Comments by "115islands Compass" (@115islandscompass6) on "How U.S. Americanized Japan" video.

  1. Japan had apologized to China so many times that the Global Times published a newspaper article saying, "Japan has apologized 17 times, so there is no need to apologize anymore." Many of the stories, such as Nanjing massacre, that are being spread today were fabricated, but Japan has provided reparations and apologies as demanded by the Allied Powers. If you search for "Japan's war reparations", you will immediately find out which countries were repared and the amount of reparations. If you Google "List of war apology statements issued by Japan", you will be able to see the apologies that Japan has made so far on Wikipedia. In short, it is lies that Japan has not officially apologized or compensated.
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  2. Japan's Pearl Habor did NOT pull the US into the war. British historian Colonel Russell Grenfell wrote, "The attack on Pearl Harbor was not only predicted, it was expected. There is no doubt that President F. Roosevelt wanted to lead America to war. For some reason, the first blow had to come from the other side, which is why they tightened their grip on Japan.The president of the United States forced Japan to attack the United States.” In short, the United States framed Japan, and then it made Japan launch a preemptive attack against the US in order to participate in World War II, which had already begun in Europe.
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  3. Westernization of Japan began after Perry's arrival. The Meiji Restoration was a coup d'état, and as always, Britain was behind it. The reason Japan was able to remain isolated during the Sengoku and Edo periods was because it possessed the most matchlock guns in the world. However, with Perry's arrival, Japan's leaders realized that Japan had become a technologically underdeveloped country due to the industrial revolution in Europe and the United States, and that its military defense capabilities had declined as a result. Therefore, they tried to prevent the invasion of white colonialist imperialists by studying Western civilization and Westernizing Japan.
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  4. Japan had no choice but to go to war with the United States because it was cornered by the United States with oil embargoes and economic sanctions. The United States claimed that the reason for these economic sanctions and oil embargoes was "Japan's invasion of China and French Indochina." However, the stationing of French Indochina was done under an agreement with the French government. Japan did this in order to cut off the support route for weapons and supplies that were being sent to Chiang Kai-shek, and the purpose of cutting off support was to end the conflict with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces, which did not respond to calls for peace negotiations.
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  5. Even in modern times, the Allied power's claim that Japan began its invasion of China after the Manchurian Incident has become a "common theory,” but this is a distortion. John Van Antwerp MacMurray, Beijing's ambassador to China from 1925 to 1929, submitted a detailed report in 1935 stating like this: "I condemn Japan for causing the Manchurian Incident. However, it was China that created the cause. Compared to other countries, all diplomats in each country admit that Japan has made the most sincere efforts to protect the Washington regime. On the other hand, China continued to provoke Japan. Japan could not stand it and asked the American and European countries that agreed to the Washington system to review the Washington system. However, the U.S. and European countries, especially the U.S. government, stood on the Chinese side and ignored Japan's request." "As the U.S. and European countries acquiesced to China's tyrannical behavior, Japan embarked on the Manchurian Incident. Japan is responsible for the Manchurian Incident itself, but considering the process of getting there, the Incident itself is like reaping the seeds that China has sown itself." The provocations MacMurray mentions include repeated violations of treaties by warlords and anti-Japanese Chinese, as well as acts of violence and terrorism against Japanese people, including stone-throwing, looting, kidnapping, rape, and murder. At this time, American warmongers were secretly manipulating Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek by providing enormous support in the form of funds, supplies, and weapons. The United States continued to provide significant support to the Kuomintang and trained Chinese soldiers. The Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek continued to violate the agreement with Japan and continued to carry out anti-Japanese terrorist acts. After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japan wanted to avoid escalation into war, so it immediately began ceasefire negotiations and concluded four agreements within three weeks. However, Chiang Kai-shek broke all peace agreements by conducting terrorist attacks on the Japanese. For example, the Kuomintang literally massacred more than 200 Japanese people living in Tongzhou Settlement. Also KMT attacked the Tianjin Japanese Settlement, where 10,000 Japanese people lived. In response to this, the Japanese government decided to increase the number of security forces stationed in China in order to protect the lives and property of Japanese residents. Chiang Kai-shek then besieged the Shanghai Concession and bombarded it with air force and artillery. Approximately 30,000 Japanese people were staying in Shanghai at the time, as Japanese people who could no longer endure the violence in various parts of China were gathering to return home. The fighter planes that carried out the bombing were given to Chiang Kai-shek by the United States. The conflict thus gradually escalated into China incident.
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  6. The United States spent approximately $30 million and eight years from 1999 to 2007 to comb through classified U.S. documents regarding Japanese and German war crimes. However, none of the documents expected to be found regarding Unit 731 were ever found.
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  7. Don't Americans think anything about the US torturing and sometimes killing Japanese people?
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  8. It's propaganda. The people of the Korean Empire, including Lee Wanyong, wanted to be annexed by Japan rather than being colonized by China and Russia due to the collapse of national finances, and Japan was forced to comply and annexed the Korean Peninsula. After the annexation, Japanese was taught in schools on the peninsula to communicate with Japanese people, but Hangul was also taught at the same time. It is said that Manchuria was invaded and cut out by Japan, but in fact, Manchurians ruled and Manchurians mainly used Manchurian, as well as Chinese, Russian, and Japanese.
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  9.  @Darknova591  I think that after the Xi'an incident, Chiang Kai-shek was used in the same way that Ƶe|en$ky is now. At the time, the two major powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, were cooperating, and the Chinese Communist Party received support from the Soviet Union. Chiang Kai-shek was demanded to cooperate with the Chinese Communist Party at the Xi'an Incident, but was also promised significant support from the United States. Perhaps instead of resisting those great powers, while responding to their demands, he intended to use those power to unify and control China and then oppose foreign powers. However, in the end, he was betrayed by America.
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  10. Below are some of the things America has done to colonize the Japanese after the war. The United States removed approximately 230,000 conservatives from key positions and replaced them with left-wing and communist puppets. Communists detained as thought criminals were released, so the Japanese Communist Party, which was secretly formed before war, gained power and citizenship. Approximately 7,700 books thought to contribute to the cultural and spiritual cultivation of the Japanese people were banned and burned. Textbooks were rewritten so that Japanese people would not have patriotic, and institutions and systems were created and installed to continue anti-Japanese education. Laws such as the Constitution made it legally and economically difficult for Japan to increase its military power. Twice a month, meetings are held between U.S. government officials and bureaucrats, not elected politicians, and those bureaucrats receive direct instructions from the United States. Japanese politicians who tried to resist American domination have been either expelled from politics or died unnatural deaths.
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  11. A thorough investigation by the United States shows that the story of Unit 731 was a communist fabrication. Unit 731 was originally an anti-epidemic unit. During the war with the Qing Dynasty, 90% of the Japanese casualties were due to epidemics of infectious diseases on the continent. For this reason, Japan later became to set up a unit to research water supply and epidemic prevention. Unit 731 was just one of them. After invading Manchuria, the Soviet army unfairly detained some members of Unit 731 and forced them to testify at the trial that "outrageous things had been done" using torture and other means. But this was a forced "confession" through death threats and unwarranted interrogation and torture. There was also an environment in which they were brainwashed as if the story they wanted POW to admit was actually done. Therefore, those veterans's confessions are not credible. It was in the 1980s that the story of Unit 731 came out again. It was through the novel "Devil's gluttony," which was published in a newspaper published by the Japanese Communist Party. The author of the novel said that he was inspired by Unit 731, but that the content of story was fictional. However, the communists took it as if it were true and made a fuss. And a report that seems to prove that the content written in the novel is true was also "discovered". The report said that this was a summary report of a confidential document signed an affidavit of 19 doctors of Unit 731. Because of this report, the Chinese believed Unit 731 had actually done something outrageous. The Chinese thought that in the archives of classified US documents, which had a habit of recording everything, there should be an affidavit signed by 19 doctors of Unit 731, objective evidence of human experiments, etc. The president of the United States at that time had been strongly backed by a big Chinese group in the United States, so he responded to demands of Chinese supporters for the investigation by spending about $30 million in U.S. tax dollars to conduct an in-depth study over a period of 8 years from 1999 to 2007. However, the "affidavits of 19 doctors" were not found. As you know, the President of the United States has the authority to declassify any confidential documents. Nevertheless, no "affidavits signed by 19 doctors" nor notes or reports as evidence of human experiments were found. In short, it has already been revealed decades ago that such a terrible story of Unit 731 is all propaganda fabricated by communist forces.
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  12. The story that "Unit 731 did something wrong" is a fabrication of communist forces.
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  13. It's all propaganda.
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  14. As a result of war against the pressure of aggression from neighboring countries since the Meiji period, Japan had a huge foreign debt. After the Japan-U.S. War, the Japanese paid off their huge debt while being ridiculed as workaholics. The exact amount is unknown because refinancing was repeated, but it is believed that the repayment was completed around the end of the 1980s. The Plaza agreement was in 1985, and Japan and the United States were planning to change the rate more slowly at that time. However, someone leaked, and Japanese export-related companies suffered heavy losses.
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  15. The United States did not rebuild Japan. Rather, it was trying to starve another 10 million civilians during the occupation period. GHQ exploited government funds, stealing precious metals and jewelry donated by civilians to the Japanese government, and occupation soldiers also looted civilians. Thieves don't rebuild.
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  16.  @dekuboidonut4552  GHQ forced Japanese government to pay the cost, including the cost of stationing the occupation forces, from the Japanese national budget during the occupation period. Especially for the first three years, one-third of the national budget was exploited for the luxurious life of the occupying forces, while many Japanese, mainly war orphans, were starving to death in front of GIs' eyes. In fact, there are records that GHQ ordered the Japanese government to keep starving children and starving corpses out of sight of the occupying soldiers. And, at the exchange rate at the time, that total exceed $5 billion.
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  17.  @dekuboidonut4552  Certainly, after the war, the US "Government Appropriation for Relief in Occupied Areas Fund(Garioa)" and EROA funds that were provided to Japan totaled $1.8 billion. It is true that the United States used these money to purchase surplus wheat for livestock feed in the United States and gave the wheat to the Japanese people as food. With this, Americans often say that the United States helped Japan. But the US later(60's) began to call the $1.8 billion, which should have been aid money, debt. So, Japan repaid $480 million after bilateral negotiations. This looks like only 1/3.75 paid back, but it is not. The currency rate these funds were given was ¥15/$ in 1945, ¥50/$ in 1946 and 1947, ¥270/$ in 1948. It's a bit rough calculation, but the average of the rates is about ¥96/$ during this period. Since the rate at the time of repayment was ¥360/$. Therefore, the actual money value of the amount requested by the United States from Japan and the amount repaid is the same.
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  18. @dekuboidonut4552 In 2019, the memo of Mr. Robert William Komer, a senior US official at the time, was declassified. The summary of the memo was as follows. “We have invested in South Korea, but we can't see the future. Let JΛP take over this burden.” At that time, the United States was trying to grow and develop South Korea as a front-line nation against communist forces on the continent. The United States invested $ 300 million a year in South Korea after the Korean War, but with no success. As the Vietnam War began and the burden of war costs increased, the United States made Japan take over the aid, including funding for South Korea. Due to this coercion, Japan was forced to abandon Japan's public and private property (about $ 2.2 billion) left in South Korea, and also gave South Korea a total of $ 800 million for a fee and a grant as a national congratulatory gift. After that, Japan had provided various support including funds. The total amount of ODA alone so far is 23 trillion yen. Since the above, South Korea has kept to dispute with Japan in order to withdraw money from Japan. The United States dislikes the swaying security cooperation in the Far East, which consists of Japan, the United States and South Korea. So, by making a fuss about "fabricated historical problems", South Korea has demanded the United States to make Japan pay money. For example, the comfort women's early testimony included "I was taken away by helicopter," "I was carried on a jeep," and "At Christmas, I was very busy." However, during WWll, the Japanese didn't have any helicopter or any jeep, and Japanese didn't have the habit of celebrating Christmas.
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  19. What atrocities are we talking about? Chiang Kai-shek claimed at the Tokyo Trials that the number of Chinese victims was 1 million, including the massacre of 200,000 in Nanjing. However, even the Tokyo Trials, which were criticized as a lynching by the victorious nation against the defeated nation, failed to prove that the Nanjing Massacre took place. The Chinese Communist Party did not fight the Japanese military at all, but after the war, it believed that anti-Japanese ideology could be used for diplomatic purposes, and the number of victims increased year by year. However, there is no objective evidence for that number.
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