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@johnfellows689
I don't think the Japanese soldiers didn't do anything wrong at all in the war.
But today it has been becoming clear that NOT everything the Allies has accused Japan of committing during World War II was true.
The Allies circulated a lot of propaganda/fake news to let the young people of their own country go to the battlefield.
After the war, the Allies have further adapted and used them to hide the dirty demeanor they did and their own war crimes.
The Nanjing Massacre is one of those Propaganda which was fabricated by anti-Japanese activist US missionary John Magee.
While saying, "This is what the Japanese soldiers did," Magee was showing a footage in the United States. In his footage, several Chinese people were lying on the ground. However, the footage made it impossible to tell whether the people were alive or dead.
I couldn't help but remember his footage when I saw the footage called "The Bucha Massacre."
And Magee spread the lie in the United States that 50,000 Japanese soldiers killed 42,000 Chinese civilians in Nanjing.
However, in fact, Japanese soldiers who actually entered Nanjing was only about 3,000.
The reason why he worked to spread such propaganda was to make the anti-war American people accept the war with Japan.
Then, this story was further distorted by the Allies, including Chiang Kai-shek, to justify the war crimes against Japanese.
The CCP currently claims that the number of civilian casualties during the Nanjing incident was 300,000.
On the other hand, before Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces fled from Nanjing, it was announced that there were 200,000 civilians in Nanjing City.
According to multiple sources, the number of civilians at the time the Japanese army left Nanjing was approximately 250,000.
The reason why the number of civilians when the Japanese military was leaving from Nanjing was higher than the number announced by the Kuomintang is because those who had evacuated from Nanjing due to fear of fighting had returned.
And, there is the case of Palau.
Palau was ceded to Japan after WW1, Japan treated Palau like a regional city in Japan not colony.
After WW2 it was occupied by the United States. After destroying the structures Japan built for the people of Palau, the United States made Palau textbooks rewrite about "fictitious atrocities committed by Japan".
Palau reverted to the fact-based textbooks they knew after the US left.
From 1999 to 2007, the United States conducted extensive investigations about the following war crimes allegations:
- The Japanese army systematically forcibly kidnapped 200,000 women, made them sex slaves, and killed them when they became sick.
- Unit 731 conducted human experiments.
The United States spent about $30 million on the eight-year investigation, trying to uncover evidence and material about them from about 8.5 million pages of classified documents.
However, the objective evidence that was thought to be available in this investigation was not found.
In the 142,000 pages of confidential documents held by the United States about Unit 731, there was no evidence that Unit 731 conducted human experiments or engaged in germ warfare.
This means that everything said about Unit 731 after the war has been proven to be an unsubstantiated fabrication.
Conversely, the study about comfort women revealed that:
-The comfort women system was an extension of the legalized prostitution system in Japan at the time.
-The Japanese military initiated this system to prevent general violence against women and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
-The U.S. military did not recognize the criminal nature of the comfort women system of the Japanese military.
As we can see from above things, the Allies has made people believe "Japan's fictitious war crimes" as if it’s true in order to justify their actions during WW2.
And, asian countries, which were judged by the Allies as "invaded by Japan", had received a large amount of compensation from Japan.
Considering the above, I can't help but think that "the damage that there is no other objective evidence just by testimony or hearsay" is suspicious.
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@johnfellows689
Another case, the mass starvation of French Indochina, is said to have been committed by the Japanese military, but I think it is also fabricated political propaganda.
The source of the "2 million starvation incident" seems to be based on the following part of the "Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam" read by Ho Chi Minh, President of the Provisional Government, on September 2, 1945.
“In the fall of 1940, when Japanese fascists invaded Indochina to expand their base to attack the Allies, the French colonialists bowed their knees and surrendered, opening their country's doors and inviting Japan in. From that time on, our people were under the double yoke of France and Japan. Since then, our people have become increasingly poor and poor. As a result, more than 2 million fellow countrymen died of starvation from late last year to early this year, from Quang Tri (in the central region) to Bach Bo (in the north). ”
Certainly, in September 1940, after the Japan-French Indochina Military Agreement was signed, that is, with the permission of the Vichy government, Japanese troops stationed into French Indochina.
The purpose was to "cut off the supply route for arms and supplies from the United States to Chiang Kai-shek.”
So, It was necessary for the Japanese Station Forces to coexist with the governor general of the French Vichy regim in Indochina.
So at first they did not annihilate the French governors who had attacked the Japanese Station Forces, ignoring the orders of the French government, and made peace with them.
After that, the Japanese military maintained a cooperative relationship with the French Indochina Government-General and stationed modestly in a remote area far from civilization.
Also the Japanese military did not directly give orders or force anything to the ordinary people in Vietnam, and the necessary amount of food was purchased from the French colonial government.
Afterwards, when the Vichy government fell in France, the French colonial government in French Indochina turned to the Allied side, and after a battle with the Japanese army, the French disarmed.
This was March 1945.
It means, French Indochina was under effective Japanese control for only five months until August 1945.
Moreover, as Mr. Ho Chi Minh said, the two million deaths from starvation occurred from the end of 1944 to the beginning of 1945, during which time Vietnam was under French rule.
In short, there is no reason for Japan to be held responsible for the starvation deaths.
At that time, Hanoi was alternately hit by great floods and droughts, resulting in many starving deaths.
In the 1990s, communist forces fabricated propaganda linking this to the Japanese military because it was close to when they happened.
Originally, northern Vietnam relied on transportation from the southern granary for food supply.
However, the number of deaths from starvation in the north increased due to the fact that the railroads to the granary areas of the south tended to be cut off due to Allied bombing.
Furthermore, the amount of rice that Vietnam claims was "stolen by the Japanese military" is extremely strange.
The Japanese 21st Division, stationed in French Indochina, had a maximum strength of approximately 25,000 soldiers.
Assuming that all of those 25,000 soldiers ate 10 cups (20 rice bowls🍚, 1.5 kg) a day like gluttonous sumo wrestlers, the rice consumption of the entire army was 37,500 kg/day.
In other words, the annual rice requirement for the 21st Division in this case would be approximately 13,700 tons/year.
Meanwhile, Vietnam claims that the Japanese military captured 468,000 tons in the first three months.
In the above case, this amount of rice is equivalent to 34 years' worth of rice.
And, Vietmam says that a total of 3,550,000 tons were also taken over the next five years.
The amount is more than 50 times that of five years.
However, considering that the Japanese military did not have to steal tens of times more rice, this story can only be called insane.
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