Comments by "115islands Compass" (@115islandscompass6) on "Atomic bombing of Japan was NOT necessary to end WWII. US gov't documents admit it" video.
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Even if you have never seen a nuclear bomb, the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have.
The United States actually dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
While LeMay's air strikes on Tokyo were certainly terrible, the most devastating air raid was the one in March when about 115,000 civilians were burned to death. But even that air raid took two hours for the indiscriminate genocide to end.
However, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were reduced to ashes in an instant after the atomic bomb exploded. Approximately 80,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki, but the number of victims continues to rise due to radioactive contamination, with the current number exceeding 500,000.
The United States bombed 430 cities and towns, leaving approximately 500,000 dead and missing, but only the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are left to die from the atomic bombing.
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I have to say that I have doubts about the number of casualties caused by the Japanese military as claimed by the Chinese side.
At the post-war Tokyo Trials, Chiang Kai-shek stated that the number of victims was one million, including 200,000 in the Nanjing Massacre.
However, although it is claimed that a massacre occurred during the Nanjing Incident, there is no objective evidence of the massacre, only hearsay and rumors.
The Chinese Communist Party now claims the number of victims is 300,000.
On the other hand, before the National Revolutionary Army fled from Nanjing, it was announced that the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was 200,000.
And when the Japanese army left Nanjing, there were about 220,000 to 250,000 citizens in Nanjing. This can be confirmed from multiple records.
The reason the number of people after the Japanese army withdrew is higher than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army is because Nanjing citizens who had evacuated due to fear of fighting returned to Nanjing.
Don't those who claim there was a massacre in Nanjing find something strange when they hear these numbers?
And I have to say that the number of casualties doubled every year by the Chinese Communist Party, which has also never fought a war with Japan, is highly questionable.
Because they use hearsay and rumors as evidence as well as the massacre in Nanjing, and there is no objective evidence.
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In the early 1990s, South Korea began to be agitated by the comfort women issue.
South Korea claims that “200,000 women were forced into sexual slave labor and massacred,'' and has erected stone monuments and statues of young girls around the world.
However, a thorough US investigation later revealed that it was all a fabrication.
Yes, there were comfort stations, but the people working there were professional prostitutes who had applied for jobs.
They were highly paid, with most taking home between $600,000 and $2 million at the end of their three-year contracts.
In other words, they were not sex slaves.
The original purpose was to prevent sexual crimes by Japanese soldiers while on duty and to prevent the spread of disease, so the health conditions of comfort women were carefully monitored through periodic medical checkups by military doctors.
In other words, their lives and health were carefully protected.
According to a study by a Korean economist, there are an estimated 3,700 Korean comfort women.
In other words, it was a complete fabrication that 200,000 Korean women were forced to work in comfort stations.
As mentioned above, the "massacre of 200,000 Korean comfort women" was also proven to be a fabricated propaganda.
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As found out in the U.S. thoroughly survey, the story about Unit 731 is 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.
President Clinton was 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 eight-year exhaustive investigation.
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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It's a lie that "Japan invaded China" in the first place.
It is obvious that it was Chiang Kai-shek's side that provoked the war from the Lugou Bridge incident in 1937.
Both the Kuomintang forces and the Japanese army claim to have been shot at during the Marco Polo Bridge Incident from the other.
But, the Japanese army had a rule not to use live ammunition in military exercises.
So it was impossible for the Japanese army to shoot Kuomintang soldiers.
Furthermore, the Japanese side immediately began peace negotiations immediately after the incident to prevent the conflict from escalating.
Over the next three weeks, the Japanese side signed four peace agreements with Chiang Kai-shek.
However, by the Chinese side, all of these agreements were broken due to frequent incidents of assault, looting, and massacres by the Chinese against Japanese residents, as well as sporadic incidents of abductions and massacres of Japanese soldiers.
Particularly brutal massacres occurred in Tongzhou, where more than 200 Japanese residents were brutally murdered.
According to a newspaper article at the time,
“The Chinese were cutting up and killing Japanese infants, children, and the elderly.
All of the bodies of women in their late teens or older had been raped. The bodies of these women had sticks thrust into their crotches to humiliate them.
A pregnant woman's corpse was found with her abdomen slit lengthwise. Her fetus had been removed and crushed by someone's foot.
The bodies of several men had been torn off from the waist down after being dragged with ropes and dumped in a pond...”
As assaults and massacres by Chinese people against Japanese people continued not only in Tongzhou but also in other parts of China.
The Tianjin Concession, where 10,000 Japanese residents lived, and Shanghai, where 30,000 Japanese people lived, were surrounded by the Chinese side, and had been attacked by artillery and air strikes.
Because of these incidents, Japan decided to increase its troops in China, and the conflict led to war.
Chiang Kai-shek was given money and weapons by the US, so he might not have been able to call for a truce, like Ze/enskyy is doing now.
However, even in that case, it was Chiang Kai-shek and the United States who provoked and caused the proxy war, not Japan.
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The Allies still criticize Japan for invading China since the Manchurian Incident, but this was propaganda to justify the war with Japan.
Originally, the Qing Dynasty was a country built by the Manchu people, and the Manchurian region, its birthplace, was prohibited by the Qing Dynasty for non-Manchu people to migrate without the permission of the Qing Dynasty.
But it was occupied by Russia From the time of The Boxer Rebellion. Manchuria had become as if it were a Russian territory.
Qing had already given up on Manchuria as stolen by Russia, and had done nothing more.
Japan wanted to avoid war with Russian Empire until the end, but Russia continued to expand its military bases by increasing the forces of Manchuria and building fortresses in Korea (Korean Empire), and so on.
So, the Japanese government was forced to fight Russia.
After winning the Russo-Japanese War, Japan signed the Treaty of Portsmouth and was granted the South Manchurian Railway and related areas from Russia.
On the other hand, however, Japan returned the entire vast expanse of Manchuria to the Qing Dynasty.
If Japan were an expansionist nation, as the Allies claimed, then Japan would have occupied Manchuria and claimed it as Japan's.
But Japan didn't do that.
After Japan expelled Russians from Manchuria in the Russo-Japanese War, a large number of Chinese who are not Manchurians poured in from the surrounding areas, and the population increased from 10 million to 30 million.
In this way, Chinese from other ethnic groups, including the Han Chinese, entered Manchuria, but the Manchurians were dissatisfied with the fact that other ethnic groups entered their ethnic home. Because after the center of China became the Republic of China, Manchurians were forbidden to enter the center of China. And they came to want to rebuild the Manchu country in their hometown.
Sun Yat-sen, on the other hand, did not considered Manchuria a part of China and even approached Japan to negotiate the sale of Manchuria during the revolution.
From this, we can see that Sun Yat-sen did not think that Japan stole Manchuria from the Republic of China.
He thought that it was okay to give Manchuria to Japan because it is not their(Han Chinese) own land, which is the land of the Han people, but the land of different ethnic groups (Manchu people).
However, when the revolution succeeded and the Republic of China was established, it changed to a policy of inheriting all the territory of Qing, and from the perspective of the Han people such as Tibet and Mongolia, it began to unify regions of different ethnic groups.
Since 1927, the United States secretly ordered Chinese warlords with money and weapons to carry out terrorist attacks against Japan.
Hired Chinese continued to loot, rape, and kill Japanese living in China.
The warlords attacked the settlements indiscriminately, resulting in the casualties of Manchu, Han Chinese, and Korean civilians as well.
The Chinese government not only did not crack down on the warlords, but also attacked in Manchuria, so people asked Japan for help. However, the Japanese government did nothing because it wanted to avoid an all-out war with China supported by the United States.
Disappointed people sought help from the Kwantung Army, a security force in the Manchurian region.
At that time, there were about 240,000 Chinese warlords and about 10,000 Kwantung Army soldiers, but the Kwantung Army's strategy succeeded in driving them out of Manchuria in one month. This month-long operation is called the Manchurian Incident.
The Manchu people took the opportunity for the warlords to be kicked out and founded Manchukuo.
Then, the Allies claimed that Japan established a puppet state after the Manchurian Incident, and that Japan stole territory from China.
However, this assertion is inconsistent with "Twilight in the Forbidden City" written by an Englishman who was Pu Yi's tutor.
Also, the U.S. minister John McMurry, who was the U.S. ambassador to Beijing in 1931 of the Manchurian Incident, submitted a detailed report in 1935, which he said as excerpted follows:
"I condemn Japan for causing the Manchurian Incident. However, it was China that created the cause. Compared with other countries, all diplomats in each country admit that Japan has made the most sincere efforts to protect the Washington system. On the other hand, China continued to provoke Japan. Japan couldn't bear it and asked the U.S. 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."
"While the U.S. and European countries acquiesced to China's tyrannical behavior, Japan stepped into the Manchurian Incident. Japan is responsible for the Manchurian Incident itself, but considering the process of getting there, the incident itself is like China is harvesting the seeds it has sowed by itself."
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Therefore, many Japanese people don't even know that the United States started a war against Japan.
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 fact, On August 12, 1941, Roosevelt held a secret meeting on the Navy heavy cruiser Augusta with Churchill, who visited on the cruiser Prince of Wales, off Newfound Round Island in Canada.
Already at that time, Roosevelt and Churchill had decided that they forced Japan into a war with the United States, and also decided that after defeating Japan, they would never again allow it to have the ability to self-defense.
This was 4 months BEFORE the attack on Pearl Harbor attack.
In short, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and Britain had decided to make Japan a colony of the United States after fighting and destroying with Japan.
Also, it means that no matter how much Japan shows diplomatic compromise and obedience to the United States, the United States was going to keep provoking until Japan made a preemptive strike.
Incidentally, the United States was preparing to start a war against Japan from the United States in China in case Japan did not make a preemptive attack.
This attack plan was called “JB. No. 355.”
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The Truman administration knew that neither the atomic bomb nor the landing operation was necessary to end the war.
From the beginning of 1945, the Japanese government had repeatedly made proposals for peace talks through the Swiss OSS.
The OSS was the predecessor of the CIA.
So the PDF file of this record is posted on the CIA website and can be read by anyone.
If you want to read it, search for the name of the following PDF file:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
In the May contact record, the Japanese government clearly conceded defeat, stating that the only condition for Japan's surrender was the retention of the emperor, and that it's necessary so that Japan would not become a communist state.
He said so because there were many communist spies in Japan, and they were looking for a chance of a defeat revolution in Japan at that time.
In fact, according to the Venona document, there were about 50,000 communist spies in Japan at that time.
In response to this May contact, Joseph Grew, former ambassador to Japan, submitted a draft of what would later be called the Potsdam Declaration to Truman, proposing that by the declaration they urge Japan to surrender.
At this time, Grew wrote a sentence that guaranteed the position of the emperor in Article 12.
It can be read from Stimson's memoirs that there was a recognition that this would encourage Japan's immediate surrender.
However, when the atomic bomb was completed on July 16, before the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the protection of the emperor was deleted.
In short, the United States knew very well that neither atomic bombs nor landing operations were necessary to end the war.
However, the United States did not want to miss the opportunity to test a completely new atomic bomb in the city where people actually live.
The United States wanted to examine in order to find out how it destroys the city, how it kills/harms people, and how the radioactive pollution of bombs that remains behind harms the human body.
So the Truman administration changed the Potsdam Declaration and carried out those indiscriminate genocides.
The above historical facts has not been taught in Japanese schools.
Because the educators who are the puppets of the United States want the Japanese to hate Japan, not the United States.
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According to Kissinger, on August 12, 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met aboard the Prince of Wales off the Newfound Round in Canada.
Already at that time, Roosevelt and Churchill had decided that they would force Japan into a war with the United States, and that after defeating Japan, it would never again be allowed to have the ability to self-defense.
This was four months BEFORE the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In short, even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and Britain had decided to make Japan a colony of the United States after fighting and destroying it with Japan.
In April 1942, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov visited Washington.
At the meeting, Roosevelt promised Molotov that he would make Japan a country that would never again have armaments after it was crushed.
After the indiscriminate genocide of Japanese people, the United States occupied Japan and made it a colony. The United States has only deployed military forces to intervene and exploit puppet politics in order not to hand over Japan to other countries.
For the above purposes, GHQ expelled conservatives from Japan's important organization since the occupation, placing leftists and communists in those major about 230,000 posts instead.
And GHQ created several institutions (e.g. academic conferences) that censor Japanese education and thought, and created a mechanism for those who gained interests due to the defeat to control Japan. Of course they are American puppets.
At the end of the occupation period, Prime Minister Yoshida, who was a puppet of GHQ, signed the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.
With this treaty, Japan agrees to give up most of its sovereignty and continue to accept the U.S. occupation.
Even now, nearly 80 years later, they continue to destroy Japan from the inside under the direction of the United States.
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Japan had already raised a white flag on the diplomatic route below the surface. The two atomic bombs were dropped not to end the war, but for experiments.
I do not believe that Japanese soldiers did not commit any war crimes.
But not everything that the Allies accuse Japan of committing during World War II is true.
The Allies spread a large amount of propaganda (fake news) to increase their fighting spirit.
After the war, the Allies further distorted and used them to cover up their own dirty deeds and their own war crimes.
The Nanjing Massacre was a piece of propaganda fabricated by John Magee, an American missionary and anti-Japanese activist.
"This is what Japanese soldiers did," he said, showing footage of several Chinese people lying on the ground in the United States. However, the video was not of Chinese people being killed by Japanese people, and it was not possible to confirm whether the people lying on the ground were actually dead.
Magee then spread the lie to the United States that 50,000 Japanese soldiers killed 42,000 Chinese civilians in Nanjing.
However, only about 3,000 Japanese soldiers actually entered Nanking.
The reason he tried to disseminate such propaganda was to get anti-war American citizens to accept war with Japan.
This story was then further distorted by the Allies, including Chiang Kai-shek, to justify war crimes against the Japanese.
And then there's the example of Palau.
After World War I, Palau was ceded to Japan. Japan treated Palau not as a colony but as a local Japanese city.
After World War II, Palau was occupied by the United States. After Japan destroyed many of the structures built for the Palauan people, the United States had Palau's textbooks rewritten about "imaginary atrocities committed by Japan."
After the US left, Palau returned to textbooks based on the facts they knew.
From 1999 to 2007, the so-called Interagency Working Group (IWG) report on the Japanese-German war crimes investigation was produced under the Japan-hating, pro-China Clinton administration.
To date, the IWG has investigated the following alleged war crimes:
- The Japanese military systematically abducted 200,000 women, used them as sex slaves, and killed them when they became sick.
- Unit 731 conducted human experiments.
The United States spent a huge amount of money (approximately $30 million) and eight years trying to find evidence and materials related to these matters from approximately 8.5 million pages of classified documents.
However, the objective evidence that was thought to be available was not discovered during this investigation.
The 142,000 pages of classified documents about Unit 731 held by the United States found no evidence that Unit 731 conducted human experiments or engaged in germ warfare.
This means that everything that was said about Unit 731 after the war has been proven to be a baseless fabrication.
Conversely, research on comfort women revealed the following:
-The comfort women system was an extension of Japan's licensed prostitution system at the time.
-The Japanese military started this system to prevent common violence against women and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
-The US military did not recognize the criminality of the Japanese military's comfort women system.
As you can see from the above, in order to justify their actions during World War II, the Allied Powers made people believe in "Japan's fictitious war crimes" as if they were true. I did.
Asian countries judged by the Allies to have been invaded by Japan received large amounts of reparations from Japan.
However, based on the above, we cannot help but think that "damage caused by only testimony and hearsay and no other objective evidence" is questionable.
They are created only for propaganda warfare, used as diplomatic weapons, and sometimes used to draw money, but they are not true.
In fact, in 2015, the United States forced Japan to pay 1 billion yen in compensation and apologize to South Korea, even though the United States already knew in 2007 that the comfort women issue was a fabricated issue created by South Korea to extort Japan.
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Korea had long been treated as a vassal state of the Qing dynasty. After the war with Qing, Japan made Yi Dynasty Korea independent and supported the Korean Empire to become a modern state. However, the Korean Empire collapsed economically and began to lease the land in exchange for a huge debt to France and Russia. Many Koreans from the ruling class who felt the danger of colonization filed petitions for annexation to Japan at least four times, so Japan agreed to annexation.
During the period of annexation of the Korean peninsula, Japan did the following to improve the lives of Koreans on the peninsula.
・Abolition of slavery
・Water and sewage system maintenance
・Planting 100 million trees on bald mountains
・Construction of approximately 5,000 schools
・Improvement of medical welfare
・Improvement of food production
・Preparation, supervision, and education of Hangul language
At the time of annexation, Koreans were also Japanese, so of course there was no forced labor.
As a result, Koreans' life expectancy doubled and their population doubled.
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The Manchurian Incident, the China Incident, and the Japanese-Chinese War were all caused by repeated acts of anti-Japanese terrorism, such as looting, rape, and massacre of the Japanese by the Chinese.
This anti-Japanese terrorist act was carried out in exchange for weapons and funds under a secret deal between the United States and the Chinese people.
In fact, the US ambassador to Beijing at the time of the Manchurian Incident made the following remarks:
"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 by Chinease" that were referred in Ambassador McMurray's report were aviolations of numerous treaties and agreements with the Japanese government, including looting, rape and abuse against Japanese residents, and abductions, assaults and brutality against Japanese security forces.
After the Marco Polo Bridge incident, Japan immediately started peace negotiations with the government of the Republic of China, but the Chinese massacred more than 200 Japanese residents in Tongzhou, a Japanese settlement.
According to records of the time,
"The Chinese mutilated and murdered infants, children, and the elderly of Japanese residents.
All bodies of females over their late teens were raped. Many of their bodies had sticks stuck in their groins.
The belly of a pregnant woman's body was cut vertically, and her fetuses were removed and trampled.
The corpses of several men had been dragged by ropes and torn off from the waist down and dumped in the pond…”
Not only in Tongzhou, but also as assaults and massacres against Japanese from Chinese people continued in various places, the Tianjin Concession, where 10,000 residents live, and Shanghai, where 30,000 residents live, were surrounded and bombed by the Chinese side.
In the three weeks since the Marco Polo Bridge incident, Japan signed a four-time end-of-war agreement and made efforts to end the conflict as a limited dispute, but all of them were reversed by Chiang Kai-shek.
In other words, the result of the Chiang Kai-shek’s persistently provocation of war against Japan was the outbreak of the China Incident, which developed into a Sino-Japanese War.
Today, it has been revealed that Chinese anti-Japanese terrorist acts were carried out in exchange for weapons and funds under a secret deal between the United States and the Chinese.
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I do not believe that Japanese soldiers committed no war crimes, however, NOT everything that the Allies have accused Japan of being committed by Japanese soldiers during World War II is true.
The Allies circulated a lot of propaganda(fake news) to raise their fighting spirit, like recently.
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 Propagandas which was fabricated by anti-Japanese activist US missionary John Magee.
Saying "This is what the Japanese soldiers did," he was showing footage of several Chinese on the ground in the United States.
(BTW 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.
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 all 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, under the Japan-hating and pro-China Clinton administration, the so-called Interagency Working Group (IWG) report on the German-Japanese war crimes review was carried out.
At this time, the IWG investigated the following war crimes allegations:
- The Japanese military systematically forcibly kidnapped 200,000 women, made them into sex slaves, and killed them when they fell ill.
- Unit 731 conducted human experiments.
The United States spent a huge amount of money(about 30 million dollars) and eight years trying to find evidence and materials about them from confidential documents of about 8.5 million pages.
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.
Asian countries, which were judged by the Allies as "invaded by Japan", had received a large amount of compensation from Japan.
However, from 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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The Truman administration knew that neither the atomic bomb nor the landing operation was necessary to end the war.
From the beginning of 1945, the Japanese government had repeatedly made proposals for peace talks through the Swiss OSS.
The OSS was the predecessor of the CIA.
So the PDF file of this record is posted on the CIA website and can be read by anyone.
If you want to read it, search for the name of the following PDF file:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
In the May contact record, the Japanese government clearly conceded defeat, stating that the only condition for Japan's surrender was the retention of the emperor, and that it's necessary so that Japan would not become a communist state.
He said so because there were many communist spies in Japan, and they were looking for a chance of a defeat revolution in Japan at that time.
In fact, according to the Venona document, there were about 50,000 communist spies in Japan at that time.
In response to this May contact, Joseph Grew, former ambassador to Japan, submitted a draft of what would later be called the Potsdam Declaration to Truman, proposing that by the declaration they urge Japan to surrender.
At this time, Grew wrote a sentence that guaranteed the position of the emperor in Article 12.
It can be read from Stimson's memoirs that there was a recognition that this would encourage Japan's immediate surrender.
However, when the atomic bomb was completed on July 16, before the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the protection of the emperor was deleted.
In short, the United States knew very well that neither atomic bombs nor landing operations were necessary to end the war.
However, the United States did not want to miss the opportunity to test a completely new atomic bomb in the city where people actually live.
The United States wanted to examine in order to find out how it destroys the city, how it kills/harms people, and how the radioactive pollution of bombs that remains behind harms the human body.
So the Truman administration changed the Potsdam Declaration and carried out those indiscriminate genocides.
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It is true that the atomic bomb was not necessary to end the war, but it is a complete lie to say that the atomic bomb was used to prevent Japan from becoming a communist country.
From the beginning of 1945, the Japanese government had repeatedly made proposals for peace talks through the Swiss OSS.
The OSS was the predecessor of the CIA.
So the PDF file of this record is posted on the CIA website and can be read by anyone.
If you want to read it, search for the name of the following PDF file:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
In the May contact record, the Japanese government clearly conceded defeat, stating that the only condition for Japan's surrender was the retention of the emperor, and that it's necessary so that Japan would not become a communist state.
He said so because there were many communist spies in Japan, and they were looking for a chance of a defeat revolution in Japan at that time.
In fact, according to the Venona document, there were about 50,000 communist spies in Japan at that time.
In response to this May contact, Joseph Grew, former ambassador to Japan, submitted a draft of what would later be called the Potsdam Declaration to Truman, proposing that by the declaration they urge Japan to surrender.
At this time, Grew wrote a sentence that guaranteed the position of the emperor in Article 12.
It can be read from Stimson's memoirs that there was a recognition that this would encourage Japan's immediate surrender.
However, when the atomic bomb was completed on July 16, before the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the protection of the emperor was deleted.
In short, the United States knew very well that neither atomic bombs nor landing operations were necessary to end the war.
However, the United States did not want to miss the opportunity to test a completely new atomic bomb in the city where people actually live.
The United States wanted to examine in order to find out how it destroys the city, how it kills/harms people, and how the radioactive pollution of bombs that remains behind harms the human body.
So the Truman administration changed the Potsdam Declaration and carried out those indiscriminate genocides.
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I do not believe that Japanese soldiers committed no war crimes, however, NOT everything that the Allies have accused Japan of being committed by Japanese soldiers during World War II is true.
The Allies circulated a lot of propaganda(fake news) to raise their fighting spirit, like recently.
After the war, the Allies have further adapted and used them to hide the dirty demeanor they did and their own war crimes.
For example, The Nanjing Massacre is one of those Propagandas which was fabricated by anti-Japanese activist US missionary John Magee.
Saying "This is what the Japanese soldiers did," he was showing footage of several Chinese on the ground in the United States.
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.
His anti-Japanese actions was one of the activities carried out by the neoconservatives at that time to overturn the anti-war support of the American people.
Then, this story was further distorted by the Allies, including Chiang Kai-shek, to justify the war with Japan.
Today, CCP insists that the number of victims of the massacre was 300,000.
On the other hand, the number of unarmed people in Nanjing that the National Revolutionary Army announced before fled from Nanjing was 200,000.
And when the Japanese troops left Nanjing, there were about 220,000-250,000 citizens in Nanjing. This can be confirmed from multiple records.
The reason why the number of people after leaving of Japanese troops is larger than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army is that Nanjing citizens who had been evacuated for fear of fighting returned Nanjing.
Anyone who can do rudimentary math will find this genocide story to be nonsensical.
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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 all 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, under the Japan-hating and pro-China Clinton administration, the so-called Interagency Working Group (IWG) report on the German-Japanese war crimes review was carried out.
At this time, the IWG investigated the following war crimes allegations:
- The Japanese military systematically forcibly kidnapped 200,000 women, made them into sex slaves, and killed them when they fell ill.
- Unit 731 conducted human experiments.
The United States spent a huge amount of money(about 30 million dollars) and eight years trying to find evidence and materials about them from confidential documents of about 8.5 million pages.
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.
Asian countries, which were judged by the Allies as "invaded by Japan", had received a large amount of compensation from Japan.
However, from 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.
In fact, by making a fuss about the comfort women issue in 2015, South Korea succeeded in extorting money from Japan by mobilizing Westerners who were ignorant of history. However, as mentioned above, this has already turned out to be fabricated propaganda.
The so-called “historic issues” between South Korea and Japan were fabricated by South Korea in order to extort money from Japan. However, the United States was complicit in one of these scams, the comfort women issue, and forced Japan to pay.
The person in charge of the United States at this time is the current President of the United States.
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The Allies still criticize Japan for invading China since the Manchurian Incident, but this was propaganda to justify the war with Japan.
Originally, the Qing Dynasty was a country built by the Manchu people, and the Manchurian region, its birthplace, was prohibited by the Qing Dynasty for non-Manchu people to migrate without the permission of the Qing Dynasty.
But it was occupied by Russia From the time of The Boxer Rebellion. Manchuria had become as if it were a Russian territory.
Qing had already given up on Manchuria as stolen by Russia, and had done nothing more.
Japan wanted to avoid war with Russian Empire until the end, but Russia continued to expand its military bases by increasing the forces of Manchuria and building fortresses in Korea (Korean Empire), and so on.
So, the Japanese government was forced to fight Russia.
After winning the Russo-Japanese War, Japan signed the Treaty of Portsmouth and was granted the South Manchurian Railway and related areas from Russia.
On the other hand, however, Japan returned the entire vast expanse of Manchuria to the Qing Dynasty.
If Japan were an expansionist nation, as the Allies claimed, then Japan would have occupied Manchuria and claimed it as Japan's.
But Japan didn't do that.
After Japan expelled Russians from Manchuria in the Russo-Japanese War, a large number of Chinese who are not Manchurians poured in from the surrounding areas, and the population increased from 10 million to 30 million.
In this way, Chinese from other ethnic groups, including the Han Chinese, entered Manchuria, but the Manchurians were dissatisfied with the fact that other ethnic groups entered their ethnic home.
Because after the center of China became the Republic of China, Manchurians were forbidden to enter the center of China. And they came to want to rebuild the Manchu country in their hometown.
Sun Yat-sen, on the other hand, did not considered Manchuria a part of China and even approached Japan to negotiate the sale of Manchuria during the revolution.
From this, we can see that Sun Yat-sen did not think that Japan stole Manchuria from the Republic of China.
He thought that it was okay to give Manchuria to Japan because it is not their(Han Chinese) own land, which is the land of the Han people, but the land of different ethnic groups (Manchu people).
However, when the revolution succeeded and the Republic of China was established, it changed to a policy of inheriting all the territory of Qing, and from the perspective of the Han people such as Tibet and Mongolia, it began to unify regions of different ethnic groups.
Since 1927, the United States secretly ordered Chinese warlords with money and weapons to carry out terrorist attacks against Japan.
Hired Chinese continued to loot, rape, and kill Japanese living in China.
The warlords attacked the settlements indiscriminately, resulting in the casualties of Manchu, Han Chinese, and Korean civilians as well.
The Chinese government not only did not crack down on the warlords, but also attacked in Manchuria, so people asked Japan for help. However, the Japanese government did nothing because it wanted to avoid an all-out war with China supported by the United States.
Disappointed people sought help from the Kwantung Army, a security force in the Manchurian region.
At that time, there were about 240,000 Chinese warlords and about 10,000 Kwantung Army soldiers, but the Kwantung Army's strategy succeeded in driving them out of Manchuria in one month. This month-long operation is called the Manchurian Incident.
The Manchu people took the opportunity for the warlords to be kicked out and founded Manchukuo.
Then, the Allies claimed that Japan established a puppet state after the Manchurian Incident, and that Japan stole territory from China.
However, this assertion is inconsistent with "Twilight in the Forbidden City" written by an Englishman who was Pu Yi's tutor.
Also, the U.S. minister John McMurry, who was the U.S. ambassador to Beijing in 1931 of the Manchurian Incident, submitted a detailed report in 1935, which he said as excerpted follows:
"I condemn Japan for causing the Manchurian Incident. However, it was China that created the cause. Compared with other countries, all diplomats in each country admit that Japan has made the most sincere efforts to protect the Washington system. On the other hand, China continued to provoke Japan. Japan couldn't bear it and asked the U.S. 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."
"While the U.S. and European countries acquiesced to China's tyrannical behavior, Japan stepped into the Manchurian Incident. Japan is responsible for the Manchurian Incident itself, but considering the process of getting there, the incident itself is like China is harvesting the seeds it has sowed by itself."
“The provocations by Chinease" that were referred in Ambassador McMurray's report were aviolations of numerous treaties and agreements with the Japanese government, including looting, rape and abuse against Japanese residents, and abductions, assaults and brutality against Japanese security forces.
These anti-Japanese terrorist acts by Chinese continued after that and became more intense.
After the Marco Polo Bridge incident, Japan immediately started peace negotiations with the government of the Republic of China, but the Chinese massacred more than 200 Japanese residents in Tongzhou, a Japanese settlement.
According to records of the time,
"The Chinese mutilated and murdered infants, children, and the elderly of Japanese residents.
All bodies of females over their late teens were raped. Many of their bodies had sticks stuck in their groins.
The belly of a pregnant woman's body was cut vertically, and her fetuses were removed and trampled.
The corpses of several men had been dragged by ropes and torn off from the waist down and dumped in the pond…”
Not only in Tongzhou, but also as assaults and massacres against Japanese from Chinese people continued in various places, the Tianjin Concession, where 10,000 residents live, and Shanghai, where 30,000 residents live, were surrounded and bombed by the Chinese side.
In the three weeks since the Marco Polo Bridge incident, Japan signed a four-time end-of-war agreement and made efforts to end the conflict as a limited dispute, but all of them were reversed by Chiang Kai-shek.
In other words, the result of the Chiang Kai-shek’s persistently provocation of war against Japan was the outbreak of the China Incident, which developed into a Sino-Japanese War.
Today, it has been revealed that Chinese anti-Japanese terrorist acts were carried out in exchange for weapons and funds under a secret deal between the United States and the Chinese.
The fighter aircrafts that carried out the Shanghai airstrike that determined the Sino-Japanese War were given by the United States.
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As one of the "Japs", I have to say that you are wrong.
From the beginning of 1945, the Japanese government had repeatedly made proposals for peace talks through the Swiss OSS.
The contact record is posted on the CIA website. To find it, search for the names of the following PDF file:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
Below is an excerpt from the PDF file mentioned above:
“12 May 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
The following information, transmitted by the OSS representative in Bern, originates with a German source, an authority on the Far East who is
considered anti-Nazi but pro-Japanese:
The source, on 11 May, talked with Shunichi Kase, the Japanese Minister to Switzerland. He reports that Kase expressed a wish to help arrange for a cessation of hostilities between the Japanese and the Allies. Kase reportedly considers direct talks with the Americans and the British preferable to negotiations through the USSR, because the latter eventually would increase Soviet prestige so much that the whole Far East would become Communist.
Kase allegedly believes that one of the few provisions the Japanese would insist upon would be the retention of the Emperor as the only safeguard against Japan's conversion to Communism. Kase feels that Under Secretary of State Grew, whom he considers the best US authority on Japan, shares this opinion.
Added by hand: Should we pursue this? Donovan”
Kase clearly conceded defeat, stating that the only condition for Japan's surrender was the retention of the emperor, and that it's necessary so that Japan would not become a communist state.
He said so because there were many communist spies in Japan, and they were looking for a chance of a defeat revolution in Japan at that time.
It was Lenin who originally planed the war between Japan and the United States.
Lenin thought that this would make the United States to destroy Japan, which had been an obstacle to the expansion of the communist bloc from the Soviet Union to Asia, and at the same time reduce the national power of the United States.
In fact, according to the Venona Papers, there were approximately 300 communist spies within the Roosevelt administration, and approximately 50,000 communist spies in Japan at the time.
In response to this May contact, Joseph Grew, former ambassador to Japan, submitted a draft of what would later be called the Potsdam Declaration to Truman, proposing that by the declaration they urge Japan to surrender.
At this time, Grew wrote a sentence that guaranteed the position of the emperor in Article 12.
It can be read from Stimson's memoirs that there was a recognition that this would encourage Japan's immediate surrender.
However, when the atomic bomb was completed on July 16, the sentence guaranteeing the protection of the emperor was deleted to gain time to test atomic bombs.
On the other hand, since Washington did not respond, Japan asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact.
In short, Japan raised the white flag against the United States and the Soviet Union.
Stalin had conveyed Japan's request to the United States.
However, the United States did not respond to Japan at all until it issued the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan.
According to the official announcement of the Japanese government, a U.S. puppet, the dead and missing people by the U.S. military air raids is about 500,000.
LeMay's airstrike method was very ruthless and merciless. That method burned down the area after burning all the edges of the planned airstrike area first so that no one could escape from the area.
In the Tokyo air raid on March 10, 1945, more than 100,000 Japanese civilians were burned to death in 2 hours.
As LeMay said later, the U.S. military had tried to kill as many Japanese as possible.
It’s mean the United States was convinced of victory, and it was also convinced that it would not be charged with war crimes later. So these indiscriminate genocides were carried out without hesitation.
And it is clear that the purpose of the United States was to make governance easier after the end of the war.
Westerners often interpret that Japan did not have the will to surrender to the Allies because it was preparing for the decisive battle on the mainland.
However, if the enemy ignores the demands of the end-of-war negotiations and continues to attack thoroughly as mentioned above, then there is no choice but to prepare for the next attack, such as a "landing operation", right?
Kantaro Suzuki was a prime minister appointed by the Emperor with the apparent intention of ending the war.
For the Japanese government, the Potsdam Declaration was a response from the United States that had finally arrived after months of negotiations to end the war.
However, it did not include the most important thing, “words guaranteeing the status of the Emperor.”
Mr. Suzuki inquired about this matter, but the US side did not give a clear answer until the end.
Even after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, pro-Soviet military leaders, steeped in communist ideology, hoped for Soviet negotiations to end the war.
Therefore, they argued that Japan should wait for the Soviet Union's response and opposed acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
However, their hopes were dashed when the Soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 9.
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@arthurdent1097
Could it be that you can't read my comments?
From the beginning of 1945, the Japanese government had repeatedly made proposals for peace talks through the Swiss OSS.
The OSS was the predecessor of the CIA.
So the PDF file of this record is posted on the CIA website and can be read by anyone.
If you want to read it, search for the name of the following PDF file:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
In the May contact record, the Japanese government clearly conceded defeat, stating that the only condition for Japan's surrender was the retention of the emperor, and that it's necessary so that Japan would not become a communist state.
He said so because there were many communist spies in Japan, and they were looking for a chance of a defeat revolution in Japan at that time.
In fact, according to the Venona document, there were about 50,000 communist spies in Japan at that time.
In response to this May contact, Joseph Grew, former ambassador to Japan, submitted a draft of what would later be called the Potsdam Declaration to Truman, proposing that by the declaration they urge Japan to surrender.
At this time, Grew wrote a sentence that guaranteed the position of the emperor in Article 12.
It can be read from Stimson's memoirs that there was a recognition that this would encourage Japan's immediate surrender.
However, when the atomic bomb was completed on July 16, before the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the protection of the emperor was deleted.
Kantaro Suzuki was the Prime Minister, who was clearly appointed by the Emperor with the intention of ending the war.
For the Japanese government, the Potsdam Declaration was a response from the United States that finally arrived after months of requests for peace talks to end the war.
Therefore, Prime Minister Suzuki must have wanted to accept the Potsdam Declaration immediately.
However, the fact that there was no wording guaranteeing the status of the emperor prevented the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration. Prime Minister Suzuki asked the United States about this matter, but the United States did not give a clear answer until the end.
Even after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were pro-USSR military leaders who insisted that they should wait for the mediation of the Soviet Union.
Also, the fact that the number of victims reported from Hiroshima immediately after the atomic bombing was about 80,000, which was less than the 115,000 victims of the Tokyo air raid on March 10 also affected the meeting.
So, the Japanese government could not accept the Potsdam Declaration immediately because some of leaders refused to accept the Potsdam Declaration.
However, on August 9, the Soviet started invasion.
This invasion cut off the hopes of some leaders who were pro-Soviets, so Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration.
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@arthurdent1097
It must be said that there are doubts about the “number of casualties caused by the Japanese military” claimed by China.
In the post-war Tokyo trial, Chiang Kai-shek said that the number of victims was 1 million, including 200,000 in the Nanjing Massacre.
And the number of casualties that the Chinese Communist Party, which has almost never fought with Japan, has been doubling every year is highly questionable.
For example, in the Nanjing Incident, it is claimed that there was a massacre, but there is no objective evidence of that massacre, only hearsay and rumors.
Today, CCP insists that the number of victims is 300,000.
On the other hand, the number of unarmed people in Nanjing that the National Revolutionary Army announced before fled from Nanjing was 200,000.
And when the Japanese troops left Nanjing, there were about 220,000-250,000 citizens in Nanjing. This can be confirmed from multiple records.
The reason why the number of people after leaving of Japanese troops is larger than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army is that Nanjing citizens who had been evacuated for fear of fighting returned Nanjing.
And then in the early 1990s, South Korea began to make a fuss about the comfort women issue.
South Korea had erected stone monuments and statues of young girls around the world, claiming that "200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery labour and massacred.''
However, a thorough investigation later revealed that it was all a fabrication.
It is true that there were comfort stations, but the women who worked there were professional prostitutes who had applied for job openings.
They were highly paid, with most taking home between $600,000 and $2 million at the end of their three-year contracts.
The original purpose was to prevent Japanese soldiers from committing sexual crimes while on duty and to prevent the spread of disease, so the health of the comfort women was carefully monitored and was controlled through regular checkups by military doctors.
And, according to a study by a Korean economist, it was estimated that there were about 3,700 Korean comfort women.
As mentioned above, the "massacre of 200,000 Korean comfort women" has also been proven to be a fabrication.
Therefore, “Japanese military war crimes based solely on hearsay and rumors'' should not be admitted as true until objective evidence is presented.
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