concentration camp; escorted by Soviet’s soldiers; and was taken back to the camp. He later wrote in his memoir that he hid the truth in the Toyo Trial. Also in “Twilight in the Forbidden City” written by Reginald F. Johnston, a Puyi’s personal teacher, Johnston says that Puyi wanted to found his own country. This is a first class primary source evidence.
Lytton’s report:
Right or left, and Great Power or Japanese, they more or less all agree that the report written by the Lytton Commission was thorough and good, but except for its conclusion. The report literally says that just about everything Japan said is right, and respects all its rights in Manchuria. But in its conclusions, it suggests the Manchukuo to be under the control of the League of Nations.
Of course, the League of Nations was heavily controlled by the Great Powers, so in a way, this conclusion was understandable. But for the Japanese it was not acceptable. At the time, the Japanese politicians were pacifists and the Kwantung Army was aggressive. But it was really the media that fueled the whole thing everyday.
One of the communists and a Soviet spy arrested in the Sorge Incident was a Japanese journalist, Hotsumi Ozaki, at the leading newspaper company, Asahi Shinbun, who was executed in jail. He was also a brain to the Prime Minister Konoe, but previously he stationed in China as an analyst of Asahi for the Manchurian Railway.
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(7) The Japanese fought against, and tried to subjugate, the ethnic population in China.
As I said, in the entire Japanese history, there is no concept to look down on China. Even the military officers were all able to read and write Chinese, and more knowledgable about the Chinese ancient literatures than the Chinese. It was mandatory to study Chinese writing.
Also as I mentioned above, it was Japan that proposed a draft in 1919 for abolition of ALL racial discrimination in the League of Nations, only to be rejected by US.
(8) Furthermore, as a thought experiment, if Japan had won the war, would all the countries in SE Asia previously colonised have been graciously freed by a dominant, powerful Japan?
Yes, definitely. If not, why form and train their armies?
Phillippine became independent under Japan though did not last long.
(9) Chinese communists and nationalists suffered 3.8-10 million casualties fighting Japanese colonialism.
That is their typical fabrication.
Massacre:
In the world's longest history of tens of thousand years, much longer than that of China, there was NO civilian massacre in Japan. All the arrowheads found are small for killing little animals for foods; no broken bones killed in massacre are found; and there is no record for massacre despite the fact that Japan always had the one of the world’s highest literacy rates since a thousand years ago. None.
The biggest body count was in the 16th century Battle of Sekigahara in which 5,000 to 10,000 were killed. But all were samurai. There were many records like diaries, memo, letters, etc. saying farmers were eating bento while watching the battle; selling foods and goods to the samurai. After all, unlike in the West, samurai needed farmers for cultivating rice paddies after wars.
Also, all the killing and torturing methods described in the massacre of Chinese by the Japanese are Chinese traditional methods repeatedly appearing in their history books, but never in the Japanese history books. Killing, torturing and suicide methods are rooted in traditions and cultures: the most popular suicide method, for instance, in US is by guns; in UK, gas; and in Japan, by hanging. They are not something you can imagine out of blue.
On the contrary, China is the exact opposite. Massive civilian massacres like the Cultural Revolution were commonplace every time their dynasties changed, to the extent that the country's entire population dropped very severely. Massacres are a part of their history, tradition and culture.
In the early 20th century too, during the civil war between CCP and Kuomintang, i.e. at the time of the war between Japan and China, both were heavily involved in massacring civilians. In Yellow River Flood Incident alone, Kuomintang killed up to one million civilians.
One thing is that many Chinese soldiers were fighting in ordinary clothes, which is against the International Law. They are regarded as spies and can be killed by the Law.
But what is the reason for the Japanese to kill Chinese civilians? To annihilate the entire one billion Chinese? They were always short in supply of aminitions, and were strict on their use.
So the Japanese, who had never committed civilian massacre in their tens of thousands years of history, massacred tens of millions of Chinese civilians using killing methods described repeatedly in the Chinese history books while on humanitarian grounds saving tens of thousand lives of jews by allowing them into their Shanghai Settlement through Manchuria, and for which there is no legit primary source evidence or witnesses?
Does that make sense?
There is NO reason to kill Chinese civilians apart from Kuomintang and CCP soldiers wearing civilian clothes.
Nanking Massacre:
All the evidences for the Nanking Massacre were fabricated by Kuomintang for raising funds in US; used after the War by GHQ and US for Tokyo Trial and WGIP to record Japan as the aggressor and to lessen the guilt for the dropping of atomic bombs; and today exploited in CCP’s propaganda as a weapon to break up the ties among US, Japan, Taiwan and other US allies for their military expansion into the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
If you are confident, see if you can show a primary source evidence that convinced you that this fabrication is in fact a true story. So far all I saw from the people who believes in it is true are: photos fabricated by the Publicity Section of Kuomintang to raise funds in US through Chang-kai Shek's wife, Mei-soon Lin, of so-called "Japanese soldiers" wearing look alike outfits made in China; hearsay from Kuomintang like the diary of Rabe who admitted that he did not see any civilian massacre, and thus did not testify at Tokyo Trial nor his diary was used in it; news articles distributed to the world mainly through an Australian journalist, Harold John Timperley, who was revealed by Kuomintang's documents in Taiwan in 2015 to be one of their five chief agents, and was responsible as the head of the London Brunch of Kuomintang’s Publicity Section regularly receiving money.
Also, all the confessions from Japanese veterans, which were presented by CCP and registered in UNESCO as evidences for the massacre in China, were made by members of a communist group called Chukiren. All of them, without an exception. They were brainwashed by CCP during their captivities. The CCP's objectives was to use them as activists in order to emotionally separate Japanese citizens from the government by brainwashing the Japanese how bad Japan behaved during the War, for a later communist revolution in Japan that the CCP was planning.
GHQ cooperated with this CCP's plan for their War Guilt Information Program, and the document for the operation was declassified in 2014 by The National Archives United Kingdom, TNA, in England under the name, Norman File KV2/3261, after a Canadian diplomat in charge, Egerton Herbert Norman, who committed suicide when he was suspected as a communist spy.
(10) How many casualties did China suffer trying to maintain colonialism compared to eliminate it?
The Han Chinese are the only people in the world that kept on invading after the War. Look at Manchuria and Inner Mongol. The people who were against the Han Chinese were all butchered and the land is almost entirely the Han Chinese’s. Loot at Tibet. There was no Han Chinese in region but now the Han Chinese account for more than 30%. They killed, forced women to marry with Han Chinese men, forced sterilization to Tibetan married couples. Loot at Uighur. I am sure you heard a news that one million people are in concentration camps. Not only that, the Han Chinese sent Uighur mens to other parts of China so they cannot marry to Uighur women. They ban their language, destroy their cultures, religions, you name it. And they are happening right at this moment. Soon, there will be no more Tibetans or Uighur.
All this is happening because the Great Powers made Lytton report to write Manchuria is a part of ROC for their benefit. Because of this big lie, nobody can deny the Han Chinese right’s on Tibet, Uighur and Inner Mongol; Nixon and Kissinger were made to swallow one China policy by Mao; their issues became internal issues of “China”; and local any opponents become terrorists.
(11) if you count India as a part of Asia, it is inaccurate.
Honestly, I have never heard of this argument. What is the logic behind it?
Their military legend for their independence is Subhas Chandra Bose. He was working with the Japanese and his grave is even in Japan today.
(12) However, the mutiny could only have taken place by Japan trying to extend its influence inside China.
No, I said above, they wanted to steal all the wealth Japan invested and created rightfully and lawfully in China.
China is a very different place to your norm. As the author of “The Hundred-Year Marathon,” Michael Pillsbury admits in his book, the west was fooled by the Han Chinese. With 5,000 years of lying, fabricating, betraying, etc., when it comes to deceiving you, they are much much better than the whites.
(13) I think you are overestimating the ability of the Comintern~~
I used to think so. But not now. The world was much much dirtier than I was hoping to be.
"(Japan) doesn't have to say sorry, you had contributed towards China, why? Because had Imperial Japan did not start the war of invasion, how could we communist became mighty powerful? How could we stage the coup d'état? How could we defeat Chiang Kai Shek? How are we going to pay back you guys? No, we do not want your war reparations!"
-Mao Zedong greeting Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of Japan in Nanjing, 1972
"Those Japanese were real good. Without Japanese's help, China’s [Communist] revolution would not have succeeded. I said the same thing to a Japanese, a capitalist. He kept on saying: 'Sorry, we did invade China' I said to him: 'Don't say that, on the contrary, Japanese helped us (Communist) in a big way', especially Japanese warlords and the Japanese Emperor."
-Mao Zedong's conversation with American journalist Edgar Snow, 1970
(14) Lastly, what did the Japanese have to gain from engaging the Soviets in comparison to the Allies?
There were some Japanese who were thinking that defeating Soviet with Germany first would be a better strategy.
Soviet was aware of this, and that is why they were working so this would not happen. After the collapse of USSR, a former KGB’s spy Vitali Pavlov admitted in from of a TV camera that he was working with Harry Dexter White, who wrote the Hull Note, about the contents of the Note to lure Japan southwards. The name of operation was "Operation Snow," after the name Harry Dexter “White."
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(15) I can't find anywhere on google information that they denied treatment
I heard this story directly form a Japanese politician. He is a type of politician that accepts no money regardless of its origin, honest, pro-America, and pro-US-Japan security treaty, so I see no interest of him in lying about this. He is also very knowledgable about this matter too. So although it is not entirely my conjecture, my conjecture was that he did not lie in this.
If you are a scientist, you want to make graphs against all different types of variable. You want to know critical points and thresholds. What would happen if given certain treatment, chemical or medicine, at what stage, at age, when it is too late for recovery, what is enough amount of medicines,…… you name it. You want big data against as many variable as possible to make graphs. So it is quite natural to let some patients die, or start treating or stop treating etc. The more raw data, the better the graphs become.
So, the need was definitely there. Whether or not they really did it, I have to ASSUME from my experience that he did not lie. It is NOT conclusive though the sequence of events and circumstantial evidences also suggest to me that it is very likely. And finally, the US actually DID get the big data, graphs, reports, and strategies.
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Bill Herschel
Atomic Bombs:
The Atomic bombs were never needed for the Japanese to surrender and US knew it. But still they used them as human experiments. This is clearly shown in the following sequence of events:
1. After Nazi surrendered on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on urging Truman to hold Potsdam meeting in a hope to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first test day of the ABomb on July 16, 1945. The first Potsdam meeting was held on July 17.
2. On May 8, 1945, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender.” (The idea for summoning unconditional surrender to Germany, Japan and Italy was a FDR’s idea, and it was first mentioned at Casabranca Conference on Janurary 24, 1943.)
3. However, the "Unconditional surrender” that the US strongly insisted, is a military term used for an army but not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and in the 20th century order under the Law of War, “unconditional surrender” as in the sense used prior to the modern period would never be established legally. Thus it bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
4. US found that Japan started negotiating to surrender through Soviet in June 1945, to which MacArthur said to the General Staff Office that the War is over. The resolution for starting to negotiate the terms of surrender through Soviet was passed on June 22, 1945 in Japan WITHOUT any knowledge of the US atomic bombs.
5. Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan, knew from his experiences and suggested to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if US agreed to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
6. Both Eisenhower and Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and proposed it to the President on July 20, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945, disagreed and opposed.
7. Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs, and thought that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
8. Preservation of the Emperor was included in the final US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
9. However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
10. On July 16, 1945, Truman heard the ABobm test was successful in Potsdam with a message “Babies satisfactorily born."
11. Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the Abomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly opposed to the idea and refused by saying "you can go home if you do not like it."
12. At the meeting in Potsdam on July 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that "He'll be in the Jap War on August 15th. Fini Japs when that comes about.” This means that if Truman used Abombs BEFORE August 15, the purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
13. On July 25, 1945, Truman told Stimson to use the atomic bombs on Japan, and wrote on this day's diary that he is sure that the Japs will not accept the Potsdam Decleration.
14. The Potsdam declaration was issued July 26, but it was not signed by Soviet, confusing and delaying the sign by the Japanese. It was Truman that refused the signature by Stalin.
15. On the same day, July 26, Truman gave a command to drop the first ABomb on the earliest clear day after August 3.
16. Just before Soviet's invasion, US dropped the ABombs, on August 6 and 9, 1945. On hearing this news, Soviet started invading Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date.
17. The Japanese did not even know what the bombs were, but they surrendered when they found Soviet started invading Manchuria, because with almost no power to fight back even against US, they could not hold a two-front war; Japan did not have other route than through Soviet for negotiating the terms of surrender.
18. Truman said on US TV that they used the ABombs that they "invested" so much money.
19. In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
20. As early as in September 1945, The Armed Forces Joint Commission for Investigating Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan was formed and commenced large scale investigations. Some 1,300 Japanese doctors were pulled into the investigation examining more than 20,000 patients, 17,000 of which were children. Intestines of 200 bodies were sent to Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., for further study.
21. Based on the investigations,"Medical effects of the atomic bomb in Japan” was published from which a graph of mortality rates of atomic bombs vs distance from hypocenter was created. This became the basis of the US nuclear strategy as it gave the crucial figures to calculate the number of atomic bombs required to attack each enemy cities. Some example numbers of Hiroshima-type atomic bombs required to annihilate cities as calculated by the US Air Force from the graph are as follows: Moscow 6, Stalingrad 5, Vladivostok 3, Kirov 2, Tallin 4, Chelyabinak 3, etc.
As such, through these experiments, the US now became the only country in the world with Big Data for the effects of atomic bombs on target cities as well as on human bodies.
22. The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
23. A famous book, "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. This book is used as a must-read text book at West Point today.
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Korean comfort women:
All the Korean comfort women were highly paid prostitutes recruited by Korean dealers. There is NO primary source evidence whatsoever to indicate that there was coercion except for the dodgy statements made by the comfort women who only appears in places where no questions are allowed. The reason for no questions is that in the past they made stupid mistakes that exposed their lies like they were kidnapped by Jeep (Jeep was used by US during Korean War and Japan does not have a single Jeep); the soldier opened his fastener (Japanese was using buttons); and some even mentioned base where only American bases were located during the Korean War.
Instead, there are many evidences to show that they were nothing but prostitutes such as recruitment ads, comfort women’s bank account recordings, diaries, police records of arresting bad Korean dealers who kidnapped girls, newspapers articles on arresting bad Korean dealers, US official report on a station in Burma, etc.
The biggest investigation conducted by a Korean professor at Seoul Uni, Prof. An, for which both Korean and Japanese government cooperated and in which he interviewed all the comfort women who claimed they were coerced, concluded that they are either making mistake or deliberately lying and that there is NO primary source evidence that indicate there was coercion in Korea or Japan. He also said that the objective of the Korean political group behind all this move is not the truth or justice, but it is to bash Japan. This is an investigation conducted by Koreans using Korean money.
Also, subsequently, US government conducted a huge investigation in its official archive during and after the war upon request from South Korean and China. But there found NO evidence whatsoever, and all they found were evidences to indicate that they were professional prostitutes.
So there is absolutely no nothing in Korea, Japan or US.
If you try to find an evidence, you will realize that there are many Korean who say there are plenty of evidences. But when you ask them to show or point to one, nobody can. Not only that, nobody knows what it is, where it is, or even who saw it.
This is what Koreans talk about themselves: according to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in S Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.
“The Sex History of the World War” by Magnus Hirschfeld
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Atrocities by US soldiers:
You can read confessions by US soldiers for their atrocities they committed during the War in books like "Summer, 1945: Germany, Japan and the Harvest of Hate” by Thomas Goodrich.
"We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is right and wrong in the world.
What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought, anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers....
We mutilated the bodies of enemy dead, cutting off their ears and kicking out their gold teeth for souvenirs, and buried them with their testicles in their mouths....
We topped off our saturation bombing and burning of enemy civilians by dropping atomic bombs on two nearly defenseless cities, thereby setting an all-time record for instantaneous mass slaughter.
As victors we are privileged to try our defeated opponents for their crimes against humanity; but we should be realistic enough to appreciate that if we were on trial for breaking international laws, we should be found guilty on a dozen counts. We fought a dishonorable war, because morality had a low priority in battle.
The tougher the fighting, the less room for decency, and in Pacific contests we saw mankind reach the blackest depths of bestiality." ---- Edgar Jones, WWII Veteran
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Atrocities by US soldiers:
You can read confessions by US soldiers for their atorocities they committed during the War in books like "Summer, 1945: Germany, Japan and the Harvest of Hate” by Thomas Goodrich.
"We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is right and wrong in the world.
What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought, anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers....
We mutilated the bodies of enemy dead, cutting off their ears and kicking out their gold teeth for souvenirs, and buried them with their testicles in their mouths....
We topped off our saturation bombing and burning of enemy civilians by dropping atomic bombs on two nearly defenseless cities, thereby setting an all-time record for instantaneous mass slaughter.
As victors we are privileged to try our defeated opponents for their crimes against humanity; but we should be realistic enough to appreciate that if we were on trial for breaking international laws, we should be found guilty on a dozen counts. We fought a dishonorable war, because morality had a low priority in battle.
The tougher the fighting, the less room for decency, and in Pacific contests we saw mankind reach the blackest depths of bestiality." ---- Edgar Jones, WWII Veteran
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Pearl Harbor:
Why Americans were in Hawaii in the first place? The King and Queen of Hawaii asked Japan to help the Kingdom against US invasion in 1880-90s, and this was the true beginning.
Cutting life lines like oil is an act of war. Enforcing the ABCD Encirclement together with sending the Hull Note can also be regarded as an act of declaring a war by the International Law. Because of the oil embargo by US, Japan’s oil was running out in January 1942. Then any country could have invaded Japan without too much effort.
The Pearl Harbor attack was two months before that.
On top of these, even though the US was a neutral country, it was supplying weapons to ROC and helping by way of the Flying Tigers.
After the War, when everything became clear, Douglas MacArthur testified on May 3, 1951 at the US Senate Committee on Armed Services which is the highest rank committee in which US military officers can testify, that Japan fought for its security (not for invasion), while Charles Willoughby, a major general in the U.S. Army, said that the Tokyo Trial was the worst hypocrisy in the history of mankind and that any country would go to a war like Japan did if they were treated the same way.
Hamilton Fish III, the Republican Leader at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack wrote after the WWII that nobody in the Congress knew such a provocative note (Hull Note) was delivered to Japan. Even though he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, he was not informed. Because of the Note, Japan was left with no choice but to fight back or starve to death.
The former President Hoover told MacArthur that Pearl Harbor was a mad man’s (FDR) plot to get a way into the War to help Britain. FDR's contemptuous refusal of the Japanese Prime Minister's peace proposal in September were the crucial precursors to Pearl Harbor. If the US did not provoke Japan, they would not have attacked us.
VENONA Project declassified in 1995 revealed that there were more than 300 Soviet agents in the FDR’s administration. Also, after the collapse of Soviet, a former KGB’s spy, Vitali Pavlov, admitted in front of a TV camera that he was working with Harry Dexter White, who wrote the Hull Note, about the contents of the Note to lure Japan southwards. The name of operation was "Operation Snow," from the name, Harry Dexter “White.” Harry White committed suicide in 1948 after being susupected of being a Soviet spy.
Legally, there was no definition of aggression then and even now in the International Law. Plus, in the Pact of Paris, all countries were assured of self-interpretation rights. Kellogg and Briand send a letter to Japan confirming this, and this letter still exists.
The truth is that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was neither an illegal invasion nor cowardly action.
“Freedom Betrayed” by George Nash
“Tragic Deception” by Hamilton Fish III
“Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government” by M. Stanton Evens
"The Tokyo Trial and Beyond” by Judge Bernard Roling at Tokyo Trial
VENONA files
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Wrong. They were human experiments and genocide.
On June 30, 1946, a confidential report, "United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” prepared by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was reported to Truman concluding that "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
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Atomic Bombs:
Truman knew ABombs were never needed to end the War. They were nothing but horrendous human experiments. The former KKK member was thinking Japanese as beasts, and this played a big role in his decision as shown below:
(1) In September 1944, FDR met Churchill in Hyde Park, New York, and made the Hyde Park Agreement, in which both agreed that if the US succeeds in the ABomb development, it would be used on Japan, and not on Germany.
(2) Following the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on urging Truman to hold the Potsdam meeting to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first ABomb test day on July 16, 1945. The Potsdam meeting was scheduled to be held on the following day, July 17.
(3) On May 8, 1945, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender.” (The idea of unconditional surrender was a FDR’s idea, and was first mentioned at Casablanca Conference on January 24, 1943.)
(4) However, the “unconditional surrender” is a term used for an army but not for a country. It has no definition in the International Law, and under the Law of War, “unconditional surrender” in the sense used before the modern period could never be established legally in the 20th century. Thus the term bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill.
(5) Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan suggested from his experiences to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if the US agrees to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.
(6) Pursuant to the Quebec Agreement (August 19, 1943), which imposed restrictions on US’s use of atomic bombs without prior consent by Britain, Truman requested Churchill at the beginning of June 1945 to sign in consent to use of ABombs on Japan. Churchill signed on this agreement “Operational Use of Tube Alloys” on July 1. Note that neither FDR nor Truman had never asked Britain for the same consent for Germany.
(7) Stimson agreed to Grew's idea and proposed it to the President on June 16, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight til the last person if the US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Later, only Byrnes, who newly came to the office on July 3, 1945 disagreed and opposed.
(8) The Imperial Council of Military Leaders in Japan passed a resolution to negotiate terms of surrender through Soviet on June 22, 1945, without any knowledge of the US ABombs. The US found Japan started this negotiation in the same month of June 1945, and Omar Bradley, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the US Army, reported to Truman after the Battle of Okinawa that Japan was in effect defeated and that it was trying to negotiate the terms of surrender. MacArthur also said to the General Staff Office that the War is over.
(9) Six out of all the seven Five Star Generals were against the use of ABombs with a view that Japan would surrender without them.
(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)
(10) Preservation of the Emperor was included in the US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.
(11) However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.
(12) On July 16, 1945, in Potsdam, Truman received a message “Babies satisfactorily born," meaning that the first ABomb test “Trinity” as a part of the Manhattan Project was successfully carried out by the Los Alamos Laboratory and the US Army in a desert of New Mexico.
(13) Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the ABomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly refused by saying you can go home if you do not like it.
(14) During the first meeting in Potsdam on July 17, Truman asked Stalin, when Soviet would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet. But in Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give Soviet some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that "He'll be in the Jap War on August 15th. Fini Japs when that comes about.” This means that if Truman uses ABombs BEFORE August 15, the purpose for the use would be something other than ending the War.
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(16) The Potsdam declaration was issued on July 26 without a clause to preserve the Emperor, and was not signed by Soviet confusing the Japanese. It was Truman that refused signing by Stalin. Even though the Soviet was not directly involved in a war against Japan at that time, it had already informed Japan in April 1945 that it would not extend the Non-Aggression Pact. Thus from the Japanese perspective, the Soviet was in a position that could attack Japan as an Allied Forces anytime.
(17) On the same day, July 26, Truman gave commands to drop the ABombs on the earliest “clear" day after August 3, exactly one week after the Potsdam Declaration. The commands included detailed instructions to accompany with observation aircrafts to record the effects of the ABombs. Note that the BOTH commands for the two atomic bombs, the first Uranium one dropped in Hiroshima and the second Plutonium one dropped in Nagasaki, were given on the SAME day. Neither MacArthur nor Nimitz knew about the commands.
(18) Just before the planned Soviet's invasion date, the US dropped the ABombs on August 6 and 9, 1945. The B-29s were accompanied by an observation aircraft and another to film and photograph the bombings. The observation aircraft dropped several devices in various parts of the cities to register changes in temperatures, atmospheric pressures, etc., during the explosions. Three of the devices were later collected and are displayed in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum today. Los Alamos National Laboratory registered in its official record about the dropping of ABombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the two "experiments” were successful.
(19) Upon hearing the news, the Soviet commenced the invasion of Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date of August 15.
(20) On the following day, August 10, the Emperor issued an Imperial decree to accept the Potsdam Declaration. The reason for surrender, according to the Emperor as recorded in the Imperial Record declassified in 2015, was the Soviet’s invasion because Japan no longer had an ability to hold a two-front war. (Already 66 other civilian cities were completely destructed by the US’s indiscriminately bombing that the destruction of two more cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, could not trigger capitulation.) Subsequently, Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration on August 15.
(21) Truman said in a TV announcement that the US dropped ABombs that they "invested” two billion dollars.
(22) As early as in September 1945, "The Armed Forces Joint Commission for Investigating Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan,” lead by Col. Ashley W. Oughterson who arrived in Japan September 1, 1945, was formed and commenced large scale investigations. Some 1,300 Japanese doctors were pulled into the investigation examining more than 20,000 patients, 17,000 of which were children. Intestines of 200 bodies were secretly sent to Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., for further study without notifying their families. These intestines are now kept in formalin at Uni. of Hiroshima and Uni. of Okayama.
(23) Based on the investigations, "Medical effects of the atomic bomb in Japan” was published in 1953 from which a graph of mortality rates by atomic bombs vs distance from hypocenter was created. This became the basis for the US nuclear strategy as it gave the crucial figures to calculate the number of atomic bombs required to attack each enemy cities. Some numbers of Hiroshima-type atomic bombs required to annihilate cities as calculated by the US Air Force from the graph are as follows: Moscow 6, Stalingrad 5, Vladivostok 3, Kirov 2, Tallin 4, Chelyabinak 3, etc.
As such, through these experiments, the US now became the only country in the world with Big Data for the effects of atomic bombs on target cities as well as on human bodies.
(24) On June 30, 1946, a confidential report, "United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” prepared by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was reported to Truman concluding that "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”
(25) The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.
(26) In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."
(27) An acclaimed book "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Waltzer, condemns the uses of atomic bombs as crimes. Waltzer also accuses the US Government for not even trying to negotiate with the Japanese to surrender before the dropping of the bombs. He says it was a double crime in the sense that the US did not try to avoid, and the bombs were dropped on civilians cities. This book is used as a text book at West Point today.
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