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The CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
The following is an excerpt from that PDF:
“12 May 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
The following information, transmitted by the OSS representative in Bern,9 originates with a German source, an authority on the Far East who is
considered anti-Nazi but pro-Japanese:10
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,11 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”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war. And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that maintaining the emperor system was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained a sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system.
Because Grew was known the above information, knew well why Japan wanted the continuation of the Emperor System, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the continuation of the Emperor System.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed the day before the declaration.
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No landing operations or atomic bombs were required for the end of the war.
The CIA website has a PDF file which shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war from the beginning of 1945.
And it was recorded that Japanese government admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, because it was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft included a sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's retention.
Because Grew was known the above information, also knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the retention of the Emperor had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed shortly before the declaration.
And the guarantee of the Emperor's status would likely have done Japan's immediate surrender, which meant the loss of the opportunity and the place to test atomic bombs.
Therefore, it was clear that the US purpose of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was not to end the war, and it was as follows.
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
In addition, it seems that it is not well known, but in fact, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the US nuclear bomb development agency announced that it had "successfully conducted an atomic bomb drop experiment."
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@imrnadit
The attack on Pearl Harbor was not the reason for the atomic bombing.
And, as it has been said, it was neither to avoid landing operations nor to end the war early.
Those atomic bombings were examinations.
The US’s purposes of dropping the atomic bomb in Japan:
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
It seems less well known that after the atomic bombing, a US general announced that "we have succeeded in the atomic bombing examination."
After the end of the war, the United States established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and began investigating the effects of radioactivity.
ABCC put people who were harmed by atomic bombs in their facility saying they would treat those pacients.
But no treatment was given. Never.
They took blood from survivors, photographed wounds and keloids, recorded their condition, took organs when they died.
They sent those organs and etc. to the United States as samples with various investigations and records.
On the other hand, the treatment of Japanese doctors was banned. Their medical records were taken away and the request for medicine to the Red Cross was stopped.
In addition, by GHQ, it was banned to report all of above things about ABCC and GHQ.
ABCC announced in 2018 that they had not treated the survivors.
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•Korean people:
“Please merge us with Japan and civilize us!(X4more times)
•Japan:
"... You should civilize you by yourself and strengthen your country by yourself.
We will support you until that.”
“... can't you do it yet? “
“… Don't borrow such a large amount of money from the Soviet Union with your land as collateral.
If you can't return it, you'll lose your land!”
“...... Sigh, OK, Let’s merge."
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Japan paid a huge debt of the Korean Empire instead.
Japan established infrastructures such as water and sewage, roads, schools, medical facilities / medical systems, and dams etc. by investing huge amounts of money.
Japan's balance was in the red on the Korean Peninsula for 35 years until the merge was ended.
At that time, the population of Korean became twice.
Manchurian people: "Japan, protect us from the bad Chinese warlords!" (X many many times)
Japan:”.......”
Kwantung Army(Japan Manchurian Security Force):
"It is necessary to maintain security in Manchuria to protect the Korean Peninsula!“
→ Manchurian Incident occurred
If these are considered invasion, what do you think China is doing now?
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Please don't disseminate such lies.
All Korean comfort women were those who applied for it as a job.
They were not forced to be comfort women.
According to the Japanese military employment regulations, women working there must be at least 17 years old, and minors need parental consent.
And in all cases, it was forbidden to force women to work in comfort stations against their will.
In the case of Korean women, Korean brokers were involved in recruiting women.
And although there are some records that Korean recruiters tried to break these rules, they were arrested.
The women who applied for the job had to have an interview and medical examination by a military doctor.
At that time, a woman whose age was below the rule was returned home.
Records show that women in comfort stations were between 21 and 25 years old.
According to the best-selling book "反日種族主義" in Korea, there were at most 3,600 Korean comfort women.
And according to the records, they were highly paid.
Some of them earned $600,000 in three years when converted to their current value.
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@zzasDDAA1
The following is a testimony of a honest Korean
“Japan had never slaughtered us Koreans before and during the war.
On the contrary, we slaughtered the Japanese. Especially at the end of the war, we slaughtered many Japanese, slaughtered up to more than 200,000 Japanese, and also robbed and raped them.
In the North Korean territory, it is said that there are as many as 8,000 Japanese remains that are currently known, and it is said that the massacre would be more than 10 times that number.
South Korea is a country where human bones come out from here and there after a little construction. Because if they kill it, they will bury it. Many Japanese believe that many Japanese were slaughtered in the North Korean territory, but to be clear, it's not.
Many Japanese were slaughtered by South-Koreans" just because the truth was buried because GHQ banned criticism of Korea.
What's worse than North Korea is that it doesn't even bury its remains, it doesn't know where it was buried, and it's still unknown where and who was buried.
Before that, they has pretended that they didn't do the slaughter itself.”
The United States is a record demon. They would have also recorded the postwar occupation of the Korean Peninsula. The record will be disclosed in the future. I am looking forward to that time.
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Japan had already apologized for what Japan did.
However Japanese people think that it is not necessary to apologize for the lies that China or South Korea later forged and added.
Regarding the comfort women, Japan had apologized for:
•the comfort women system indirectly promoted prostitution
•Lack of consideration for the possibility that greedy parents* want their daughter to be a very well-paid* comfort woman
*For Koreans with Confucian culture, the orders of parents, especially fathers, were absolute.
*In terms of current value, many comfort women earned about $ 600,000, and some earned about $2 million in 3years.
During the war, women and students were required to work in Japanese factories to make up for the labor shortage in Japan.
The female students who worked in such factories were called "Teishintai".
The number of Teishintai girls was about 200,000.
Decades later, in South Korea, it was misread that this "Teishintai" girls were working at comfort stations.
Based on this misreading, a South Korean group had claimed internationally that:
“200,000 teenage girls of Teishintai were forced to work in a Japanese military comfort stations."
However, under the military regulations of the comfort stations at that time, it is impossible for a girl who was forcibly abducted to become a comfort woman
More than half of the comfort women were Japanese women, and they were recruited for job offers such as newspaper advertisements.
For foreigners, local foreigners were recruiters, and the following rules also applied to them as below:
・ Applicants must be at least 17 years old, and minors must submit the consent form of their parents or guardians and official documents issued by the government office to identify themselves in order to become comfort women.
・ In any case, it was prohibited to force women to become comfort women.
・ All job applicants had to be interviewed and diagnosed by a military doctor before becoming comfort women.
After that, in recent years, the evidence was revealed that the Teishintai’s girls were not comfort women.
The group remained silent without apology or correction.
People in the group formed another group and started similar activities.
The new group is spreading internationally their clams that:
"200,000 girls were forced to work in a Japanese military comfort stations."
They make a lot of money through this activity, such as building statues.
The purpose of them building statues in various places is:
To make as many people in the world as possible believe that their lies and fabrications are as true,
And to force Japan to accept their lies and fabrications with the background of public opinion and to pay money again.
While getting a lot of money from donations and lining their pockets.
In addition, According to South Korean experts about this issue, there were at most 3,600 Korean comfort women in comfort stations under the control of the Japanese military.
P.S. This is a national fraudulent crime, so don't take part.
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Firstly, as early as 1907, the principle of international law "prohibition of indiscriminate artillery bombing (indiscriminate bombing) in war"
was established as Article 25 of the Hague Rules of Land War: Prohibition of attacks and shelling of undefended cities.
In particular, regarding air combat, in 1923 the “Regulations on Air Combat'” deliberated by six countries, the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan, made it more clear that “air bombing must only be carried out against MILITARY TARGETS.”
In short, by this law, it was stipulated that indiscriminate bombing is illegal.
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@cmaxz817
I know the historical fact that the United States promised independence (as a lure) to cooperate with the local Filipinos in the war in order to seize the Philippines, which was a Spanish colony, and then broke the promise.
However, the theory that Japan also tried to make Indonesia a lure for independence does not match some historical facts.
Below are two of them.
Japan knew from the beginning that it couldn't keep fighting the United States for years, and that if the fight was prolonged, it would lose to the United States.
In other words, the Japanese knew that it would be impossible to keep Indonesia under Japanese rule for long, and they also told the Indonesian people about it.
I think it is impossible to make independence a "lure" in this situation.
In the short period of three and a half years from the landing in Indonesia to the defeat, with indonesian people, the Japanese army had improved the education system, strengthened the military power, and infrastructure in order to "teach the Indonesian people everything we Japanese know."
Those developments were done at an unusual speed.
However, in the end, about 2,000 Japanese soldiers who thougt that "with such short-term military training alone indonesia cannot counter the Dutch troops that try to invade again" had fought the Indonesian National Revolution with the Indonesian soldiers.
And, because the Indonesian Declaration of Independence on August 17, 1945 was prepared at the house of Maeda Tadashi, who was a Major General of the Japanese Navy, the Netherlands accused Japan of "the Japanese army instructed the preparation of the Indonesian Independence Declaration".
How do you think about the historical fact that Soekarno and Hatta prepare the Declaration of Independence at Maeda's house?
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It was Chiang Kai-shek who announced that the Japanese army had carried out a massacre in Nanjing. But, Chiang Kai-shek escaped before the Japanese troops arrived in Nanking. He had the Shanghai reporters write the articles as he requested.
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 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 Nanking.
If all of these are correct, it means 350,000 people of Nanjing, who had been evacuated for fear of fighting, “inadvertently” returned to Nanjing during the massacre.
Anyone who can do simple calculations will find this story flawed.
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The CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
And, the following is an excerpt from that.
“12 May 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
The following information, transmitted by the OSS representative in Bern,9 originates with a German source, an authority on the Far East who is
considered anti-Nazi but pro-Japanese:10
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,11 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”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war. And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that maintaining the emperor system was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained a sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system.
Because Grew was known the above information, knew well why Japan wanted the continuation of the Emperor System, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the continuation of the Emperor System.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
From the fact above, we can see no landing operations or atomic bombs were needed for the early end of the war.
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed the day before the declaration.
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The Japanese government had been asking the United States for peace negotiations since early 1945. As can be seen from this, the statement that "the Japanese government intended to fight to the last man'' is also propaganda.
What Japan could not do was surrender unconditionally.
The reason is as follows.
- What Americans did to Native Americans
- What America did to the Kingdom of Hawaii
- President Roosevelt's acceptance of communism, racist ideology, and hatred of Japan
Even before the war, Roosevelt hated the Japanese and publicly said that they should be exterminated.
Therefore, as seen in the "A note to Roosevelt" written by Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, the Japanese believed that they risked annihilation if they surrendered unconditionally to the United States.
By the way, it was Truman's lie to protect himself that Japan surrendered after dropping the atomic bomb.
In fact, it is more accurate to say that the Soviet Union's invasion urged Japan to accept the Potsdam Declaration.
The Nanjing Massacre was a propaganda fabricated by the United States' missionaries to get anti-war Americans to accept the war.
Even the Tokyo Trials, which were criticized as a lynching of the defeated by the victorious nation, failed to prove that the Japanese military had committed massacre in Nanjing.
The Japanese military invaded the countries of Southeast Asian Nations in order to remove the colonial rulers and allow them to trade equally with the indigenous peoples. At the same time, the Japanese military knew that they could not stay in those countries for long, so they tried to teach the natives as much knowledge and training as possible so that they could maintain their independence.
However, there was too little time for Japan to implement all the successes it had in governing other Southeast Asian nations to Indonesia and other nations. I think this was the cause of the trouble in Romsha and elsethings.
Misinformation about comfort women is also rampant. The story that "comfort women were abducted and made into sexual slaves'' is a fabrication and distortion.
These were "prostitutes who applied for jobs'' and were highly paid prostitutes who earned between 60 million and 200 million yen in present value in just three years.
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@mysticcove3392
Do you really think that Japan has enough defense power?
Japan is certainly increasing defense spending, but it is doubtful whether the amount is directly reflected in the amplification of defense power.
Because the United States is greedy and uses that position to sell expensive garbage to Japan.
Most of Japan's military systems are purchased from the United States, and the operating systems are also made in the United States.
So Japan has no choice but to purchase most of its weapons from the United States.
Therefore, Japan, which must comply with the FMS agreement, is forced to purchase outdated recycled weapons at several times the price.
And even after Japan pays for the purchase, the United States often does not hand over the weapons.
For example, The delivery of the V-22 Osprey to Japan, which is scheduled to end in 2025, was made in 2023 last year.
It's hard to believe, but this order was made 9 years ago.
And in the same year, the use of Osprey was banned due to the crash of the Osprey of the U.S. military base in Japan in 2023.
By the way, for this reason, the Self-Defense Forces could not use the Osprey in the earthquake rescue operation on January 1, 2024. If there were more usable helicopters, the Self-Defense Forces might have been able to rescue more people.
And, it’s reported that half of the tomahawks that Japan's current prime minister recently promised the current U.S. president to buy are old models.
Under these circumstances, it is difficult to imagine that Japan will be able to secure a defense force commensurate with the defense expenditures it has paid.
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@MoreAbel-vg4dh
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 the money to buy surplus wheat for livestock feed in the United States and gave it 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.
On the other hand, 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.
Off cource, I haven't checked all the records from that time.
So I admit that I may have missed something that proves what you're saying.
However, while many Japanese were starving to death, the United States did not allow the Japanese government to purchase food from other countries, and instead forced Japan to pay large amounts of national funds to cover the costs of stationing occupation forces.
It is inconceivable that such the United States would have provided financial support for Japan's reconstruction.
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Christiane Clark
During the pacific war, women and students were required to do factory work to make up for the labor shortage.
Teenage schoolgirls who worked in such factories were called "挺身隊" and were praised as patriots who worked hard for their country.
Later, misleading that the girls in the "挺身隊" were made comfort women occurred.
Based on this misleading, the Korean group(挺対協) had claimed internationally that "teenage girls were forced to work in comfort stations."
However, in recent years, it was revealed that the girls of 挺身隊 were not comfort women.
So, the group was changed the name, from 挺対協 to 正義連 without any correction or apologizing for their previous wrong claims.
"反日種族主義" was written by Korean scholar, 李栄薫.
He worships the anti-Japanese thinker 李承晩, but has published the results of his research based on past material.
You can watch the digest of this book on YouTube, so please refer to it.
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https://www.youtube.com/c/이승만TV
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@rowyoboat9369
Are you saying that your grandfather saw a Japanese soldier was raping the bodies of deheaded women?
It would be a horribly abnormal and shocking sight, but it would be a wild fiction.
Even in Japan, beheadings are not as common as you might think.
To begin with, there is a big difference in sharpness between the Japanese swords used during the Sengoku period and the military swords of this period.
And even if you use a real Japanese sword, it's not like you can easily cut off a human's head like in anime or manga.
The American propaganda about the Bataan march is too harsh.
First of all, why did MacArthur flee leaving tens of thousands of his subordinates behind?
Shouldn't he have surrendered as a leader and then negotiated with the Japanese army on behalf of his men?
Then let's take a look at what actually happened on that march.
❶The US military fled, abandoning tens of thousands of soldiers who were unable to move due to illness or injury.
❷The Japanese army captured the American soldiers who were left behind, but there was a complete lack of medicine and food.
❸The Japanese military tried to transport the POWs to a camp, but the railroad they were supposed to use for transport was destroyed by the U.S. military and could no longer be used.
With no other option, the Japanese army marched to the camp on foot with most of the POWs, except for the seriously ill.
❹They walked over 60 kilometers over 4-5 days, an average of 14 kilometers a day in about 4 hours in the cool mornings and evenings.
❺The Japanese army lacked food, but food was also distributed to prisoners of war. However, misunderstandings arose due to differences in food culture. For example, American soldiers later accused being forced to eat burdock, a common Japanese food, as abuse.
❻ Japanese soldiers were trained and used to walking 20 kilometers a day, but American soldiers were not. In addition, many people were infected with malaria due to being hidden in the jungle for a long time. According to statistics from Camp O'Donnell, the total number of people who died or escaped during the march was about 21,000. (Most of the prisoners were Filipinos, and Filipinos who escaped during the march were considered dead, so the dead and escapees are totaled.)
The United States used this for propaganda purposes, accusing the Japanese military of mistreating prisoners of war.
And how do you think the US military would have treated POWs if the situation had been reversed?
It is known that at that time, American soldiers killed 99% of Japanese soldiers who surrendered.
So probably all the prisoners were killed before the "march".
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After the end of the war, the United States established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and began investigating the effects of radioactivity.
ABCC admitted the A-bomb survivors, saying they would treat them, but they did not provide any treatment.
The ABCC conducted various investigations and records, including collecting blood from A-bomb survivors, taking photographs of their wounds and keloids, and when they died, removing their organs and sending them as samples to the United States.
On the other hand, the treatment of Japanese doctors was withdrawnly obstructed, their medical records taken away, and their requests for medical supplies from the Red Cross stopped.
Reporting on all of this was not allowed.
As depicted in the movie Oppenheimer, huge investments were made to develop the atomic bomb. The United States wanted to test how effective the new bomb would be.
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You are the one who is wrong.
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 other words, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and Britain had decided to fight and destroy Japan and then make Japan a colony of the United States.
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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It is lies that Japan has not officially apologized or compensated.
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.
Japan also 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."
China did not demand for compensation from Japan, officially.
Because Mao Zedong said that getting Manchukuo would be enough.
Manchukuo, which had received huge investment in terms of funds and technology snd so on from Japan at that time, developed richly, and Manchukuo was responsible for 70% of the industrial production in the former Qing Dynasty domestic area.
But on the other hand, Japan continued to support China economically through ODA and other means until 2018, even after China's GDP surpassed that of Japan. These aids have unofficially a strong implication of reparations, and the total amount is about 3.66 trillion yen.
Probably you don't know well how Japan has dealt with asian countries, because your country must be anti-Japanese and because the information you can know is so limited.
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And although not mentioned in this video, no landing operations or atomic bombs were required for the end of the war.
The CIA website has a PDF file which shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war from the beginning of 1945.
And it was recorded that Japanese government admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, because it was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft included a sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's retention.
Because Grew was known the above information, also knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the retention of the Emperor had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed shortly before the declaration.
Therefore, it was clear that the US purpose of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was not to end the war, and it was as follows.
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
In addition, it seems that it is not well known, but in fact, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the US nuclear bomb development agency announced that it had "successfully conducted an atomic bomb drop experiment."
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Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
(example: Tongzhou incident)
The atrocities of anti-Japanese terrorism against those Japanese residents and Japanese soldiers were the cause of the Manchurian Incident and the China Incident.
However, the Allies twisted those things, such as "Japan is an evil expansionist country and invaded China."
The United States notified the cancellation of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in 1940 because of the Sino-Japanese War provoked by the United States behind the scenes, and revoked it.
This restricted U.S. exports of iron and oil to Japan.
After that, Japan entered French Indochina with the permission of the French government to divide the Chiang Kai-shek support route from the United States.
Because Chiang Kai-shek had ignored the repeated requests for ceasefire talks from Japan and prolonged the war.
Because of this entering, the United States imposed economic sanctions such as a total ban on oil exports to Japan and at the same time as freezing assets against Japan.
At that time, Japan was cornered in a very troubled situation because it depended on the United States for resources such as iron and oil.
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 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, 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 with Japan.
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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Is the story of the school girl about the comfort women?
The comfort women were "prostitutes who applied for recruitment" and they were high-class prostitutes who earned 60 to 200 million yen in present value in three years.
During the war, women and students were required to work in Japanese factories to make up for the labor shortage in Japan.
The female students who worked in such factories were called "Teishintai".
The number of Teishintai girls was about 200,000.
Decades after the war, in South Korea, it was misread that this "Teishintai" girls were working at comfort stations.
Based on this misreading, a South Korean group named “The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan” had claimed internationally that:
“200,000 teenage school girls of Teishintai were forced to work in a Japanese military comfort stations."
After that, in recent years, the evidence was revealed that the Teishintai’s girls were NOT comfort women.
The group silent without any apologizing or correcting for their wrong claims.
People in the group formed another group named “The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance” started similar activities.
The new group is spreading internationally their clams that:
"200,000 girls were forced to work in Japanese military comfort stations."
However, those claims were fabricated and later added, as mentioned above.
Japan do not think that it is necessary to apologize or compensate for lies and fabrications added later.
In addition,
According to “反日種族主義：반일 종족주의” there were approximately 3,600 comfort women of Korean at most.
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Declassification of classified documents in 1993 has already revealed that Japan had been requesting peace talks with the United States since early 1945.
The May messenger of this document, Swiss Ambassador Kase, conveyed the following to the United States in May, 11, 1945.
"The condition of Japan's surrender is a guarantee the retention of the Emperor. This is necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist state.''
"Former Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew would understand what I mean."
Ambassador Kase's words were of course made with the consent of the Emperor and the Japanese government.
In response to Mr. Kase's request, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew created a document which became known later as the "Potsdam Declaration."
Grew then suggested that Truman use it to urge Japan to surrender in late May 28, 1945.
At this time, the Potsdam Declaration contained a sentence that guaranteed the retention of the Emperor.
However, after the atomic bomb was completed on July 16, prior to the announcement of the Potsdam Declaration, Secretary of State Byrnes removed the sentence guaranteeing the Emperor's status from the Potsdam Declaration.
Because this guarantee was highly likely to lead to Japan's immediate surrender.
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I always wonder why Americans only talk about the atomic bomb and nothing about city air raids.
They seem to think it wasn't there.
Don't Americans know that 100,000 civilians were burned to death in two hours in the bombing of Tokyo and how cruel it was?
By the way, I think the United States has never even thought of apologizing to Japan.
Americans say, "The United States provided Japan with financial support through SCAP."
That’s not correct.
The costs that GHQ spent for 7 years in Japan had been paid by Japan. And the amount of the costs were more than the amount of SCAP.
So, it means that the US did NOT support Japan economically.
Rather, it can be said that it was exploited.
Also, “The United States improved Japanese women's status by giving them the right to vote,” says Americans.
It makes me have mixed feelings.
Yes they did, while sexually assaulting at least 100,000 Japanese women and girls.
This figure is based on the records of the official statistics of the Japanese government.
On the other hand, in Japan at that time, it was considered unfavorable for women to have sexual intercourse before marriage, so it seems that many victims did not report sexual assault if they were not publicly known due to pregnancy or injury or death.
From the above, it is estimated that the number of victims of sexual assault was several times higher than the number recorded.
And even today, Japan has more than 80 US military bases, and under the US-Japan Security Treaty, the United States treats Japan as an economic and military colony.
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For America, war has always been a profitable business. The United States has always created sparks here and there for its own interests, and when war flares up, it has made money by supplying large amounts of weapons / sending troops / obtaining rights to resources or land in an occupied country / making others owed debts.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support. The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
This anti-Japanese terrorism was finally taken over by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, which allied with the CCP, and developed into a conflict with the Japanese army.
So it can be said that the US war business has been going on for almost 100 years.
The Roosevelt administration thought that if it participated in WW2, it would be able to get out of the Great Depression, make more money, and hopefully gain world hegemony with the dollar. But the American people were against the war, so the Roosevelt administration cornered Japan to make it attack them.
Since then, the United States has continued to do the same. The United States has secretly set fires, posed as firefighters to make money, and pretend itself the world's police force.
But they are all fictitious. The United States has continued to inflict the suffering of war on both Americans and ordinary people abroad, simply to make a handful of super-rich even richer.
American people should recognize that people in countries other than the United States have been forced to sacrifice of losing their lives and property for greed of the United States.
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@cmaxz817
Looking at the records of the Cabinet at that time, the Japanese government did not refuse Indonesia's independence.
There were the opinions that the desire of Indonesian people for independence should be fulfilled, and Japan should let them to do that.
On the other hand, there were cautious opinions like "Recognizing premature independence can lead to internal turmoil. Indonesian independence should wait until Indonesia's administrative capacity is sufficient."
As a result, they decided to put them under military administration "for the time being".
It seems that Indonesia was so important to Japan that it had to be very cautious about making decisions that would change that trend significantly.
It is true that the British troops went to Indonesia as "coordinators" by the UN decision after World War II, but their purposes were to disarmament the Japanese troops, return the Japanese to Japan, and to protect the property of the Dutch.
On the other hand, the Japanese army under the control of the United Nations was obliged to preserve Indonesia as it was.
In other words, the Japanese army was not allowed to participate in any Indonesia's independence movement.
However, there were some Japanese who pretended not to see the Indonesians who were taking Japanese army’s weapons away and some Japanese actively released the arsenal storages.
As a result, a large amount of weapons passed from the Japanese army to the Indonesian.
Why did the Japanese give them weapons, even though they knew that the act was a breach of UN obligations and could be accused?
The reason Suekarno and Hatta hesitated to declare independence was that they were worried that the armed uprising of young people would lead to a civil war in Indonesia. It was not because the Japanese military instract not to declare independence.
After Suekarno and Hatta were kidnapped on 8/16, they promised young people to declare of independence on 8/17.
And then they went to the Maeda's house with Soebardjo by themselves to prepare the Declaration of Independence.
The above can be confirmed by the memoir of Soebardjo in later years.
On more thing, about the treatment of Tadashi Maeda as a traitor by the newspaper:
In occupied Japan which was under Allied control, the GHQ wiped out all important positions, not to mention politicians, and replaced those who were obedient to the GHQ.
Of course, the same thing was done at newspaper companies.
The GHQ also stipulated control of speech.
Articles, including even the slightest denial of the Allies, were not allowed in the newspaper.
Therefore, it can be misleading to think that newspaper articles at that time directly reflect Japanese public opinion.
And this is still the case today.
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All Korean comfort women were those who applied for job offers.
According to the comfort office employment regulations run by the Japanese army, the women working there had to be over 17 years old, and in the case of minors, parental consent was required.
And in every case, it was forbidden to force to work in comfort stations against the will of women.
On the other hand, for Korean women, Korean brokers were involved in recruiting women.
And, there are the some records that the Korean recruiters tried to break these rules, but they were arrested.
In April 2007 the final report of the “Nazi War Crimes & Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group” to the US Congress was compiled.
This survey was a major review of war crimes in Germany and Japan conducted by the US government over the past eight years under the Clinton and Bush administrations.
According to this report, no US government or military document was found to support the claims of war crimes related to Japanese comfort women or the “systematic enslavement of women”.
In South Korea, it seems to be already well known that the “comfort women” are lies to withdraw money from Japan.
However, it seems that it is emotionally unacceptable to admit that it was a lie for Koreans.
This is one reason I think Korean forged history education is brainwashing.
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@mattalley4330
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 other words, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and Britain had decided to fight and destroy Japan and then make Japan a colony of the United States.
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.”
Since then, the United States has been repeating the same thing over and over again. It provokes war all over the world, slaughtering people in other countries and making money. But more than half of the world is already aware of it.
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@Grandessaful
Wouldn't it be better for Americans to demand conpensation from the state rather than Japanese companies that lack money?
I said that the Japanese government did not have cash after the war, but that was because not only was it forced to pay the occupation costs of the occupation forces, but the occupation forces also robbed them of various assets, such as jewelry which were collected from the Japanese for the war fee.
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.
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.
On the other hand, GHQ forced Japanese government to pay the occupation cost 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.
Japan borrowed a huge amount from the World Bank (IBRD) for reconstruction and compensation.
Needless to say, the largest shareholder of the World Bank is the United States, which means that it is the United States that benefits most from IBRD.
In 1945, the dollar-yen exchange rate was 15 yen / dollar. In 1948, this was set 360 yen / dollar.
With this, I regard the United States made the Japanese people cheap workers.
The method of making someone in debt and working for a low wage is the way of a slave trader, isn't it?
The United States did this to the entire Japanese nation.
Perhaps the Japanese at that time knew the intentions of the United States, but they did not want to impose debts on future generations, so they worked very very hard.
It is believed that Japan repaid those debts incurred in the war in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Koreans and Chinese always insist that Japan never apologized.
However, In fact, Japan had apologized to China so much that the Global Times published a column saying, "Japan has apologized 17 times, so there is no need to apologize anymore."
Also, at every ASEAN meetings, representatives of ASEAN had been apologized by Japanese representative, so these represetativeshad said Japan that they didn't need to apologize anymore.
South Korea's message boards love this topic, and a quick search using the keywords "Japan, apology" will even bring up a picture of the former prime minister kneeling on the ground.
Despite this, they shout that Japan did not apologize.
This is probably because the Chinese and Koreans have been brainwashed with anti-Japanese thoughts that "they don't even apologize." smh
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"Japanification" was caused by the United States.
With the Plaza Accord, Japan's assets against the US dollar decreased from 600 trillion yen to 300 trillion yen. And it forced Japanese companies to cut costs to make products. Because the accord make the price of product twice. Japanese companies had to reduce the costs of facilities and payments for employers. And they begun to build their factories in overseas. It’s a start Japan’s hollowing.
The United States then hollowed more out Japanese industry through a very unfair US-Japan semiconductor agreement. Japan's capital investment capital, human resources, and technology have flowed overseas, especially in China and South Korea, and Japanese salaries have stopped rising.
Low-income earners live a simple life. Inflation cannot occur when luxury goods cannot be sold and people buy the cheapest possible ones.
Atkinson, who sent by DS to Prime Minister Kan, is trying to crush the small and medium-sized enterprises that still support Japanese industry with technological capabilities. Japan cannot grow because it puts pressure on the economy, shatters industries, divides and disrupts businesses. Therefore, there is no need to worry about "Japanification" occurring in the United States.
In other words, the cause of the decline of the Japanese economy is the United States.
Currently, Japan buys the most US Treasuries, but the Biden administration seems to be trying to get Japan to buy $ 2 trillion in US Treasuries again. Since dollar assets are not in circulation in Japan, even if the dollar rises, the Japanese will not be rich. In other words, the United States is also trying to make the Japanese poor.
At the time of the Plaza Accord and the US-Japan Semiconductor Agreement, many Japanese were financially stuck and committed suicide. If Atkinson's attempt is successful, more suicides will occur.
Stop putting pressure on Japan to increase the number of suicides.
Stop exploiting Japan.
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First, at the Tokyo Trials, which were criticized as a lynching of the victorious nation against the defeated nation, Chiang Kai-shek, who led the Kuomintang army in the actual battle against Japan, claimed that there were 1 million Chinese victims, 200,000 of whom were victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
A missionary who had been circulating propaganda in the United States saying, "50,000 Japanese troops massacred 42,000 Nanjing citizens in Nanjing,'' also testified at the Tokyo trial.
However, the actual number of Japanese troops who entered Nanking was 3,000.
And, their "testimonies" were all hearsay and rumors and could not provide by objective evidence.
For this reason, the prosecution was unable to prove that a massacre had occurred.
In Nanjing at the time, University professors and members of the press were also staying.
In fact, when the Japanese army entered Nanjing, the New York Times reported on it.
Why were these Westerners who were in Nanjing at the time not called to testify in court?
Because none of them saw or heard anything like the atrocities.
Today, CCP insists that the number of victims is 300,000 of the Nanjing massacre.
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.
I don't think the Japanese soldiers did not anything bad at all.
However, it is difficult to believe the number of casualties that the CCP, which is not actually fighting the Japanese army, increases year by year without presenting any evidence.
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@Ultra_Ego_Putin
What do you mean?
As MacArthur said in his speech to the Senate shortly after his return, Japan was fighting for security.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
About 100 years ago, the United States was doing almost the same thing in China as it was doing somewhere in 2014.
These atrocities became the cause of the conflict between Japan and Chiang Kai-shek's army, and it developed into a war.
The US, which wanted to participate in World War II and rebuild its economy, needed to get the American people, who were anti-war, to accept the war.
For this reason, the Roosevelt administration branded Japan's defensive war to be an act of aggression and imposed economic sanctions and embargoes against Japan in order to get preemptive attack from Japan.
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Declassification of classified documents in 1993 already revealed that Japan had been requesting peace talks with the United States since early 1945.
The PDF file name is as follows: “Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
The following is an excerpt from the PDF.
“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”
What Kase said:
-Japanese government admits defeat
- Directly requesting peace talks with Britain and the US
-The condition of Japan's surrender is the retention of the Emperor, which is necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist country.
-Former Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew would understand all of the above.
In response to Mr. Kase's request, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew created what became known as the "Potsdam Declaration."
He then suggested that Truman use it to induce Japan to surrender in late May 1945.
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However, on the other hand, the United States did not respond to Japan's request for peace talks until the Potsdam Declaration.
Despite Japan's white flag, American B-29s continued to bomb completely Japanese cities, and American fighters often manhunted unarmed civilians, shooting them to death with machine guns.
It was easy to imagine that a landing operation would take place under such circumstances, so the Japanese government trained the elderly, women, and children to protect themselves.
By this, 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, when the enemy ignores your request for End-War Talks and continues to attack, it is quite natural to prepare for the next possible attack such as "landing operation", isn't it?
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You who call the Japanese stupid, do you have a brilliant idea for Japan to break free from the US's tight ties and become independent?
The United States gave the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, which had been annexed to Japan, to the communist powers, and established a puppet state in the southern part, which was primarily anti-Japanese.
The CCP has used anti-Japanese propaganda to vent the dissatisfaction of the domestic people, and the United States has also used it to encourage it.
It seems that the United States has been working to surround Japan with communist and anti-Japanese nations, and then have them oppose the revision of the Japanese constitution, and to make Japan, which has no defense capability, do whatever the United States does.
Also, Japanese politicians who have made moves to amend the constitution or seek independence from the United States are often ousted in scandals or met unnatural deaths.
Then, what do you think Japan should do to break free from US rule?
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The reason for the US economic sanctions against Japan was that Japan was invading China.
However, the conflict between Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces and Japan was caused by the Kuomintang forces' violations of agreements and atrocities against Japanese residents.
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 war.
Considering the above historical facts, it must be said that the common Western phrase that “Japan invaded China” is a distortion.
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You seem to be engraving an assortment of Japanese hate propaganda in your brain.
It was the United States that provoked the war between Japan and the United States.
Four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, in August 1941, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met on the US Navy heavy cruiser Augusta off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. At this time, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill had already decided to force Japan into a war with the United States and to make it impossible for Japan to defend itself again after defeating Japan.
This was revealed by the disclosure of classified documents.
And for example, about Pearl Harbor, British historian Colonel Russell Grenfell wrote the following:
"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 Japanese government desperately tried to avoid war, but the United States wanted war with Japan and did not give Japan any room for diplomacy.
So, it was the United States that provoked the war, the true evil.
The conflict between Japan and China in China was caused by the result of persistent provocations from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army, to which the United States provided huge support.
The Nanjing Massacre, by the way, was a form of propaganda fabricated by American missionaries to get anti-war Americans to accept the war.
The United States also spent eight years and $30 million on a thorough investigation of Unit 731, but found no evidence of war crimes.
The large number of Filipino casualties in Manila was the result of indiscriminate bombing of the city by the United States.
At that time, Koreans were protected by Japan because Korea was annexed by Japan.
Men on the Korean peninsula were not even drafted.
There were brave Koreans who went to the battlefield as Japanese soldiers, but they were all volunteers.
A thorough investigation conducted by the United States from 1999 to 2007 has already revealed that the comfort women issue that South Korea has long maintained is fabricated propaganda.
Living environment affects a person's lifespan.
For example, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the average lifespan of both men and women in the devastated Soviet society rapidly declined, and in 1994 the average lifespan of men fell to 57.8 years.
On the other hand, during the Japanese annexation period, the average lifespan of Koreans who claim to have suffered atrocities and massacres by the Japanese military rose from 25 to 45 years, and the population almost doubled from 13 million to 25 million.
This is what official statistics show, and this fact proves that what they are saying is a complete lie.
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@R33D713
I write it again just in case.
In the first place, it was the United States that had provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was captured and detained in the Xi'an incident in 1936, was forced to stop mopping up the CCP and concentrate on the anti-Japanese operation by Zhang Xueliang, who was supported by Britain and the United States, and the CCP, which was supported by the Soviet Union.
This anti-Japanese terrorist operation developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek despite Japan's repeated offers of peace talks.
As can be seen from the fact that the purpose of Japan entering French Indochina with the consent of France was to cut off the supply route of Chiang Kai-shek from Indochina to China, the U.S. support was the one of causes of the prolonged China Incident.
Then, the United States cornered Japan by embargo because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
The Roosevelt administration thought that if it participated in WW2, it would be able to get out of the Great Depression, make more money, and hopefully gain world hegemony with the dollar.
But the American people were against the war, so FDR severely cornered it to make Japan make a preemptive attack.
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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@R33D713
The United States has never thought Japan as an ally.
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 forced Japan into a war with the United States, and decided 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 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.
The United States simply 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.
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. And even now, nearly 80 years later, they continue to destroy Japan from the inside under the direction of the United States.
The only thing that reflects the will of the people is the election. And sometimes a real patriot is elected as a member of parliament. However, when such lawmakers try to make improvements against the intentions of the United States, they has been kicked out of politics or dead an unnatural death.
The current president of the United States criticized the former president of the United States in his support speech in 2016 as follows:
“Does he not understand we wrote japan's constitution to say they could not be a nuclear power?”
The gallery was actively applauding the above speech, which means, the left of the United States absolutely does not want Japan to possess sufficient defense and nuclear weapons.
Japan is always prevented from having sufficient defense capabilities due to domestic and foreign pressures such as the U.S. left-wing government.
In short, the United States controls Japan by putting Japan in the predicament of insufficient defense.
The security treaty between the United States and Japan have an arrangement that will be annulled after a year if either of them asks for an annulment.
If the United States suddenly asks to abandon this security treaty, Japan, which has been hindered by the increase of force, will not be able to establish a defense system within a year. So, in exchange for avoiding it, Japan has to accept the tyranny of the United States.
So by using this arrangement as a threat, the United States makes Japan obey, and then exploits.
So, you don't seem to know, the world sees Japan as a colony of the United States and thinks it is occupied.
The methods of exploitation in the United States are diverse, but recently it is particularly terrible that it is done with unequal FMS (foreign paid military aid) contracts that are applied to the purchase of U.S.-made weapons.
With this FMS contract, the United States is selling old U.S. military recycled weapons and defective equipment to Japan at a new or higher price.
And the problem that U.S. weapons that have been paid have not been delivered to Japan is becoming the norm.
What do you think about not delivering weapons even though the United States has already received the huge price for weapons?
It doesn't seem to me to have an attitude towards allies.
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And it was the Soviet invasion, not the atomic bomb, that urged Japan to accept the Potsdam Declaration.
As I mentioned earlier, from early 1945, Japan had been offering peace talks to the United States through her OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) Dulles in Switzerland.
Since Washington did not respond, Japan also asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact.
However, Stalin, who had promised the United States and Britain at the Yalta Conference to invade part of Japan's territory in exchange for the expansion of the Soviet Union's territory, intentionally withheld a response to Japan's request for mediation.
The promised date for the Soviet invasion was August 15th. With the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, Stalin, feeling the threat of Japan surrendering before the Soviet invasion, hastened the invasion on August 9th.
Ironically, the invasion cut short the hopes of those leaders who refused to accept the Potsdam Declaration, arguing that they should wait for Stalin's reply on mediation.
They finally agreed, and the Japanese government accepted the Potsdam Declaration.
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Roosevelt was an extreme racist, white supremacist, pro-Communist, pro-China and Soviet Union, and anti-Japanese.
He especially had a pathological hatred and contempt for the Japanese.
Robert Campbell, the British envoy to the United States, reported the contents of his meeting with Roosevelt in a letter to his home country as follows:
"Roosevelt thought it was important to promote intermarriage with whites in Asia.
"We will create Indo-Asian or Eurasian, or European Indo-Asian, and thereby create a great civilization and 'society' in the Far East." "However, we will exclude the Japanese. We will isolate them on their original islands and allow them to gradually decline."
In short, Roosevelt dreamed of creating new mixed-race Asians by having Asian women give birth to mixed-race children with whites, and having white people rule the Asian region with "their puppet new Asians."
From this letter, we can also see that Roosevelt despised the Japanese as an inferior race not worthy of breeding with whites, and that he wanted to exterminate them.
There was no way that Japan could accept the "unconditional surrender" demanded by President Roosevelt, who had such ideas.
1. What the Americans did to Native Americans
2. What the United States did to the Kingdom of Hawaii
3. Roosevelt's white supremacy and anti-Japanese
Just considering these only three points, it was natural for the Japanese to be worried about what would happen after "unconditional surrender".
That's why Japan had been sounding out peace talks since the beginning of 1945.
But the United States didn't even reply until the Potsdam Declaration.
The defense of Iwo Jima was a resistance against the United States to buy time for civilians, especially children, to evacuate from the cities to the countryside, because it was obvious that if Iwo Jima was taken by the United States, it would be easier for the United States to carry out air raids on the Japanese archipelago.
Isn't it natural for Japanese soldiers to fight a defensive battle against the Allied forces that had invaded Okinawa?
And at this time, the Japanese government had already approached the United States about peace talks.
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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:
"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, and rape.
At this time, American warmongers were secretly manipulating Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek by providing 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 war.
Considering the above historical facts, it must be said that the common Western phrase that “Japan invaded China” is a distortion.
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@kaijuslayer3334
It was Chiang Kai-shek who announced that the Japanese army had carried out a massacre in Nanjing. But, Chiang Kai-shek escaped before the Japanese troops arrived in Nanking. He had the Shanghai reporters write the articles as he requested.
CCP insists that the number of victims is 300,000 “for now”.
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 250,000 citizens in Nanjing.
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 Nanking.
This number of 250,000 is the number that John Rabe also wrote in his diary.
Then, follows are insists of the side of CCP
• National Revolutionary Army Announcement:
Nanjing has 200,000 demilitarized citizens
• Rabe's Diary:
The number of Nanjing citizens after the Japanese troops left is 250,000
• CCP claims:
300,000 victims
If all of these are correct, it means 350,000 people of Nanjing, who had been evacuated for fear of fighting, inadvertently returned to Nanjing during the genocide.
in another words, it means that people who think masscre was exist, regards 350,000 Nanjing citizens, who had the talent and resources to evacuate for fear of fighting, did such a terribly stupid thing.
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The Venona Papers say that about 50,000 communists or communist spies had infiltrated Japan since before the Pacific War.
In Japan at the time, communists were seen as ideological criminals, although some in the upper echelons of the government were ideologically infiltrated.
Some of them were collaborators.
In April, the emperor appointed Prime Minister Suzuki with the express intention of ending the war, and a new cabinet was formed.
Prior to this, from the beginning of 1945, the Japanese government had sought peace talks through the Swiss OSS(The predecessor agency of the CIΛ), Allen Dallas.
The PDF file, which is a series of requests from Japan, is posted on the CIΛ website under the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
From the May file in this PDF, you can read that a special envoy of the Japanese government told Dallas that he feared the government's communists were aiming for a defeatist revolution.
The Communists who permeated the government were not in favor of accepting the Potsdam Declaration.
They insisted that they should wait for a reply from the Soviet Union to the request for mediation with the Allies, which Japan requested the Soviet Union.
"If Japan surrenders through the mediation of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union will be able to participate in the occupation of Japan as a neutral party in the international community, and the Soviet Union will be able to use this as a foothold to begin turning Japan into a communist state."
Contemporary correspondence from officers who later turned out to be communist spies confirms that they thought this way.
However, the Soviet Union gave priority to secret pacts with Great Britain and the United States in Yalta and invaded Japan’s territory.
And then, the Communists under the guise of nationalism, who were opposed to accepting the Potsdam Declaration, were forced to accept it by the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Thus, the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration was approved by a majority.
In order to start a revolution in Japan and turn it into a communist country, communist forces aimed to execute the Japanese Emperor and cause nationwide chaos.
This was also why Stalin and the communists who had infiltrated the US government continued to insist on the execution of the Tsar.
According to the Venona Papers, there were approximately 300 communist spies in the U.S. government.
Based on the above, it is believed that the officers who staged the coup attempt were either communist ideologues or nationalists instigated by communists posing as nationalists.
The reason why the Japanese army on the front lines continued to fight even after accepting the Potsdam Declaration was due to communication delays and the continued invasion of the Soviet Union.
Even after Japan declared acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration on August 15, the Soviet Union continued to invade Manchuria and the Kuril Islands.
Communication delays in areas far from the Japanese mainland delayed the armistice and delayed disarmament.
Furthermore, the Soviet Union continued to postpone invasions in order to expand its territory.
In fact, the Soviet Union stripped North Korea.
During his invasion of the Kuril Islands, Stalin had asked the United States to allow the partial occupation of Hokkaido.
Japanese forces in the Northern Territories continued to defend the Northern Territories until September 5, fearing that if they did not protect them from the invading Soviet army, their territory would be taken away as a fait accompli.
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@norman4588
Japan had already apologized for what Japan did, but will not apologize for the lies that China or South Korea later forged and added.
Regarding the comfort women, Japan had apologized for:
•the comfort women system indirectly promoted prostitution
•Lack of consideration for the possibility that greedy parents* want their daughter to be a very well-paid* comfort woman
*For Koreans with Confucian culture, the orders of parents, especially fathers, were absolute.
*In terms of current value, many comfort women earned about $ 600,000, and some earned about $ 2 million in 3years.
During the war, women and students were required to work in Japanese factories to make up for the labor shortage.
The female students who worked in such factories were called "Teishintai".
Later, in South Korea, it was misread that this "Teishintai" was working at a comfort station.
Based on this misreading, a South Korean group had claimed internationally that "200,000 teenage girls were forced to work in a Japanese military comfort station."
However, under the military regulations of the comfort stations at that time, it was impossible for a girl who was forcibly abducted to become a comfort woman.
More than half of the comfort women were Japanese women, and they were recruited for job offers such as newspaper advertisements.
In the case of foreigners, local foreigners recruited, and the following rules also applied to foreigners as below:
・ Applicants must be at least 17 years old, and minors must submit the consent form of their parents or guardians and official documents issued by the government office to identify themselves in order to become comfort women.
・ In any case, it was prohibited to force women to become comfort women.
・ All job applicants had to be interviewed and diagnosed by a military doctor before becoming comfort women.
So, The Japanese do not think that it is necessary to apologize or compensate for lies and fabrications ADDED LATER.
Then, in recent years, when evidence was revealed that the Teishintai’s girls were not comfort women, the group remained silent without apology or correction.
People in this group formed another group and started similar activities.
They make a lot of money through this activity, such as building statues.
The purpose of them building statues in various places is:
To make as many people in the world as possible believe that their lies and fabrications are as true,
And to force Japan to accept their lies and fabrications with the background of public opinion and to pay money again.
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It is certainly a crime to kill a non-resisting demilitarized Westerner. However, the Japanese soldiers who committed these crimes were thoroughly punished, including those with questionable evidence. In some cases it was later discovered that it was a false testimony, but was the perjury punished?
And the incidents that happened outside of China aren't for Asians, right?
In particular, the Filipino "death march" was exaggerated as propaganda because it was during the war.
In the first place, such a large number of US soldiers remained because the US military left them behind. They were left behind because they arleady were difficult to move quickly for injury or sickness.
The camp was 100km away, and the railroad that was planned to be used for transportation was destroyed by the US military, so there was no choice but to walk.
According to records
The Japanese soldiers carried more than 20 kg of equipment and food, but the POWs did not carry anything.
Many Filipinos fled secretly, but the Japanese army did not chase them and recorded them as dead.
Considering the physical condition of the POWs, the walking distance per day was about 10km.
The march was carried out at a cool time in a day.
The U.S. soldiers claimed that they were abusive because they had little food and were forced to eat foods that the U.S. soldiers were unfamiliar with, such as burdock, but Japanese army were short of food in the first place, even if there were no POWs.
Given that most U.S. soldiers killed the surrendered Japanese soldiers instead of POW, was it better for the Japanese to leave them behind, just as the U.S. forces left them behind?
In that case, no one of US soldiers would not be able to survive, so Japanese army took them.
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And the war in China was set up by the Chinese side.
Chiang Kai-shek had received funds and weapons from the Western Powers in the name of destroying the Communist Party.
However, at one point, he was caught by the Communist Party and threatened to "If you finish destroying the Communist Party, you will not be able to make money in the war. Instead of destroying the Communist Party, fight with Japan. Or..." He agreed.
This was also supported by Europe and the United States, which were worried that Japan would gain China's interests due to the creation of Manchuria with the backing of Japan.
In the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Chinese National Revolutionary Army fired at the Japanese army, but Japan, which was based on non-expansion, immediately started peace talks, and the negotiations were about to end within a month.
However, at that time, about 300 non armed Japanese were slaughtered in Tongzhou, a Japanese settlement. These victims included infants, children, women and the elderly. All men were killed after being tortured, such as being tied up with ropes and dragged around, and all women were cruelty killed after being raped. The misery of Japanese women’s bodies can be seen in the photos stolen by the “Rape of Nanjing”.
Shortly thereafter, an assassination of a Japanese officer took place in Shanghai.
Both were terrorist attacks by the Chinese side, and negotiations failed.
Many Japanese(about 20,000) in China had gathered in Shanghai to evacuate to Japan for fear of Chinese attacks. Chiang Kai-shek troops besieged Shanghai to attack these unarmed Japanese, and the Japanese troops responded.
This was the China-incident, and began the war.
In other words, it is taught all over the world that "Japan fought Chiang Kai-shek for the purpose of invading China," but that is not true.
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When Nanjing fell, approximately 150 international journalists and photographers were accompanying the Japanese army.
But no one ever reported what you call "rape."
On the contrary, the Japanese military distributed food and other supplies to the citizens of Nanjing, and there were media reports with photos showing how happy the citizens were.
Even after the end of the war, nothing was announced by them.
The Tokyo Trial was so biased that it was criticized as a lynching of the defeated country by the victorious nation, but it failed to prove that a massacre had taken place in Nanjing.
This was because most of the testimonies of witnesses were hearsay and rumors.
The official record of the Tokyo trial, "Prosecution Document No. 1706,'' contains the following statement.
"Few people voluntarily reported the crimes committed by the Japanese military. Even when investigators were dispatched, some remained silent like 'winter cicadas' or did not tell the truth. Some denied it …”
In other words, at the Tokyo trial, the prosecution solicited “witnesses to the massacre,” but there were none.
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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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The United States has beaten, weakened, and debt-trapped the Japanese economy, causing Chinese and US capital to buy cheaply. As a result, the hollowing out of Japanese industry is progressing, the average wage of Japanese workers is decreasing year by year, the number of young people who cannot get married due to low income is increasing, the birthrate is declining, and the "deflationary spiral" has continued for nearly 30 years.
This has greatly increased the presence of Chinese money in Japan, with 100,000 Chinese living in Japan and vast Japanese land being purchased by Chinese and Chinese companies.
Constitutionally, it is very difficult to make a law that regulates these things. The legal hurdles for amending the Constitution are so high that it is difficult to amend.
•Required constitutional amendment conditions:
❶ 2/3 or more approval in the House of Representatives ❷ 2/3 or more approval in the House of Councilors ❸ 2/3 or more approval in the referendum
It was GHQ that created this constitution and political system, but it means that China is using these holes in Japanese law to make Japan Chinese.
China still sends submarines to the Pacific Ocean, but due to the shallow waters along the Chinese coast, these submarines are easy to find and are under US surveillance. However, if Japan becomes Chinese territory, it will be difficult to find Chinese submarines departing from Japan because there are many deep trenches along the coast of Japan. The land purchases in Japan by the Chinese mentioned above, especially the land in Hokkaido. Do you know where Hokkaido is?
Can the United States protect the continental United States when a large number of Chinese submarines roam Alaska and the west coast of the United States?
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@doreybain
In April 1945, the Kantaro Suzuki Cabinet was built in Japan by the order of the Emperor, with the clear aim of ending the war.
In May 1945, peace talks were taking place in Switzerland with Allen Dallas of the US Office of Strategic Services and later Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Japan had informed Dallas that the only condition for surrender was to keep
the emperor system.
Dallas reported this to President Truman by means of cryptographic telegrams and tried to move him to early peace, but the president refused any talks with Japan.
The CIA has already officially published above record of feelers from Japan on the web.
But the United States probably didn't take it seriously or thought it was a lie or for the Roosevelt&Truman administration, which had tolerated communism, did not care that Japan could become a communist nation.
It seems that the United States did not even accept talking AND KEPT BOMBING JAPANESE CITIES.
According to Verona's documents, the US government had about 300 Communist spies.
Communist spies had also invaded Japan, and there were groups of young peoples in military instigated by them.
Russia and China communized after the royal government was overthrown in the post-defeat turmoil.
Similarly, in order to overthrow Japan and make Japan a communist country, spies urged young soldiers to insist on a decisive battle on the mainland.
Meanwhile, the emperor and conservative politicians and military personnel worked to prevent it.
Even if they were able to surrender and end the war, there was concern that if they lost the emperor, the Japanese would lose their spiritual support and cause mayhem.
There was also concern about the risks of national communism due to the turmoil of the people by losing the emperor.
So, the Japanese government adhered to the protection of the emperor system as a condition of surrender.
In addition, MacArthur said he would hang the emperor before he was assigned to Japan, but as soon as he understood the reality of Japan and the need for the emperor's existence, he decided to keep the emperor alive.
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@jupitercyclops6521
As already mentioned in the comments above, Japan did not surrender because it was unclear whether the Emperor would be protected.
In the sixth comment of this thread, I elaborated on why it is important to Japan.
In short, if Japan lost the Emperor, there was a great risk that Japan would become a communist country, that is, a lost country like the Russian Empire.
At the Yalta Conference, Stalin promised to invade Japan in exchange for the concessions of Japan's Kuril Islands. The planned invasion date was August 15.
Roosevelt was very enthusiastic about Stalin, but Truman was distrustful of Stalin and the Soviet Union.
That was why he demonstrated the atomic bombing to the Soviet Union.
But Stalin, who already knew about the atomic bomb, was not surprised. Rather, fearing that Japan would surrender before the Soviet Union began invading Japan, Stalin began the invasion on August 9, earlier than promised.
Indeed, some Japanese leaders argued that they should fight the decisive battles on the mainland before surrendering and let the Allied forces know that the Japanese would not easily succumb. (In recent years. It is believed that they were spies who aimed to communize Japan through the defeat revolution and those who were instigated by the spies.)
Meanwhile, some groups relied on the Soviet Union for arbitration with the Allies. After the Soviet aggression cut off hopes for arbitration, the Cabinet took the initiative in accepting the Potsdam Declaration.
Perhaps the Potsdam Declaration did not guarantee the Emperor's survival, so the hidden Communists followed suit.
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@astarshiptoguidemeby3741
Japan had already sought consultation with the United States for surrender since the early 1945.
The CIA has already officially published a record of feelers from Japan on the web.
This is probably because Japan was in contact with the CIA's predecessor organization in Switzerland.
From this record, we can see that:
❶ Japan had already consulted with the United States about surrender in early 1945.
❷ The only condition for Japan's surrender was to maintain the emperor system. It was informed in May, 1945.
❸ Japan also insisted on the United States that it was necessary to maintain the emperor system in order not to make Japan a communist state.
But the United States probably didn't take it seriously or thought it was a lie or for the Roosevelt administration, which had tolerated communism, did not care that Japan could become a communist nation.
It seems that the United States did not even accept talking.
The United States only allowed unconditional surrender.
According to Verona's documents, the US government had about 300 Communist spies.
Communist spies had also invaded Japan, and there were groups of young peoples in military instigated by them.
Russia and China communized after the royal government was overthrown in the post-defeat turmoil.
Similarly, in order to overthrow Japan and make Japan a communist country, spies urged young soldiers to insist on a decisive battle on the mainland.
Meanwhile, the emperor and conservative politicians and military personnel worked to prevent it.
Even if they were able to surrender and end the war, there was concern that if they lost the emperor, the Japanese would lose their spiritual support and cause mayhem.
There were also concerns about the risks of national communism in the turmoil.
These were the reasons why the Japanese government adhered to the protection of the emperor system as a condition of surrender.
In addition, MacArthur said he would hang the emperor before he was assigned to Japan, but as soon as he understood the reality of Japan and the need for the emperor's existence, he decided to keep the emperor alive.
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@astarshiptoguidemeby3741
The Manchurian Incident happened as follows.
After the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, civil wars broke out in China.
Warlords frequently attacked, looted, raped, and killed unarmed people, regardless of nationality.
Japanese in the Manchuria area, including those from the Korean Peninsula, were also affected.
Victims of Japanese nationals sought help from the Japanese government, but the Japanese government did not comply with their requests due to fears of internal politics.
So, Japanese in the troubled Manchuria area asked the Kanto Army for help.
At that time, the Kanto Army was in charge of securing the Manchurian Railway acquired by Japan during the Russo-Japanese War.
Concerned that the repeated barbarism of Chinese warlords commanders would extend to the Korean Peninsula, the Kanto Army responded to this demand by driving out Chinese raids in the Manchurian region.
This is the history of the Manchurian Incident.
In Manchuria, where security had improved, Chinese had flown in from surrounding areas.
At this point, the population of the Manchuria region had increased from 10 million to 30 million.
It is recognized from this population increase how unarmed people were suffering.
At this time, the last Emperor Pu Yi of the Qing Dynasty fled to the Japanese consulate in Beijing.
Pu Yi was a Manchu tribe, and the Manchuria area was also his roots, so he took the opportunity to improve the security of the Manchurian area and founded Manchuria.
The fact that the Kanto Army was in a position to maintain security in Manchuria and that Japan subsequently invested heavily in Manchuria cannot be denied that Japan had significant influence over Manchuria.
However, the sovereignty of the politics rested with the government of Manchuria, and there was no Western-style colonial rule.
The above facts were verified in the Tokyo trial, and it is acknowledged that it was not an invasion.
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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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@zybbok6122
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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The social structure before the annexation of Yi Dynasty Korea was as follows:
・Absolute rulers of the dynasty and nobility
・A layer of practitioners who support the above rulers
・A Majority class of slaves who are no education and only exploited by their rulers
The distance from the Japanese island closest to the Korean peninsula to the Korean peninsula was about 50 km.
So, Japan had feared that the Korean peninsula would come under the control of the Qing dynasty or the Russian empire amid white imperialism.
The king of Yi Dynasty Korea was a vassal state that paid tribute to Qing and was in isolation. However, Japan wanted to have an army on the Korean peninsula in case Qing or Russia invaded the peninsula.
For this reason, Japan made the country to Yi Dynasty Korea open with the same display of force and coercion as Perry, who came to Japan on a black ship.
After the war with Qing, who didn't like the presence of Japanese troops, Japan forced Qing to stop subjugating Yi Dynasty Korea, and Yi Dynasty Korea became the Korean Empire as an independent country.
Japan provided various support and advice to the Korean Empire, which was a protectorate, but the exploitation of the royal family and aristocrats and the luxurious life of debt did not change, and the national finances were bankrupt.
One of the factors that led to the Russo-Japanese War was that the Russian army, which was to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in Qing, stayed in Manchuria and advanced southward, approaching the Korean Peninsula.
Also, it was a factor that he showed it's intention to invade the Korean peninsula by obtaining a lease on the land of the Korean Empire in exchange for a huge amount of money.
After the Russo-Japanese War, those who were actually in charge of politics on behalf of the rulers such as the royal family raised their voices calling for annexation with Japan, and four petitions were submitted to the emperor.
In Japan, about half of the respondents were for or against the annexation of the Korean Empire.
Opinion of opponents of annexation:
Japan should help as before, but the Korean Empire itself should rebuild and develop the Korean Empire.
Japan's national funds should not be invested in infrastructure development on the Korean Peninsula, but should be invested in underdeveloped areas within Japan.
Opinions of those in favor of annexation:
In order for the Korean Empire, which is completely bankrupt economically, to develop as a nation, drastic reforms are necessary. However, given Japan's position as a protectorate, there are limits to what advice can be given for reform.
Annexation should eliminate the fear that the Korean peninsula will be colonized by other countries such as France taking advantage of its economic difficulties.
This was also the claim of annexation petitioners such as Prime Minister Lee Wan-yong of the Korean Empire.
Although the support and opposition were evenly matched, the annexation faction increased its power after Hirobumi ITO, who opposed the annexation, was assassinated by a Korean, leading to the annexation.
After the annexation, Japan paid the huge debt with Russia instead and had the lease removed.
One-third of the national budget was used to improve infrastructure such as dams, roads and sewage systems, schools, and hospitals on the Korean Peninsula.
As a result, the average life expectancy of Koreans has increased from 25 to 45, and the population has almost doubled.
Koreans call the above things aggression, what do you think?
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The war between Japan and the Kuomintang army occurred in China because of the anti-Japanese terrorist acts committed by the Chinese against the Japanese, and the Japanese did not go to China to invade.
It is said that Japan began to invade China from the Manchurian Incident, but John McMurray, who was the U.S. ambassador to Beijing in 1931 after the Manchurian Incident, submitted a detailed report in 1935 and said as follows.
"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."
"China's provocation" that Ambassador John McMurray mentioned is a number of assaults, looting, rapes and massacres of Japanese residents by Chinese warlords, and Chinese attacks on Japanese security forces that tried to prevent them.
And It has become clear that the anti-Japanese terrorist attacks of these Chinese warlords were carried out in exchange for the provision of U.S. weapons and funds in addition to the Soviet Union and European countries.
As Ambassador McMurley said, the Japanese Kwantung Army only carried out an operation to drive the barbaric warlords from Manchuria as an act of self-defense against the tyranny of Chinese warlords. However, Western countries, which are uncomfortable for Japan to expand its interests in China, branded it as an invasion.
The cause of the China Incident was almost the same, and even worse massacres had occurred. ( Example: Tongzhou Incident)
Chiang Kai-shek surrounded Shanghai, where about 20,000 Japanese residents who could not withstand the persecution of Chinese, gathered to return Japan, with 50,000 soldiers and made an air raid. The war began after these repeated provocations by Chiang Kai-shek.
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@cantrait7311
There is no truth to what you say.
First of all, the number of victims of the atomic bomb exceeded 510,000 in 2023, so the number of Japanese civilians indiscriminately massacred by the United States easily exceeds 1 million, including the victims of air raids, etc.
On the other hand, even in the Tokyo Trials, which were criticized as revenge by the victorious nation against the defeated nation and a lynching, the prosecution was unable to prove the massacre in Nanjing.
At the time, Chiang Kai-shek claimed that 1 million Chinese people were killed, including 200,000 in Nanjing. However, the CCP, which hardly fought the Japanese military, has been increasing the number of victims every year without any basis.
You said, "The Japanese killed more innocent civilians than two nuclear weapons combined," but can you prove that number?
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@hewlettpackard1731
The system of comfort women existed. However, the “forced recruitment” and “massacre” claimed by South Korean propaganda groups were later fabricated.
During the war, Japanese women and students were required to work in Japanese factories to make up for Japan's labor shortage.
The female students who worked in such factories were called "Teishintai".
The number of Teishintai girls was about 200,000.
Decades after the war, a misunderstanding arose and spread in South Korea that the girls of the Teishintai were working at comfort stations.
Based on this misconception, a South Korean group named "The Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan" had internationally argued that:
"200,000 teenage Korean schoolgirls from Teishintai were forced to work in Japanese military brothels."
After that, in recent years, evidence was exposed that the Teishintai girls were not comfort women.
The group, The Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, remained silent without apologizing or correcting their false allegations.
The people of the group formed another group named "Korea Council for Justice and Remembrance" and started similar activities.
This new group is currently spreading the following lies internationally:
"200,000 girls were forced to work in Japanese military brothels."
However, as mentioned above, it is clear that these claims were fabricated and added later.
Japan sees no need to apologize or compensate for the lies and fabrications added later.
In addition,
According to "Anti-Japanese Tribalism: 반일 종족주의", the the maximum number of Korean comfort women seeking employment and working in comfort stations is estimated at around 3,600.
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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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What?
It was the United States that provoked the war between Japan and the United States.
Four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, in August 1941, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met on the US Navy heavy cruiser Augusta off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. At this time, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill had already decided to force Japan into a war with the United States and to make it impossible for Japan to defend itself again after defeating Japan.
This was revealed by the disclosure of classified documents.
And for example, about Pearl Harbor, British historian Colonel Russell Grenfell wrote the following:
"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 Japanese government desperately tried to avoid war, but the United States wanted war with Japan and did not give Japan any room for diplomacy.
So, it has been the United States that provoked the war, the true evil.
In the Potsdam Declaration, the United States "declared" that it would not colonize Japan, but in fact, it committed a number of evil deeds that violated international law and put on a hard restraint to enslave Japan.
One of those constraints is malware. Japan's defense systems are purchased from the US, who allegedly have installed something on them that allows them to take down the systems whenever they want. Japan doesn't want to be on the wrong side, but whether it likes it or not, it has to follow the US.
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@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu
The first time the Senkaku Islands appear in Western historical records is in British records around 1845. Britain self-investigated the islands located between the Ming and Ryukyu dynasties. However, no one made any protests during the investigation, as such, it is publicly acknowledged around the world that "no one had claimed ownership of these islands at that time."
About 40 years later, Tatsushiro Koga, a Japanese man, noticed that the Senkaku Islands were uninhabited islands. He asked the Japanese government, "I want to make money by developing the island, so please lend me the island after making it Japanese territory."
The Japanese government took about 10 years to carefully confirm that the Senkaku Islands did not belong to any country's territory, and then made them their own territory. In response to this, Koga and other Japanese developed the Senkaku Islands.
When Japan made the Senkaku Islands a territory and used them by the Koga family, 31 Chinese fishermen were shipwrecked and washed up on one of the Senkaku Islands. When Japan rescued them and sent them back, Japan received a letter of appreciation from the Republic of China.
In the letter of 1920, it is written that a fisherman drifted to Wayo Island in the Senkaku Islands, Yaeyama County, Okinawa Prefecture, Empire of Japan(大日本帝国沖縄県八重山郡尖閣列島内和洋島).
From this, we know that the Republic of China recognized the Senkaku Islands as Japanese territory.
The Treaty of San Francisco does not require the return of territories recognized as ancient Japanese territories. The Senkaku Islands were also recognized as Japanese territory, so they were not asked to return them.
Until 1969, neither the Chinese Communist Party nor the Republic of China claimed sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands.
And the Senkaku Islands were marked as Japanese territory on Chinese maps until1969.
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@cmaxz817
International law stipulates that ownership of public and private property remains the same whether during a war or abroad.
So, for example, even in Indonesia, the buildings built by the Netherlands are their property.
And if you destroy such property, you have to pay compensation.
In other words, Japan did had to maintain Dutch property NOT because it lost the war, BUT because in any case it had to.
In fact, after independence, the Indonesian government paid for and bought the property left by the Netherlands.
It is a fact that Indonesian youth stole Japanese weapons.
However, it is also a fact that the Japanese pretended not to see what they were stealing.
It is also a fact that there were some Japanese who unlocked the warehouse and left the door open to make it easier to steal.
In response to your point that the Japanese government "thought this way," I already argued that it was misunderstanding, based on the minutes of the Cabinet at that time.
What is your basis?
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@xxfrosty609xx3
It has already revealed that the stories Mark Felton tells in his books and videos about Unit 731 and comfort women are fabricated propaganda.
From 1999 to 2007, the United States spent eight years and $30 million conducting a thorough investigation of classified U.S. documents related to the following alleged war crimes:
- The Japanese military systematically forcibly kidnapped 200,000 women, turned them into sex slaves, and killed them when they became sick.
- Allied POWs were turned into guinea pigs for bacterial experiments at Unit 731's facility in Mukden, and bacteria were used in Japanese balloon bombs.
Among about 140,000 pages of classified documents about Unit 731 collected by the United States, the only document found was one in which he concluded that "germ warfare is unthinkable for the foreseeable future."
And, no evidence of human experimentation or germ warfare was found.
Regarding comfort women, the following facts were revealed, and on the contrary, criminality was denied.
- The comfort women system was an extension of the prostitution system that was legalized 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 US military did not recognize the criminality of the Japanese military's comfort women system.
As a result, almost none of the evidence and materials expected to be found among the approximately 8.5 million pages of classified documents were found.
The results can be confirmed in the report published on the web.
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If the U.S. military does not withdraw.
The U.S. base is next to the base of the Self-Defense Forces, so the Self-Defense Forces, which are prohibited from preemptive attacks, will suffer great damage with the U.S. military first.
Even if Japan is under a saturation attack of nuclear weapons and most of the Japanese die, I don't think the United States will use nuclear weapons for Japan. Because the United States does not want the U.S. mainland to shoot nuclear weapons into China.
After that, Ukraine 2.0 will be held in Japan, but the world economy will stop further because materials and manufacturing equipment for semiconductor manufacturing, which are only produced in Japan, will not be supplied.
The simulation of this war has not been done, but probably China will win, so we will return to the results of the first simulation.
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@CiderVG
Today it is becoming clear that NOT everything the Allies accused Japan of committing during World War II was true.
Like recent, the Allied Powers released 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.
For example, the Nanjing massacre is one such propaganda.
Now, the Chinese Communist Party claims that the number of victims of Nanjing at that time was 300,000.
On the other hand, before the National Revolutionary Army fled from Nanjing, the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was announced to be 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.
This story was then further distorted by the Allies, including Chiang Kai-shek, to justify the emotional lynching of the Tokyo Trials or war crimes against Japan such as atomic bombings.
In particular, Chiang Kai-shek claimed that the Japanese army had killed 1 million people at the Tokyo Trials, including the massacre of 200,000 people in this fictitious Nanjing Massacre.
After that, the Chinese Communist Party, which did not fight the Japanese army, increased its "Chinese casualties'' year by year.
Those who blindly support Chinese claims should first present objective historical facts or documents to prove their claims, but what they call evidence is only hearsay, rumors and photoshoped pictures.
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This is no surprise since a thorough investigation by the United States has shown that the Unit 731 story 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 Cl!nt0n 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 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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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.
At the Tokyo Far East Trial, Chiang Kai-shek claimed that the Japanese military was responsible for the deaths of 1 million Chinese people, including the massacre of 200,000 civilians in Nanjing.
200,000 was the number of civilians he announced when fleeing Nanjing before the Japanese army arrived.
However, most of the testimony of prosecution witnesses was hearsay and rumors, and even at the Tokyo trial, which was so biased that it was criticized as a lynching of a defeated country by a victorious nation, the prosecution was unable to prove that a massacre occurred in Nanjing.
In fact, records from the time indicate that the number of civilians in Nanjing at the time the Japanese army was leaving Nanjing was approximately 220,000 to 250,000.
The reason the number of civilians was higher than Chiang Kai-shek's announcement was that those who had fled outside Nanjing returned.
When Nanjing fell, about 150 international journalists and photographers accompanied the Japanese army as it entered the city.
Despite that, as bellow, there is a record from the prosecutor's side that they recruited "witnesses of the massacre" who needed the prosecutor of the Tokyo trial, but there were none at all.
“Prosecution Document No. 1706”
It says:
"Few people voluntarily reported the crimes committed by the Japanese military. Even when investigators were dispatched, some remained silent like 'winter cicadas' or did not tell the truth. Some denied it …”
It is recorded in the diaries of KMT soldiers at the time that most Chinese soldiers in the Kuomintang army always carried civilian clothes with them in case of escape or guerrilla warfare.
If the Japanese army had killed all the Chinese it could find, as the Chinese Communist Party, which did not fight the Japanese forces, claimed, the Kuomintang soldiers would not have had to change clothes. But they were actually changing their clothes. Do you understand what this means?
Just as the Chinese Communist Party has yet to release even objective evidence of the Nanjing Massacre, it has increased the number of "victims" every year without presenting any objective evidence.
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According to confidential documents disclosed by the United States in 1993, Japan had been requesting peace negotiations with the United States since early 1945.
However, even though Japan virtually raised the white flag, the United States continued to bomb more than 400 Japanese cities without responding to requests for peace negotiations. Approximately 500,000 people were killed or missing in the air raids, most of them civilians.
Westerners often say that like, "the Japanese government trained women and children how to use bamboo spears in preparation for the U.S. landings, which shows that Japan intended to fight to the last one."
However, in situations where the enemy ignores the white flag and continues to attack, indiscriminately burning down people and towns with incendiary bombs, and sometimes hunting people with fighter jets, even if the bamboo spear is the only weapon available for defense, isn't it natural to prepare the people for the next possible landing operation?
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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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Japan is not denying comfort women and comfort stations, but denying the "forced entrainment" claimed by South Korea.
During the war, women and students were required to work in Japanese factories to make up for the labor shortage in Japan.
The female students who worked in such factories were called "Teishintai".
The number of Teishintai girls was about 200,000.
Decades after the war, in South Korea, it was misread that this "Teishintai" girls were working at comfort stations.
Based on this misreading, a South Korean group had claimed internationally that:
“200,000 teenage girls of Teishintai were forced to work in a Japanese military comfort stations."
After that, in recent years, the evidence was revealed that the Teishintai’s girls were not comfort women.
The group silent without any apologizing or correcting for their wrong claims.
People in the group formed another group and started similar activities.
The new group is spreading internationally their clams that:
"200,000 girls were forced to work in Japanese military comfort stations."
I think because believing their claim, you stated "Japan needs proof that 200,000 women were not forced into each."
However, those claims were fabricated and later added, as mentioned above.
Japanese just do not think that it is necessary to apologize or compensate for lies and fabrications added later.
In addition,
According to the book “反日種族主義：반일 종족주의”, there were approximately 3,600 comfort women of Korean at most.
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I don't think that the Japanese Army did not anything terrible in the past, but I also don't think that everything that is being touted today is true.
The Allies circulated a lot of propaganda(fake news) to raise their fighting spirit, like recently.
For example, one of them was the Nanjing Massacre which was fabricated by anti-Japanese activists Missionary John Magee in the United States.
He did so in order to make the Americans, who were reluctant to war, accept the war with Japan.
Later, it has been distorted and used by the Allies repeatedly.
Also, 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 write 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 those 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.
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In the movie Wolverine, there were Japanese soldiers who performed seppuku while watching the dropping of the atomic bomb.
But it's really absurd to believe that Japanese people who don't know anything about the atomic bombing committed seppuku just because they saw mushroom cloud.
So when I saw that, I was really taken aback by the shallowness of Americans.
To be frank, the 70,000 victims immediately after the atomic bombings were fewer than the 100,000 victims of the Tokyo air raids on March 10th.
The horror of the atomic bomb is it have the destructive power of conventional weapons, and the cruelty of chemical weapons that brings with it the long-suffering disease of radiation exposure.
However, at that time, no one could foresee the despair that lay ahead just by looking at the mushroom cloud. Because Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first to be used against living people, the atomic bomb, the weapon of mass destruction.
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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 about 1,000,000, 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 of the Nanjing massacre.
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 people who claim that there was a massacre in Nanjing think it's strange to hear these numbers?
And I also have to say that the number of casualties doubled every year by the CCP, which has also never fought a war with Japan, is highly questionable.
Because all of their claims are also based on hearsay and rumors, but there is no objective evidence.
When China registered the Nanjing Massacre in the World Memory Heritage Site, the Japanese government protested and asked to release the "evidence" submitted for registration.
However, China still refuses to release it.
If they are objectively consistent with historical facts and existing materials, and are really evidence that can prove the Nanjing Massacre, they have no reason to reject it, right?
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Second, it has already revealed that the stories about Unit 731 and comfort women are fabricated propaganda.
From 1999 to 2007, the United States spent eight years and $30 million conducting a thorough investigation of classified U.S. documents related to the following alleged war crimes:
- The Japanese military systematically forcibly kidnapped 200,000 women, turned them into sex slaves, and killed them when they became sick.
- Allied prisoners of war were turned into guinea pigs for bacterial experiments at Unit 731's facility in Mukden, and bacteria were used in Japanese balloon bombs.
Among about 140,000 pages of classified documents about Unit 731 collected by the United States, the only document found was one in which he concluded that "germ warfare is unthinkable for the foreseeable future."
However, no evidence of human experimentation or germ warfare was found.
Regarding comfort women, the following facts were revealed, and on the contrary, criminality was denied.
- The comfort women system was an extension of the prostitution system that was legalized 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 US military did not recognize the criminality of the Japanese military's comfort women system.
As a result, almost none of the evidence and materials expected to be found among the approximately 8.5 million pages of classified documents were found.
The results can be confirmed in the report published on the web.
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Third, then let's take a look at what actually happened on the so-called Bataan Death March.
❶The US military fled, abandoning tens of thousands of soldiers who were unable to move due to illness or injury.
❷The Japanese army captured the American soldiers who were left behind, but there was a complete lack of medicine and food.
❸The Japanese military tried to transport the POWs to a camp, but the railroad they were supposed to use for transport was destroyed by the U.S. military and could no longer be used.
With no other option, the Japanese army marched to the camp on foot with most of the POWs, except for the seriously ill.
❹They walked over 60 kilometers over 4-5 days, an average of 14 kilometers a day in about 4 hours in the cool mornings and evenings.
❺The Japanese army lacked food, but food was also distributed to prisoners of war. However, misunderstandings arose due to differences in food culture. For example, American soldiers later accused being forced to eat burdock, a common Japanese food, as abuse.
❻ Japanese soldiers were trained and used to walking 20 kilometers a day, but American soldiers were not. In addition, many people were infected with malaria due to being hidden in the jungle for a long time. According to statistics from Camp O'Donnell, the total number of people who died or escaped during the march was about 21,000. (Most of the prisoners were Filipinos, and Filipinos who escaped during the march were considered dead, so the dead and escapees are totaled.)
The United States used this for propaganda purposes, accusing the Japanese military of mistreating prisoners of war.
But I think, the US military, which had killed 99% of the Japanese soldiers who surrendered throughout the war, has no right to criticize the Japanese military, which at least tried to keep the US POWs alive.
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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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@k00lkidz4
After the war, the United States established South Korea with the anti-Japanese puppet president, and made anti-Japan the national policy of South Korea as a national policy to separate and confront Japan and South Korea.
As the number of Koreans who actually experienced the Japanese annexation of Korea decreased, a situation was created in South Korea where it was easy to gain political support by instigating anti-Japan.
Therefore, Koreans are educated to hate Japan from an early age, saying that "Japan attacked and invaded the Korean Peninsula." And now, CCP is using this for speech work.
However, in reality, the annexation of the Korean Peninsula was carried out by a petition from Koreans.
The following is the answer to question, "Why did Koreans ask Japan for annexation?" by a Korean who escaped from anti-Japanese brainwashing education.
“Can the state run without a law enforcement agency, financially and militarily bankrupt, chilling administrative organizations?
In other words, the Korean Empire at that time was bankrupt. The situation was terrible, and senior officials, including Ye Wanyong, were fully aware that the existing royal rules were not working. Gojong borrowed a huge amount of money from Russia in exchange for a concession, so those who knew the meaning of the concession could not forgive him. They chose Japan because they seriously considered what they should do to avoid colonization and to protect the Koreans.
They believed that Japan would accept it in the form of annexation, not colony. In other words, the "annexation" Koreans dislike is actually the position Koreans won in negotiations with Japan.
Ye Wanyong and others were ready to take responsibility for selling the country. Still, the situation was so tense that he had to make a decision to lead the negotiations and do his best of all the options.
I am convinced that South Korea has been established as a nation as it is now, thanks to the five thieves blamed by the current Koreans.”
Approximately half of the Japanese were opposed to annexation. However, allowing the Korean Peninsula to become a Russian colony was extremely dangerous for Japan's security. So Japan annexed the Korean Peninsula.
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When the Boxer Rebellion broke out, Western nations and Japan sent troops to suppress them.
Russia entered Manchuria during this period, but continued to stay in Manchuria even after the Boxer Rebellion ended, effectively invading Manchuria.
Russia gradually increased pressure on the Korean Peninsula, causing the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria.
After the Russo-Japanese War, Russia handed over the South Manchuria Railway and the lands associated with the South Manchuria Railway to Japan.
Manchuria, where Russia withdrew, was returned to China, and a large influx of non-Manchurian Chinese from the surrounding area.
Among them were many outlaws called warlords who were looting etc.
Japanese people who emigrated to Manchuria to manage the Manchuria Railway and railway-related businesses were damaged.
They sought help from the Japanese government, but Japanese goverment did nothing to avoid interfering with domestic affairs.
Next, the people of Manchuria turned to the Kwantung Army, which was in charge of security for the Manchuria Railway, for help.
As the damage worsens, as the warlords became more powerful, it became more difficult to maintain the safety of Manchuria. And the Kwantung Army also had to worry about what could happen after that: the invasion of the Korean Peninsula by the Chinese warlords and / or the Soviet Union.
The Manchurian Incident was carried out to prevent the robbery of these warlords, expel them, and restore the security of Manchuria.
Manchuria was originally a derivative of the Qing dynasty. After Russia left Manchuria, the Manchu people complained that the majority of other Chinese people had flowed in from the surrounding area.
Manchurian influential people insisted that:
Manchuria was integrated into China as a dowry because the Qing dynasty became the ruler of China. Therefore, now that the rule of China is no longer under the Qing dynasty, Manchuria should establish a king (Puyi) and become independent of China.
It was clear that they were expecting Japanese backing. But this wasn't bad for Japan either, because it meant that there would be a vast buffer zone between Russia and the Korean Peninsula.
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After the Manchurian Incident, the Xi'an Incident happened. It was an incident in which Chiang Kai-shek was caught by CCP.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek accepted the request from CCP. The request was to join hands with the CCP instead of keeping him alive and to fight Japan instead of fighting the CCP.
The CCP teamed up with its enemy, Chiang Kai-shek, because the Soviet Union, which was supporting the CCP at the time, instructed them to do so.
Stalin's purpose was to at the same time exhaust them by fighting Japan, which hinders the expansion of the Communist forces in the Far East, and Chiang Kai-shek, an obstacle to the CCP.
After that, various crimes from harassment to massacre of the Japanese by Chiang Kai-shek's army and CCP minions began to be committed against the Japanese.
In short, it was the Chiang Kai-shek & CCP team that started the war.
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Hahaha
I don't know if I'll be alive 70 years later, though.
Certainly we cannot change past events by hate or angry.
However, if we look only at the successes of history, do not verify the failures, and repaint them just to hide them, we will repeat the same failures.
Japan was fighting the Chiang Kai-shek & CCP coalition, but on the other hand, it was supporting a sect of the Kuomintang different from Chiang Kai-shek.
That is, Japan was trying to prevent China from being communized.
Then, which country burned down Japan at that time, and let China become a communist country?
Which country forced the "Peace Constitution" to prevent Japan from having military power?
And which country has grown CCP so much?
In recent years when the Chinese Communist Party has become unmanageable, the country has suddenly begun to say that Japan should strengthen its defenses and have military power, despite its constitutional restraints on Japan.
Imagine what the Japanese think about this country.
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Huh?
In the first place, it was the United States that had provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was captured and detained in the Xi'an incident in 1936, was forced to stop mopping up the CCP and concentrate on the anti-Japanese operation by Zhang Xueliang, who was supported by Britain and the United States, and the CCP, which was supported by the Soviet Union.
This anti-Japanese terrorist operation developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek despite Japan's repeated offers of peace talks.
As can be seen from the fact that the purpose of Japan entering French Indochina with the consent of France was to cut off the supply route of Chiang Kai-shek from Indochina to China, the U.S. support was the one of causes of the prolonged China Incident.
Then, the United States cornered Japan by embargo because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
The Roosevelt administration thought that if it participated in WW2, it would be able to get out of the Great Depression, make more money, and hopefully gain world hegemony with the dollar.
But the American people were against the war, so FDR severely cornered it to make Japan make a preemptive attack.
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.”
To me, Zelensky only looks like Chiang Kai-shek 2.0.
Almost 100 years ago and today, the American way is always the same.
1993?
When I first found this record on the CIA website, it was not in PDF format.
It was published as an article in the form included in the report of the results of research by several people.
If you look at the history of importing from paper files to electronic files, it's not so strange that the entire original archival document became a PDF file in 1993.
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As can be seen from the “A note to Roosevelt'' written on Iwo Jima, the Japanese feared that “the Japanese people would be exterminated.” This was also the reason why Japan went to war with the United States.
1. What did Americans do to Native Americans?
2. What did the United States do to the Kingdom of Hawaii?
3. Roosevelt's white supremacy and hatred of Japan.
Considering these three points, it was natural for the Japanese to worry about what would happen after "unconditional surrender."
So, the Japanese government was asking the United States for peace talks.
Certainly, the form of the memorandum mentioned above is unofficial.
However, the Japanese messengers were official ambassadors and ministers, which shows that they argued official statement of the Japanese government.
And why do you think the U.S. government did not declass this document as a confidential document until 1993?
In April 1945, with the clear intention of ending the war, the Emperor finally made Kantaro Suzuki to accept the appointment of prime minister and formed a new cabinet.
In this way, the Japanese government, including the Emperor, was trying to realize the end of the war.
According to a report dated May 12, 1945, Ambassador Kase told the US OSS on May 11, as follow:
"The condition for Japan's surrender is the guarantee of retention of the Emperor, which is neccesary to prevent Japan to become a communist country'' and "Joseph Grew, former ambassador to Japan, will understand what I mean.”
The “nuclearfiles(dot)org” site shows that shortly after Kase's request, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew created a document that became known as the Potsdam Declaration.
In late May 1945, Grew proposed to Truman that he use this opportunity to urge Japan to surrender.
The Potsdam Declaration demands the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military, but on the other hand, it also sets out conditions such as "We do not intend that the Japanese shall be enslaved as a race or destroyed as a nation, ..."
Until the atomic bomb was completed and Burns erased it, the sentence guaranteeing the Emperor's retention was written at the end of Article 12.
As I wrote in the comment above, Truman used this declaration to endorse a proposal to urge Japan to surrender.
In short, Japan's surrender was not an unconditional surrender, because the Japanese government accepted the conditional Potsdam Declaration and surrendered.
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As a Japanese 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 about 1,000,000, 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 of the Nanjing massacre.
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 people who claim that there was a massacre in Nanjing think it's strange to hear these numbers?
And I also have to say that the number of casualties doubled every year by the CCP, which has also never fought a war with Japan, is highly questionable.
Because all of their claims are also based on hearsay and rumors, but there is no objective evidence.
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Japan's Road Traffic Law prohibits driving when there is a possibility of trouble occurring or if it is foreseeable.
In fact, even if you are young and healthy with clear vision and consciousness, you are prohibited from driving if your foot hurts when you hit the brakes. Because a sore foot may be useless when you have to slam on the brakes.
The young American did not take steps to avoid a predictable accident, such as getting less sleep.
As a result, he took two lives.
A Japanese man who caused a similar accident was sentenced to five years in prison. Therefore, I think the sentence in his case was quite lenient.
Compensation is paid for injuries and loss of life. This indicates depth of remorse and may be used to determine the severity of punishment. But money cannot buy innocence.
Congressman Lee demanded an apology from Japan, as if the freedom of young American was more important than the two lives of Japanese people.
Considering Rep. Graham's remarks the other day and Rep. Lee's words and actions, as a Japanese person, I once again can't help to realize that the words Americans use to talk about Japanese people, such as alliance and friendship, are completely deceptive.
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The claim that Japanese soldiers used civilians as shields is nothing more than an ugly excuse from the United States.
In normal times, it was common for Japanese companies to set up dormitories or employee quarters in their factories and provide benefits such as meals to single workers. After that, stores were built around the factory to accommodate many employees, entertainment facilities were built, and a town was formed. For this reason, Japan's industrial areas have always been adjacent to corporate factories and towns where people live.
When the war began, various factories were called upon to produce munitions. For example, garment factories were commissioned by the government to manufacture military uniforms and became munitions factories. Similarly, various factories became munitions factories producing articles for military use.
Because of the presence of these munitions factories, the United States burned down cities and killed many civilians.
But as Curtis LeMay later said, in reality the United States simply "wanted to kill as many Japanese as possible."
In other words, the expression that the Japanese government “used civilians as shields” is nothing more than an excuse to avoid criticism of the indiscriminate massacre of civilians by the US military.
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It was the United States that had provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was captured and detained in the Xi'an incident in 1936, was forced to stop mopping up the CCP and concentrate on the anti-Japanese operation by Zhang Xueliang, who was supported by Britain and the United States, and the CCP, which was supported by the Soviet Union.
This anti-Japanese terrorist operation developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek despite Japan's repeated offers of peace talks.
As can be seen from the fact that the purpose of Japan entering French Indochina with the consent of France was to cut off the supply route of Chiang Kai-shek from Indochina to China, the U.S. support was the one of causes of the prolonged China Incident.
Then, the United States cornered Japan by embargo because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
The Roosevelt administration thought that if it participated in WW2, it would be able to get out of the Great Depression, make more money, and hopefully gain world hegemony with the dollar.
But the American people were against the war, so FDR severely cornered it to make Japan make a preemptive attack.
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.”
Almost 100 years ago and today, the American way is always the same, isn't it?
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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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@criscrosxxx
The Nanjing Massacre was a propaganda fabricated by American missionaries to get American anti-war factions to accept war with Japan.
Even the deliberations at the Tokyo Trials, which were called a lynching by the victorious nations against the defeated nation, failed to prove that a massacre had taken place.
Now, the Chinese Communist Party claims that the number of victims of Nanjing at that time was 300,000.
On the other hand, before the National Revolutionary Army fled from Nanjing, the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was announced to be 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 when 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.
I'm really curious, but don't the people who join the Chinese Communist Party in shouting, "There was a Nanjing Massacre'' hear these numbers and think "something is wrong?''
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@mitonaarea5856
Chiang Kai-shek was hostile to the Chinese Communist Party, but was captured by the Chinese Communist Party during the Xi'an Incident and forced to promise to cooperate with the Chinese Communist Party and wage war against Japan for the Chinese Communist Party.
This was a Soviet directive in favor of the Chinese Communist Party.
The United States, which did not want Japan to occupy China's interests, also supported this, and provided Chiang Kai-shek with a large amount of support money and a large amount of weapons, including fighter planes with pilots on board.
Chiang Kai-shek realized that the longer he continued to fight against Japan, the more money he could make, so he refused to discuss ending the war.
By the way, the Japanese army was not in China for aggression. In the previous boxer case, each country sent his PKO to China to protect its own citizens in Chinese settlements. After the Boxer rebellion ended, European and American countries left the security of their embassies to Japan and sent their troops home because China was so far from the West. For this reason, the Japanese army was in China.
The Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek lost to the CCP because the United States backed the CCP. The US believed that it would be easier for them to deal with China later if China was controlled by the CCP.
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What the United States has done to Japan and what the Americans are demanding are very contradictory. This is probably because the actual history of the relationship between Japan and the United States is not known in the United States, but this makes me sigh.
After the war, the United States changed not only the constitution but also the social system so that Japan would not have military power.
Japanese conservatives were purged from the ruling class and banished from some 230,000 socially influential posts. Instead, GHQ put their puppet leftists and communists in those posts. Organizations such as the Science Council of Japan were created to continue to weaken Japan, and the top organizations of educational institutions were turned into communist dens.
It prohibited the teaching of history in order to take away “Japanese history” from the Japanese. For this reason, there is no history education in Japan, only a subject called social studies. What the teacher is teaching in this video is also fabricated fiction written by the Allies, not history education.
Morihei Ueshiba was educated before the war. Education at that time was completely different from education after the war. After the war, the government's educational institutions instilled Japanese children with a servile spirit of Japan, and educated them with a false history so that they would not develop patriotism.
So only a few of the Bushido spirit and virtues that the Japanese once possessed remain.
It can be said that this is the result of the successful measures taken by GHQ.
It's utterly bizarre to expect that the spirit of Japan, which the United States has been destroying all along, still remains.
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The number of Chinese casualties claimed by Chiang Kai-shek was 1 million immediately after the end of the war.
This number of victims included about 200,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre, which Chiang Kai-shek claimed to have taken place in Nanjing.
Since then, the number of victims has continued to increase year by year.
Now, the numbers of victims It has increased dozens of times.
BTW, on what basis do you believe in that number?
Is it because the CCP, who has never fought the Japanese army, says so? Besides that, what are you basing that suspicious information on?
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.
Anyone who can make an elementary calculation will notice that this story does not make sense.
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It was the United States that provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support. That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
This anti-Japanese terrorism was finally taken over by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, which allied with the CCP, and developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek did not listen to the Japanese side's offer of peace talks was that the longer the war dragged on, the richer he could live.
Then, the United States cornered Japan because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
As former President Hoover wrote in "Freedom Betrayed," the Roosevelt administration cornered Japan with a trap, inviting a first attack.
Also, MacArthur said in his Senate speech shortly after his return, Japan was at war for security.
In other words, it was the United States that caused the wars between Japan and the United States.
Below are the supports the US government gave to the Chinese warlords.
1927
Zhang Zuolin completed the Dutong Line, one of the Manchuria parallel lines, with the backing of US capital, ignoring the Manchuria parallel line construction ban agreement (21 articles with China).
In particular, the Bonghai Line was completed by importing rails from the United States and rolling stock from the United Kingdom.
1931
The United States helped Zhang Xueliang's army build a weapons factory with an annual production capacity of 100 tanks, 10 planes, and 1 million rounds of bullets.
Furthermore, it was decided to provide financial assistance totaling 26 million dollars over three years.
1934
China Guangdong Air Force Command and U.S. Aviation Equipment Corp. have been negotiating a three-year plan contract for the U.S. Air Force.
Airfields were constructed in Fuzhou and Xiamen on the condition that US loans were used to purchase US military aircraft and guidance from US Navy Reserve Officers.
1939
The US Export-Import Bank provides $45 million in funding to the China International Trade Commission.
1940
The United States announced $20 million in financial assistance to the Chiang regime.
Announced additional funding of $25 million.
President Roosevelt promised Chiang Kai-shek $100 million and 50 new fighter planes.
Of the $100 million, $25 million will be used to purchase China's air program and ground weapons components.
1941
U.S. decides to support 100 P-40B fighters. Intercontinental Corporation of the United States and China signed a treaty regarding the United States Volunteer Corps of Pilots, and dispatched 259 pilots.
The U.S. War Department presents a list of munitions (worth $45.1 million) that can be delivered to China.
President Roosevelt approves shipment of 300 trucks to China to Rangoon, Burma within two weeks.
It also decided to provide China with munitions supplies worth $49.34 million. The U.S. Integration Committee decides to dispatch 500 B-17s to China for the purpose of dispatching a military mission and bombing Japanese forces from China by U.S. volunteers.
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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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First of all, the attack on Pearl Harbor was not a surprise and despicable attack.
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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It is true that apart from the group of those in favor of an early end to the war, centered around the Emperor and Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki, there were two other groups that opposed the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
One was the pro-Soviet group, which had ties to the communist forces.
Japan was an obstacle to the Soviet Union in expanding its hegemony in the Pacific.
Therefore, since Lenin's time, there was a plan to weaken Japan by having Japan fight China and then the United States in order to bring Japan into the Soviet side.
This is clear from Lenin's speech records, etc.
As revealed by the Venona documents, there were about 200 communist spies in the Roosevelt administration, and about 50,000 communist spies in Japan.
Japan held communist spies as thought criminals, but communists had been silently infiltrating Japan, with the Japanese Communist Party being secretly established and other examples.
The United States had not replyed to Japan's request for peace talks until the Potsdam Declaration, so the Japanese government asked the Soviet Union to mediate peace talks under the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Pact.
Although Stalin had publicly stated that he would side with the Allies in October 1943, the Soviet ambassador did not clearly reject the request from Japan and continued to delay his answer.
It is true that a group of young officers attempted a coup d'état just before the end of the war was declared. In letters exchanged by these officers, who were later found to be communists, they wrote that "If the war ends with the Soviet Union as an intermediary, the Soviet Union will have a stronger say in Japan's postwar settlement, and there is a possibility that Japan will be placed under Soviet control."
Based on this idea, leaders within the government who wanted the war to end through the Soviet Union's mediation rather than through the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration were opposed to the Potsdam Declaration until the Soviet invasion.
The other group were true conservative military personnel who could not agree to the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration unless the retention of the Emperor was guaranteed.
They continued to say that they would "fight to the end" in order to control the young soldiers who were instigated by the communists who had infiltrated the military while pretending to be conservatives, so that they would not run wild and start a coup d'état.
The young soldiers are believed to have attempted a coup in reaction to the sudden shift towards ending the war.
In other words, the leaders who opposed accepting the Potsdam Declaration also had no intention of fighting to the last man.
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@Tinfoil_Hardhat
The view that the Japanese government was reluctant was from the "American side."
From the records of the cabinet meeting at that time, the American response to the approach to peace talks through Switzerland was discussed, and since the Americans ignored it, it was decided to ask the Soviet Union to mediate the peace talks.
At this point, it is clear that the leaders were discussing the premise of "ending the war" or "surrendering," not "fighting to the last man."
Surrender = defeat, and it was easily foreseen that this would cause great unrest among the people.
On the other hand, as mentioned above, there were many communists in Japan who were looking for an opportunity to take advantage of the domestic turmoil to start a communist revolution.
For this reason, the government's actions to end the war had to be carried out quietly and behind the scenes.
All of this was because the Japanese government was wary of communist forces.
However, until the Korean War broke out, the United States considered communism to be merely an advanced form of socialism, and was not particularly wary of it.
This is thought to have influenced the US's judgment.
The Foreign Minister's actions were likely due to the fact that he considered the Soviet mediation, which at least had given ambiguous responses from its ambassador, to be more promising than the Swiss OSS, which had not responded at all, and he himself was putting effort into dealings with the Soviets.
However, Stalin had already made an agreement with Britain and the United States in February to invade Japan in exchange for territorial expansion.
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@jameswright2974
The problem with the Fukushima Daiichi NPP was that the measures to prepare for the intrusion of the tsunami and the serious accident that followed were inadequate.
The Fukushima NPP, which was designed to be earthquake-resistant, automatically shut down when it sensed the shaking caused by the earthquake.
Since the power supply was cut off, cooling of the reactor switched to emergency generators.
The subsequent tsunami, which exceeded expectations, damaged emergency power generators.
As a result of losing the function of the important facility to cool the reactor, the heat generated from the fuel could not be cooled and the fuel melted, leading to a serious accident.
After that, the containment vessel was damaged, hydrogen explosions occurred, and radioactive materials were released.
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It was the United States that dragged Japan into the war.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
(eg: Tongzhou incident)
The atrocities of anti-Japanese terrorism against those Japanese residents and Japanese soldiers were the cause of the Manchurian Incident and the China Incident.
However, the Allies twisted those things, such as "Japan is an evil expansionist country and invaded China."
Because of the China-Japanese War provoked by the United States behind the scenes, the United States notified the cancellation of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in 1940 and revoked it.
This restricted U.S. exports of iron and oil to Japan.
After that, Japan entered French Indochina with the permission of the French government to shut off the Chiang Kai-shek support route from the United States.
Because Chiang Kai-shek had ignored the repeated requests for ceasefire talks from Japan and prolonged the war.
This Japanese entry into Indochina was branded as an invasion by the United States.
Because of this, the United States imposed economic sanctions such as a total ban on oil exports to Japan and at the same time as freezing assets against Japan.
At that time, Japan was cornered in a very troubled situation because it depended on the United States for resources such as iron and oil.
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 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, 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 with Japan.
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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Given what the United States had done to Japan during its occupation, the United States probably intended to keep Japan as a poor agricultural nation, much like Britain had done with India, until the beginning of the Korean War.
However, when the Korean War began, the United States realized that if Japan remained a poor agricultural country, problems would arise in providing logistics to South Korea, the United States' front line in the far east of the Eurasian continent.
It was only at this time, the US noticed that after the Japanese military had been completely disbanded, that unless Japan had something to defend itself while many American soldiers were away from Japan, there was a risk of being occupied by other countries, such as the Soviet Union.
Although the US bases remain in Japan and continue to occupy Japan even after the occupation period ends, 50-75% of the base maintenance costs are paid from the Japanese national treasury.
And, even today, many Japanese people do not know that the United States still has an American administrative agency above the Japanese government, uses Japan like a colony/ATM, and exploits Japan in various ways. But Americans know even less.
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I'll talk about money in a little more detail.
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.
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.
On the other hand, GHQ forced Japanese government to pay the occupation cost 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.
Japan borrowed a huge amount from the World Bank (IBRD) for reconstruction and compensation.
Needless to say, the largest shareholder of the World Bank is the United States, which means that it is the United States that benefits most from IBRD.
In 1945, the dollar-yen exchange rate was 15 yen / dollar. In 1948, this was set 360 yen / dollar.
With this, I regard the United States made the Japanese people cheap workers.
The method of making someone in debt and working for a low wage is the way of a slave trader, isn't it?
The United States did this to the entire Japanese nation.
Perhaps the Japanese at that time knew the intentions of the United States, but they did not want to impose debts on future generations, so they worked very very hard.
It is believed that Japan repaid those debts incurred in the war in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Then the United States made exchange rate return to the appropriate one in the Plaza agreement.
BTW The Plaza Agreement was also because Japanese products caught up with U.S. products in terms of quality, so buying Japanese products cheaply increased the U.S. trade deficit.
This was an underwater arrangement, and the exchange rate change was scheduled to be done slowly, but as a result of the "from somewhere" information was leaked and the exchange rate changed rapidly, Japanese exporters were severely damaged.
The exploitation by the United States still takes place in many forms (eg importing genetically modified food/seeds, drugs, pesticides. aiding to other countries, etc.). It is so cleverly hidden by the US and its puppet Japanese controllers that many Japanese are not even aware that they continue to be exploited by the US.
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The invasion of Taiwan is the first step toward world hegemony, the start of conquering the first island chain.
After the end of the Cold War, the CCP envisioned establishing air and sea superiority over the first, second, and third island chains, and placing those territories under their control.
Now, submarines departing from Chinese ports must pass through shallow continental straits for a period of time, making them vulnerable to trapping and under surveillance. But if China gets territory beyond the first island chain, it will get a port that can quickly dive deep into the Pacific Ocean. This means that the Chinese military poses a threat not only to neighboring countries, including the United States, but also to countries around the world.
In short, as long as the CCP exists, the danger of invasion of Taiwan and the fear of military aggression for global hegemony will continue.
If the United States did not want to face this danger, it should not have allowed China to have such military power.
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Professor, it is the propaganda of the FDR government that Japan was invading China.
Instead of providing weapons and funds to warlords such as Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek, the United States made them carry out anti-Japanese terrorist activities such as looting, rape and slaughter. ( Ex: Jinan Incident, Tongzhou incident) Those atrocities caused the Manchurian Incident and the China Incident.
It is said that Japan began to invade China from the Manchurian Incident, but John McMurray, who was the U.S. ambassador to Beijing in 1931 after the Manchurian Incident, submitted a detailed report in 1935 and said as follows.
"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 China Incident was caused in the same way.
In other words, the United States was doing the same thing in China since almost 100 years ago, not since Vietnam.
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I don't think the Japanese soldiers did not anything wrong.
But today, declassified documents have revealed that not everything the Allies have accused Japan of committing during World War II was true.
As recently, the Allies spread a lot of propaganda/fake news to increase their fighting spirit.
After the war, the Allies further adapted them and used them to cover up their own dirty deeds and their own war crimes.
Take Palau, for example.
After World War I, Palau was ceded to Japan, and Japan treated it not as a colony but as a regional city of Japan.
After World War II, it was occupied by the United States. After destroying the structures built by Japan for the Palauan people, the United States had Palau's textbooks rewritten about "imaginary atrocities committed by Japan."
After the US left, Palau reverted to textbooks based on the facts they knew.
South Korea's accusations of atrocities and forced labor committed by Japanese on the Korean Peninsula are also fabricated.
A detailed investigation into labor was conducted under President Roh Moo-hyun, and it has already been concluded that South Korea should compensate for unpaid wages after the war.
And thorough investigation by the United States 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.
It is also known from the testimonies of returnees from the peninsula that it was actually the Japanese who suffered from the atrocities.
As can be seen from the above, in order to justify their actions during World War II, the Allies made people believe in "Japan's fictitious war crimes'' as if they were true.
And the Asian countries that were judged to have been invaded by Japan received large amounts of compensation from Japan.
Based on the above, we cannot help but think that there are doubts about "war crimes committed by Japanese soldiers that are believed to have been committed solely based on testimony and hearsay without any other objective evidence.''
These propaganda pieces are probably created as diplomatic tools and sometimes to extract money.
In fact, in 2015, the US gave Japan a 1 billion yen grant, even though the US already knew from a 2007 US investigation that the comfort women issue was a fabricated issue concocted by South Korea in order to take money from Japan. They forced them to pay reparations and apologize to South Korea.
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@kurtwinslow2670
It was the Roosevelt administration that continued to provoke Germany and Japan to join WW2.
In particular, the situation in Ukraine before the outbreak of conflict is very similar to the situation in which the United States used Chinese to persecute and massacre Japanese, including civilians, by providing funds and weapons. And if you look at it from this perspective, you can see that the US has been involved in every war in the same/similar way.
The Soviet Union's territorial expansion into Eastern Europe was a promise Roosevelt and Churchill made to Stalin at the Yalta Conference in exchange for the Soviet Union unilaterally breaking the Neutrality Pact with Japan and invading Japanese territory.
About the Korean War. In January 1950, Mr. Acheson delivered a speech stating that "the United States will resolutely oppose military aggression against Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, and the Aleutian Islands, even in the Far East."
This was the same as saying that the United States would not intervene in a military invasion of South Korea.
The following year, the Korean War broke out. For this reason, it is said that the fact that the United States did not designate south Korea inside the counterattack line led to the NK invasion.
This is very similar to the behavior of the current US president, who is said to have led to the Ukraine conflict.
Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnam was a socialist force, but it was originally supported by the United States and became one force. Therefore, the power of self-reliance as a Vietnamese people was in the north.
In South Vietnam, France set up a puppet government in an attempt to make Vietnam a colony again, and the United States inherited that state. For this reason, although it was called a democratic force, it was a country that relied on the United States for its economy and was basically a country that was not like the hardworking and proud Vietnamese.
In other words, the movement of North Vietnam to absorb South Vietnam was a natural thing for the Vietnamese.
However, it can be said that the Vietnam War was the result of the United States sticking to the South, saying that it could not expand its socialist power.
Yeah, this is another big US fault. But whether it is a fault or even whether the war is won or lost does not matter to the United States. America's purpose in war is to make war businessmen profitable.
I feel sad and sorry for the victims of 9/11, but most people think that the way the US intervened in Afghanistan and Iraq was selfish.
In particular, the US executed Hussein, even though Anscombe reported that there were no weapons of mass destruction, even though the US subsequently searched all over Iraq and found no weapons of mass destruction.
Americans should take seriously how much this damaged the credibility of the United States.
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@kurtwinslow2670
Smh. You seem to be immersed in a history of globalist biased editing and distortion. So after making some corrections, I'm closing this useless discussion.
Japan did not invade China.
In 1899, the Boxer Rebellion started the anti-foreign movement, foreign countries sent their own armies to China to protect their own residents.
However, after the rebellion was suppressed, those Western armies were withdrawn, and each country entrusted the security of consulates and other facilities to the Japanese army. For this reason, the Japanese army was stationed in China.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support. The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
This anti-Japanese terrorism was finally taken over by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, which allied with the CCP, and developed into a conflict with the Japanese army.
Japan advanced to Guam and other Southeast Asian countries on December 8, the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor, in order to fight against the white imperialist Allies that had occupied and colonized Southeast Asian countries.
When MacArthur once said in the senate speech immediately after his return to the United States, "Japan's war was mostly for security," the American people, who had been completely brainwashed by Roosevelt administration’s propaganda, could not accept that facts he said.
This proved propaganda brainwashing is effective in manipulating American people. So, after WW2, those who have been manipulating the United States behind the scenes have manipulated the public with propaganda through the leftist mass media.
Political corruption often causes problems in communism because there is no separation of powers.
On the other hand, even in countries that choose communism, people may not always be oppressed.
Like all things, even what is generally considered good can go bad if misused.
In fact, although Japan is a democratic country, it is a colony that has been exploited by the United States in various ways, and it is difficult to say that the Japanese have sovereignty.
Below is a quote from someone else's comment in the comment section of another video that I thought was a very straightforward representation of the confusion in Ukraine.
“Ukraine problem was started by US:
2014 regime change, replaced president with anti-Russia president, then started attacking Donbass till today.
2022 US supplies weapons to prolong war against Russia.”
Seeing similarities between the way the United States waged war against Japan through China and the way it waged war against Russia through Ukraine, you should realize that the United States begins to wars not because it has no other option, I think.
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@norman4588
There is no contradiction.
According to the Venona document, the Roosevelt administration had 300 Soviet spies. It is clear that they have sent the Roosevelt administration to war.
Lenin planned to war between Japan and the United States and make Japan a communist nation, blocking the Soviet Union's path to the Pacific Ocean, in order to expand its communist society. That's why USSR spent decades sending spies to the United States and etc., and when it was ready, Stalin carried out the plan.
In fact, after ww2, the communist society expanded. Japan barely avoided to become a communist nation because of the presence of the emperor.
Roosevelt, who was infiltrated by the Communists, professed to exterminate the Japanese.
The Pacific War was a self-defense war for Japan, as MacArthur said at a Senate hearing shortly after returning to the US that "Japan had a war with the United States for security reasons."
The Japanese people knew that Japan was at war for self-defense and to escape extinction. That's why they accepted that Japanese government spends huge money on war not for people, and the shortage of food and supplies and even ate sweet potato vines and weeds. Don't you call it poverty to eat weeds because you have nothing to eat?
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@norman4588
I know there were Japanese soldiers who committed some atrocities you said, and that they were wrong. And all the Japanese soldiers who did it were executed, including suspicious ones.
However, on the other hand, it is not that there was no atrocities against the Japanese people were not soldiers in Asian countries.
For example:
The incident in Tongzhou, the Japanese settlement that triggered the war in China, was a terrible massacre.
In Indonesia, an incident occurred by indonesian in which Japanese, including women and children, were slaughtered to steal Japanese weapons.
In South Korea, more than 17,600 Japanese were killed or missing or dead after the end of the war. Many of the victims were young women who were killed after being raped by Koreans, US soldiers, and Soviet soldiers.
Then, have those who did this been charged and executed?
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@norman4588
Now, let's return to your first comment, "It would be dangerous if the Emperor revived that role."
The emperor was basically a pacifist and opposed to the war, but as MacArthur said, Japan was forced to open a war with the United States for security. Therefore, the emperor had no choice but to allow the war to start.
Given the current state of Japan, which is almost a colony of the United States, the emperor will not have the political power he used to have. And the US "ethnic cleansing" program for Japan, WGIP, has entered the final stage, and the "former Japanese" have become almost extinct. Because most of Japanese are brainwashed by anti-Japanese education and corrupt, they have no patriotism. If China attack by militarily, Japan will easily lose without the US military.
So there is no danger you said. This is because the world, including you, has wanted Japan to weaken.
I explained how the war with China began, then I will add more historical background.
As the Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kai-shek joined hands and China became communist, Japan supported the Kuomintang Sun Yat-sen faction. This was because Sun Yat-sen was aiming for a democratic nation.
Even though the Soviet Union, a communist nation, was already a big threat, it was thought that the threat would be even greater if China becomes a communist nation.
On the other hand, Sun Yat-sen said, "I want Japan to buy Manchuria. And I want Japan to support the independence of Mongolia." However, this was not accepted because it was contrary to Japan's basic policy of "Five Races Under One Union": means that each ethnic group became independent, helped each other, and developed in cooperation.
And this idea was a hindrance to Western countries, which had enslaved Asian countries and exploited them from Asian people to make great profits. If Asian countries break out of slavery and become independent, they will lose slavery and will not be able to make big money. Therefore, Western countries supported Chiang Kai-shek.
And the United States decided to beat the disturbing Japan that said, "Let's stop racism."
Thus the communist society expanded. Then the world is steadily moving towards Orwell's 1984.
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@norman4588
Hahaha
MacArthur had declared that he would execute the emperor before he came to Japan. But after he came to Japan,he noticed that the emperor was admired by the Japanese people, he was the spiritual axis of Japanese people, and if Japanese people lost it, the riots could lead to the defeat revolution that the Communists were aiming for.
So he used the emperor for his rule of Japan. That's it.
In addition, it is wrong and shameful that Japanese soldiers abused and killed prisoners of war. However, it is also true that Japanese soldiers were also abused and killed during and after the war. Also, before that, as seen in Charles Lindbergh's memoir, the surrendered Japanese soldiers were often not POWs, but simply killed.
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@norman4588
Since the 80's and 90's, the United States has been trying to crush Japan so that it does not grow economically.
Exporters are profitable, but the Plaza Accord, the US-Japan Semiconductor Agreement, Super 301, etc. have led to the hollowing out of Japanese industry, and the average annual income of Japanese people has been declining little by little over the last 30 years. The so-called "deflation spiral" "has been going on for 30 years.
This is because the United States expected China's economic growth inspire of Japan, crushed Japanese industories and made companies of China and the United States ate them up.
On the other hand, China is using China money to infiltrate Japanese politics, and Japan is a spy paradise. This is because the Obama administration was a pro-China.
The sane Japanese people have finally begun to call for constitutional amendments to ensure security against China's aggression, but it may not be in time.
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@norman4588
Everything you read seems to be dramatized as bad for Japan.
The Manchurian Incident was certainly caused by the Kwantung Army, but your material does not describe the situation before that.
During the Boxer Rebellion, Russia invaded Manchuria on the grounds of peacekeeping operations and virtually occupied it. Manchuria was considered a remote area by China's central government, so the Republic of China did not even protest when it was occupied by Russian troops. The Russo-Japanese War broke out due to this southward movement of Russia. Russia transferred the South Manchuria Railway and its ancillary land to Japan. Japanese have come to stay in Manchuria for the operation and management of the South Manchuria Railway. Due to the disappearance of Russian troops, Chinese people flowed into Manchuria from the surrounding area, and the population of 10 million became 30 million. Chinese warlords began to attack these people repeatedly. The general Japanese were also victims of the attack. They sought help from the Japanese government, but the Japanese government at the time did nothing. As the Japanese government did not help, people turned to the Kwantung Army, which was in charge of security for the South Manchuria Railway. The Kwantung Army set up and carried out an operation to wipe out the warlords who repeatedly attacked, fearing that the deterioration of security in Manchuria would extend to the Korean Peninsula, which became Japan.
The Qing Emperor Puyi, defeated by the Yin Metal Pig, was in Beijing. He was confused by the government of the Republic of China for destroying the tombs of his ancestors and moved to the Japanese Consulate. He was a Manchu tribe. In Manchuria, Manchu people who have long been dissatisfied with the influx of other ethnic groups from the surrounding area wanted to establish Manchuria. Manchuria was founded with Puyi as the monarch, triggered by the elimination of the warlords by the Kwantung Army.
The League of Nations dispatched the Lytton Commission to investigate these series of movements. Although the actions of the Kwantung Army were criticized, Manchuria was finally recognized internationally.
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@norman4588
The Nanjing Massacre was already mentioned in the comments above, but the Nanjing Massacre itself was Chiang Kai-shek's propaganda and fake news.
When China tried to register the Nanjing Massacre as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, Japan protested and demanded that the evidence submitted to China be disclosed.
China has not disclosed anything.
And the former Japanese soldiers did not admit the Nanjing Massacre. When the Asahi Shimbun forged the Nanjing Massacre and posted some "Chinese testimonies" on paper, protests flooded in from former Japanese soldiers who actually went to Nanjing.
The reporter, who was accused of lying, said that if it was a lie, the Chinese who spoke to the reporter lied. In other words, he wrote the article without confirming the facts.
It was Chiang Kai-shek who announced that the Japanese army had carried out a massacre in Nanjing. But, Chiang Kai-shek escaped before the Japanese troops arrived in Nanking. He had the Shanghai reporters write the articles as he requested.
CCP insists that the number of victims is 300,000 “for now”.
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 250,000 citizens in Nanjing.
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 Nanking.
This number of 250,000 is the number that John Rabe also wrote in his diary.
Then, follows are insists of the side of CCP
• National Revolutionary Army Announcement:
Nanjing has 200,000 demilitarized citizens
• Rabe's Diary:
The number of Nanjing citizens after the Japanese troops left is 250,000
• CCP claims:
300,000 vitims
If all of these are correct, it means 350,000 people of Nanjing, who had been evacuated for fear of fighting, inadvertently returned to Nanjing during the genocide.
in another words, it means that people who think masscre was exist, regards 350,000 Nanjing citizens, who had the talent and resources to evacuate for fear of fighting, did such a terribly stupid thing.
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@TheKkpop1
Don't spread bullshit narrative.
Allies distort history even today and cover up the truth by saying that Japan was trying to invade China. But it's not a fact.
The conflict between Japan and the Kuomintang forces of Chiang Kai-shek faction occurred because of repeated looting/rape/murder/massacre/terrorism against Japanese people and Japanese army.
In fact, when the Japanese army left Nanking, it handed over the control of Nanking to the Kuomintang army, which was different from the Chiang Kai-shek faction. If Japan had planned to invade all of China, it would have been natural for some Japanese troops to remain and continue to rule, but they did not.
When Chiang Kai-shek purposely destroyed the rivers bank to delay the pursuit of the Japanese army and caused flooding, the Japanese soldiers worked with the local Chinese to repair the bank, while being shot by Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT army from opposite bank.
And Japanese soldiers rescued the Chinese stranded by the flood. Because what Japanese soldiers did like above is still in the Chinese-language newspapers of the time, even some Chinese, who can think correctly, know that the Japanese did not invade.
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The book "The Rape of Nanjing", which is filled with Someone's hearsay and "composite/stolen pictures" without objective evidence, was written for propaganda and is bullshit.
for example:
-A photo of the body of a Japanese woman whose belly was torn vertically by a Chinese and killed after being raped and tortured is posted as a picture of a Chinese woman killed by a Japanese soldier. However, this photo is a picture of one of the victims of the Tongzhou incident in which a Chinese massacred more than 200 Japanese residents. And the way to cut a woman's belly vertically and kill it is the Chinese culture that often appears in old Chinese books. That's not Japanese culture.
- The picture of the beheading scene that left-wing people like to use in videos, etc. is made of cut and paste. If a person who is careful enough looks at the picture, they will notice that the direction of the shadow of each person and the direction of the shadow of the tree are different. In short, this picture was made by pasting multiple parts of "a tree", "standing people", "soldier a holding sword" and "a person on his knees" cut from different photos.
- Photos of massacres in Poland are posted as massacres in China.
- The picture of the skewered baby on the leaflet that appears in the video work of the 80's is posted as if it was taken at that time.
- Photo that 3 Chinese soldiers are about to shoot 3 people who are kneeling on the ground are posted in false captions that Japanese solders are shooting Chinese people. This as same time reveals Iris couldn't distinguish between the uniforms of Chinese soldiers and the one of Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese army did not commit the Nanjing Massacre, so it is the so-called "devil's proof" to prove it. In short, there is no evidence that it has not been done. On the contrary, it can be said "there is no evidence" is evidence.
When China registered the Nanjing Massacre on its memory heritage list in 2015, Japan demanded the disclosure of evidence to support the claim. But China refused to publish it. If the evidence presented by China could objectively prove that there was a massacre in Nanjing, China would have been able to disclose it publicly. But China has not disclosed them yet.
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The book "The Rape of Nanjing", which is filled with Someone's hearsay and "composite/stolen pictures" without objective evidence, was written for propaganda and is bullshit.
for example:
-A photo of the body of a Japanese woman whose belly was torn vertically by a Chinese and killed after being raped and tortured is posted as a picture of a Chinese woman killed by a Japanese soldier. However, this photo is a picture of one of the victims of the Tongzhou incident in which a Chinese massacred more than 200 Japanese residents. And the way to cut a woman's belly vertically and kill it is the Chinese culture that often appears in old Chinese books. That's not Japanese culture.
- The picture of the beheading scene that left-wing people like to use in videos, etc. is made of cut and paste. If a person who is careful enough looks at the picture, they will notice that the direction of the shadow of each person and the direction of the shadow of the tree are different. In short, this picture was made by pasting multiple parts of "a tree", "standing people", "soldier a holding sword" and "a person on his knees" cut from different photos.
- Photos of massacres in Poland are posted as massacres in China.
- The picture of the skewered baby on the leaflet that appears in the video work of the 80's is posted as if it was taken at that time.
- Photo that 3 Chinese soldiers are about to shoot 3 people who are kneeling on the ground are posted in false captions that Japanese solders are shooting Chinese people. This as same time reveals Iris couldn't distinguish between the uniforms of Chinese soldiers and the one of Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese army did not commit the Nanjing Massacre, so it is the so-called "devil's proof" to prove it. In short, there is no evidence that it has not been done. On the contrary, it can be said "there is no evidence" is evidence.
When China registered the Nanjing Massacre on its memory heritage list in 2015, Japan demanded the disclosure of evidence to support the claim. But China refused to publish it. If the evidence presented by China could objectively prove that there was a massacre in Nanjing, China would have been able to disclose it publicly. But China has not disclosed them yet.
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The United States was neither neutral nor involved.
In the first place, it were the United States and Chinese that provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support. That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
This anti-Japanese terrorism was finally taken over by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, which allied with the CCP, and developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek did not listen to the Japanese side's offer of peace talks was that the longer the war dragged on, the richer he could live.
Then, the United States cornered Japan because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
As former President Hoover wrote in "Freedom Betrayed," the Roosevelt administration cornered Japan with a trap, inviting a first attack.
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Japan is not an ally of the United States, but an economic colony, a slavery vassal state.
After the war, GHQ banished Japan's conservative leaders from important posts and replaced them with communists and left-wing thinkers. Because at that time, the United States had not yet realized the essence of communism.
Even after the occupation period ended, they continued to hold important posts and became the ruling class.
And they were puppets of the Allies nations. In other words, it can be said that Japan has become a colony under Western European-style rule, which does not rule directly but places a puppet ruler to manage the slaves.
Even if politicians with the ability and patriotism to revise the constitution and achieve independence from the United States were elected, they were often driven out of the political world or died suspicious deaths.
Furthermore, until the Obama administration, the United States was trying to swallow Japan into China. As a result, there are mostly pro-China politicians in the political world of Japan. The current Prime Minister Kishida is also pro-China. So it's possible that they pretend to follow the United States, but they really don't. They may be doing things like not buying what JSDF really need and buying useless and expensive things. For example, the Tomahawk is used for defense because Japan cannot attack first, but it is very difficult to shoot down missiles with missiles, and the success rate is low, so even if we own one, it is almost useless.
In the worst-case scenario, I think it would be possible for the United States and China to secretly promise that China would be sink Japan into the sea after being attacked by China after making the US military-industrial complex profitable.
In that case, China will take over the world.
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The Manchurian Incident, the China Incident, and the Sino-Japanese 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."
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 newspaper articles of the time,
"The Chinese mutilated and murdered infants, children, and the elderly. All bodies of women over their late teens were raped. Bodies of pregnant women were slit longitudinally across the abdomen, and 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…”
After that, about 20,000 Japanese who could not endure such brutality of the Chinese gathered in Shanghai to return home.
The Kuomintang army of 50,000 led by Chiang Kai-shek surrounded Shanghai and carried out artillery and airstrikes, so the Japanese government decided to dispatch additional troops.
In this way, the China Incident broke out and developed into the Sino-Japanese War.
The fighter aircraft that carried out the air strikes that decided the Sino-Japanese War were given by the United States.
In short, it was Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army that started the Sino-Japanese War under the direction of the United States.
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@andrewnorrie2731
The Japanese Communist Party has never taken power. However, the JCP still conducts anti-Japanese maneuvers, mainly through propaganda, in the background in order to destroy Japan's democracy and weaken Japan.
For example, the Science Council of Japan was recently exposed as a den of Communist/Leftist scholars.
GHQ had reshaped Japan's legal system, education system, social organization structure, beliefs and culture in such a way that Japan must continue to be subordinated to the United States.
At this time, conservatives were wiped out of the main posts in society, and communists and leftists took over.
The Science Council of Japan was created during the Occupation, presumably by the GHQ, to monitor Japanese academic research and quickly crush any research that could be used militarily. In other words, the Science Council of Japan is an anti-Japanese activity group, and the so-called intellectuals who belong to it are also communist/leftist anti-Japanese.
In recent years, a certain university had been researching an epoch-making technology that can be expected to reduce fuel costs by increasing the speed of ships by generating fine bubbles between the ship and the sea surface. However, the Science Council of Japan not only cut off the subsidies, but also threatened the university to stop the research, claiming that the research could be diverted to the military.
In this way, anti-Japanese activities are being carried out in various places by communists and leftists who have inherited posts that are vested interests obtained from GHQ.
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In addition, it is true that the Japanese economy recovered after the Korean War, but it was not because Japan made money from the Korean War.
The United States was trying to make Japan a poor country whose main industry was agriculture, but when the Korean War required the production of consumables, it had no choice to make Japan do this.
At that time, Japan was only allowed to import and export from the United States, and Japanese companies imported raw materials for military supplies, such as tents, from the United States, but they had to pay several times the normal price. Also, the minimum price was required for the product price when the United States purchased it.
Because the Japanese government compensated for the losses of those Japanese companies, seeing Japan as a whole had a deficit in the Korean War.
On the other hand, it is certain that the changes between the United States and Japan triggered by the Korean War led to the recovery of the Japanese economy.
In the United States, there was a 180-degree change in the US' view of communism, and the realization that the US could use Japan as a front line of geopolitical buffer zone against the communist nations.
In Japan, the fact that industrial production became possible under those changes in the United States was a major factor of the recovery.
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Japan is held by B!lls?
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.
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/$. So, the actual amount will be the same.
Rather, Japan's puppet politicians may be asking, "Jump? How high?" every time they think the US is about to say, "Jump."
Why does Japan follow the coercion from the United States that completely damages Japan like the Plaza Accord or the Japan-US Semiconductor Agreement?
There are more than 80 US military bases in Japan, about 10% of US bases overseas, which means Japan is still in some sense occupied.
And, if Japan loses the military protection of the United States, it may be invaded immediately, so if the United States threatens to withdraw its troops, Japan will have no choice but to comply with their coercion.
In other words, in order for Japan to escape from such an economic colonial state, it is necessary to establish a national system that allows self-existence and self-defense in the same way as other general nations.
The US ostensibly pretends to support it, but I don't think any US president other than former president DT has truly supported it, and if the US really wants/has should have been forced into Japan long ago. But in reality, the United States does not.
By the way, the rare conservative politicians who sought independence have appeared, but they have been eliminated by scandal, death by sudden and unnatural illness, or assassination.
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By the time the Japanese army arrived in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek's army had already fled.
At this time, the Kuomintang military announced that there were approximately 200,000 unarmed civilians in Nanjing.
For six days after arriving in Nanjing, the Japanese military called on unarmed civilians, including foreigners, to evacuate to a safe zone outside the walls of Nanjing, and then entered Nanjing.
Multiple documents confirm that the number of unarmed civilians in Nanjing when the Japanese army left the city was 250,000.
Why do you think the number of civilians when the Japanese army left Nanjing (250,000 people) was higher than the number of civilians announced when the Kuomintang army left Nanjing (200,000 people)?
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@t-mac1236
U.S. Occupation Policy against Japan after surrender" was “To ensure that Japan will become a threat to the United States again or a threat to world peace and security.
So, GHQ tried to completely destroy the thoughts and minds of the Japanese people so that Japan would never confront the United States again.
Since then, the United States has basically always tried to weaken Japan.
The United States has never helped to make Japan stronger, except for the interests of the United States.
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.
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.
On the other hand, GHQ forced Japanese government to pay the occupation cost 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.
In terms of the dollar-yen exchange rate at that time, the total amount of occupation expenses paid by Japan is $5 billion.
Japan borrowed a huge amount from the World Bank (IBRD) for reconstruction and compensation.
Needless to say, the largest shareholder of the World Bank is the United States, which means that it is the United States that benefits most from IBRD.
In 1945, the dollar-yen exchange rate was 15 yen / dollar. In 1948, this was set 360 yen / dollar.
With this, I regard the United States made the Japanese people cheap workers.
The method of making someone in debt and working for a low wage is the way of a slave trader, isn't it?
The United States did this to the entire Japanese nation.
Perhaps the Japanese at that time knew the intentions of the United States, but they did not want to impose debts on future generations, so they worked very very hard.
It is believed that Japan repaid those debts incurred in the war in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Then the United States made exchange rate return to the appropriate one in the Plaza agreement.
Because Japanese products caught up with U.S. products in terms of quality, so buying Japanese products cheaply increased the U.S. trade deficit.
This was an underwater arrangement, and the exchange rate change should be scheduled to be done slowly, but as a result of the "from somewhere" information was leaked and the exchange rate changed rapidly, Japanese exporters were severely damaged.
The exploitation by the United States still takes place in many forms (eg importing genetically modified food/seeds, drugs, pesticides. aiding to other countries, etc.).
It is so cunningly hidden by the US and its puppet Japanese controllers that many Japanese are not even aware that they continue to be exploited by the US.
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It is a lie to have dropped the atomic bomb to end the war early.
The purposes of dropping the atomic bomb in Japan:
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
Japan had already informed the United States that it was willing to surrender in May 1945.
The only condition for Japan to surrender was to maintain the emperor system.
This was because the existence of the emperor was indispensable for the leaders who govern the Japanese people while preventing Japan from becoming a communist country.
However, the United States even refused to discuss the issue.
MacArthur, who had professed that "I will hang the emperor”, noticed the Importance of emperor’s existence after coming to Japan and decided to keep the emperor alive.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained a sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system.
Because Grew knew well why Japan wanted the continuation of the Emperor System, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the continuation of the Emperor System.
However, when Truman announced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system had removed from the declaration.
Why did Truman prevent Japan from accepting the Potsdam Declaration immediately?
No atomic bomb was needed to end the war.
In fact, it was the Soviet aggression that made Japan decide to surrender unconditionally.
The text below is an excerpt from:
It’s Time to Confront Painful Truths About Using the Atomic Bombs on Japan | Debate Club | US News
“As the National Museum of the U.S. Navy makes clear, the atomic bombs had little to do with the end of the war. The museum's display on the bombings unambiguously states that the atomic bombings "made little impact on the Japanese military. However, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria … changed their minds.“”
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According to a book by Hamilton Fish, a Republican who was an opponent of Democrat Roosevelt, your perception is wrong.
In November 1941, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government handed a memorandum to the Japanese ambassador.
In this memorandum, the American government demanded that Japan completely withdraw Japanese troops from China and French Indochina, and that only the government of Chiang Kai-shek be recognized as the Chinese government, and that no other governments be recognized. This memorandum included conditions that Japan could never accept, and was seen as a de facto ultimatum, forcing Japan to decide to go to war.
In other words, negotiations had already been terminated by the United States in November.
Hamilton Fish also wrote in his book:
The FDR administration should have sought Congressional approval before handing Japan a provocative memorandum that could lead to war, but the FDR administration did not do so.
Not only that, but they concealed the fact that the memorandum had been handed over to Japan, and even concealed its existence.
And the FDR administration deceived us by saying, ``Even though negotiations were underway, Japan conducted a surprise attack.''
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What you are saying is different from the actual historical fact.
No landing operations or atomic bombs were required for the end of the war.
From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the 0SS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war repeatedly.
And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
Communist thought denies and destroys tradition and culture. Just as the Russian Empire was lost by the Russian Revolution, becoming a communist country means the destruction of the state.
Even if the war can be ended before the total annihilation of Japan by the Allies, if Japan becomes a communist country due to the loss of the existence of the emperor, it means the destruction of Japan.
So the retention of the Emperor was the condition that Japan couldn’t compromise.
And that's why Stalin continued to persistently demand the execution of the emperor, and some people in the Roosevelt administration who it turned out that they were communists in the Venona document, had tried to have Truman to execute the emperor many times.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained one sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status along with some conditions of surrender, such as disarming the Japanese army and not colonizing Japan.
Because Grew had heard of the above report, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s action is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the emperor's retention was deleted.
Because the United States wanted to conduct examinations on the dropping of the completed nuclear bomb against “the Japanese people.”
Since Washington had not responded, Japan had asked also the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact.
In other words, Japan raised a white flag to the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not reply at all until the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan. 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. Air Force 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, when the enemy ignores your request for End-War Talks and continues to attack, it is quite natural to prepare for the next possible attack such as "landing operation on the mainland", isn't it?
In short, it was the United States that made Japanese say, "Fight to the last person."
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 had finally arrived after several months of negotiations to end the war.
So Prime Minister Suzuki tried to proceed with the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
But what hindered it was that there was no wording to guarantee the Emperor's position. Suzuki inquired about this, but the United States did not give a clear answer.
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.
In short,
In order to end the war, there was no need for atomic bombs or landing operations.
The United States also knew that the atomic bombing was unnecessary. But The United States did experiment of atomic bombings because it wanted to do an experiment against Japanese people and cities alive.
What led to the acceptance of Japan's Potsdam Declaration to end the war was not the 2 atomic bombings, but the Soviet invasion.
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From the beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks with the United States.
Washington ignored first request, so before the Yalta meeting in February 1945, Japan asked the Soviet Union also to mediate peace talks with the United States under the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty.
In other words, the United States, Britain and the Soviets knew that Japan was raising the white flag, and they also knew that they could end the war in more peaceful way without atomic bombings.
However, the United States wanted these two different types of atomic bomb tests, so they did that.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an experiment to find out how the human body is destroyed, damaged, and how the effects of radiation occur.
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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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In the first place, it was the United States that had provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was captured and detained in the Xi'an incident in 1936, was forced to stop mopping up the CCP and concentrate on the anti-Japanese operation by Zhang Xueliang, who was supported by Britain and the United States, and the CCP, which was supported by the Soviet Union.
This anti-Japanese terrorist operation developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek despite Japan's repeated offers of peace talks.
As can be seen from the fact that the purpose of Japan entering French Indochina with the consent of France was to cut off the supply route of Chiang Kai-shek from Indochina to China, the U.S. support was the one of causes of the prolonged China Incident.
Then, the United States cornered Japan by embargo because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
The Roosevelt administration thought that if it participated in WW2, it would be able to get out of the Great Depression, make more money, and hopefully gain world hegemony with the dollar.
But the American people were against the war, so FDR severely cornered it to make Japan make a preemptive attack.
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.”
Almost 100 years ago and today, the American way is always the same.
To me, Zelensky only looks like Chiang Kai-shek 2.0.
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After the war, the United States forced Japan into pacifist constitution written by Americans, destroying Japan's social structure and recreating them to make it easier for the United States to continue to rule Japan. They were included a kind of ethnic cleansings.
And GHQ demanded Japan to pay about $ 5 billion in stationing expenses at the national expense of Japan. So, while many Japanese were starving to death, the Occupation Army soldiers enjoyed luxurious lives while bullying the Japanese. In addition, GHQ occurred a huge amount of debt to Japan through compensation for "the former colonies of Western countries invaded by Japan".
The exchange rate in 1945 was 50 yen / $, but the United States changed it to a fixed rate of 360 yen / $.
I think that the purpose of this is to make all Japanese cheap workers and get long-term interest rates by repayment of debt.
Although not officially announced, Japan is said to have completed the repayment of its war debt from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
From this period, the United States began to destroy Japan's economy and industry through the Plaza Accord, the Japan-US Semiconductor Agreement and the super 301 article and so on. At that time, Japanese companies that were shattered by US "economic sanctions on Japan's economic miracle" were acquired by US and Chinese companies.
After that, when Japanese companies made profits, dividends began to flow to overseas investors. Shareholders then demanded that the company keep employees' wages as low as possible and distribute as much profit as possible to them.
In other words, no matter how much a Japanese company makes a profit, the profit is changed to a structure that foreigners receive. For this reason, Japan's economic colonization is progressing, and the Japanese are becoming poorer.
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What is taught in Japanese schools about the Manchurian Incident is propaganda distorted by the Allies.
In this way, Japanese children come to have a self-deprecating view of history and become adults without patriotism. This is the achievement of the United States, which built the Japanese education system in such a way.
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."
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 Japanese 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…”
After that, about 20,000 Japanese who could not endure such brutality of the Chinese gathered in Shanghai to return home.
The Kuomintang army of 50,000 led by Chiang Kai-shek surrounded Shanghai and carried out artillery and airstrikes, so the Japanese government decided to dispatch additional troops.
In this way, the China Incident broke out and developed into the Japanese-Chinese War.
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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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@Reinforced
No, it's not a good deal for Japanese at all.
In 1945, GHQ expelled conservatives from Japan's important organization after the occupation, placing leftists and communists in those major about 200,000 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. And even now, nearly 80 years later, they continue to destroy Japan from the inside.
The only thing that reflects the will of the people is the election. And sometimes a real patriot is elected as a member of parliament. However, if such lawmakers try to make improvements against the intentions of the United States, they will be kicked out of politics or die an unnatural death.
The current president of the United States criticized the former president of the United States in his support speech in 2016 as follows:
“Does he not understand we wrote japan's constitution to say they could not be a nuclear power?”
The gallery was actively applauding the above speech, which means, the left of the United States absolutely does not want Japan to possess sufficient defense and nuclear weapons.
Japan is always prevented from having sufficient defense capabilities due to domestic and foreign pressures such as the U.S. left-wing government.
In short, the United States controls Japan by putting Japan in the predicament of insufficient defense.
The security treaty between the United States and Japan have an arrangement that will be annulled after a year if either of them asks for an annulment.
If the United States suddenly asks to abandon this security treaty, Japan will not be able to establish a defense system in a year, so in exchange for avoiding it, Japan will accept the tyranny of the United States.
So by using this arrangement as a threat, the United States makes Japan obey and exploits from it.
That's why the world sees Japan as a colony of the United States and thinks it is occupied.
The methods of exploitation in the United States are diverse, but recently it is particularly terrible that it is done with unequal FMS (foreign paid military aid) contracts that are applied to the purchase of U.S.-made weapons.
With this FMS contract, the United States is selling old U.S. military recycled weapons and defective equipment to Japan at a new or higher price.
And "undelivered" is becoming the standard for weapons that have been paid for not reaching Japan.
What do you think about not delivering weapons even though the United States has already received the huge price for weapons?
Isn't this a situation that can't be said to be a good deal at all?
BTW a while ago, when a Chinese political and military blogger published an article saying, "Saturate Japan with nuclear missiles and sink the Japanese archipelago," about 2 million likes were made before the article was deleted.
If this really happens, will the United States carry out a nuclear attack on China to retaliate and deter further saturation attacks?
I don't think the United States will fight back with nuclear weapons for Japan going so far as putting its own security at risk.
In other words, when China possessed nuclear weapons, the security treaty had already become a mere façade.
Nevertheless, the United States still acts as if a nuclear umbrella exists, and continues to devour Japan using it.
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@hewlettpackard1731
In the first place, it were the United States and Chinese that provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support. That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
This anti-Japanese terrorism was finally taken over by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, which allied with the CCP, and developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek did not listen to the Japanese side's offer of peace talks was that the longer the war dragged on, the richer he could live.
Then, the United States cornered Japan because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
In other words, the massacre of Japanese by the Chinese was the cause of the conflict between Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army and the Japanese army.
I don't think the Japanese military did not commit atrocities in China, but I don't think all the war crimes that China claims committed by the Japanese are true.
For example, it was Chiang Kai-shek who announced that the Japanese army had slaughtered in Nanjing. However, Chiang Kai-shek escaped before the Japanese arrived in Nanjing. He had a Shanghai reporter who wrote articles as he requested.
The CCP claims that the number of victims in Nanjing is 300,000.
However, before fleeing Nanjing, the National Revolutionary Army announced that the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was 200,000.
And when the Japanese troops left Nanjing, there were about 250,000 citizens in Nanjing.
Multiple documents confirm that there were 250,000 "living" citizens at the time.
The number is larger than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army because Nanjing citizens who had been evacuated for fear of fighting have returned to Nanjing.
Anyone who can do rudimentary calculations should notice this story flawed.
In addition, Maggie, a missionary who was conducting anti-Japanese activities in various parts of the United States, spread that the Japanese army that entered Nanking was 50,000 and massacred 42,000 Chinese, but the actual number of Japanese troops was about 3,000.
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@hewlettpackard1731
As noted above, stories of war crimes committed by the Japanese military are often used on the grounds that large sums of reparations or reparations, or financial aid, can be obtained if the Japanese military alleges to have committed atrocities after the war. Not everything actually happened as it was fabricated or hoaxed as Soviet espionage.
However, even if the propaganda fabricated for their own benefit is objectively proven to be a complete lie, the Allied peoples who have executed innocent Japanese people, insult Japan, and gave Japan financial damages, just shut up without even correcting their lies.
You seem to enjoy being in the company of those shameless people, don't you?
However, ironically, a secret document recorded by America, a record addict, is released and the lie is exposed. Just as the "comfort women" proved to be a hoax.
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one more thing
There is testimony that Koreans looted, raped, and massacred Japanese residents in the Korean peninsula since immediately after the end of the war. According to his testimony, if you dig a little deeper into the Korean peninsula, you will find skeletons here and there, because Koreans massacred about 200,000 Japanese people.
On the other hand, in the post-war Korean Peninsula, the US military deprived Japanese who were trying to return to Japan of money and valuables. As a result, many Japanese died of hunger and disease without food, medicine or shelter.
A very large amount of military currency that the US military seized at that time was later handed over to Japanese customs, but it is still kept because the owner has not come to pick it up.
The US military must have recorded what was going on on the Korean peninsula at that time, including their misdeeds.
I'm looking forward to the disclosure of the record.
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one more thing
There is testimony that Koreans looted, raped, and massacred Japanese residents in the Korean peninsula since immediately after the end of the war. According to his testimony, if you dig a little deeper into the Korean peninsula, you will find skeletons here and there, because Koreans massacred about 200,000 Japanese people.
On the other hand, in the post-war Korean Peninsula, the US military deprived Japanese who were trying to return to Japan of money and valuables. As a result, many Japanese died of hunger and disease without food, medicine or shelter.
A very large amount of military currency that the US military seized at that time was later handed over to Japanese customs, but it is still kept because the owner has not come to pick it up.
The US military must have recorded what was going on on the Korean peninsula at that time, including their misdeeds.
I'm looking forward to the disclosure of the record.
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@norbertlipusz3892
“The USA used nuclear weapons to end WW2”?
That's wrong.
No landing operations or atomic bombs were needed for the early end of the war.
The CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
The PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war since from the beginning of 1945. And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that maintaining the emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan.
The draft included a sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status.
Because Grew was known the above information, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the retention of the Emperor had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed shortly before the declaration.
Therefore, it was clear that the US purpose of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was not to end the war, and it was as follows.
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
In addition, it seems that it is not well known, but in fact, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the US nuclear bomb development agency announced that it had "successfully conducted an atomic bomb drop experiment."
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From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war repeatedly.
And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
Just as the Russian Empire was lost in the Russian Revolution, becoming a communist country meant the destruction of Japan.
Even if the war can be ended before the total annihilation of Japan by the Allies, if Japan becomes a communist country due to the loss of the existence of the emperor, it means the destruction of Japan.
So the retention of the Emperor was the condition that Japan could never give up.
And that's why Stalin continued to persistently demand the execution of the emperor.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained one sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status along with some conditions of surrender, such as disarming the Japanese army and not colonizing Japan.
Because Grew had heard of the above report, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s action is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the emperor's retention was deleted.
Because the United States wanted to conduct examinations on the dropping of the completed nuclear bomb against “the Japanese people.”
Since Washington had not responded, Japan also asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in February 1945.
In other words, Japan raised a white flag to the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not reply at all until the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan. 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.
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, when the enemy ignores your request for a ceasefire agreement and continues to attack, it is quite natural to prepare for the next possible attack such as "landing operation on the mainland", isn't it?
In short, it was the United States that made Japan say, "Fight to the last man."
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 had finally arrived after several months of negotiations to end the war.
So Prime Minister Suzuki tried to proceed with the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
But what hindered it was that there was no wording to guarantee the Emperor's position. Suzuki inquired about this, but the United States did not reply.
Even after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were 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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@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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The US Roosevelt administration called the Sino-Japanese War a war of aggression, which began after tens of thousands of Japanese residents were massacred by Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek.
While providing Chiang Kai-shek with huge amounts of money and weapons, the United States cornered Japan with an oil embargo on the pretext of the Sino-Japanese War and provoked a war between Japan and the United States.
But as MacArthur later admitted, Japan was simply playing a defensive war.
To summarize, America made Chiang Kai-shek to wage a proxy war to make Japan a vassal state. Japan, which had been engaged in a defensive war with Chiang Kai-shek, was forced into a war between Japan and the US by the United States.
The United States unilaterally and indiscriminately incinerated 500,000 Japanese people in air raids on 430 cities, and has caused more than 500,000 casualties with two atomic bombs to date.
Also, the United States keeps secret what was done by the occupation forces in Japan during the post-war occupation period, but have you ever thought about why they kept it secret?
Is it time that we Japanese people should compare who killed/oppressed more Japanese people, the Americans or the Chinese?
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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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Your favorite video may be claiming that Japan neither apologized nor compensated for what it did during the war, but if so, that video is wrong.
Why is the fact that Japan has repeatedly apologized so ignored that the Global Times has published an article in columns such as "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.
China did not demand for compensation from Japan, officially. Because Mao Zedong said that getting Manchukuo would be enough.
But on the other hand, Japan continued to support China economically through ODA and other means until 2018, even after China's GDP surpassed that of Japan. These aids have unofficially a strong implication of reparations, and the total amount is about 3.66 trillion yen.
Probably you don't know well how Japan has dealt with asian countries, because your country must be anti-Japanese and because the information you can know is so limited.
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Let me tell you some of the horrible things that have been done to Japan in recent years by the United States under the Biden administration.
First, the Japanese government is still encouraging shots. That's because we made such a purchase contract with the United States. And some Japanese people who blindly believed the national recommendation have even received their seventh shot. As a result, diseases of unknown cause are occurring frequently, and the number of excess deaths is rapidly increasing.
Second, Japan is restricted from developing weapons by the United States, and is forced to purchase most of its weapons from the United States.
However, the Osprey that was finally delivered in 2023 had been contracted and paid for nine years earlier.
Similarly, even though payment has been completed, purchased items often do not arrive.
The Osprey, nicknamed the Widowmaker because of its frequent crashes, is scheduled to end production in 2025, and only Japan is forced to buy it. Additionally, a dedicated Osprey base is currently under construction in Japan.
Do you know why Japan is forced to purchase such extremely expensive garbage and waste money?
If we were to do something like this, even if we raised defense spending, our defense capabilities would not increase, so I can only believe that the words "fighting together" are a complete lie.
It is also said that the LGBT law, which many people opposed, was forced into law because of pressure from the US ambassador.
For Japan, the current US administration is the worst administration.
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Japanese textbooks are still subject to indirect review by the United States.
So basically, the events indicted in the Tokyo Trials are written and taught in a disparaging tone, even if some of them are now known to be fiction.
It is usually Chinese or Koreans who write, ``Japanese people are not taught about the atrocities of Japanese soldiers.''
This is because the ``fabricated Japanese military atrocities'' that they are being taught are not written in Japanese textbooks.
Originally, the United States established Korea as an anti-Japanese nation in order to keep it in conflict with Japan.
For this reason, Korean history textbooks are full of distortions and fiction about Japanese atrocities, which Koreans are indoctrinated with as fact from an early age.
For example, a recent Korean textbook said the following about the Korean War:
"After World War II, the Japanese army that occupied the Korean peninsula committed atrocities. As a result, the Allied forces, including the United States, annihilated the Japanese soldiers in the south from the 38th parallel, and China and the Soviet Union annihilated the Japanese soldiers in the north. This war was the Korean War."
(In fact, after the war, Japanese soldiers were expelled from the Korean peninsula earlier than ordinary Japanese people.
On the contrary, it was the ordinary Japanese people left behind on the Korean peninsula who suffered the atrocities committed by American soldiers and Koreans. )
For this reason, Koreans are angry that the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers at the time are not mentioned in Japanese textbooks, and that Japan is not encouraging Japanese students to repent, and they are posting their feelings in the comment section.
However, on the Japanese side, there is nothing they can do if they are asked to teach a fabricated history that is completely inconsistent with the history of other countries.
And it's difficult to untangle ideas that have been around since childhood.
Once, when a Korean complained in the comments section to tell me the truth, I said the following.
``There is a book written by an American veteran titled ``The Korean War.'' Read the book and find out the facts.''
However, the Koreans continued to curse until the end.
As a Japanese person, I would like the United States, which founded South Korea with anti-Japanese national policy, to take some kind of measure to break their brainwashing before asking Japan to be friendly with South Korea for the sake of national security.
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@MoreAbel-vg4dh
During the post-war occupation, in order to keep Japan subordinate to the United States, they took measures to weaken the Japanese state by eliminating the ideas and concepts that were the basis of the Japanese spirit.
Specifically, the United States expelled Japanese conservatives from key organizational positions and replaced them with American puppets, communists and leftists. Also, the United States forced the enactment of an American-written constitution, changed social systems such as the tax system, installed fabricated American-written history education. And they banned over 7,000 books deemed important, and those books were Incinerated. Japanese people were prohibited from criticizing the words and actions of the Allies.
Americans may call this "rebuild," but from the Japanese perspective, this is ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide.
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@skyalien
America is not lucky. They are cunning, well-prepared, and don't choose the means for their purpose.
When Japanese powerful politicians moved against the U.S. demands in order to escape the U.S. colonial rule, they were kicked out of the political world or died unnaturally.
More than 10 years ago, a politicians who said that Japan should stop the role of ATMs in the United States died suddenly after showing the symptoms of chemical weapons.
The politician, who was the best friend of a suddenly dead politician, was shot in the chest from the right collarbone from the upper right side in September last year. In other words, it was a trajectory that the catching criminal could not shoot.
In this way, the United States has eliminated conservative politicians elected with the will of the Japanese, crushed the will of the Japanese, and prevented Japan's independence.
The actions of the CCP and the U.S. leftist administration are very similar.
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@nkirk8740
I don't think that the Japanese Army did not anything terrible in the past, BUT I also don't think that everything that is being touted today is true.
The Allies circulated a lot of propaganda(fake news) to raise their fighting spirit, like recently.
For example, one of them was the Nanjing Massacre which was fabricated by anti-Japanese activists Missionary John Magee in the United States.
While saying "This is what the Japanese soldiers did," he was showing footage of several Chinese lying 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.
However, Japanese soldiers who actually entered Nanjing was only about 3,000.
His anti-Japanese action 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 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.
Anyone who can make an elementary calculation should notice that this story does not make sense and ridiculous.
Also, 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 write 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 those 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.
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In the first place, the Japanese military was in China not for invasion but for security.
Foreign embassies have security guards to protect diplomats.
Western Diplomats in China were concerned about terrorist violence against foreigners in China, such as the Boxer Rebellion.
However, Western countries far from China were reluctant to send large numbers of personnel, so, Western countries had agreements with Japan under which Japan's security forces would provide an immediate response to emergencies that required the use of force against their own citizens.
Therefore, there were more Japanese security forces stationed there than in other countries.
As for war crimes, I don't think the Japanese soldiers did not anything wrong.
However, it is natural for the Japanese to deny narratives such as the Nanjing massacre or human experiments by Unit 731 that are now known to be fabricated propaganda.
For example, it was American missionaries who began spreading propaganda about the massacre of civilians in Nanjing.
They did this to get anti-war Americans to accept war with Japan.
After the war, the United States tried to historicalize its fabricated propaganda in order to justify its own war crimes.
However, even in the Tokyo trial, which was called a lynching by the victorious nation against the defeated nation, the prosecution was unable to prove the massacre of civilians in Nanjing.
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 withdrawn from Nanjing by the Japanese military was higher than the number announced by the Kuomintang is because those who had evacuated from Nanjing due to fear of fighting had returned.
Even when they hear the number of civilians in Nanjing at that time, do people who cry out, "Japanese troops committed a massacre in Nanjing'' have no doubts?
I guessed from the words "bayonet a baby" that you had read Iris Chan's book.
However, all of the horrific atrocities that Iris Chan wrote about were committed by Chinese KMT against Japanese people in the Japanese settlement of Tongzhou.
And then, the "photo of the skewered baby" is a capture of a flyer that appears in a Hong Kong video work from the 1980s. In short, that is an image created with Photoshop and is not a photograph.
You said that Germany admitted to war crimes and apologized, but Japan does not.
However, if you search, you will easily find that Japan has apologized and provided compensation to the countries defined as being invaded.
By the way, Germany has simply declared that it will never forget what N did. In short, Germany has not publicly said that it remorse what N did, nor has it offered an apology or compensation.
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Almost all over the world people are taught that: “Japan invaded China and did terrible things, so it was subject to sanctions such as an embargo. Japan was driven into a corner and launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.”
But it's not true.
The Chinese warlords that Japan fought in the Manchurian Incident and Chiang Kai-shek, whom Japan fought in the China Incident, had been given arms and financial assistance from the United States since 1927.
They were ordered to carry out anti-Japanese terrorist attacks on Japanese people. Aided by the United States, they looted, raped, and massacred the Japanese.
These acts of terrorism on the part of China were the cause of the conflicts of the Manchurian Incident and the China Incident.
Despite repeated peace-talks offers from Japan, Chiang Kai-shek refused to agree to a ceasefire. Because the US had Chiang Kai-shek prolong the conflict by continuing to support Chiang Kai-shek with money and weapons.
Then, the United States cornered Japan by embargo because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
The Roosevelt administration thought that if it participated in WW2, it would be able to get out of the Great Depression, make more money, and hopefully gain world hegemony with the dollar.
But the American people were against the war, so FDR cornered Japan to make it make a preemptive strike.
Almost 100 years ago and today, the American way is always the same, isn't it?
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Testimony of a Korean living in Japan
Japan had never slaughtered us Koreans before and during the war.
On the contrary, we slaughtered the Japanese. Especially at the end of the war, he slaughtered many Japanese, slaughtered up to more than 200,000 Japanese, and also robbed and raped them.
In the North Korean territory, it is said that there are as many as 8,000 Japanese remains that are currently known, and it is said that the massacre would be more than 10 times that number.
South Korea is a country where human bones come out from here and there after a little construction. Because if they kill it, they will bury it. Many Japanese believe that many Japanese were slaughtered in the North Korean territory, but to be clear, it's not.
Many Japanese were slaughtered by South-Koreans" just because the truth was buried because GHQ banned criticism of Korea.
What's worse than North Korea is that it doesn't even bury its remains, it doesn't know where it was buried, and it's still unknown where and who was buried.
Before that, they has pretended that they didn't do the slaughter itself.
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@wshggg
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
(eg: Tongzhou incident)
The atrocities of anti-Japanese terrorism against those Japanese residents and Japanese soldiers were the cause of the Manchurian Incident and the China Incident.
However, the Allies twisted those things, such as "Japan is an evil expansionist country and invaded China."
Because of the China-Japanese War provoked by the United States behind the scenes, the United States notified the cancellation of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in 1940 and revoked it.
This restricted U.S. exports of iron and oil to Japan.
After that, Japan entered French Indochina with the permission of the French government to shut off the Chiang Kai-shek support route from the United States.
Because Chiang Kai-shek had ignored the repeated requests for ceasefire talks from Japan and prolonged the war.
This Japanese entry into Indochina was branded as an invasion by the United States.
Because of this, the United States imposed economic sanctions such as a total ban on oil exports to Japan and at the same time as freezing assets against Japan.
At that time, Japan was cornered in a very troubled situation because it depended on the United States for resources such as iron and oil.
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 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, 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 with Japan.
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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As the current US president said in H!||ary's cheering speech in 2016, it is the US that created the current Japanese constitution.
Of course, this was a violation of international law, and even if the United States was victorious in the war, it should not have been forced on the defeated nations.
What's even worse is that this constitution sets a very high hurdle so that it can't be changed easily.
Constitutional amendment requires the approval of 2/3 of the House of Representatives, 2/3 of the House of Councilors, and 2/3 of the referendum.
On the other hand, Japanese educational institutions are dominated by leftists and communists. Because GHQ wiped out the conservatives from these positions and put the leftists and communists there. Of course, they have ties to American leftists or China, so they teach Japanese children that it is bad for Japan to have military power. Their education is like "Japan was an evil invader. It is an atonement to maintain Article 9 of the Peace Constitution."
The historical fact is that the United States hunted Japan and caused the attack on Pearl Harbor. But that fact is uneducated and lies to the students to instill feelings of sin. As MacArthur told the Senate shortly after his return to the United States, most of Japan's wars were for national security. In other words, even though Japan has made it clear that it was self-defense, not aggression.
That's why Japanese are not patriotic and try not to think about the Constitution. This has been going on for over 77 years. And now most voters are such educated people.
Not only the United States but also other countries are complicit in brainwashing the Japanese by supporting and believing in the distorted history rewritten by the Allied Powers.
If you want to say the Japanese people to "wake up from the brainwashing education and brush up their own defense capabilities by becoming independent from the United States," before that, you should stop cooperating with the brainwashing that you are complicit in and show the facts, I think, though.
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@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu
It was Chiang Kai-shek's KMT who provoked the war with Japan.
In the three weeks following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japan, wanting to avoid the conflict from worsening, signed four peace agreements with Chiang Kai-shek, but Chiang Kai-shek abolished them all due to his atrocities against the Japanese.
The Japanese government, which had been holding back despite frequent violent acts against the Japanese by the Chinese, decided to send more troops after Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces massacred in Tongzhou and attacked the Tianjin settlement.
At the time, more than 200 people were killed in the massacre in Tongzhou, and there were about 10,000 Japanese residents in Tianjin.
The Nationalist forces also surrounded the Japanese settlement in the Shanghai Concession and bombarded it with artillery and air bombs. There, residents who could no longer bear the atrocities in various parts of China gathered and waited for a ship to return to Japan, and there were about 30,000 Japanese.
The result of the escalation of the conflict in this way was the Sino-Japanese War, and Japan was not fighting in China for the purpose of invasion.
In this way, Japan was dragged into the war by Chiang Kai-shek's relentless provocations, but behind Chiang Kai-shek was the United States.
The United States provided Chiang Kai-shek with enormous support, including funds, supplies, weapons, training, and even fighter planes with pilots.
In fact, it was Lockheed Martin that carried out the air raids on the Shanghai Concession.
Japan approached Chiang Kai-shek several times about peace talks in order to end this proxy war, but Chiang Kai-shek, who was receiving huge amounts of support, did not respond to Japan's calls at all.
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@joshkardos1673
Japan had already informed the United States that it was willing to surrender.
In April 1945, the Kantaro Suzuki Cabinet was built in Japan by the order of the Emperor, with the clear aim of ending the war.
In May 1945, through the intelligence agency, the predecessor of the CIA in Switzerland, a senior Japanese government official told Truman:
The only condition for Japan to surrender was to maintain the emperor system.
This is because the existence of the emperor was indispensable for the leaders who govern the Japanese people while preventing Japan from becoming a communist country.
However, the United States even refused to discuss the issue.
At the same time as Japan consulted with the United States about surrendering, it had asked the Soviet Union, which had a Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty at the time, for arbitration.
The Soviet invasion cut off the hope of arbitration, so Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration and surrendered.
The damage caused by the atomic bomb was certainly enormous.
However, the number of human victims reported from Hiroshima and Nagasaki immediately after the bombing was less than the 100,000 victims of the Tokyo air raid conducted by the United States before the atomic bombing.
For these reasons, the Soviet invasion had a greater impact on the Japanese government than the atomic bombings.
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This video is just an example of "what can happen in general when an atomic bomb is dropped on a city".
Therefore, it does not say how the GHQ, which occupied Japan after the end of the war, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, actually treated the Japanese who were injured / adversely affected by these atomic bombs.
For example, after the end of the war, the United States established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and began investigating the effects of radioactivity.
ABCC put people who were harmed by atomic bombs in their facility saying they would treat those pacients.
But no treatment was given. Never.
They took blood from survivors, photographed wounds and keloids, recorded their condition, took organs when they died.
They sent those organs and etc. to the United States as samples with various investigations and records.
On the other hand, the treatment of Japanese doctors was banned. Their medical records were taken away and the request for medicine to the Red Cross was stopped.
In addition, by GHQ, it was banned to report all of above things about ABCC and GHQ.
ABCC announced in 2018 that they had not treated the survivors.
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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.
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.
Also, 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.
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In the class from 20:55 in this video, Manchurian Incident is taught.
It’s said that Japan began to invade China from the Manchurian Incident.
However John McMurray, who was the U.S. ambassador to Beijing in 1931 after the Manchurian Incident, submitted a detailed report in 1935 and said as follows.
"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."
"China's provocation" that Ambassador John McMurray mentioned is a number of assaults, looting, rapes and massacres against Japanese residents by Chinese warlords, and Chinese attacks on Japanese security forces that tried to prevent them.
And It has become clear that the anti-Japanese terrorist attacks of these Chinese warlords were carried out in exchange for the secret provision of U.S. weapons and funds in addition to the Soviet Union and European countries.
As Ambassador McMurley said, the Japanese Kwantung Army only carried out an operation to drive the barbaric warlords from Manchuria as an act of self-defense against the tyranny of Chinese warlords. However, Western countries, which are uncomfortable for Japan to expand its interests in China, branded it as an invasion.
However, nothing like the above can be said in class. Because teachers are only allowed to teach the history fabricated by the Allies.
You were educated in a country where anti-Japanese education is commonplace, so you are probably taught that the barbarism of Japanese soldiers was carried out and you believe it.
However, the Nanjing Massacre and the forced abduction and massacre of comfort women are all lies.
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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.
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.
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.
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@jollygoodyo
I don't know much about the Holocaust, so I see it as if there is such a story, but I don't really believe it.
After the war, GHQ ousted conservatives from some 230,000 key posts in major institutions of occupied Japan and replaced them with their puppets, the leftists and communists.
Putting up a puppet government and indirect rule is a typical method of Western colonial rule.
In other words, it turned the ruling class of Japan into a puppet of GHQ and made Japan a colony of the United States.
Then, it also prohibited criticism of the Allied Powers, GHQ and other organizations belonging to the Allied Powers, and people belonging to them.
In short, they controlled speech.
As part of its control of speech, GHQ burned approximately 7,800 books. At this time, books about Germany were also targeted.
So perhaps the only German records in Japan today are the ones that serve the Allied fabricated history.
On the other hand, there are testimonies and records of those who actually went to Nanking, photographs of the time, etc., which prove that there was no massacre in the Nanking Massacre, and there are many supporting evidences.
It is clear that the Nanjing Massacre was a lie on the part of the Allies.
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@Sangmin Lee
MacArthur once said in the senate speech immediately after his return to the United States, "Japan's war was mostly for security."
And, the former President Hoover wrote in "Freedom Betrayed," the Roosevelt administration cornered Japan with a trap, inviting a first attack.
In the first place, it was the United States that provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support. That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
After the Xi'an Incident, this anti-Japanese terrorism operation was finally undertaken by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, which allied with the CCP.
That developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek despite Japan's repeated offers of peace talks.
Then, the United States cornered Japan because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
Even so, in order to avoid a war with the United States, Japan negotiated for the lifting of the embargo and the naval blockade, but the United States' response was getting worse and worse.
It was natural. The Roosevelt administration was cornering Japan in order to force Japan to launch a preemptive strike.
If Japan rearms, will it attack the United States? Hahaha, that's a story that a person without basic knowledge that the United States started the Pacific War could come up with. Although Japan did not want to go to war in the first place, it was dragged into the war by the manipulation of the United States.
Simply put, there will be no war unless the United States starts war.
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2:36 wait a minute.
It is true that Japan is facing the problem of a declining birthrate and aging population, but a major cause of this is the various measures forced on the United States to weaken Japan's economy and industry.
Over the past 30 years, the economy and industry have crashed due to US intervention, and the average Japanese person's income has stopped increasing at all, 40% are no longer able to hold regular jobs, and as a result fewer people are getting married.
Single mothers may not be uncommon in Europe and the United States, but in Japan it is still the norm for women to get married and have children.
Therefore, "the inability of young people to earn enough income to get married and have children due to non-regular employment'' leads to "more unmarried people and later marriages,'' which is the cause of the “declining birthrate”.
It is truly shocking and disconcerting that even though the United States has thrown poison at us, when we begin to perish, Americans ask, "What's the matter!?"
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@ostrichhe4d
After the war, several U.S. government agencies conducted studies on the effects of the atomic bomb, including radiation measurements in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and surrounding areas.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the testing grounds for their new bombs.
And of course, the Japanese people who survived the atomic bombing were their guinea pigs.
The United States established the ABCC out of ``the need to permanently investigate the destructive power that radioactivity has on the human body.''
ABCC used the power of GHQ to use Japan's 1950 census to determine the population of living A-bomb survivors.
As a result, 284,000 atomic bomb survivors were confirmed in 1950.
And, in Japan, there is a system in which the state pays 100% of the medical costs for those who are recognized by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare as suffering from atomic bomb disease.
In some cases, the disease is recognized as atomic bomb disease after the onset of the disease.
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No landing operations or atomic bombs were required for the end of the war.
The CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war from the beginning of 1945. And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft included a sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status.
Because Grew was known the above information, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the retention of the Emperor had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed shortly before the declaration.
Therefore, it was clear that the US purpose of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was not to end the war, and it was as follows.
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
In addition, it seems that it is not well known, but in fact, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the US nuclear bomb development agency announced that it had "successfully conducted an atomic bomb drop experiment."
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@infidelheretic923
Over the last two years, you have seen what happened all over the world, and from what nation the cause came from. Didn't you realize that they were willing to lie for their benefit? Nevertheless, I don't understand why you only believe in their claims.
It was Chiang Kai-shek who announced that the Japanese army had carried out a massacre in Nanjing. But, Chiang Kai-shek escaped before the Japanese troops arrived in Nanking. He had the Shanghai reporters write the articles as he requested.
CCP insists that the number of victims is 300,000 “for now”, but the number of unarmed people in Nanjing the National Revolutionary Army announced before fled from Nanjing was 200,000.
And when the Japanese troops left Nanjing, there were about 250,000 citizens in Nanjing. It can be confirmed from multiple documents that there were 250,000 "alive" citizens at that time.
The reason why the number of people is larger than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army is that Nanjing citizens who had been evacuated for fear of fighting returned Nanking.
In order for all of the above to happen at the same time, it means that 350,000 refugee Nanjing citizens "inadvertently" returned to Nanjing during the massacre.
I don't think such a many Nanjing citizens were such a stupid.
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@infidelheretic923
It was Chiang Kai-shek & Communist Party Allied Forces that started the war with Japan.
Chiang Kai-shek had received funds and weapons from the Western Powers in the name of destroying the Communist Party.
However, at one point, he was caught by the Communist Party(Xi'an Incident). He was threatened to "If you finish destroying the Communist Party, you will not be able to make money in the war. Instead of destroying the Communist Party, fight with Japan. Or..." He agreed.
This was also supported by Europe and the United States, which were worried that Japan would gain China's interests due to the creation of Manchuria with the backing of Japan.
Today, Manchuria is said to be a nation that Japan cut from China and colonized, but that is not true.
Prior to the Manchurian Incident, Chinese warlords frequently attacked civilians, including Japanese civilians.
They were like gangsters.
Civilians who could not withstand the victims of robbery, rape, kidnapping and murder sought help from the Japanese Kwantung Army.
The Kwantung Army was a security unit of the South Manchuria Railway that was ceded by Russia after the Russo-Japanese War.
The Kwantung Army wiped out the warlords to restore security in Manchuria. This mopping operation is called the Manchurian Incident.
It is true that Manchuria was founded with the backing of Japan's economy and military power, but it was a nation for the Manchurian people by Manchuria people.
Japan made a huge investment, cultivated with the people of Manchuria, developed soybeans that grow even in cold regions, and transformed Manchuria into one of the world's leading soybean producing nations.
It was clear that if Japan continued this on an ethnic basis, the West would lose their interests in China, that is, they would not be able to exploit China.
In the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Chinese National Revolutionary Army fired at the Japanese army, but Japan, which was based on non-expansion, immediately started peace talks, and the negotiations were about to end within a month.
However, at that time, about 200 non armed Japanese were slaughtered in Tongzhou, a Japanese settlement. These victims included infants, children, women and the elderly. All men were killed after being tortured, such as being tied up with ropes and dragged around, and all women were cruelty killed after being raped. The misery photos of Japanese women’s bodies can be seen in the photos stolen by the book:“Rape of Nanjing”.
Shortly thereafter, an assassination of a Japanese officer took place in Shanghai.
Both were terrorist attacks by the Chinese side, and negotiations failed.
Many Japanese(about 20,000) in China had gathered in Shanghai to evacuate to Japan for fear of Chinese attacks. Chiang Kai-shek troops besieged Shanghai to attack these unarmed Japanese, and the Japanese troops responded.
This was the China-incident, and the war began.
In other words, it is taught all over the world that “Japan invaded China” or "Japan fought Chiang Kai-shek for the purpose of invading China," but that is not true.
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@comandercarnis
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan conducted diplomatic negotiations with the United States to lift the embargo.
Almost entirely at the request of the United States, including the withdrawal from China, the United States further requested the immediate withdrawal of Japanese troops from the continent, and there was no guarantee that Japan would lift the ban.
This is the same as giving Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, which have made large investments, to Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist Party forces or the Soviet Union or the both.
And that means that the lives and property of the Manchus, Koreans, and Japanese who were there will be deprived.
If the Soviet Union acquires the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago is also in danger of aggression.
The United States knew that Japan would never accept it and demanded it.
From the handle name, I think you know the above.
So why do you think the United States made even more unacceptable demands without a guarantee to lift the embargo when Japan said it would gradually withdraw from China?
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@blackwatchpilot5329
Sigh
As I already mentioned above, it was Chiang Kai-shek & Communist Party Allied Forces that started the war with Japan, by slaughtering many unarmed Japanese and repeatedly attacking the Japanese army.
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan conducted diplomatic negotiations with the United States to lift the embargo.
Almost entirely at the request of the United States, including the withdrawal from China, the United States further requested the immediate withdrawal of Japanese troops from the continent, and there was no guarantee that Japan would lift the ban.
This is the same as giving Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, which have made large investments, to Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist Party forces or the Soviet Union or the both.
And that means that the lives and property of the Manchus, Koreans, and Japanese who were there will be deprived.
If the Soviet Union acquires the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago is also in danger of aggression.
The United States knew that Japan would never accept it and demanded it.
So why do you think the United States made even more unacceptable demands without a guarantee to lift the embargo when Japan said it would gradually withdraw from China?
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@atlas3556
It was Chiang Kai-shek who announced that the Japanese army had carried out a massacre in Nanjing.
But, Chiang Kai-shek escaped before the Japanese troops arrived in Nanking. He had the Shanghai reporters write the articles as he requested.
CCP insists that the number of victims is 300,000 today.
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 250,000 citizens in Nanjing. This number of 250,000 is the number that John Rabe also wrote in his diary.
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 Nanking.
If all of these are correct, it means 350,000 people of Nanjing, who had been evacuated for fear of fighting, inadvertently returned to Nanjing during the genocide.
in another words, it means that people who think masscre was exist, regards 350,000 Nanjing citizens, who had the talent and resources to evacuate for fear of fighting, did such a terribly stupid thing.
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It was Chiang Kai-shek who announced that the Japanese army had carried out a massacre in Nanjing.
But, Chiang Kai-shek escaped before the Japanese troops arrived in Nanking. He had the Shanghai reporters write the articles as he ordered.
CCP insists that the number of victims is 300,000 today.
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 250,000 citizens in Nanjing. This number of 250,000 is the number that John Rabe also wrote in his diary.
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 Nanking.
If all of the above are correct, it means 350,000 people of Nanjing, who had been evacuated for fear of fighting, inadvertently returned to Nanjing during the genocide.
in another words, it means that people who think masscre was exist, regards 350,000 Nanjing citizens, who had the talent and resources to evacuate for fear of fighting, did such a terribly stupid thing.
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@DevinMacGregor
First, It was to prevent the invasion to Japan from Russia / Soviet Union / Communist forces that fought the Russo-Japanese War, Japan annexed Korean empire, became the backing of Manchuria, and fought against Chiang Kai-shek & CCP Union.
It was Chiang Kai-shek & Communist Party Allied Forces that started the war with Japan by repeatedly attacking Japanese people and troops.
I mentioned the Tongzhou incident and the assassination of Shanghai, but even before the Manchurian Incident, there were frequent cases of harassment, looting and rape kidnapping etc. of Japanese by Chinese warlords.
During the Boxer Rebellion, each country sent PKO troops to China to protect the lives and property of their people.
However, due to the Spanish flu epidemic, troops from Western countries returned.
The countries that returned the army at this time entrusted the Japanese army to protect the lives and property of their people.
Thus, the Japanese army became the target of China's expulsion activities.
Chiang Kai-shek had received funds and weapons from the Western Powers in the name of destroying the Communist Party.
However, at one point, he was caught by the Communist Party(Xi'an Incident). He was threatened to
“If you finish destroying the Communist Party, you will not be able to make money in the war. Instead of destroying the Communist Party, fight with Japan. Or..."
He agreed and teamed up the communists party.
This was also supported by Europe and the United States, which were worried about losing their property in China.
Western countries had supported Chiang Kai-shek.
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@DevinMacGregor
You said Japan was aiming to expand into the Pacific Ocean.
However, Japan moved south to the Pacific Ocean in order to break the Allied embargo siege.
Please check the time series again. The Japanese army attacked the colonial forces of Southeast Asian countries on the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Entry into Indochina was done with the permission of France. The purpose was to stop the supply from the West to Chiang Kai-shek & CCP Union.
And the ultimate goal of this was to end the war in China.
As MacArthur said in his Senate speech shortly after his return, the Japanese war was for security.
Japan did not want the aggression to expand.
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan conducted diplomatic negotiations with the United States to lift the embargo.
Almost entirely at the request of the United States, including the withdrawal from China, the United States further requested the immediate withdrawal of Japanese troops from the continent, and there was no guarantee that Japan would lift the embargo.
This is the same as giving Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, which have made large investments, to Chiang Kai-shek & the Communist Party forces or the Soviet Union or the both.
And that means that the lives and property of the Chinese, Manchus, Koreans, and Japanese people who were there will be deprived.
If the Soviet Union acquires the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago is also in danger of aggression.
The United States knew that Japan would never accept it and demanded it.
Why do you think the United States made even more unacceptable demands without a guarantee to lift the embargo when Japan said it would gradually withdraw from China?
Dexter Hull handed over Hull Note with the above contents to Japan and ended diplomatic negotiations.
This note was a kind of declaration of war. Therefore, this Hull Note should have been scrutinized by Congress. But the Roosevelt administration did not.
What do you think about it?
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@dadyrocks49
working to wake up?
For example, what are you doing specifically?
According to polls, 70% of Japanese do not like China, despite the close relationship between China and Japan.
They are already aware of the dangers of CCP. In other words, it can be said that 70% of Japanese are already "woked up".
This survey was done before the election of USA, so "the dislike %" should be higher now.
And the Self-Defense Forces should be cooperating with the US military to the extent permitted by Article 9.
However, the system that GHQ built after the war to make Japan a "nation that will never war" by WGIP is still binding firmly Japan.
One of the WGIP's measures taken by GHQ during the occupation was to wipe out conservatives from key positions in various social parts, such as governments, parliaments, newspapers, universities and educational institutions etc., of Japan. And instead of them, GHQ put left-wing people in those key positions.
At that time, some hidden Communists were among those who pretended to be the left.
MacArthur later noticed this failure and tried to eliminate the Communists, but could not completely eliminate them.
They have maintained their vested interests and been still secretly eroding Japan from the inside.
And of course they are connected to CCP now.
The video says that the Japanese are not taught true history. But, in reality, the so-called "history written by the victorious countries" written by the Allies has been taught in Japan.
As MacArthur said after returning to the US, the Pacific War was a self-defense war for Japan.
Nevertheless, Japanese students have been taught the history written by the victorious countries still now. In order to make the victorious nation look like "justice," its "history" emphasizes Japan as an evil invader, with many fabrications inserted into it.
The GHQ forced Japan to educate such a miserable history in order to brainwash Japanese and destroy the patriotism of the Japanese and prevent them from having the spirit of "protecting Japan."
If the United States really wants to awaken Japan, it must break this system, but Japan's vested interests will not easily allow it.
The United States only telling the Japanese to wake up is as cruel and irresponsible as telling those sleeping in a casket deeply trapped in the ground to wake up.
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The number of Chinese casualties claimed by Chiang Kai-shek was 1 million immediately after the end of the war.
This number of victims included about 200,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre, which Chiang Kai-shek claimed to have taken place in Nanjing.
Since then, the number of victims has continued to increase year by year.
Now, the numbers of victims It has increased dozens of times.
BTW, on what basis do you believe in that number?
Is it because the CCP, who has never fought the Japanese army, says so? Besides that, what are you basing that suspicious information on?
For example, the Nanjing Massacre is a propaganda which was fabricated by anti-Japanese activist US missionaries.
While saying "This is what the Japanese soldiers did," John Magee who was one of those anti-Japanese activists was showing footages that several Chinese were lying on the ground around 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.
However, Japanese soldiers who actually entered Nanjing was only about 3,000.
He did this activity to make the anti-war American people install anti-Japanese ideology and accept the war with Japan.
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 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.
Anyone who can make an elementary calculation will notice that China’s story does not make sense.
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731?
As found out in the U.S. 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 mainland epidemics. For this reason, Japan later became to set up a unit to research water supply and epidemic prevention. Unit 731 is 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.
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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@yumnax
The United States' interference in weakening Japan's economy has continued since the Plaza Accord in 1985, the Japan-US Semiconductor Agreement in 1986, and Super 301 in 1988.
Some Japanese politicians who resisted this type of US coercion or tried to reduce the amount of US government bond purchases have been expelled from politics or have died blatantly unnatural deaths.
Looking at this, it can be said that Japan's sovereignty is almost ignored.
In the 1992 GDF, the United States made it clear that it would take measures to weaken other countries in order to maintain its unipolar rule.
In short, the United States will do whatever it takes to defeat a competitor that poses a threat to U.S. unipolar hegemony.
Japan's problem with interference in internal affairs is that as a result of economic policies called neoliberalism being forced on the United States, employment patterns have changed and the number of non-regular workers has increased.
The annual income of non-regular employees is approximately 3 million yen, which is less than 60% of the annual income of regular employees, and 40% of workers are now non-regular employees.
On the other hand, the government increased the amount of insurance premiums and tax burdens collected from citizens, and as a result, 48% of annual income was collected.
As a result, half of the young people of marriageable age can no longer afford to get married.
The Japanese government is doing these things as ordered by the IMF and others, which is why Japan's birthrate is declining.
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Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
(example: Tongzhou incident)
The atrocities of anti-Japanese terrorism against those Japanese residents and Japanese soldiers were the cause of the Manchurian Incident and the China Incident.
However, the Allies twisted those things, such as "Japan is an evil expansionist country and invaded China."
Because of the China-Japanese War provoked by the United States behind the scenes, the United States notified the cancellation of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in 1940 and revoked it.
This restricted U.S. exports of iron and oil to Japan.
After that, Japan entered French Indochina with the permission of the French government to shut off the Chiang Kai-shek support route from the United States.
Because Chiang Kai-shek had ignored the repeated requests for ceasefire talks from Japan and prolonged the war.
This Japanese entry into Indochina was branded as an invasion by the United States.
Because of this, the United States imposed economic sanctions such as a total ban on oil exports to Japan and at the same time as freezing assets against Japan.
At that time, Japan was cornered in a very troubled situation because it depended on the United States for resources such as iron and oil.
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 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, 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 with Japan.
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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Haha, truthful comments seem to be deleted.
I believe the deleted comment was emailed to the Gmail you use for your YT account, so please read it.
Below is the digest version.
From the beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks with the United States.
Washington ignored requests, so, Japan asked the Soviet Union also to mediate peace talks with the United States under the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty.
In other words, the United States, Britain and the Soviets knew that Japan was raising the white flag, and they also knew that they could end the war in more peaceful way without atomic bombings.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an experiment to find out how the human body is destroyed, damaged, and how the effects of radiation occur.
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According to the Tokyo Tribunal, Japan's war of aggression on China began with the Manchurian Incident.
This was because China was on the victorious side.
The Lytton Report has pointed out the illegal activities of the Kwantung Army, but it has not been pointed out as an aggression.
However, in the Tokyo Tribunal, the facts that were inconvenient for the victorious nation were ignored, and the Lytton Report was also silently killed.
In the first place, Manchuria was a remote area outside the Great Wall of China when viewed from the center of China, and it was a lawless area with little awareness as a territory.
・ Soviet troops stationed in Manchuria and intimidated the Korean Peninsula
・ The Soviet army that had moved south was conducting the Russo-Japanese War with the Japanese army in Manchuria.
The above also seems to have been deliberately ignored.
It was not taken into account that the people living in the South Manchuria Railway and its affiliates, which Japan acquired from Russia after the Russo-Japanese War, were always at risk of robbery of warlords in the anarchy of Manchuria.
It seems that these were to replace the "Kwantung Army's self-defense war" with "Japan's invasion of Manchuria."
The case of Liutiaohu, which is said to have been a self-made performance by the Kwantung Army, was not correct.
However, the assaults and looting of Manchus and Japanese in Manchuria before that were not correct because they were done by outlaws in the area.
Manchuria was built by the Qing’s last Emperor Puyi from the Manchu people after Japan wiped out the predators.
He testified at the Tokyo Tribunal that he was the puppet king of Japan.
But it was not true. The reason why he lied was that Manchuria was under Soviet control at the time.
It was true that Japan had a great military and economic influence over Manchuria, but it was also true that the Manchurian government controlled Manchuria.
If Manchuria is considered to have been a colony invaded by Japan, then Japan today is also considered to be a colony invaded by the United States.
This is a complete violation of the Potsdam Declaration by the United States.
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@KD-ee3vq
Anti-Japanese education is being conducted in China, and I think the circumstances leading up to the China-Japanese War are probably different from historical facts. The historical facts are as below.
Chiang Kai-shek had received funds and weapons from the Western Powers in the name of destroying the Communist Party.
However, at one point, he was caught by the Communist Party and threatened to "If you finish destroying the Communist Party, you will not be able to make money in the war. Instead of destroying the Communist Party, fight with Japan. Or..." He agreed.
This was also supported by Europe and the United States, which were worried that Japan would gain China's interests due to the creation of Manchuria with the backing of Japan.
In the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Chinese National Revolutionary Army fired at the Japanese army, but Japan, which was based on non-expansion, immediately started peace talks, and the negotiations were about to end within a month.
However, at that time, about 300 non armed Japanese were slaughtered in Tongzhou, a Japanese settlement. These victims included infants, children, women and the elderly. All men were killed after being tortured, such as being tied up with ropes and dragged around, and all women were cruelty killed after being raped. The misery of Japanese women’s bodies can be seen in the photos stolen by the book “Rape of Nanjing”.
Shortly thereafter, an assassination of a Japanese officer took place in Shanghai.
Both were terrorist attacks by the Chinese side, and negotiations failed.
Many Japanese(about 20,000) in China had gathered in Shanghai to evacuate to Japan for fear of Chinese attacks. Chiang Kai-shek troops besieged Shanghai to attack these unarmed Japanese, and the Japanese troops responded.
This was the China-incident, and began the war.
In other words, it is taught all over the world that "Japan fought Chiang Kai-shek for the purpose of invading China," but that is not true.
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The Nanjing Massacre is a propaganda which was fabricated by anti-Japanese activist US missionary John Magee.
While saying "This is what the Japanese soldiers did," he was showing footage of several Chinese lying 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.
However, Japanese soldiers who actually entered Nanjing was only about 3,000.
His anti-Japanese action 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 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.
Anyone who can make an elementary calculation should notice that this story does not make sense and ridiculous.
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@george2113
No landing operations or atomic bombs were required for the end of the war.
The CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war from the beginning of 1945. And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft included a sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status.
Because Grew was known the above information, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the retention of the Emperor had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed shortly before the declaration.
Therefore, it was clear that the US purpose of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was not to end the war, and it was as follows.
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
In addition, it seems that it is not well known, but in fact, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the US nuclear bomb development agency announced that it had "successfully conducted an atomic bomb drop experiment."
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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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From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
The following is an excerpt from that.
“12 May 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
The following information, transmitted by the OSS representative in Bern,9 originates with a German source, an authority on the Far East who is
considered anti-Nazi but pro-Japanese:10
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,11 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”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war. And it was recorded that Japanese government admitted defeat and argued that retention the emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
(At that time, communist ideas were being infiltrated in Japan by the Soviet Union, and those who had been brainwashed by communist ideas were plotting to start a defeat revolution like the Russian Revolution.)
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained a sentence that allowed the retention of the emperor.
Because Grew was known the above information, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the continuation of the Emperor System.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the retention of the Emperor had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed shortly before the declaration, and the guarantee of the Emperor's status would likely have done Japan's immediate surrender, which meant the loss of the opportunity and the place to test atomic bombs.
As we can see, no landing operations or atomic bombs were needed for the early end of the war.
So why is it still taught around the world that "the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war early or to avoid landing operations to save many lives"?
Because those were experiments.
The US’s purposes of dropping the atomic bomb in Japan were:
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union and the World
This seems to be less well known, but in fact, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Atomic Bomb Research Institute announced that "we have succeeded in the atomic bombing examination."
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At the Tokyo Trials, which were criticized as a lynching of the victorious nation against the defeated nation, Chiang Kai-shek, who led the Kuomintang army in the actual battle against Japan, claimed:
"There were 1 million Chinese victims, 200,000 of whom were victims of the Nanjing Massacre."
A missionary who had been circulating propaganda in the United States saying, "50,000 Japanese troops massacred 42,000 Nanjing citizens in Nanjing,'' also testified at the Tokyo trial.
However, according to records, the actual number of Japanese troops who entered Nanking was 3,000.
And, their "testimonies" were all hearsay and rumors and could not provide by objective evidence.
For this reason, the prosecution was unable to prove that a massacre had occurred.
Today, CCP insists that the number of victims is 300,000 of the Nanjing massacre.
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 the number of Nanjing citizens at the time of the Japanese army's withdrawal was 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.
This story was then further distorted and exaggerated the Allies, including Chiang Kai-shek, to justify war crimes against the Japanese, and still today has been continued to circulate.
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@J_Sooly
No, it’s wrong.
Chiang Kai-shek, who actually fought against the Japanese army, claimed at the Tokyo Trial that 1 million people were killed, including 200,000 in the Nanjing Massacre.
The Tokyo trial was a very unequal trial, as it was called a lynching of the defeated nation by the victorious nation, but it was not possible to prove that the Nanjing massacre had taken place as claimed by Chiang Kai-shek.
This is because the prosecution presented only hearsay and rumors, and no objective evidence at all.
In fact, multiple records confirm that there were more civilians in Nanjing when the Japanese army left Nanjing than when the Kuomintang army fled.
Furthermore, it is written in the diaries of Chinese soldiers at the time that most of the Chinese soldiers in the Kuomintang army always carried civilian clothes with them for escape and guerrilla warfare.
If the Japanese army killed all Chinese they saw, as the CCP, which did not fight the Japanese army, claimed, there was no point in them changing their clothes.
The CCP has been increasing the number of victims year by year, but they have yet to provide any objective evidence of the Nanjing Massacre.
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@J_Sooly
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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What are your thoughts on the Roberts Commission report?
On December 18, 1941, the U.S. government ordered Chief Judge Owen J. Roberts of the Supreme Court to organize the so-called Roberts Commission of Inquiry to investigate the cause of defeat and the truth behind the attack on Pearl Harbor.
According to this Roberts Commission report,
・On January 24, 1941, Secretary of the Navy Knox addressed Secretary of War Stimson in an official document on preparations for war between the United States and Japan.
・On November 24, 1941, the Chief of Naval Operations sent a message to Admiral Kimmel, advising the Admiralty that Japan could launch a surprise attack on either the Philippines or Guam.
・On November 27, 1941, Marshall, Chief of the U.S. General Staff, sent an order to Lieutenant General Short, commander of the Army in Hawaii, saying, "The U.S.-Japan negotiations have ended in catastrophe. There is no prospect of resuming them. It is uncertain whether Japan will take action or not, and it is certain that the moment has now been reached for that action."
・On November 27, 1940, in the U.S. Navy, the Chief of Operations Headquarters told Admiral Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, “U.S.-Japan negotiations have broken down. You can think of it as a warning of war," by telegraph.
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@Evolution is Anti-Science Lie
Don't lie. Japan never claimed to have invented something that was introduced from China. Koreans are doing it.
I don't think that the Imperial Japanese Army did not anything terrible in the past, but I also don't think that everything that is being touted today is true.
The Allies circulated a lot of propaganda(fake news) to raise their fighting spirit, like recently.
For example, one of them was the Nanjing Massacre which was fabricated by anti-Japanese activists Missionary John Magee in the United States.
He did so in order to make the Americans, who were reluctant to war, accept the war with Japan.
Later, it has been used by the Allies repeatedly.
Also, 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 write 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 those 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.
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No problem, Japan is not bankrupt. Since Japan has a lot of US Treasuries, its foreign exchange reserves denominated in dollars will increase year by year, but since they cannot be used in Japan, they need to be used for meaningful purposes from time to time.
In Japan's ODA method, for example, when road construction is carried out, Japanese civil engineers go there and build the road together with the people of that country while teaching the construction methods. By doing so, it is possible to reduce the amount of money that is lost somewhere, and the people who receive support can learn how to do the construction, and from the next time onwards, they will be able to do the road construction by themselves.
In this way, Japan developed a neighboring country that had been heavily funded by the United States for many years but had not developed at all.
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Don’t lie.
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.
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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.
However, 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 with Japan.
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.
Anyone who can make an elementary calculation will notice that this story does not make sense.
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I want to know where you heard about such a parade of bullshit.
I don't think the Japanese soldiers didn't do anything wrong at all.
However, today it became clear that NOT everything the Allies has accused Japan of committing during World War II was true by declassification of confidential documents and their research.
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 such propaganda.
Now, the Chinese Communist Party claims that the number of victims of Nanjing at that time was 300,000.
On the other hand, before the National Revolutionary Army fled from Nanjing, the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was announced to be 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 when 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.
I'm really curious, but don't the people who join the Chinese Communist Party in shouting, "There was a Nanjing Massacre'' hear these numbers and think "something is wrong?''
Chiang Kai-shek claimed that the Japanese army had killed 1 million people at the Tokyo Trials, including the massacre of 200,000 people in this fictitious Nanjing Massacre.
However, even the deliberations at the Tokyo Trials, which were called a lynching by the victorious nations against the defeated nation, failed to prove that a massacre had taken place.
Nevertheless, this story has since been further distorted and used by the Allies to justify war crimes against Japan, such as the emotional lynching of the Tokyo Trials and the dropping of the atomic bomb.
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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.
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@aerix12345
The United States considers Japan to be an ATM and sells whatever they want to sell to Japan. So, in order to sell the nuclear power plant to Japan, they first brainwashed the Japanese who knew how terrifying the radioactive contamination was from the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Brainwashing of the Japanese is easy because GHQ built such a system during the occupation period.
The GHQ has wiped out conservatives from key positions in various fields such as politics, educational institutions including universities, civil servants, and the media, and replaced them with leftists and communists who are at their mercy. This was done by the United States to undermine Japan.
Even after GHQ left, they did not let go of their power and are now undermining Japan, secretly also receiving money from the CCP.
The US, CCP, and Japanese puppets are people who do anything for money.
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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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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.
China did not demand for compensation from Japan, officially.
Because Mao Zedong said that getting Manchukuo would be enough.
Manchukuo, which had received huge investment in terms of funds and technology snd so on from Japan at that time, developed richly, and Manchukuo was responsible for 70% of the industrial production in the former Qing Dynasty domestic area.
But on the other hand, Japan continued to support China economically through ODA and other means until 2018, even after China's GDP surpassed that of Japan. These aids have unofficially a strong implication of reparations, and the total amount is about 3.66 trillion yen.
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Under post-war occupation, GHQ drafted the Constitution of Japan. Many people around the world misunderstand that if the peace clause in Article 9 is amended and the Self-Defense Forces are changed from a government agency to a military force, Japan will be able to have and expand its military power just like any normal nation.
However, the restrictions placed on Japan by the United States that make it difficult even to defend itself can be seen everywhere.
In general countries, government bonds can be issued for defense expenses, etc., but the Japanese Constitution stipulates that government bonds related to armaments cannot be issued.
And to protect this, there is a provision that the defense budget cannot be increased from the previous year's defense budget.
GHQ expels approximately 230,000 conservatives from Japanese institutions and replaces them with leftists and communists. Of course, they are American leftists and Chinese puppets. They have taken over key posts among their peers and are still in power.
Treasury bureaucrats knew that defense spending could not be increased because of the above mechanism, but until recently they tried to hide it from politicians and try to prevent the increase in defense spending.
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@AdamantLightLP
I think most people don’t know the historical facts
At the Tokyo Trials, it was determined that Japan began its invasion with the Manchurian Incident.
However, in a report written in 1937, McMurray, then the US ambassador in Beijing, wrote:
"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."
Although the Litton Investigation Team's report states that it is a problem that the Japanese military wiped out Chinese warlords who committed atrocities against Japanese residents, it also states that the cause of this result was on the Chinese side, too.
However, those evidences against Chiang Kai-shek was ignored at the Tokyo Trials, because it was effectively a lynching of Japan by the Allies.
Chiang Kai-shek claimed that there were approximately 1 million victims in China, including 200,000 hypothetical victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
However, when Chiang Kai-shek tried to kill the Japanese, he did not care that the Chinese who were die with collateral damage.
For example, Chiang Kai-shek destroyed the embankments of the Yellow River and caused floods in order to escape. The collapse killed millions of Chinese people downstream.
Furthermore, as Kuomintang forces committed atrocities against Japanese residents throughout China, including the Tongzhou Incident, the Japanese gathered in Shanghai to return home, but Chiang Kai-shek surrounded the Shanghai Concession and bombarded it with artillery and air. At this time, there were approximately 30,000 Japanese people as well as many Chinese people in Shanghai, and Chiang Kai-shek attacked them indiscriminately.
It's hard to believe that Chiang Kai-shek counted such Chinese victims as victims of his strategy.Therefore, it must be said that there is great doubt as to whether the ``number of victims'' claimed by Chiang Kai-shek is reasonable.
After Mao Zedong's death in 1976, the Chinese Communist Party began claiming the Nanjing Massacre and suddenly began to increase the number of casualties caused by Japanese soldiers.
Allied nationals believe China's claims without question, but they have not considered the evidence to support them.
As mentioned above, there is no evidence to prove the number of victims of the Nanking massacre. Similarly, there is no evidence to prove the number of victims that the Chinese Communist Party has exploded.
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@dutchroyalnavy1
Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, both Kuomintang forces and Japanese forces claimed to have been shot by the other side.
However, the Japanese military had a rule against using live ammunition in military exercises.
Therefore, it was impossible for the Japanese army to shoot Kuomintang soldiers.
Furthermore, in order to prevent the conflict from escalating, the Japanese side immediately began peace negotiations immediately after the incident occurred.
Over the next three weeks, the Japanese side signed four peace agreements with Chiang Kai-shek.
However, incidents of assault, looting, and massacres by Chinese against Japanese residents occurred frequently, and incidents of abduction and massacre of Japanese soldiers also occurred sporadically.
As a result, all these peace agreements were abolished.
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 elderly people.
All of the bodies of women in their late teens or older had been raped. Their bodies had sticks thrust into their crotches to humiliate them.
The body of a pregnant woman was found with her abdomen cut vertically. Her fetus had been removed and it had been crushed.
The bodies of several men were dragged with ropes, torn off from the waist down, and dumped in a pond...”
Assaults and massacres against Japanese people by Chinese 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 residents had gathered, were surrounded by the Chinese side and subjected to artillery and air strikes.
Due to these events, Japan decided to increase its military. That led the conflict to war.
Since Chiang Kai-shek was given huge money and weapons by the United States, he might not have been able to call for a cease-fire like Σelenskyy has been 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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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 about 1,000,000, 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 of Nanjing incident.
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 people who claim that there was a massacre in Nanjing think it's strange to hear these numbers?
And I also have to say that the number of casualties doubled every year by the CCP, which has also never fought a war with Japan, is highly questionable.
Because all of their claims are also based on hearsay and rumors, but there is no objective evidence.
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No landing operations or atomic bombs were required for the end of the war.
The CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war from the beginning of 1945. And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft included a sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status.
Because Grew was known the above information, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the retention of the Emperor had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed shortly before the declaration.
Therefore, it was clear that the US purpose of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was not to end the war, and it was as follows.
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
In addition, it seems that it is not well known, but in fact, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the US nuclear bomb development agency announced that it had "successfully conducted an atomic bomb drop experiment."
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@nozrep
First, the Russo-Japanese War, the annexation of the Korean empire, the support of Manchuria, and the battle with the Chiang Kai-shek & CCP alliance were all to prevent the invasion of Russia / Soviet Union / Communist forces into Japan.
Entry into Indochina was done with the permission of France. The purpose was to stop the supply from the West to Chiang Kai-shek & CCP Union.
And the ultimate goal of this was to end the war in China.
As MacArthur said in his Senate speech shortly after his return, the Japanese war was for security.
Japan did not want the aggression to expand.
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan conducted diplomatic negotiations with the United States to lift the embargo.
Japan was going to accept almost completely at the request of the United States, including the gradual withdrawal from China other than Manchuria.
But the United States further demanded the immediate withdrawal of Japanese troops from the continent without guarantee that the embargo was lifted.
This is the same as giving Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, which have made large investments, to Chiang Kai-shek & the Communist Party forces or the Soviet Union or the both.
And that means that the lives and property of the Chinese, Manchus, Koreans, and Japanese people who were there will be deprived.
If the Soviet Union acquires the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago is also in danger of aggression.
The United States knew that Japan would never accept it and demanded it.
Why do you think the United States made even more unacceptable demands without a guarantee to lift the embargo when Japan said it would gradually withdraw from China?
Dexter Hull handed over Hull Note with the above contents to Japan and ended diplomatic negotiations.
This note was a kind of declaration of war. Therefore, this Hull Note should have been scrutinized by Congress. But the Roosevelt administration did not.
What do you think about it?
Didn't you see in Afghanistan just a short time ago what the "immediate withdrawal of troops" would bring?
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@motionattached
Recently, the West has repeatedly told Japan, "Let's stand the threat posed by China together.''
Despite this, when I see Westerners like you adopting the numbers of victims that China is exaggerating, I think we shouldn't trust Westerners.
At the Tokyo trial, Chiang Kai-shek claimed that there were 1 million Chinese victims, including 200,000 victims of the Nanking massacre.
However, even at the Tokyo Trials, which were ridiculed as a lynching of the victorious nation against the defeated nation, it was not possible to prove that a massacre had taken place in Nanjing.
The Tokyo Trials were sponsored by MacArthur, and judges sent by the Allies issued the verdicts.
So, although that trial was a haphazard trial that ignored the law, the records of that trial should naturally remain in their countries.
But, people in the Allies do NOT know in those facts at all, but believe CCP propaganda completely.
In particular, after the Cold War, the United States not only continued to guide public opinion as if the Chinese propaganda that the Nanjing massacre had taken place was true, but also promoted it together with China.
And, the United States continues to spread as fact the number of casualties that the CCP, which has no war with Japan at all, has increased year by year without providing any evidence.
Is this appropriate behavior for Japan's allies?
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@motionattached
No useful facts removed? Let's try it out.
It was American missionaries who began spreading propaganda about the massacre of civilians in Nanjing.
They did this to get anti-war Americans to accept war with Japan.
After the war, the United States sought to historicize the propaganda fabricated to justify its own war crimes.
However, at the Tokyo trial, prosecutors were unable to prove the massacre of civilians in Nanjing, so they later had Iris Chan write the false book.
This fact should help wake up those who blindly believe in Iris Chan's book.
The Chinese Communist Party currently claims that the number of civilian casualties in the Nanjing incident was 300,000.
Meanwhile, before Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang forces escaped from Nanjing, it was announced that there were 200,000 civilians in Nanjing.
According to multiple sources, the number of civilians at the time the Japanese army left Nanjing was approximately 250,000.
The reason that the number of civilians evacuated from Nanjing by the Japanese military was higher than the Kuomintang's announcement was that people who had evacuated from Nanjing due to fear of fighting returned.
The above facts about the number of civilians in Nanjing at that time will help calm those who cry "Japanese troops committed a massacre in Nanjing".
However, comments mentioning this fact are almost always deleted.
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Are you talking about the Japanese epidemic prevention unit 731?
As found out in the U.S. 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 mainland epidemics. For this reason, Japan later became to set up a unit to research water supply and epidemic prevention. Unit 731 is 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.
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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@superlight7654
Since 1927, the United States ordered the Chinese warlords repeatedly commit anti-Japanese terrorist acts such as looting, rape, and massacre against ordinary Japanese living in Chinese settlements in exchange for funds and weapons.
These atrocities became the cause of the conflict between Japan and Chiang Kai-shek's army, and it developed into a war.
So, in short, as MacArthur said in his speech to the Senate shortly after his return, Japan was fighting for security.
The US, which wanted to participate in World War II in order to rebuild its economy, needed to get the American people, who were anti-war, to accept the war.
For this reason, the Roosevelt administration branded Japan's defensive war to be an act of aggression and imposed economic sanctions and embargoes against Japan in order to get preemptive attack from Japan.
However Roosevelt became president on a promise of anti-war, and 80% of the people in the United States were anti-war. Therefore, propaganda was spread to make the war with Japan easier for Americans to accept by spreading anti-Japanese thought.
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.
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.
Also, 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.
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The story of the Korean Peninsula is even more fabricated than that of China.
At that time, Koreans were annexed by Japan, so they were protected by Japan.
Men on the Korean Peninsula were not even drafted into the military.
There were some brave Koreans who went to the battlefield as Japanese soldiers, but they were all volunteers.
A thorough investigation conducted by the United States from 1999 to 2007 has already revealed that the comfort women issue that South Korea has been promoting for many years is fabricated propaganda.
Home environment affects people's lifespan.
For example, in the Soviet Union, where society was in ruins after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the average life expectancy of both men and women rapidly declined, reaching 57.8 years in 1994.
Meanwhile, during the Japanese annexation period, the average life expectancy of Koreans who claim to have suffered atrocities and massacres by the Japanese military increased from 25 to 45 years, and the population nearly doubled from 13 million to 25 million. did.
This is what official statistics tell us, and this fact proves that what they are saying is completely false.
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The story that starvation in Vietnam was the responsibility of the Japanese army 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 military stationed in French Indochina to establish a cooperative relationship and coexist with the Vichy government's Office of the Governor-General of French 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.
And then, the Japanese military maintained a cooperative relationship with the French Indochina Government-General and lived modestly in a remote area far from civilization.
And 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.
In other words, Japan only had effective control over French Indochina for 5 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 taken 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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From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war repeatedly.
And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained one sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status along with some conditions of surrender, such as disarming the Japanese army and not colonizing Japan.
Because Grew had heard of the above report, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s action is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the emperor's retention was deleted.
Because the United States wanted to conduct a test on the dropping of the completed nuclear bomb against the Japanese people.
Since Washington had not responded, Japan also asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in February 1945.
In other words, Japan raised a white flag to the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not reply at all until the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan. In the 3/10 Tokyo air raid in 1945, more than 100,000 Japanese civilians were burned to death in 2 hours.
Westerners often interpret that Japan did not have the will to surrender to Japan because it was preparing for the decisive battle on the mainland.
However, when the enemy is attacking ignoring your offer to negotiate a ceasefire, it is natural to prepare for the next conceivable attack, “landing operation on the country,” isn’t it?
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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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At the Tokyo Trials, which were criticized as a lynching of the victorious nation against the defeated nation, Chiang Kai-shek, who led the Kuomintang army in the actual battle against Japan, claimed that there were 1 million Chinese victims, 200,000 of whom were victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
A missionary who had been circulating propaganda in the United States saying, "50,000 Japanese troops massacred 42,000 Nanjing citizens in Nanjing,'' also testified at the Tokyo trial.
However, the actual number of Japanese troops who entered Nanking was 3,000.
And, their "testimonies" were all hearsay and rumors and could not provide by objective evidence.
For this reason, the prosecution was unable to prove that a massacre had occurred.
In Nanjing at the time, University professors and members of the press were also staying.
In fact, when the Japanese army entered Nanjing, the New York Times reported on it. There was no mention of atrocities in the news.
Why were these Westerners who were in Nanjing at the time not called to testify in court?
Because none of them saw or heard anything like the atrocities.
I don't think the Japanese soldiers did not anything bad at all.
However, it is difficult to believe the number of casualties that the CCP, which is not actually fighting the Japanese army, increases year by year without presenting any evidence.
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@grotesqueimpalament
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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When Nanjing fell, approximately 150 journalists and photographers were accompanying the Japanese army.
However, no one reported seeing such a massacre.
On the contrary, the Japanese military distributed food and other supplies to the citizens of Nanjing, and there were reports with photos showing the citizens rejoicing.
Photos reported at the time may be available online, but they are not searchable.
As evidence to support this, there is the following official record of the Tokyo Trial.
“Prosecution Document No. 1706”
It says:
"Few people voluntarily reported the crimes committed by the Japanese military. Even when investigators were dispatched, some remained silent like 'winter cicadas' or did not tell the truth. Some denied it …”
In other words, at the Tokyo trial, the prosecution solicited “witnesses to the massacre,'' but there were none.
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Regarding the comment, "I don't think the Japanese military did not anything bad at all.''
For example, during the "Manila Massacre,'' the Japanese Army should move outside of urban areas to prevent civilians from being harmed by the fighting.
However, the Japanese navy could not afford to abandon the warships in the port and the important military power associated with them, so they chose to remain in the city.
The US military does not care at all even if friendly civilians become collateral damage in order to annihilate the enemy.
So, the US military bombing to wipe out the Japanese army was carried out indiscriminately, and as a result, an estimated 100,000 Filipino and Japanese civilians were annihilated along with the Japanese army.
If the Japanese military was going to barricade themselves in the area, they should have at least evacuated the civilians, but they didn't do that.
I think it was fault.
It is true that at the time Filipino civilians were conducting guerrilla warfare against the Japanese army, so it was difficult to distinguish between guerrillas and non-guerrillas, which probably made it difficult for Filipinos to evacuate.
However, on the other hand, probably there might be some foolish thinking that "the U.S. military might not be able to carry out a thorough attack if civilians were used as meat shields'' I think.
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In recent years, only when confidential US documents began to be disclosed did it become clear how thought and speech in Japan had been controlled.
During the occupation, the United States removed conservatives from approximately 230,000 positions in Japan's ruling class and replaced them with leftist and communist puppets.
This is related to the fact that almost all of Japan's major universities today are liberal and anti-Japanese.
For this reason, most historians affiliated with universities are critical of history based on historical facts, and even if new historical facts are discovered from confidencial documents, they will ignore them if they do not fit with their story.
Therefore, it can be said that the writings of people called historians based on primary sources are more accurate.
And, during the declassification of these classified documents, it was discovered that the US had burned Japanese books.
So far, it has been determined that the United States banned 7,769 books in Japan during the occupation.
"Banned" means to forbid new publications, force bookstores to discard them, and erase them from the world.
These banned books include many books that the United States does not want the next generation of Japanese to know about, such as "the environment surrounding Japan before the war'' and "why Japan had to go to war.''
For the US those books were disturbing brainwashing the Japanese with the history distorted/fabricated by the United States.
Currently, some of those books on the list of prohibited books that were kept in private collections are being translated into modern language, reprinted, and becoming available for purchase.
Through them, many Japanese are re-learning history based on historical facts.
I think the following books from that time, written by people at the time rather than propaganda, are probably available in the West and are worth reading at least once:
"Twilight in the Forbidden City,''
"How the Peace was Lost,''
"Japan in China.''
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Mainly to Phyo
The poor baby is a hoax by missionary Maggie, who spread the false propaganda of the Nanjing Massacre.
By lying, he sowed anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States.
About 3,000 Japanese soldiers entered Nanking, and between the Japanese army's entry into Nanking and Leaving, Nanking citizens increased from 200,000 to 250,000.
But he lied that there were about 50,000 Japanese soldiers and killed 42,000 Chinese.
This liar also said, "I heard a rumor that the baby was bayoneted." For this reason, it was determined to be true, despite the lack of evidence. Also, pictures of stabbed babies made for Chinese films in the 80s have been misinterpreted as if they were real.
But none of them have any proof.
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In the first place, it was the United States that provoked war on Japan for a long time.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support. That was in order to prevent Japan from expanding its interests in China through business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents(ex. Tongzhou Incident), and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
This anti-Japanese terrorism was finally taken over by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, which allied with the CCP, and developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek did not listen to the Japanese side's offer of peace talks was that the longer the war dragged on, the richer he could live.
Then, the United States cornered Japan because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
As former President Hoover writes in "Freedom Betrayed," the Roosevelt administration cornered Japan with a trap, inviting a first attack.
Also, MacArthur said in his Senate speech shortly after his return, Japan was at war for security.
In other words, it was the United States that caused the wars between Japan and the Allies.
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Hahaha What an anti-Japan PROPAGANDA!!
Well, China is certainly the top export destination for Japan, because China buys so many electronic device parts, manufacturing equipment, etc. from Japan. Western and Japanese companies that had production plants due to the cheap labor force in China will relocate their plants to India, Vietnam and etc. or their own country after decoupling. However, Japanese parts and manufacturing equipment will still be needed at the new location, so they will continue to be purchased. Therefore, the slowdown of the Chinese economy is not equal to the fact that Japan's export profits will be zero.
On the contrary, I think the current depreciation of the yen and the appreciation of the dollar are good timings.
Due to the trade war between the United States and China, developed countries are now trying to get the lowest line supply of the semiconductor industry from a security perspective. In other words, developed countries are now trying to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in each country or neighboring countries.
Most of Japan's semiconductor manufacturing industry (chip foundries) was crushed by the United States in the late 1980s and 1990s. However, Japanese companies still have a very high global market share in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment/ machine and materials industry. For the time being, these Japanese chip manufacturing facilities and materials will continue to be needed more than usual. It goes without saying that the depreciation of the yen in this case will bring more profits to these Japanese companies.
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@chadgaming8071
It is the Allies who spread the rumor that Japan killed tens of millions of people in World War II, but these are fabricated stories to cover up the Allies' war crimes.
For example, at the Tokyo Trials after the war, Chiang Kai-shek claimed that the number of victims was about 1 million, and that the number of victims of the Nanjing Massacre was 200,000.
However, there was no objective evidence of the massacre in Nanjing, only rumors and hearsay, so the prosecution at the Tokyo Trials could not prove that a massacre took place in Nanjing.
The Chinese Communist Party had forgotten about the Nanjing Massacre for a while after the war, but now claims that the number of victims of the Nanjing Massacre was 400,000.
Meanwhile, before the National Revolutionary Army fled Nanjing, the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was announced to be 200,000.
And when the Japanese army left Nanjing, there were about 220,000 to 250,000 civilians in Nanjing. This can be confirmed from multiple records.
The reason why the number of casualties after the withdrawal of the Japanese troops is higher than that announced by the National Revolutionary Army is because the Nanjing citizens who had fled for fear of fighting returned to Nanjing.
Don't people who claim that there was a massacre in Nanjing find these figures strange?
Also, why don't Westerners wonder why the Chinese Communist Party, which has never fought a war with Japan, doubles the number of casualties every year without providing any evidence?
It is also not historically accurate to say that the war was ended by nuclear weapons. According to documents declassified in 1993, the Japanese government had been seeking peace talks with the United States since the beginning of 1945. The United States knew from Japan's sounding out that a nuclear attack or an amphibious operation was not necessary to end the war.
The reason the United States used the atomic bomb was because they wanted to test a new type of bomb on living humans.
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The Japanese never thought that it was their destiny to rule the world. Who is telling such lies?
Japan seemed to have almost completed the development of nuclear weapons, but their use was prohibited by the Emperor due to their inhumanity.
It was the Soviet Union's invasion, not the atomic bomb, that forced Japan to accept the Potsdam Declaration.
From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
Since Washington had not responded, Japan also asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact.
In short, the Allies knew that Japan wanted to hold talks for the end of the war, and also knew the way to end the war easily.
However, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union responded.
And attacks from the Allied Powers, such as air raids and the Battle of Okinawa, continued more intensely and cruel until the Potsdam Declaration.
The US Air Force burned down 430 cities in Japan and burned half a million Japanese to death across the country. Most of victims were civilians.
The atomic bombings were experiments to find out how living cities and humans were destroyed by the atomic bomb, so Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which had not been burned down, were chosen.
The truth is that the Soviet invasion, not the atomic bombing, led to the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
Suzuki, then Prime Minister of Japan, asked for approval of the Potsdam Declaration in a cabinet meeting.
However, the discussion was difficult for some reasons.
The first reason was that there was no guarantee of the emperor's retention. This was the only condition requested by the Japanese government, which had sought peace talks with the United States since early 1945, but was not explicitly mentioned in the Potsdam Declaration. Suzuki asked the US, but got no clear reply.
The second reason that delay of the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration was that the estimated death toll immediately after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was about 80,000, and Hiroshima suffered less damage than the 115,000 people who died in the Tokyo air raid on March 10.
Then, another reason was that Japan was asking the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations for the end of the war under the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty.
Stalin, who promised the United States and Britain to invade some Japanese territories in exchange for the expansion of Soviet territory at the Yalta Conference, deliberately pending a response to a request for mediation from Japan.
The promised day of the Soviet invasion was August 15. Stalin, who felt the danger of Japan surrendering before the Soviet invasion due to the atomic bombing on Hiroshima on August 6, accelerated the invasion on August 9.
Ironically, this USSR's invasion cut off the hopes of some leaders who, while insisting that Japan should wait for the Soviet Union's reply, had refused to accept the Potsdam Declaration, made them agree to accept the Potsdam Declaration.
So, it was the Soviet invasion, not the atomic bombings, that led to the approval of the Potsdam Declaration.
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Steven Lin
The Nanjing Massacre is a lie.
It was first a propaganda used by Chiang Kai-shek to degrade Japan.
And it was used for lobbying to get support from Western countries.
Chiang Kai-shek announced before fleeing Nanking that there were 200,000 unarmed Chinese in the safety zone.
The number of unarmed Chinese when the Japanese troops left Nanjing was 250,000.
In other words, this means another 350,000 Chinese came to Nanjing, where the massacre is taking place, to be killed.
Don't you think it's strange?
And then, it was used by the United States next in the Tokyo trial to justify the bombing on Japan of US.
In the Tokyo trial, one general was convicted and hanged, despite the lack of clear evidence of the massacre.
And now, the Chinese communists use it to degrade Japan and damage American and Japanese ties by making Americans believe it.
In order to seize world supremacy.
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Are you talking about the Nanjing massacre?
The Nanjing Massacre is a propaganda which was fabricated by anti-Japanese activist US missionary John Magee.
While saying "This is what the Japanese soldiers did," he was showing footage of several Chinese lying 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.
However, Japanese soldiers who actually entered Nanjing was only about 3,000.
His anti-Japanese action was one of the activities carried out by the ne0c0nserv@tives 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 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.
Anyone who can make an elementary calculation should notice that this story does not make sense and ridiculous.
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The CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
And, the following is an excerpt from that.
“12 May 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
The following information, transmitted by the OSS representative in Bern,9 originates with a German source, an authority on the Far East who is
considered anti-Nazi but pro-Japanese:10
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,11 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”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war. And it was recorded that Japanese government admitted defeat and argued that retention the emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
(At that time, communist ideas were being infiltrated in Japan by the Soviet Union, and those who had been brainwashed by communist ideas were plotting to start a defeat revolution similar to the Russian revolution.)
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained a sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system.
Because Grew was known the above information, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the continuation of the Emperor System.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the retention of the Emperor had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed shortly before the declaration, and the guarantee of the Emperor's status would likely have done Japan's immediate surrender, which meant the loss of the opportunity and the place to test atomic bombs.
As we can see, no landing operations or atomic bombs were needed for the early end of the war.
So why is it still taught around the world that "the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war early or to avoid landing operations to save many lives"?
Because those were experiments.
The US’s purposes of dropping the atomic bomb in Japan:
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
This seems to be less well known, but in fact, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Atomic Bomb Research Institute announced that "we have succeeded in the atomic bombing examination."
After the end of the war, the United States established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and began investigating the effects of radioactivity.
ABCC put people who were harmed by atomic bombs in their facility saying they would treat those patients.
But no treatment was given. Never.
They took blood from survivors, photographed wounds and keloids, recorded their condition, took organs when they died.
They sent those organs and etc. to the United States as samples with various investigations and records.
On the other hand, the treatment of Japanese doctors was banned. Their medical records were taken away and the request for medicine to the Red Cross was stopped.
In addition, by GHQ, it was banned to report all of above things about ABCC and GHQ.
ABCC announced in 2018 that they had not treated the survivors.
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@Grandessaful
It seems that you know the details of the march of Batan.
So, let's see what actually happened in that march.
❶The U.S. military abandoned soldiers who were unable to move due to illness or injury, and fled after them.
❷The Japanese army took prisoners of war the American soldiers who were left behind.
❸The Japanese army tried to transport them to the camp, but the railroad that was supposed to be used for transportation was destroyed by the US military and could not be used.
Having no other means, the Japanese marched to the camp on foot with the prisoners other than very serious POW
❹They walked 60-odd kilometers for four to five days, averaging 14 kilometers for about four hours in the cool of the morning and evening a day.
❺Food was scarce for the Japanese army, but food was distributed to prisoners of war. However, due to the difference in food culture, misunderstandings arose. For example, American soldiers later denounced being forced to eat "GOBOU", a common Japanese food, as abuse.
❻ Japanese soldiers were trained and used to walking 20km a day, but American soldiers were not. In addition, many had contracted malaria due to long periods of hiding in the jungle. Statistics at O'Donnell Camp put the total number of people who died or fled during the march at about 21,000. (Deaths and escapees are added together because most of the prisoners were Filipinos, and Filipinos who deserted during the march were considered dead.)
After the war, many Japanese soldiers, including the above-mentioned burdock-fed Japanese soldier, who had marched on Bataan and managed the camp, were executed on slight suspicion.
On the other hand, the Allied records of Japanese prisoners of war show that surrendering Japanese soldiers had a 1% chance of being taken prisoner, and 99% were simply killed.
The famous one is the memoir of Charles Lindbergh, who went to the battlefield as a volunteer pilot. Below are just a few excerpts.
- The reason why the number of Japanese prisoners of war in each region of the Pacific front is unusually small compared to the European front is that American soldiers do not want to take prisoners of war, although they can take as many prisoners as they want. Even if Japanese raise their hand and surrender, they will kill everyone.
- At one point they took 2000 prisoners, but only 100 or 200 were brought back to headquarters. The rest of the guys had a little incident. Knowing this, their comrades-in-arms will not want to surrender.
- Officers wanted prisoners for interrogation. A special bonus of two weeks' vacation to Sydney for each prisoner resulted in more prisoners than could be handled. When vacation pay was cut off, no prisoners were taken, and American soldiers lied that no prisoners were taken.
The Japanese soldiers should have known that most of the surrendered Japanese soldiers were simply killed without being taken prisoner. I think that may have affected the handling of POW in Japanese camps.
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As can be seen from the “A note to Roosevelt'' written on Iwo Jima, the Japanese feared that “the Japanese people would be exterminated.” This was also the reason why Japan went to war with the United States.
1. What did Americans do to Native Americans?
2. What did the United States do to the Kingdom of Hawaii?
3. Roosevelt's white supremacy and hatred of Japan.
Considering these three points, it was natural for the Japanese to worry about what would happen after "unconditional surrender."
So, the Japanese government was asking the United States for peace talks.
The Potsdam Declaration stated that while the Allies called for the unconditional surrender and disbandment of the Japanese military, they had no intention of enslaving Japanese civilians.
However, there was no mention of the emperor's retention.
Even if Japan does not become a slave to America, it will lose its country if it loses its emperor and becomes a communist country.
Stimson's notes state that he proposed informally conveying that US would guarantee the Emperor's retention.
However, even when the Japanese government asked the United States about this very important point for Japan, it did not receive a clear answer.
The cabinet meeting was a discussion between pro-Soviet factions, who argued that the government should wait for a response mediated by the Soviet Union, and conservative factions, who argued that negotiations should continue to ensure the retention of the Emperor.
With the invasion of the Soviet Union on August 9, pro-Soviet factions agreed to accept the Potsdam Declaration, and with a majority in favor of acceptance, the Japanese government accepted the Potsdam Declaration and surrendered.
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I believe that the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was done for the following purposes.
・Acts of demonstration against the Soviet Union
・Human experiments on living people
But Stalin, who knew the information about the atomic bomb in advance, was not surprised.
Then, you don't seem to know that human experiments in the United States continued after the war.
What the United States gained was not only "the opportunity to drop a new type of atomic bomb on cities where people actually lived and confirm casualties."
After the war, several U.S. government agencies conducted studies on the effects of the atomic bomb, including radiation measurements in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and surrounding areas.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the testing grounds for their new bombs.
And of course, the Japanese people who survived the atomic bombing were their guinea pigs.
The United States established the ABCC out of “the need to permanently investigate the destructive power that radioactivity has on the human body.”
ABCC put people who were harmed by atomic bombs in their facility saying they would treat those patients.
However, No treatment was given to the interned Hibakusha.
They took blood from patients, photographed wounds and keloids, recorded their condition, took organs when they died.
They sent those organs and etc. to the United States as samples with various investigations and records.
On the other hand, the treatment of Japanese doctors was banned.
Their medical records were taken away and the requests for medicine to the Red Cross were stopped.
By GHQ, it was banned to report all of above things about ABCC and GHQ.
ABCC at last announced in 2018 that it had not treated the A-bomb survivors at all.
The atomic bombing is not a thing of the past.
Even now, some people still die from diseases caused by radiation exposure, and the number of victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki exceeded 520,000 by 2023.
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@BananaPhoPhilly
Yes, I have.
As found out in the U.S. 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 mainland epidemics. For this reason, Japan later became to set up a unit to research water supply and epidemic prevention. Unit 731 is 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.
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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From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war repeatedly.
And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained one sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status along with some conditions of surrender, such as disarming the Japanese army and not colonizing Japan.
Because Grew had heard of the above report, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s action is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the emperor's retention was deleted.
Because the United States wanted to conduct a test on the dropping of the completed nuclear bomb against “the Japanese”.
Since Washington had not responded, Japan also asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in February 1945.
In other words, Japan raised a white flag to the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not reply at all until the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan. 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 two hours.
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, when the enemy is ignoring you for a ceasefire consultation and attacking, it is quite natural to prepare for the next possible attack "landing operation on the country", isn't it?
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 had finally arrived after several months of negotiations to end the war.
So Prime Minister Suzuki tried to proceed with the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
But what hindered it was that there was no wording to guarantee the Emperor's position. Suzuki inquired about this, but the United States did not reply.
Even after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were 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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From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war repeatedly.
And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained one sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status along with some conditions of surrender, such as disarming the Japanese army and not colonizing Japan.
Because Grew had heard of the above report, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s action is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the emperor's retention was deleted.
Because the United States wanted to conduct a test on the dropping of the completed nuclear bomb against “the Japanese”.
Since Washington had not responded, Japan also asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in February 1945.
In other words, Japan raised a white flag to the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not reply at all until the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan. 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 two hours.
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, when the enemy is ignoring you for a ceasefire consultation and attacking, it is quite natural to prepare for the next possible attack "landing operation on the country", isn't it?
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 had finally arrived after several months of negotiations to end the war.
So Prime Minister Suzuki tried to proceed with the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
But what hindered it was that there was no wording to guarantee the Emperor's position. Suzuki inquired about this, but the United States did not reply.
Even after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were 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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It is said that Japan began to invade China from the Manchurian Incident, but John McMurray, who was the U.S. ambassador to Beijing in 1931 after the Manchurian Incident, submitted a detailed report in 1935 and said as follows.
"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."
"China's provocation" that Ambassador John McMurray mentioned is a number of assaults, looting, rapes and massacres of Japanese residents by Chinese warlords, and Chinese attacks on Japanese security forces that tried to prevent them.
And It has become clear that the anti-Japanese terrorist attacks of these Chinese warlords were carried out in exchange for the provision of U.S. weapons and funds in addition to the Soviet Union and European countries.
As Ambassador McMurley said, the Japanese Kwantung Army only carried out an operation to drive the barbaric warlords from Manchuria as an act of self-defense against the tyranny of Chinese warlords. However, Western countries, which are uncomfortable for Japan to expand its interests in China, branded it as an invasion.
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@chenzhao3905
U.S. Occupation Policy against Japan after surrender was to ensure that Japan will not become a threat to the United States again or a threat to world peace and security.
So, 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 & Communist puppets. And even now, nearly 80 years later, they continue to destroy Japan from the inside under the direction of the United States.
The reason there are no museums that deny Japanese militarism is because in classrooms all over Japan, teachers brainwash children with the history written by Allies to deny militarism and raise them not to be patriotic.
In fact, in a poll, only 17% of Japanese said that they would fight in the event of a crisis.
This shows that the brainwashing education system created by GHQ is still very successful.
The Peace Memorial Hall in Hiroshima is said to have been built for commemoration and peace prayers. However, the words engraved on the stone monument of the memorial by the scholars on the left are, "Please rest in peace. For we shall not repeat the fault"
This word implicitly punishes the Japanese, not the United States, which actually used the atomic bomb.
In other words, the memorial hall was built to make the Japanese to be afraid of the atomic bomb as a terrible thing and make them feel guilty, so that they are afraid of the United States and do not go wars.
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@chenzhao3905
The following is a supplement about brainwashing education.
As mentioned in this video 20:52, it’s said that Japan began to invade China from the Manchurian Incident.
However John McMurray, who was the U.S. ambassador to Beijing in 1931 after the Manchurian Incident, submitted a detailed report in 1935 and said as follows.
"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."
"China's provocation" that Ambassador John McMurray mentioned is a number of assaults, looting, rapes and massacres against Japanese residents by Chinese warlords, and Chinese attacks on Japanese security forces that tried to prevent them.
And It has become clear that the anti-Japanese terrorist attacks of these Chinese warlords were carried out in exchange for the secret provision of U.S. weapons and funds in addition to the Soviet Union and European countries.
As Ambassador McMurley said, the Japanese Kwantung Army only carried out an operation to drive the barbaric warlords from Manchuria as an act of self-defense against the tyranny of Chinese warlords.
However, Western countries, which are uncomfortable for Japan to expand its interests in China, branded it as an invasion.
And this propaganda used by the Allies to justify the war has been taught in Japanese schools after the war to brainwash Japanese children.
This is to prevent the Japanese from demeaning their own country and having a sense of patriotism by doing this.
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Under post-war occupation, GHQ drafted the Constitution of Japan. Many people around the world misunderstand that if the peace clause in Article 9 is amended and the Self-Defense Forces are changed from a government agency to a military force, Japan will be able to have and expand its military power just like any normal nation.
However, the restrictions placed on Japan by the United States that make it difficult even to defend itself can be seen everywhere.
In general countries, government bonds can be issued for defense expenses, etc., but the Japanese Constitution stipulates that government bonds related to armaments cannot be issued.
And to protect this, there is a provision that the defense budget cannot be increased from the previous year's defense budget.
GHQ expels approximately 230,000 conservatives from Japanese institutions and replaces them with leftists and communists. Of course, they are American leftists and Chinese puppets. They have taken over key posts among their peers and are still in power.
Treasury bureaucrats knew that defense spending could not be increased because of the above mechanism, but until recently they tried to hide it from politicians and try to prevent the increase in defense spending.
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After the war, the US established the Λtomic βomb Casualty Commission (ΛβCC) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to investigate the effects of A-bombs.
The ΛβCC housed people who were injured by the atomic bomb in facilities, claiming to treat them.
However, no treatment was given to the victims.
(In 2018, ΛβCC finally announced that it had not treated the A-bomb survivors at all.)
They took blood samples from the patients, took photos of their wounds and keloids, recorded their condition, and removed their organs when they died.
They sent those organs and other samples to the US along with various studies and records.
And, the ΛβCC measured radiation levels in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the surrounding areas, and continued to monitor the health of Japanese people in areas with high radiation levels.
When the nuclear explosed, huge clouds containing a large amount of nuclear material which was scattered from the bomb occurred.
Those clouds cooled in the sky and turned into black rain containing radioactive material, which fell over a wider area than the explosion.
There is a record of ΛβCC monitoring the health of people in areas around Nagasaki where the explosion had no effect, but where very high levels of radiation were measured due to black rain that fell from the air currents.
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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 raise their will to fight.
Then after the war, the Allies have further distorted those propaganda 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," Missionary Magee was showing footages in the United States. In his footage, several Chinese people were lying on the ground.
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 at the Nanjing incident.
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.
As a Japanese person, I can't help but feel angry that the propaganda spread by America is infiltrating Thai people like you.
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@Ore_no_nawa_Eren_Yeager
No, it's not.
At the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union secretly pledged to the United States and Great Britain to invade Japan in exchange for territorial expansion.
On August 9, 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria and the Kurile Islands.
In fact, the United States provided weapons and supplies for the invasion of Japanese territory to the Soviet Union, which had been exhausted by the battle with Germany at this time.
The Japanese army had decided to accept the Potsdam Declaration in a broadcast by the Emperor on August 15, but even after that the Soviet Union continued to invade and unjustly occupied four northern islands.
The 1943 Cairo Declaration stipulated that Japan must be driven out of the territories it had "plundered through violence and greed."
However, it is clear from the historical background that the four northern islands do not correspond to the areas ``captured by Japan'' here.
Russia is the one who unfairly occupies the four islands even from the standpoint of international law.
Therefore, there are occasional talks about returning it. Russia's argument is that it cannot be returned to Japan, which is the dog of the United States.
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@Ore_no_nawa_Eren_Yeager
I'm not blaming you, I just want you to update the wrong information in you with the correct one.
Indeed, according to the San Francisco Treaty, Japan renounced its claims to the Kuril Islands and their territories.
However, it would mean a return to the pre-Portsmouth Treaty situation. And that means that the Kuril Islands do not include the four northern islands in question.
And certainly on September 8, 1951, in San Francisco, a peace treaty was signed between Japan and the Allies.
However, the Soviet Union was not a party to the San Francisco Treaty, nor did it sign it.
In other words, the Soviet Union cannot claim territorial rights under the Treaty of San Francisco.
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@Ore_no_nawa_Eren_Yeager
Haha You brought in the wrong knowledge again.
The direct ancestors of the Japanese are the Jomon people. The Iwayado people, the ancestors of the Jomon people, lived in Hokkaido and around islands 38,000 years ago. This is what is known from archaeological excavations and DNA research.
On the other hand, the Ainu people belong to one of races that originated from the Okhotsk people.
The Ainu people came to Hokkaido in the 13th century. This was 400 to 500 years ago. They have lived in Hokkaido and the surrounding islands mixed with Jomon people. These are revealed from Hokkaido's archaeological survey, DNA survey, and subsequent DNA changes.
When Sakhalin and the four northern islands were occupied by the Soviet Union, ordinary Japanese, including the Ainu people who lived there, were expelled from these islands.
Your comments on the Northern Four Islands and the Kuril Islands completely ignore the historical background.
As for the background, the wikipedia explanation of the following title is relatively neutral: "Kuril Islands dispute"
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Your comment is very disgusted
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 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 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.”
Japanese changed?
Haha In the United States, it seems that the fact that the speech control and Japanese brainwashing education system was created by GHQ is not taught.
The Japanese have been brainwashed and corrupted so that Americans can use them convenient.
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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.
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.
Also, 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.
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@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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@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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@tedolphbundler724
As an Asian looking back at history, I think you Westerners crossed the line as humans long before the Civil War.
After the war, the US established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to investigate the effects of radiation.
The ABCC housed people who were affected by the atomic bomb in facilities, claiming to treat them.
However, no treatment was given to the victims.
They took blood samples from the patients, took photos of their wounds and keloids, recorded their condition, and removed their organs when they died.
They sent those organs and other samples to the US along with various studies and records.
And, the ABCC measured radiation levels in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the surrounding areas, and continued to monitor the health of Japanese people in areas with high radiation levels.
When the nuclear explosed, huge clouds containing a large amount of nuclear material which was scattered from the bomb occurred.
Those clouds cooled in the sky and turned into black rain containing radioactive material, which fell over a wider area than the explosion.
There is a record of ABCC monitoring the health of people in areas around Nagasaki where the explosion had no effect, but where very high levels of radiation were measured due to black rain that fell from the air currents.
Therefore, it should be considered a misinformation that the radiation from the atomic bomb used on Japan disappeared immediately.
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As an Asian looking back at history, I think you Westerners crossed the line as humans long before the Civil War.
After the war, the US established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to investigate the effects of radiation.
The ABCC housed people who were affected by the atomic bomb in facilities, claiming to treat them.
However, no treatment was given to the victims.
They took blood samples from the patients, took photos of their wounds and keloids, recorded their condition, and removed their organs when they died.
They sent those organs and other samples to the US along with various studies and records.
And, the ABCC measured radiation levels in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the surrounding areas, and continued to monitor the health of Japanese people in areas with high radiation levels.
When the nuclear explosed, huge clouds containing a large amount of nuclear material which was scattered from the bomb occurred.
Those clouds cooled in the sky and turned into black rain containing radioactive material, which fell over a wider area than the explosion.
There is a record of ABCC monitoring the health of people in areas around Nagasaki where the explosion had no effect, but where very high levels of radiation were measured due to black rain that fell from the air currents.
Therefore, it should be considered a misinformation that the radiation from the atomic bomb used on Japan disappeared immediately.
To tedolphbundler724
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@IAmTheRealHim
The record of a Series of Japan's Proposals for Peace Talks with the United States, declassified in 1993, began in January 1945. In other words, Japan had been planning to end the war even before the air raids began, and had requested peace talks from the United States.
Yes, at that time the United States was only willing to accept unconditional surrender.
However, looking at what was done to Native Americans and the Hawaiian Kingdom, it is a "traditional" act for white Americans to kill as many people of color, especially those who oppose white people, as possible.
From the Japanese perspective, unconditional surrender meant the extinction of the Japanese race in the worst case.
Therefore, the Japanese government began by prying open diplomatic channels that had been completely cut off, and the first record of contact was finally made in January 1945.
Your question was, "How much blood was shed?"
The estimated number of casualties from Japan's air raids, including the dead and missing, is said to be between 300,000 and 1 million.
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@tedolphbundler724
As I wrote above, if Japan would be annihilated like the Native Americans even if they surrendered unconditionally, wouldn't it be natural to try to negotiate a conditional surrender?
As we can see from what was done to Native Americans and the Hawaiian Kingdom, it is "traditional" and very natural for white Americans to kill as many people of color, especially those who resist whites, as possible.
Therefore, for Japan, unconditional surrender would mean the extinction of the Japanese race in the worst case scenario.
In the first place, even before the war with Japan began, the FDR administration wanted to exterminate the Japanese race if it's possible.
This was well known to most Japanese people and was one of the reasons the war started.
Yes, like you, the United States also thought that "the winning side does not have to meet the demands of the losing side."
And from the beginning, their plan also included killing as many Japanese as possible.
At that time, the United States, which was almost certain to win the war, ignored Japan's request for peace negotiations from January and did not respond to the request until the Potsdam Declaration was issued.
So, knowing that Japan was essentially waving the white flag, the United States bombed Japan, tested atomic bombs, and committed indiscriminate mass murder.
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@mephostopheles3752
The following is an excerpt from an article with the following title:
"August 6, 1945 Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Drop President's Statement"
"It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum."
Truman can read in this speech stating that the United States dropped the atomic bomb because the Japanese government rejected the Potsdam Declaration.
However, Prime Minister Suzuki did not officially notify the Allies of the rejection of the Potsdam Declaration.
According to the reporter's record interviewed shortly after the declaration, Prime Minister Suzuki said, "I don't think much importance to it," and etc. and ended the conference and tried to leave there. Because the situation was very sensitive, so he didn’t want to say any words that influence the situation.
Reporters chased the leaving prime minister and sought what it meant to be "not important."
At this time, Prime Minister Suzuki answered "no comment" and left there.
In response, the Japanese newspapers that could not write "no comment" because the use of English was prohibited reported as follows.
Yomiuri Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun: "笑止"Shoushi
Asahi Shimbun: "黙殺"Mokusatsu
“Mokusatsu” means silently ignorance.
So, the Alliance newspaper reported "ignore".
And then Western newspapers reported it as "reject".
But, the government of Japan did not any response to the declaration in official yet.
The minutes of the Cabinet meeting on August 9th of the Government of Japan have a record of discussions on the approval of the Potsdam Declaration. In the morning, the Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki started the conference with the statement, "I’m going to accept the Potsdam Declaration."
And the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki during this cabinet meeting.
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@mephostopheles3752
Furthermore, the United States knew that Japan had admitted defeat and was about to surrender.
the CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
And, the following is an excerpt from that.
“12 May 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
The following information, transmitted by the OSS representative in Bern,9 originates with a German source, an authority on the Far East who is
considered anti-Nazi but pro-Japanese:10
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,11 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”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war. And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that maintaining the emperor system was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained a sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system.
Because Grew knew well why Japan wanted the continuation of the Emperor System, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the continuation of the Emperor System.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and said,'Why don't you make a declaration urging Japan to surrender?' The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state.
I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Glue's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed the day before the declaration.
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The American propaganda about the Bataan march is exaggerated.
Firstly, why did MacArthur flee leaving tens of thousands of his subordinates behind?
Shouldn't he have surrendered as a leader and then negotiated with the Japanese army on behalf of his men?
Then let's take a look at what actually happened on that march.
❶The US military fled, abandoning tens of thousands of soldiers who were unable to move due to illness or injury.
❷The Japanese army captured the American soldiers who were left behind, but there was a complete lack of medicine and food.
❸The Japanese military tried to transport the POWs to a camp, but the railroad they were supposed to use for transport was destroyed by the U.S. military and could no longer be used.
With no other option, the Japanese army marched to the camp on foot with most of the POWs, except for the seriously ill.
❹They walked over 60 kilometers over 4-5 days, an average of 14 kilometers a day in about 4 hours in the cool mornings and evenings.
❺The Japanese army lacked food, but food was also distributed to prisoners of war. However, misunderstandings arose due to differences in food culture. For example, American soldiers later accused being forced to eat burdock, a common Japanese food, as abuse.
❻ Japanese soldiers were trained and used to walking 20 kilometers a day, but American soldiers were not. In addition, many people were infected with malaria due to being hidden in the jungle for a long time. According to statistics from Camp O'Donnell, the total number of people who died or escaped during the march was about 21,000. (Most of the prisoners were Filipinos, and Filipinos who escaped during the march were considered dead, so the dead and escapees are totaled.)
The United States used this for propaganda purposes, accusing the Japanese military of mistreating prisoners of war.
And how do you guys think the US military would have treated POWs if the situation had been reversed?
It is known that at that time, American soldiers killed 99% of Japanese soldiers who surrendered.
So probably all the prisoners were killed before the "march".
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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 other words, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and Britain had decided to fight and destroy Japan and then make Japan a colony of the United States.
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 truth is that the Soviet invasion, not the atomic bombing, led to the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
Suzuki, then Prime Minister of Japan, asked for approval of the Potsdam Declaration in a cabinet meeting.
However, the discussion was difficult for some reasons.
The first reason was that there was no guarantee of the emperor's retention. This was the only condition requested by the Japanese government, which had sought peace talks with the United States since early 1945, but was not explicitly mentioned in the Potsdam Declaration. Suzuki asked the US, but got no reply.
Second reason which interfered with the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration is that the estimated number of deaths immediately after the Hiroshima atomic bombing was about 70,000, and Hiroshima suffered less damage than the 100,000 killed in the Tokyo air raids on March 10.
Then, another reason was that Japan was asking the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations for the end of the war under the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty.
Stalin, who promised the United States and Britain to invade some Japanese territories in exchange for the expansion of Soviet territory at the Yalta Conference, deliberately pending a response to a request for mediation from Japan.
The promised day of the Soviet invasion was August 15. Stalin, who felt the danger of Japan surrendering before the Soviet invasion due to the atomic bombing on Hiroshima on August 6, accelerated the invasion on August 9.
Ironically, this USSR's invasion cut off the hopes of the leaders who had refused to accept the Potsdam Declaration, made them agree to accept the Potsdam Declaration.
So, it was the Soviet invasion, not the atomic bombings, that led to the approval of the Potsdam Declaration.
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From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war repeatedly.
And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained one sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status along with some conditions of surrender, such as disarming the Japanese army and not colonizing Japan.
Because Grew had heard of the above report, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s action is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the emperor's retention was deleted.
Because the United States wanted to conduct a test on the dropping of the completed nuclear bomb against “the Japanese”.
Since Washington had not responded, Japan also asked the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in February 1945.
In other words, Japan raised a white flag to the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not reply at all until the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan. In the 3/10 Tokyo air raid in 1945, more than 100,000 Japanese civilians were burned to death in 2 hours.
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, when the enemy is attacking ignoring your offer to negotiate a ceasefire, it is quite natural to prepare for the next conceivable attack, “landing operation on the country,” isn’t it?
Kantaro Suzuki was the Prime Minister, who was clearly appointed by the Emperor with the intention of ending the war. For the Japanese government, it was a reply from the United States that finally arrived at the end-of-war talks that they had been offering for several months.
So Prime Minister Suzuki tried to proceed with the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
But what hindered it was that there was no wording to guarantee the Emperor's position. Suzuki inquired about this, but the United States did not reply.
Even after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were military leaders who insisted that they should wait for the mediation of the Soviet Union.
It also affected the fact that the number of victims reported from Hiroshima was less than the number of victims of the 3/10 Tokyo air raid.
So, the Japanese government could not accept the Potsdam Declaration because some of leaders refused to accept the Potsdam Declaration.
However, on 8/9, the Soviet started invasion.
This invasion cut off the hopes of some leaders who were pro-Soviets, so Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration.
Therefore, the atomic bombing did not end the war.
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Japan is not denying comfort women and comfort stations, but denying the "forced entrainment" claimed by South Korea.
During the war, women and students were required to work in Japanese factories to make up for the labor shortage in Japan.
The female students who worked in such factories were called "Teishintai".
The number of Teishintai girls was about 200,000.
Decades after the war, in South Korea, it was misread that this "Teishintai" girls were working at comfort stations.
Based on this misreading, a South Korean group: The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan had claimed internationally that:
“200,000 teenage girls of Teishintai were forced to work in a Japanese military comfort stations."
After that, in recent years, the evidence was revealed that the Teishintai’s girls were NOT comfort women.
The group silent without any apologizing or correcting for their wrong claims.
People in the group formed another group:The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance and started similar activities.
The new group is spreading internationally their clams that:
"200,000 girls were forced to work in Japanese military comfort stations."
However, those claims were fabricated and later added, as mentioned above.
Japanese just do not think that it is necessary to apologize or compensate for lies and fabrications added later.
In addition,
According to “反日種族主義：반일 종족주의” there were approximately 3,600 comfort women of Korean at most.
The comfort women were "prostitutes who applied for recruitment" and they were high-class prostitutes who earned $ 600,000 to $ 2 million in present value over three years.
Japanese military rules prohibited women from being forced to become comfort women without her consent.
Especially for minors, working at the Comfort Station required the submission of a parental consent form and multiple documents issued by public authorities.
And, a surgeon's consultation was mandatory before they worked. This was to protect the health of the soldiers.
Therefore, it was impossible for women who were abducted around here to work freely at comfort stations.
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@mattyice5290
It was the United States that provoked and caused the war between the United States and Japan.
In August 1941, four months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR and Churchill met on the US Navy heavy cruiser Augusta off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. At this time, FDR and Churchill had already decided that after forcing Japan into a war with the United States and defeating Japan, Japan would never again be able to defend itself.
For example, About the Pearl Harbor, 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 Japanese government desperately tried to avoid war, but the United States wanted to go to war with Japan, so there was no room for diplomacy.
It was the United States that provoked the war and was the real evil.
It's horrifying that Americans are completely unaware that after the war, the U.S. government has treated Japan nothing more than a slave nation to be exploited.
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@brwi1
No, the Soviet invasion actually made the US and Japan hasten Japan's surrender.
The United States did not respond to Japan's requests for peace talks from the beginning of 1945 for several months until the Potsdam Declaration.
So, based on the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Treaty, Japan requested the Soviet Union to mediate peace negotiations with the United States.
After the Potsdam Declaration, even those in favor of early peace in the Japanese government hesitated to accept it because the "guarantee of the retention of the Emperor,'' which Japan had demanded as an absolute condition, was not included in the Declaration.
Pro-Soviet factions within the Japanese government opposed acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, arguing that Japan should wait for a response to the Soviet Union's request for mediation.
It was thought that Japan would surrender immediately after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but it did not.
And despite the Yalta promise that the Soviet Union's invasion date was August 15th, the Soviet Union started to invade in the early morning hours of August 9th.
The United States was confused.
Because the United States feared that more Japanese territory than had been promised to the Soviet Union at Yalta would be occupied and taken away.
And then, in response to inquiries from Japanese peace advocates regarding the retention of the Emperor, the U.S. government sent a note to the Japanese government stating that "the United States may accept this.''
It was a gamble for the Japanese government to rely on this note. However, Japan had to accept the Potsdam Declaration and end the war with the Allies, in order to stop the Soviet invasion as soon as possible.
Thus, the Potsdam Declaration was accepted, and Japan conditionally surrendered to the United States.
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@RudyT1000
The United States has limited, and continues to limit, Japan's ability to build up its military.
America is greedy, so it is highly questionable whether Japan is actually improving its defense capabilities commensurate with the military expenditures it has paid.
Most of Japan's military systems are purchased from the United States, and to put it simply, the operating systems are also made in the United States, so Japan has no choice but to purchase most of its weapons from the United States.
Therefore, Japan, which must comply with the FMS agreement, is forced to purchase outdated recycled weapons at several times the price.
And even after Japan pays for the purchase, the United States often does not hand over the weapons.
For example, an Osprey delivered in 2023 is scheduled to be discontinued in 2025, even though it was ordered nine years ago.
Half of the tomahawks that Japan's current prime minister recently promised the current U.S. president to buy are obsolete.
Under these circumstances, it is difficult to imagine that Japan will be able to secure a defense force commensurate with the defense expenditures it has paid.
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The Nanjing Massacre itself was Chiang Kai-shek's propaganda and fake news.
Here are some of the important facts that are somehow ignored.
❶ It was Chiang Kai-shek who announced that the Japanese army had carried out a massacre in Nanjing. But, Chiang Kai-shek escaped before the Japanese troops arrived in Nanking. He had the Shanghai reporters write the articles as he requested.
❷ There were European journalists who accompanied the Japanese army, but they did not report the “genocide” even after the war.
The journalists mentioned above were not even asked to testify at the Tokyo Tribunal.
❸CCP insists that the number of victims is 300,000 “for now”, but the number of unarmed people in Nanjing the National Revolutionary Army announced before fled from Nanjing was 200,000.
And when the Japanese troops left Nanjing, there were about 250,000 citizens in Nanjing. This can be confirmed by the number of "certificates of good people (armbands)" that the Japanese military asked Nanjing citizens to wear to distinguish between citizens and stool soldiers.
The reason why the number of "good people" is larger than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army is that Nanjing citizens who had been evacuated for fear of fighting returned Nanking.
❹The "genocide" reported by Chiang Kai-shek was not substantively proved in the Tokyo Tribunal.
Most of the testimony of the pastor who was only one witness were "stories heard from others." The testimony about what the pastor actually saw with his own eyes is as follows:
"Two Japanese soldiers found a Chinese trying to escape into a safe zone. The Japanese told the Chinese to stop, but the Chinese did not stop escaping. Then Chinese were shot. "
Then, the decision made in the Tokyo Tribunal was the hanging of one general who was responsible for entering Nanjing for "murder of less than 100,000 people."
And there are other many grounds, but there are too many, so I will omit them.
In addition, all of the books about Nanjing massacre are hearsay records, many of the photographs on it are composited, and one-shots of anti-Japanese video works made in the 1980s are also included.
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@Yee R
Sigh, as a Japanese, I cannot understand the self-deception of the American people.
Americans always say to have helped rebuild Japan after the war. However, that is doubtful from the Japanese point of view.
American people says, "We have provided food assistance to Japan."
However, that "food" was livestock feed in the United States.
And the United States demanded a price several times higher than the regular price and made Japan pay it.
Japan's food self-sufficiency rate had declined as the US measures had reduced agricultural land.
On the other hand, hyperinflation occurred to maintain the rich life of the occupying forces.
As a result, many people starved to death, mainly orphans from the air raids.
The Eloa Foundation was done by Japanese Americans, not by the US government.
Nevertheless, the US government had set high interest rates on its repayment.
There is always a mechanism for US "help" or “support” to generate US profits, and it is more appropriate to regard it as “exploitation” rather than help or support.
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@Yee R
•About MacArthur
Haha Do not Americans use diplomatic rhetoric?
MacArthur started by denying the Japanese system altogether.
One of the WGIP actions taken by GHQ during the occupation wiped out conservatives from key positions in various areas such as the Government of Japan, Parliament, newspapers, universities and educational institutions. And instead left-wing people were placed in those key positions.
There was a hidden communist among those people.
And GHQ released criminals detained by law to crack down on Communists.
When these made the Communists stronger, GHQ tried to eliminate them, but could not do it completely.
Communists in power are still confusing Japanese politics.
And GHQ brought individualism and materialism to Japan as a "reconstruction".
For example, their agriculture recontruction destroyed the traditionally inherited mutual aid community agricultural structure.
In Japan, where there are many natural disasters, a system in which landowners who had large lands hired farmers to work and cared for their welfare was a system in which everyone can live happily. It was based on the disposition of the Japanese who care for each other, and was also the foundation for fostering that disposition.
GHQ also killed Shinto. Forbidden to teach Shinto to children is like banning reading the Bible in the United States, I think.
By Americanizing Japan, Americans ideologically brainwashed, corrupted, and extinct the Japanese.
So, I think GHQ did not rebuild, but colonize.
I was surprised when former President Trump tweeted, "Where did the samurai go?" Because it was the United States that wanted to eradicate the samurai and actually did so.
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@Yee R
The knowledge and perception of Shinto and the emperor that you base your perspective on is wrong in the first place.
The emperor was consistently opposed to the war.
Hideki Tojo was nominated as Prime Minister in emperor’s attempt to avoid the war. This was because Tojo was highly respected and admired by the military for his personality, which always cares for his subordinates.
So, he was expected to controlling the power from the military saying, "We should fight against the approaching Western powers," and overcoming a difficult situation in diplomacy.
Therefore, when the emperor told the people that "Japan has exhausted all its diplomacy and there is no other way than war," the people obeyed.
Hideki Tojo is also misunderstood.
During his time as governor of Manchuria, 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Germany on the Trans-Siberian Railway once sought help and protection at the Manchurian border. At that time, Japan had already formed an alliance with Germany. (By the way, it is believed that this was to prevent Germany from giving weapons and support to the Chinese warlords.) However, with their relief based on humanitarianism, in response to an officer who asked for permission to help and protect them, and support the trip to the United States, it was Hideki Tojo who allowed all of supports and moved the army to do so.
The name of the officer who sought permittion was later engraved on the Jewish golden monument. However, it is clear that many refugees could not have been saved without the permission and support of Hideki Tojo.
To consider Shinto to be still worshiped in Japan today is the same as to regard that the Japanese are worshiping Christianity based on that Japanese people, who have never touched the Bible, enjoy Christmas parties or give presents each other on Valentine's Day.
It remains in Japanese life as a cultural event, but it is no longer a religion for most Japanese.
I think it's natural to think that the "samurai" that former President Trump said refers to the spirit of the samurai, though.
In other words, I think he wanted to say, "Where did the Bushido spirit go?"
And the "extinct thing" I said is also the spirit of Bushido.
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@Shenzhou.
China follows Sun's tactics and invades other countries by "infiltration" rather than warfare with weapons. From the point of view of other countries being invaded, it is a silent war.
It is also aggression to try to invade and settle in the territory of another country with civilians and gradually make it Chinese land little by little.
The Senkaku Islands: Uotsuri Island, Minamikojima Island, and Kitakojima Island have been privately owned by Japanese private sector since ancient times, but since China suddenly began to claim sovereignty since 1970, the Japanese government purchased them in 2012.
The waters around the Senkaku Islands are a rich fishing ground, and until 1969 Japanese fishermen were fishing normally. In addition, maps published in China by 1969 list Japanese island names with as Japanese territory.
But now, every day, the Chinese Coast Guard enters Japanese territorial waters and threatens Japanese fishermen with armed vessels. They are so relentless that they almost collide with each other, and fishing is extremely dangerous, so the Japan Coast Guard has no choice but to constantly monitor them.
This is certainly not a war, but it cannot be called a peaceful act.
Then, do you call the act of firing missiles into Japanese territorial waters “peaceful”?
BTW, we often hear in the news in China that the ground is collapsing, trains are falling from overpasses, flooding is happening here and there, and drought is drying up rivers. The reason why they happen so often is because China's infrastructure is not properly maintained. I think that because China is too vast that it can't properly instruct to develop infrastructure. Despite that, why would China want to expand?
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@Shenzhou.
Huh? Is it taught that "Japan took it in World War II"? smh
The first time the Senkaku Islands appear in Western historical records is in British records around 1845. Britain self-investigated the islands located between the Ming and Ryukyu dynasties. However, no one made any protests during the investigation, as such, it is publicly acknowledged around the world that "no one had claimed ownership of these islands at that time."
About 40 years later, Tatsushiro Koga, a Japanese man, noticed that the Senkaku Islands were uninhabited islands. He asked the Japanese government, "I want to make money by developing the island, so please lend me the island after making it Japanese territory."
The Japanese government took about 10 years to carefully confirm that the Senkaku Islands did not belong to any country's territory, and then made them their own territory. In response to this, Koga and other Japanese developed the Senkaku Islands.
When Japan made the Senkaku Islands a territory and used them by the Koga family, 31 Chinese fishermen were shipwrecked and washed up on one of the Senkaku Islands. When Japan rescued them and sent them back, they received a letter of appreciation from the Republic of China.
In the letter, it is written that fishermen drifted to Wayo Island in the Senkaku Islands, Yaeyama County, Okinawa Prefecture, Empire of Japan(大日本帝国沖縄県八重山郡尖閣列島内和洋島).
From this, we know that the Republic of China recognized the Senkaku Islands as Japanese territory.
The Treaty of San Francisco does not require the return of territories recognized as ancient Japanese territories. The Senkaku Islands were also recognized as Japanese territory, so they were not asked to return them.
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Yes, in China, "atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers" that foster anti-Japanese sentiment are being taught as part of history education.
What are your thoughts on the Nanjing Massacre, the biggest of those events, being propaganda fabricated by the Americans?
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.
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.
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.
Anyone who can make an elementary calculation will notice that this story does not make sense.
In spite of that, why do you think the United States continues to hide from the Chinese that the Nanjing Massacre was fabricated by the Americans in order for the Americans to incite anti-Japan, and rather continues to make the Chinese think that it is true?
Between 1927 to 1945, the United States had similarly planted anti-Japanese ideology in the Chinese people, and in exchange for weapons and money, ordered Chinese do anti-Japan terroist acts such as plundering, raping, massacre against the Japanese residents.
It was to provoke the war.
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In Western-style colonies, Westerners control local puppet governments and overseas Chinese, and the control of the local people is indirectly controlled through them, like Zelensky's government in Ukraine today.
By doing so, Westerners avoid being hated by the common people they exploit.
Basically, Japan invaded Southeast Asian countries, and it was the Westerners who had colonized those Southeast Asian countries who fought. However, there were times when Japanese soldiers were forced to fight the puppet government's locals and overseas Chinese.
Although the United States declared in the Potsdam Declaration that it did not intend to colonize Japan, it actually colonized Japan in the style of Western-style colonial rule.
In other words, the government and the ruling class are used as puppets of the United States, making Japan their ATM, and exploiting it by using it as an industrial waste disposal site and so on.
Then you are fundamentally mistaken.
It was the United States that ordered the Chinese warlords to repeatedly commit anti-Japanese terrorist acts such as looting, rape, and massacre against Japanese residents instead of giving money and weapons since 1927.
It was to set up conflicts between the Chinese warlords including Chiang Kai-shek and Japan.
The United States induced a preemptive attack from Japan by imposing an embargo on Japan and an economic blockade on the grounds of the conflict.
Because the FDR government wanted to make money by participating in ww2. In Western-style colonies, Westerners control local puppet governments and overseas Chinese, and the control of the local people is indirectly controlled through them, like Zelensky's government in Ukraine today.
By doing so, Westerners avoid being hated by the common people they exploit.
Basically, one of the purposes that Japan invaded Southeast Asian countries was to exclude the Westerners who had colonized those Southeast Asian countries.
However, there were times when Japanese soldiers were forced to fight the puppet government's locals and overseas Chinese.
Although the United States declared in the Potsdam Declaration that it did not intend to colonize Japan, it actually colonized Japan in the style of Western-style colonial rule.
In other words, the government and the ruling class are used as puppets of the United States, making Japan their ATM, and exploiting it by using it as an industrial waste disposal site and so on.
Then you are fundamentally misunderstanding.
It was the United States that ordered the Chinese warlords to repeatedly commit anti-Japanese terrorist acts such as looting, rape, and massacre against Japanese residents instead of giving money and weapons since 1927.
It was to set up conflicts between the Chinese warlords including Chiang Kai-shek and Japan.
The United States induced a preemptive attack from Japan by imposing an embargo on Japan and an economic blockade on the grounds of the conflict.
Because the FDR government wanted to make money by participating in ww2.
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It was Chiang Kai-shek, with the support of the United States, who started the Sino-Japanese War.
Three weeks after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japan, not wanting the conflict to escalate, concluded four peace agreements with Chiang Kai-shek.
However, Chiang Kai-shek abolished all of these peace agreements by committing atrocities against Japanese residents and kidnapping and massacring Japanese soldiers.
In particular, more than 200 people were literally massacred in Tongzhou by the KMT forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, and Tianjin, where there were about 10,000 Japanese residents, was also attacked on the same day.
As a result, in order to protect the lives and property of Japanese residents, the Japanese government decided to increase the number of security forces, which had been restrained until then despite frequent violent incidents against Japanese residents.
Furthermore, Chiang Kai-shek surrounded the Japanese concession in Shanghai, bombing and shelling it.
At that time, Shanghai was a place where Japanese people who could no longer bear the atrocities in various parts of China and wanted to return to Japan gathered, so about 30,000 Japanese people lived there.
Thus, Chiang Kai-shek's KMT's persistent provocations against the Japanese led to conflict that escalated into war.
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Allies, including the United States, claim that Japan's invasion of China began with the Manchurian Incident.
Thus, the teacher in this video teaches, as do teachers across Japan, a history that has been fabricated by the Allies.
But of course that's a lie.
As Ambassador McMurley said, the Japanese Kwantung Army only carried out an operation to drive the barbaric warlords from Manchuria as an act of self-defense against the tyranny of Chinese warlords. However, Western countries, which are uncomfortable for Japan to expand its interests in China, labeled it as an invasion.
Even after the Manchurian Incident, the terrorist acts from Chinese warlords against the Japanese did not disappear.
It is said that the China Incident was triggered by the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, but after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, peace mediation was immediately followed, and the conflict seemed to be coming to an end.
However, brutal massacres of Japanese by Chinese, such as the Tongzhou Incident and attacks on the Tianjin Concession, continued. Those things developed into a conflict, and it became the China Incident.
Even after the conflict developed, the Japanese side repeatedly asked Chiang Kai-shek for peace talks, but Chiang Kai-shek ignored it.
Because he had enough money, supplies and weapons from the United States. The United States also gave the fighter jet to Chiang Kai-shek with a pilot.
About 20,000 Japanese residents who could not withstand the intense persecution and atrocities from the Chinese gathered in Shanghai to return to Japan.
Chiang Kai-shek surrounded Shanghai with 50,000 soldiers and carried out shelling and air raids.
In order to protect the Japanese, the Japanese government decided to send more troops to Shanghai.
In this way, China and Japan went to war.
It is clear from your comment that the Allied side has not been taught at all that these atrocities on the Allied side and that they caused the conflict.
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As a Japanese, I can't help but think that people in the West, especially in the United States, are really selfish.
Once, Japanese politician who said, ``Japan must protect itself, should amend its constitution to become independent from the United States, and quit playing the role of an ATM in the United States,'' after showing symptoms of a scientific weapon, unnaturally Died.
His close friend and ex-Prime Minister was also recently assassinated, apparently by a sniper from high above, who shot him through the heart through his right side. In other words, the cause of death of that politician was not one bullet from a young man's home-made gun, but one bullet from a professional sniper.
There are other cases like this, they are thought to have been done by the United States to prevent Japan's independence.
It is true that Japan's defense budget has increased, but the United States sells restored second-hand or poorly rated weapons at several times the price of new ones.
And, cases of weapons that have already been paid for but not delivered to Japan have become norm.
Therefore, an increase in defense budget of Japan does not equate to an increase in defense capability of Japan.
From above, I can't help but wonder if the United States is really willing to defend Far East Asia.
If the United States does not want to fight with China, Japan and Taiwan should be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. This would deter aggression from China.
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@SW-eh8kz
What you are saying shows that you are not familiar with the postwar history of Japan and the United States, or the current situation in Japan.
It is left-wing thinkers and communists who argue that the pacifist constitution that the United States created keeps war away. After the war, GHQ removed conservatives from important posts. Left-wing thinkers and communists filled the vacancies instead.
Many sane silent majority do not have such naive thinking.
By the way, it is the Chinese and Koreans who are holding anti-base demonstrations around the base.
The United States first experienced the horrors of communist ideology during the Korean War. After that, there was a purge of communist forces in the United States.
In Japan, communists were detained as thought criminals until the end of the war. However, GHQ released those thought criminals.
As a result, communist thinkers came to have a certain amount of power. And GHQ was unable to carry out a purge of communists in Japan because they themselves placed leftists and communists in important posts.
Therefore, the only threats made to the Japanese communists were the threat of being purged if they defied the United States.
"Did MacArthur do well?"
Hahaha, he locked Japan in a "peace" constitution. He created a system to put Japanese under speech control and brainwash them with a distorted history written by the Allies. , he created a genocide system that slowly erased old Japan and turned it into a corrupt communist state.
I don't think this system is good for not only Japan but also America and the world.
Because if Japan disappears and is swallowed by China, the Chinese Communist Party will become the world's hegemon. (Well Obama has tried to do that)
But the United States, which can stop this genocidal system, will not do so because of its self-centered greed.
By the time you find out who's really stupid, it's too late.
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The CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
And, the following is an excerpt from that.
“12 May 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
The following information, transmitted by the OSS representative in Bern,9 originates with a German source, an authority on the Far East who is
considered anti-Nazi but pro-Japanese:10
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,11 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”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war. And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that maintaining the emperor system was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained a sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system.
Because Grew knew well why Japan wanted the continuation of the Emperor System, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the continuation of the Emperor System.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrives at the end of May and says,'Why don't you make a declaration urging Japan to surrender?' The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew’s suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed the day before the declaration.
As we can see, no landing operations or atomic bombs were needed for the early end of the war.
So why is it still taught around the world that "the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war early or to avoid landing operations to save many lives"?
Because it were examinations
The US’s purposes of dropping the atomic bomb in Japan:
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
After the end of the war, the United States established the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and began investigating the effects of radioactivity.
ABCC put people who were harmed by atomic bombs in their facility saying they would treat those pacients.
But no treatment was given. Never.
They took blood from survivors, photographed wounds and keloids, recorded their condition, took organs when they died.
They sent those organs and etc. to the United States as samples with various investigations and records.
On the other hand, the treatment of Japanese doctors was banned. Their medical records were taken away and the request for medicine to the Red Cross was stopped.
In addition, it was not allowed to report all of this.
It’s clear that what we are taught was written to hide what the United States actually had done.
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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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Unless Japan possesses nuclear missiles and can launch them in response to missile attacks, the deterrence effect against the CCP is low.
What they value is maintaining the current absolute power, and the CCP disregards people's lives.
They wouldn't hesitate unless they predict situation like this : Even if they evacuate to the nuclear shelter and save their lives, they will not be able to leave the shelter due to radioactive contamination outside the shelter, and as a result they will not survive.
But this is not possible while the United States is under Democratic administration.
Just seven years before him, in his H!||@ry cheering speech in 2016, the current US president criticized the former DT president.
“Does he not understand we wrote japan's constitution to say they could not be a nuclear power!?”
And the audience who listened to this speech gave a big round of applause...
And you don't know, but Japan had completed the development of a rudimentary nuclear weapon. However, even if Japan's war situation was hopeless, the emperor did not allow the use of weapons that were indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction and caused too much inhumane environmental pollution. So no further development of nuclear weapons took place.
Today, the emperor has no power to stop the use of nuclear weapons because it was taken away by GHQ.
Well, who do you think is most stupid?
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In the first place, it were the United States and Chinese that provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support. That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
This anti-Japanese terrorism was finally taken over by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, which allied with the CCP, and developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek.
The reason why Chiang Kai-shek did not listen to the Japanese side's offer of peace talks was that the longer the war dragged on, the richer he could live.
Then, the United States cornered Japan because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
As former President Hoover wrote in "Freedom Betrayed," the Roosevelt administration cornered Japan with a trap, inviting a first attack.
Also, MacArthur said in his Senate speech shortly after his return, Japan was at war for security.
Nanking massacre is just a propaganda.
First, the number of Japanese soldiers who arrived in Nanking was about 3,000.
Before fleeing Nanjing, the National Revolutionary Army announced that the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was 200,000.
And when the Japanese troops left Nanjing, there were about 250,000 citizens in Nanjing.
Multiple documents confirm that there were 250,000 "living" citizens at the time.
The number is larger than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army because Nanjing citizens who had been evacuated for fear of fighting have returned to Nanjing.
Anyone who can do rudimentary calculations will find this story of the Reverend flawed.
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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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@garyberry chan
GHQ brainwashing education has made the Japanese think that the Tokyo Trials, which were bullshit & mess, is correct.
Partly because of that, Japan has 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 requested 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.
China did not demand for compensation from Japan, officially. Because Mao Zedong said that getting Manchukuo would be enough.
But on the other hand, Japan continued to support China economically through ODA and other means until 2018, even after China's GDP surpassed that of Japan. These aids have unofficially a strong implication of reparations, and the total amount is about 3.66 trillion yen.
Probably you don't learn from history based on facts, so you look like don’t know how Japan has dealt with asian countries, because your country must be anti-Japanese and because the information you can know is so limited.
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@ayeme9246
In the first place, it was the United States that had provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was captured and detained in the Xi'an incident in 1936, was forced to stop mopping up the CCP and concentrate on the anti-Japanese operation by Zhang Xueliang, who was supported by Britain and the United States, and the CCP, which was supported by the Soviet Union.
This anti-Japanese terrorist operation developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek despite Japan's repeated offers of peace talks.
As can be seen from the fact that the purpose of Japan entering French Indochina with the consent of France was to cut off the supply route of Chiang Kai-shek from Indochina to China, the U.S. support was the one of causes of the prolonged China Incident.
Then, the United States cornered Japan by embargo because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
The Roosevelt administration thought that if it participated in WW2, it would be able to get out of the Great Depression, make more money, and hopefully gain world hegemony with the dollar.
But the American people were against the war, so FDR severely cornered it to make Japan make a preemptive attack.
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.”
To me, Zelensky only looks like Chiang Kai-shek 2.0.
Almost 100 years ago and today, the American way is always the same.
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@ayeme9246
committed atrocities?
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.
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.
Also, 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.
And the atomic bombing of the Japanese is a new type of weapon, urban destruction test and human experiment, and at the same time, it is an indiscriminate genocide, and it is definitely a war crime.
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@WarriorofIslam-fd1nr
Before you call someone as an idiot, you should suspect that you're only looking superficially.
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.
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.
On the other hand, GHQ forced Japanese government to pay the occupation cost 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.
Japan borrowed a huge amount from the World Bank (IBRD) for reconstruction and compensation.
Needless to say, the largest shareholder of the World Bank is the United States, which means that it is the United States that benefits most from IBRD.
In 1945, the dollar-yen exchange rate was 50 yen / dollar. In 1948, this was set 360 yen / dollar.
With this, I regard the United States made the Japanese people cheap workers.
The method of making someone in debt and working for a low wage is the way of a slave trader, isn't it?
The United States did this to the entire Japanese nation.
Perhaps the Japanese at that time knew the intentions of the United States, but they did not want to impose debts on future generations, so they worked very very hard.
It is believed that Japan repaid those debts incurred in the war in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Then the United States made exchange rate return to the appropriate one in the Plaza agreement.
The exploitation by the United States still takes place in many forms (eg importing genetically modified food/seeds, drugs, pesticides. aiding to other countries, etc.). It is so cleverly hidden by the US and its puppet Japanese controllers that many Japanese are not even aware that they continue to be exploited by the US.
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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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The purpose of Hideyoshi's dispatch of troops to Korea was not to occupy and rule the Korean peninsula and make it a territory.
Prior to dispatching troops in 1592, Hideyoshi sought trade with Ming.
Ming replied that Ming would allow Hideyoshi to trade if Hideyoshi became a subordinate king of Ming and paid tribute.
Hideyoshi was the prime minister of Japan with the emperor as the highest leader, so he replied to the Ming Dynasty, “Ming Dynasty become the subordinate king of the Emperor of Japan and pay tribute.''
The Ming Dynasty was enraged by this and began preparing an army to invade Japan on the Korean Peninsula.
In response to this, Hideyoshi entered Korea and showed the difference in military strength to prevent a major war.
The cause of the 1597 expedition was Spanish imperialism. At that time, Spain sent Christian missionaries to the countries it wanted to invade, and after increasing the number of Christian believers, they made them spies and hijacked and conquered the countries. In this way Spain conquered 70% of the world at that time.
Hideyoshi knew this and took countermeasures, but Ming Kun was completely caught up in this method. Hideyoshi thought that if Ming Dynasty became a pawn of Spain, it would be a big trouble, so he dispatched troops to put Ming Dynasty under his control before that happened. At the same time, however, a conflict between Spain and England began, so he did not proceed to Ming Dynasty and watched the situation. England eventually won, and the Japanese army withdrew because Spain was no longer invading Ming.
In other words, neither dispatch was aimed at occupying or conquering the Korean Peninsula.
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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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Yes I agree that they are cold blooded greedy Satans.
But it wasn't just the two bombs.
Before using the atomic bomb, they bombed 430 Japanese cities with incendiary bombs and often hunted the Japanese with fighter planes.
They first dropped incendiary bombs on the edge of the area they were planning to reduce to ashes in an air raid, starting a fire so that no one could escape from the area surrounded by fire, and then throughly burned the area to the ground. .
Approximately 500,000 Japanese people were killed or missing in those air raids, most of them unarmed elderly, women, and children.
Additionally, the horror of the atomic bomb also includes the illnesses caused by exposure to radioactive materials.
So, the number of victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki exceeded 510,000 in 2023.
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The followings is about comfort woman and the Unit 731, which are two representative examples of anti-Japanese thought Americans, Chinese and Koreans as Japanese war crimes.
From 1999 to 2007, under the anti-Japanese and pro-China Clinton administration, a large-scale investigation was conducted by the Interagency Working Group (IWG) on the examination of German-Japanese war crimes.
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.
- Human Experimentation by Unit 731
The United States spent a huge amount of money and eight years trying to find documentaries and materials that would prove those war crimes among the vast amount of classified documents.
However, the objective evidence that this investigation was supposed to provide was not found.
Conversely, the study 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 common violence against women and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
・The US military did not recognize the criminal nature of the comfort women system of the Japanese military.
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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.
China did not demand for compensation from Japan, officially.
Because Mao Zedong said that getting Manchukuo would be enough.
Manchukuo, which had received huge investment in terms of funds and technology snd so on from Japan at that time, developed richly, and Manchukuo was responsible for 70% of the industrial production in the former Qing Dynasty domestic area.
But on the other hand, Japan continued to support China economically through ODA and other means until 2018, even after China's GDP surpassed that of Japan. These aids have unofficially a strong implication of reparations, and the total amount is about 3.66 trillion yen.
Probably you guys don't know well how Japan has dealt with asian countries, because your country must be anti-Japanese and because the information you can know is so limited.
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@epinhervin9355
I didn't know that Wakuwaku Japan was doing something like that. Thank you for the information.
NHK is a propaganda dissemination agency controlled by the United States. So it bothers me that NHK may have been broadcasting anti-Japanese propaganda to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations through Wakuwaku Japan.
Japanese students learn about Roumusha in junior high school. In Japan, it is believed that it is important to learn with remouse so that the same mistakes and mistakes are not repeated.
In my opinion, at that time, the Japanese military foresaw that they would soon have to leave Indonesia.
In the short three-and-a-half years from landing in Indonesia to defeat in the war, the Japanese military improved their educational system, strengthened their military power, and built infrastructure in order to "teach the Indonesian people everything we Japanese know." Those work were carried out at an unusual speed.
I believe that this had led to unreasonableness and tragedy in various places.
I don't think Japanese soldiers didn't commit rape in Indonesia at all. But I think those stories are probably exaggerated.
South Korea has been spreading the utter lie for many years that the Japanese military forced 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery. However, a US investigation conducted 17 years ago has already proven that this story is a complete lie.
The CCP claims that Japanese soldiers raped women and massacred 300,000 civilians during the Nanjing Incident. However, there is actually no objective evidence to prove this. On the other hand, there are many photos that show the exact opposite situation.
In fact, even the Tokyo Trials could not prove that rape or massacre had taken place.
There is also the case of Palau. Palau was a German colony for a long time, but was ceded to Japan after World War I.
Japan treated Palau as part of Japan, developed infrastructure, built hospitals and schools, and provided guidance on agriculture and fisheries to make Palau economically prosperous.
After Japan's defeat, Palau came under American control. The United States destroyed the buildings the Japanese had built for the people of Palau.
And the US added stories of fictitious Japanese atrocities to Palau's textbooks. The people of Palau removed descriptions of that fictitious atrocity from their textbooks after the US left.
As mentioned above, the propaganda that Japan was evil is still being disseminated to justify the indiscriminate genocide carried out by the United States.
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@viviancooper5892
The story that the Japanese see Chinese and Koreans as if the Nazis were looking at Jews may be derived from the anti-Japanese ideas of China and South Korea.
However, it is a lie that Japan and the Japanese did not respect them as ethnic groups.
After the Sino-Japanese War, the Korean Empire was founded after Japan recognized the independence of Korea in the Qing dynasty. However, as the economic collapse worsened, many members of the Korean Peninsula(they insisted they had 2,000,000 korean) demanded annexation of Japan. They sent petition more than four times, but in Japan there was a lot of opposition to the annexation and it had not done. The annexation was decided because the Korean Empire used the land as collateral for huge debts that France and Russia could not return. Japan had to prevent Russia from acquiring the Korean Peninsula, which aims to invade Japan. In this way, Japan's annexation of Korea took place.
Japan took on a huge amount of debt and invested a huge amount of national money to improve the Korean Peninsula to the same level as Japan.
It's not that the Japanese weren't disrespectful of Koreans. Records show that it comes from the Japanese dislike of dirt, laziness, dishonesty, and cunning of them. However, on the other hand, many Japanese were working hard to civilize them. For example, Japan was reconstructed as a language capable of writing Hangul characters, which remained only in colloquialism. And it was taught at school at the same time as Japanese.
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@viviancooper5892
The Korean Empire was financially and militarily bankrupt, the administrative organization was destroyed, and the state could not be operated losing a law enforcement organization. In other words, the Korean Empire at that time was going bankrupt. The situation was so serious that high-ranking officials, including Ye Wanyong, were completely aware that the existing royal rule was no longer functioning. Gojong tried to get money from Russia to rent out the leased land, so those who had studied abroad who knew what the leased land meant could not forgive him. They chose Japan after really seriously thinking about what to do to avoid becoming a colony and conserve the Korean people.
They believed that Japan would accept it in the form of an equal annexation rather than a colony. In other words, "annexation" was actually the position that Koreans won in negotiations with Japan.
The above is an explanation that a former Korean who was naturalized in Japan taught.
Then, during the war, Korean men were not drafted, but volunteered for the Japanese army.
The competition rate was very high, and the number of applicants continued to increase with each hire.
If Koreans felt despised by the Japanese, why were there so many applicants? Currently, Koreans claim that the application was to improve their social status. But in the face of wartime labor shortages, there were many other ways to improve social status relatively safely.
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@boijames3253
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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Re-submit the following
@boijmes
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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Japan's Road Traffic Law prohibits driving when there is a possibility of trouble occurring or if it is foreseeable.
In fact, even if you are young and healthy with clear vision and consciousness, you are prohibited from driving if your foot hurts when you hit the brakes. Because a sore foot may be useless when you have to slam on the brakes.
The young American did not take steps to avoid a predictable accident, such as getting less sleep.
As a result, he took two lives.
A Japanese man who caused a similar accident was sentenced to five years in prison. Therefore, I think the sentence in his case was quite lenient.
Compensation is paid for injuries and loss of life. This indicates depth of remorse and may be used to determine the severity of punishment. But money cannot buy innocence.
Congressman Lee demanded an apology from Japan, as if the freedom of young American was more important than the two lives of Japanese people.
Considering Rep. Graham's remarks the other day and Rep. Lee's words and actions, as a Japanese person, I once again can't help to realize that the words Americans use to talk about Japanese people, such as alliance and friendship, are completely deceptive
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@dragosstanciu9866
The following is the summary about the merger.
The social structure before the annexation of Yi Dynasty Korea was as follows:
・Absolute rulers of the dynasty and nobility
・A layer of practitioners who support the above rulers
・A Majority class of slaves who are no education and only exploited by their rulers
The distance from the Japanese island closest to the Korean peninsula to the Korean peninsula was about 50 km.
So, Japan had feared that the Korean peninsula would come under the control of the Qing dynasty or the Russian empire amid white imperialism.
The king of Yi Dynasty Korea was a vassal state that paid tribute to Qing and was in isolation. However, Japan wanted to have an army on the Korean peninsula in case Qing or Russia invaded the peninsula.
For this reason, Japan made the country to Yi Dynasty Korea open with the same display of force and coercion as Perry, who came to Japan on a black ship.
After the war with Qing, who didn't like the presence of Japanese troops, Japan forced Qing to stop subjugating Yi Dynasty Korea, and Yi Dynasty Korea became the Korean Empire as an independent country.
Japan provided various support and advice to the Korean Empire, which was a protectorate, but the exploitation of the royal family and aristocrats and the luxurious life of debt did not change, and the national finances were bankrupt.
One of the factors that led to the Russo-Japanese War was that the Russian army, which was to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in Qing, stayed in Manchuria and advanced southward, approaching the Korean Peninsula.
Also, it was a factor that he showed it's intention to invade the Korean peninsula by obtaining a lease on the land of the Korean Empire in exchange for a huge amount of money.
After the Russo-Japanese War, those who were actually in charge of politics on behalf of the rulers such as the royal family raised their voices calling for annexation with Japan, and four petitions were submitted to the emperor.
In Japan, about half of the respondents were for or against the annexation of the Korean Empire.
Opinion of opponents of annexation:
Japan should help as before, but the Korean Empire itself should rebuild and develop the Korean Empire.
Japan's national funds should not be invested in infrastructure development on the Korean Peninsula, but should be invested in underdeveloped areas within Japan.
Opinions of those in favor of annexation:
In order for the Korean Empire, which is completely bankrupt economically, to develop as a nation, drastic reforms are necessary. However, given Japan's position as a protectorate, there are limits to what advice can be given for reform.
Annexation should eliminate the fear that the Korean peninsula will be colonized by other countries such as France taking advantage of its economic difficulties.
This was also the claim of annexation petitioners such as Prime Minister Lee Wan-yong of the Korean Empire.
Although the support and opposition were evenly matched, the annexation faction increased its power after Hirobumi ITO, who opposed the annexation, was assassinated by a Korean, leading to the annexation.
After the annexation, Japan paid the huge debt with Russia instead and had the lease removed.
One-third of the national budget was used to improve infrastructure such as dams, roads and sewage systems, schools, and hospitals on the Korean Peninsula.
As a result, the average life expectancy of Koreans has increased from 25 to 45, and the population has almost doubled.
Koreans call the above things aggression, what do you think?
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@dragosstanciu9866
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.
After Japan expelled the Russians from Manchuria at the Russo-Japanese War, Chinese who were not Manchus flowed in from the surrounding area and the population, which was 10 million, became 30 million.
In this way, the Manchus were dissatisfied that Chinese people of other ethnic groups, including the Han people, entered the land of their own people. Manchurians who was expelled ftom the center of China was by the Republic of China, and this time were forbidden to enter center of China, came to want to rebuild the 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 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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@peter9878
As a Japanese, I don't believe Japanese soldiers did not commit any war crimes, but I'm disgusted by Westerners' belief in China's claims that the Japanese massacred tens of millions of Chinese.
However, the most horrifying atrocities are those that the United States and China have fabricated.
As an example, let me describe how the Nanjing Incident “grown up”.
Missionary Fitch, a witness to the Nanjing Massacre at the Tokyo Trials, testified as follows:
"two Japanese soldiers called a Chinese man who was trying to escape to a safe zone to stop, but the Chinese man did not stop. then he was shot."
In Reverend Magee's film, another basis for the Nanjing Massacre, the corpses of the murdered Chinese were shown here and there, but no indication of who killed them.
He claimed that 50,000 of the Japanese troops killed 42,000 Chinese.
But of course this is a lie.
First, the number of Japanese soldiers who arrived in Nanking was about 3,000.
Before fleeing Nanjing, the National Revolutionary Army announced that the number of unarmed people in Nanjing was 200,000.
And when the Japanese troops left Nanjing, there were about 250,000 citizens in Nanjing.
Multiple documents confirm that there were 250,000 "living" citizens at the time.
The number is larger than the number announced by the National Revolutionary Army because Nanjing citizens who had been evacuated for fear of fighting have returned to Nanjing.
Anyone who can do rudimentary calculations will find this story of the Reverend flawed.
However, At the Tokyo trial, Chiang Kai-shek claimed that 100,000 civilians were massacred in Nanking by the Japanese army.
Judges ruled that Reverend Magee's film of the bodies of several Chinese and the witness testimony of Missionary Fitch proved that.
So, General Matsui, who was in charge at the time, was hanged.
Most of the judges who convicted and hanged him later admitted they had been wrong. Shouldn't they be the ones charged with crimes against humanity?
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❸Also, especially in the last 30 years, Japan is undergoing infiltration in the same way that the United States has been infiltrated by China. So there is a mix of US puppets, Chinese puppets, and puppets from both sides within the Japanese government.
In his 2016 cheering speech for H!||@ry, the current president of the United States criticized DT that:
“Does he not understand we wrote japan's constitution to say they could not be a nuclear power”
And when he first visited China, he was required under the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty to warn China to stop encroaching on the Senkaku Islands. But he didn't, instead building a pipeline through which money was pumped into him.
Regardless of the circumstances, the current president of the United States is the Black Brandon who is a pro-China, and Japan, which is subordinated to the United States, cannot disobey his intention to represent the United States.
Some Japanese conservative politicians who tried to stop bullying interference of the United States have so far been ousted by scandals or died under suspicious circumstances. So even conservative politicians can't always do the right thing.
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@karenk2409
Roosevelt was an extreme racist, white supremacist, pro-communist, pro-China & pro-Soviet, and anti-Japanese.
In particular, he pathologically hated and looked down on Japanese people.
Robert Campbell, the British Minister to the United States, reported the contents of his meeting with Roosevelt in a letter to his homeland as follows:
“Roosevelt thought it important to promote interbreeding with whites in Asia.
“We will create an Indian-Asian or Eurasian race, or even a European-Indian-Asian race, and thereby create a fine civilization and Far Eastern 'society.” However, “Japanese will be excluded. Isolate them on their original islands and gradually let them deteriorate.””
In short, Roosevelt was a complete racist and colonialist who dreamed creating new Asian races by interbleeding Asian women with white men and then White races would make "those new Asians" rule the Asian region.
Do you really think America was so great when it elected such an ultra-racist president?
Then, the strategy of pitting the US and Japan, which were obstacles to the Soviet Union, against each other, not only weakening each, but also benefiting the Soviet Union, had been planned since Lenin's time.
According to the Venona document, there were as many as 300 Soviet spies in the Roosevelt administration, who were involved in policy in the center of the regime.
And in the same way, it says that there were about 50,000 spies in Japan.
It is considered that the spies who used Roosevelt's thoughts of acceptance of communism, nostalgia for China and racism and hatred against the Japanese led the United States to war with Japan.
Therefore, there were many communist spies at GHQ when Japan was occupied. And as you have said, GHQ, while advocating democracy, released communists who had been detained as ideological criminals.
And then GHQ removed conservative Japanese from approximately 230,000 key positions and replaced them with communists and leftists.
Since then, the Japanese Communist Party, which had been operating behind the scenes, gained power and became a political party, at the same time deeply penetrating Japan's governing structure.
Although there has been no civil war, they had been planed. And comminusts have often committed acts of terrorism and violent crimes.
They also disseminated various fabricated anti-Japanese propaganda in the mass media and educational institutions. The reason why educational organizations include these things in their textbooks as if they are facts is because the educational world is under communist influence.
You say I insulted the Allies, but it has been the Allies' sides that unfairly insult Japan with propaganda against Japan fabricated by the United States to justify itself and anti-Japanese propaganda fabricated by communists for long long time.
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Immediately after the end of the war, GHQ occupied Japan. For the next six and a half years, the GHQ controlled speech and banned even the slightest criticism of the GHQ and the Allies. Of course, criticism of the atomic bomb was also prohibited. Rumors spread that "if you oppose GHQ, you will be taken away and will never be able to come back home," and the Japanese, including the media, were silent. So that's not enough.
There were once some wax figures on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
The wax figures were life-sized depictions of the victims immediately after the atomic bomb was dropped. Many victims who were burned by heat rays walked around in search of water, with their burned skin hanging from their entire body. And they drank contaminated water and died.
It was a photorealistic depiction of the victims, very eloquently telling us the misery of the atomic bomb victims.
But when President Obama visited Hiroshima, they were removed.
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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.
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.
Also, 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.
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@davev8347
Your comment shows that you have no idea of the many terrorist acts that the Chinese had committed against Japanese residents and Japanese security officers.
It’s said that Japan began to invade China from the Manchurian Incident.
However John McMurray, who was the U.S. ambassador to Beijing in 1931 after the Manchurian Incident, submitted a detailed report in 1935 and said as follows.
"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."
"China's provocation" that Ambassador John McMurray mentioned is a number of assaults, looting, rapes and massacres against Japanese residents by Chinese warlords, and Chinese attacks on Japanese security forces that tried to prevent them.
And It has become clear that the anti-Japanese terrorist attacks of these Chinese warlords were carried out in exchange for the secret provision of U.S. weapons and funds in addition to the Soviet Union and European countries.
As Ambassador McMurley said, the Japanese Kwantung Army only carried out an operation to drive the barbaric warlords from Manchuria as an act of self-defense against the tyranny of Chinese warlords. However, Western countries, which are uncomfortable for Japan to expand its interests in China, branded it as an invasion.
Even after the Manchurian Incident, the terrorist acts from Chinese warlords against the Japanese did not disappear.
It is said that the China Incident was triggered by the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, but after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, peace mediation was immediately followed, and the conflict seemed to be coming to an end.
However, brutal massacres of Japanese by Chinese, such as the Tongzhou Incident and attacks on the Tianjin Concession, continued. Those things developed into a conflict, and it became the China Incident.
Even after the conflict developed, the Japanese side repeatedly asked Chiang Kai-shek for peace talks, but Chiang Kai-shek ignored it.
Because he had enough money, supplies and weapons from the United States. The United States also gave the fighter jet to Chiang Kai-shek with a pilot.
About 20,000 Japanese residents who could not withstand the intense persecution and atrocities from the Chinese gathered in Shanghai to return to Japan.
Chiang Kai-shek surrounded Shanghai with 50,000 soldiers and carried out shelling and air raids.
In order to protect the Japanese, the Japanese government decided to send more troops to Shanghai.
In this way, China and Japan went to war.
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The Japanese who understood "kaisen-no-mikotonori" at the beginning of the war, knew that a war had been set up from the United States.
Therefore, Japanese other than communists and left-wing thinkers didn't hate the emperor.
After the war, GHQ intervened in Japanese education and began anti-Japanese brainwashing education by using the leftists and communists.
Even today, they dominate the world of education of Japan, so there is a biased, lie-covered education.
On the other hand, however, the terrible criticism and harassment of China and South Korea has made many Japanese feel wrong with the history taught, re-studying history, and gaining fact-based historical views.
Therefore, it is common sence of these Japanese that "many Japanese were killed in the war was not the emperor's fault" and "people who dislike the emperor are crazy leftists and communists."
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The following is an excerpt from Japanese news.
“In June 2005, Ralph MacLeod, 61, a former Marine (during the Vietnam War) who bought and sold firearms and military equipment in Holden, Maine, purchased a human skull from a fellow trader. Characters such as "1945", "Jap Skull" and "Okinawa" were engraved on the part. The same trader says he found it in a box at a junk sale a few months ago and bought it. Believing it must be the skull of a Japanese soldier, Mr. MacLeod purchased it from an acquaintance for $50 and contacted the Japanese Embassy in Washington and the Consulate General in Boston.
In 2006, the results of the autopsy by the Maine coroner's office revealed that the woman was between the ages of 18 and 25 and was presumed to be from southern Japan, probably from Okinawa. However, we have not determined that her estimated year of death was during World War II, and have not ruled out the possibility that she died before that. In November of the same year, the Boston Consulate General accepted the case, and the autopsy results were reported to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Last autumn, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare decided that the bones should be repatriated to Japan, stating, "We don't know if they were Japanese soldiers, but there is an extremely high possibility that they were Japanese who died during the war." was dispatched and then repatriated to Japan. ”
What is remarkable in this case is that the skull belonged to a woman.
In Japan at that time, although women served in the military as nurses, they were not generally considered military personnel.
In other words, the United States has not yet disclosed everything honestly.
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@benjalucian1515
The above records of contact from Japan is a summary of the statement made by a representative of the Japanese government in the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) of Switzerland. If you check the names of the Japanese who visited to request there, you'll find the name of the Japanese minister at the time is also included.
Since the United States ignored the above-mentioned approach, Japan also requested the Soviet Union to arbitrate with the Allies based on the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Pact.
Stalin, pending a reply to the request from Japan, went to the Yalta Conference and told Roosevelt and Churchill about the request from Japan at the Yalta Conference.
Roosevelt and Churchill promised Stalin the cession of Eastern Europe and the Kuril Islands in exchange for an invasion of Japanese territory.
In other words, at the time of the Yalta Conference, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were confident of victory.
The defeat of Japan was clear from the situation.
MacArthur made the following statement about the dropping of the atomic bomb:
“In June 1945, when I learned that Japan had asked the Soviet Union to mediate peace, I told my staff that the war was over. I was furious when I heard the news of the drop."
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@benjalucian1515
Don't you know what was done to Native Americans in North America, what was done to indigenous people in New Zealand and Australia, what was done to the Kingdom of Hawaii, what was done to Japanese Americans in the United States during the war?
The Japanese government had to consider that if Japan surrendered unconditionally, the Japanese would be treated like them.
Whenever I hear that "Japan was not allowed any option other than unconditional surrender", I always wonder why people who claim so can't understand that "unconditional surrender" equals "admitment that it can't be helped even if it is annihilated".
In the Hyde Park Agreement of 1944, Roosevelt promised Churchill that he would use the atomic bomb on the Japanese people and that he would drop 17 atomic bombs on the Japanese archipelago to annihilate the Japanese race.
So, to the United States under the Roosevelt administration
❶ Unconditional surrender to the United States, which only accepts unconditional surrender
= Annihilation
❷Fight without surrendering
≠ Annihilation
Therefore, it was natural not to surrender unconditionally.
By the way, the terms of the Potsdam Declaration included the ``unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese Army'' and ``We have no intention of enslaving Japan as a race nor intending to exterminate it as a nation.''
In short, it was not "unconditional."
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@benjalucian1515
First, I'm not telling you to sympathize with Japan about the reason why Japan did not surrender unconditionally.
I'm just telling you to understand that forceing for unconditional surrender is nonsense in itself.
I'm curious where you got your historical education, but I'm pretty sure it's on the Allied side anyway. Because it seems that only distorted content is taught so that you can feel good.
Treatment of POWs?
POWs in the Japanese military were ordinary managed by Japanese of Korean descent from the Korean Peninsula. Koreans tend to bully those who are in a weaker position than themselves.
And, the Japanese army had strict military rules and corporal punishment was not something special even inside the Japanese army.
So I would not say that the Japanese did not abuse the POW at all.
However, as a result of publicity that was worse than the actual situation, such as the Bataan March, which was used as anti-Japanese propaganda to raise fighting spirits during the war, some people still believe everything as if it were true.
In Bataan, the American soldiers who remained after MacArthur fled and half of the Filipino soldiers were wounded soldiers.
Records show that there were too many POWs that there was no means of transporting them all. So, only soldiers in very poor condition were brought by car, and POWs who could walk were made to walk with the Japanese soldiers.
Even if they hadn't taken POWs with them, the Japanese would probably have been accused of neglecting the wounded.
Many Filipino soldiers fled during the march, but it is said that those who fled were recorded as dead.
It is said that POWs were forced to walk 120km on Bataan. But it was actually 83km. The distance they were forced to walk was certainly long. However, the fact that they were wounded soldiers and the scarcity of medicine and food were taken into consideration. It is recorded that the actual march was carried out twice a day for two hours, averaging 14km each, for three days, avoiding the hot daylight.
As anyone who practices walking knows, 3.5km/h is a very slow pace.
After the war, American soldiers who thought that burdock, a vegetable used in Chinese herbal medicine, was tree roots, complained that Japanese soldiers who gave them burdock roots as foods were abuses. As a result, the Japanese soldiers who gave Japanese dishes them were executed.
So, I am very suspicious of the "definition of abuse" of the Allied people, who can only judge things from such a self-centered and narrow perspective.
On the other hand, most Allied soldiers killed the surrendered Japanese instead of taking POW.
In his memoirs, Charles Lindbergh, who was a volunteer pilot in the Allied Forces, wrote that Allied soldiers routinely killed Japanese POWs by pushing them out of planes flying over the Pacific Ocean.
There were periods in the US military when Japanese soldiers had so little POW that they were given a POW quota and a special bonus (leave). Records show that the number of POWs increased during that period, but that the number returned to normal after the period of the order ended.
YT has a video of a US veteran who speaks without hesitation about killing surrendering Japanese soldiers. It is clear that he had no sense of guilt because it was the usual thing for him.
Therefore I don't think the Allies is qualified to say anything about the treatment of POWs to Japan.
FYI although the Allies tells as if POWs of Allied soldiers death was all Japan's fault, 1/3 of the Allied POWs were killed by Allied fire during the sea transfer.
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There were the reasons why the Japanese government adhered to the protection of the emperor system as a condition of surrender.
In April 1945, the Kantaro Suzuki Cabinet was built in Japan by the order of the Emperor, with the clear aim of ending the war.
In May 1945, peace talks were taking place in Switzerland with Allen Dallas of the US Office of Strategic Services and later Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Japan has informed Dallas that the only condition for surrender is to keep
the emperor system.
Dallas reported this to President Truman by means of cryptographic telegrams and tried to move him to early peace, but the president refused any talks with Japan.
The CIA has already officially published a record of feelers from Japan on the web.
From this record, we can see that:
❶ Japan had already consulted with the United States about surrender in early 1945.
❷ The only condition for Japan's surrender was to maintain the emperor system in May, 1945.
❸ Japan insisted on the United States that it was necessary to maintain the emperor system in order not to make Japan a communist state.
But the United States probably didn't take it seriously or thought it was a lie or for the Roosevelt administration, which had tolerated communism, did not care that Japan could become a communist nation.
It seems that the United States did not even accept talking.
According to Verona's documents, the US government had about 300 Communist spies.
Communist spies had also invaded Japan, and there were groups of young peoples in military instigated by them.
Russia and China communized after the royal government was overthrown in the post-defeat turmoil.
Similarly, in order to overthrow Japan and make Japan a communist country, spies urged young soldiers to insist on a decisive battle on the mainland.
Meanwhile, the emperor and conservative politicians and military personnel worked to prevent it.
Even if they were able to surrender and end the war, there was concern that if they lost the emperor, the Japanese would lose their spiritual support and cause mayhem.
There was also concern about the risks of national communism due to the turmoil of the people by losing the emperor.(Even now, the communists still has been trying to get rid of the emperor system with every possible hand.)
So, the Japanese government adhered to the protection of the emperor system as a condition of surrender.
In addition, MacArthur said he would hang the emperor before he was assigned to Japan, but as soon as he understood the reality of Japan and the need for the emperor's existence, he decided to keep the emperor alive.
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From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the OSS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war from the beginning of 1945. And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft included a sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status.
Because Grew was known the above information, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s effort is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the retention of the Emperor had removed from the declaration.
It was because the atomic bomb was completed shortly before the declaration.
Therefore, it was clear that the US purpose of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was not to end the war, and it was as follows.
1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people
2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body
3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union
In addition, it seems that it is not well known, but in fact, the Los Alamos Institute, which was in charge of the Manhattan Project for atomic bomb development in the United States, has stated the following official position after the two atomic bombs were dropped.
"We successfully tested the atomic bomb twice in history."
In other words, for them, the dropping of the atomic bomb was just a nuclear test conducted against Japanese, not to end the war, which was aware that it would surrender.
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In other words, it was the United States that triggered the war between Japan and the United States.
The reasons why Japan allied with Germany were: 1) Japan had been isolated from the Allied countries and other countries by the United States, so the only countries it could form an alliance with were Germany and Italy, and 2) to get Germany to stop providing weapons to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army, which was massacring Japanese residents.
And Japan did not fully consent to the genocide of the Jews.
For example, Japan rescued approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees who had fled to Manchuria on the Trans-Siberian Railway. The name of Higuchi Kiichiro, who negotiated with Tojo Hideki, the Governor-General of Manchuria at the time, to assist in the rescue of the Jews, is inscribed on Jewish gold plates.
If Tojo Hideki had not given permission to Higuchi to dispatch a rescue force, or if Tojo had not rejected diplomatic pressure from Germany, saying that "humanitarianism takes priority," so many Jewish refugees would never have been rescued.
However, you Allied citizens always ignore this.
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The CIA website has a PDF file with the following name.
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
And, the following is an excerpt from that file:
“12 May 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
The following information, transmitted by the OSS representative in Bern,9 originates with a German source, an authority on the Far East who is
considered anti-Nazi but pro-Japanese:10
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,11 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”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan is asking the United States to talk the end of the war. And it is recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that maintaining the emperor system was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained a sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system.
Because Grew knew well why Japan wanted the continuation of the Emperor System, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the continuation of the Emperor System.
The Truman memoir says:
"Glue arrives at the end of May and says,'Why don't you make a declaration urging Japan to surrender?' The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Glue's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when Truman annouced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system had removed from the declaration.
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The atomic bombings were absolutely not necessary to end the war.
Below is a more detailed version of the comment already written above to prove this.
From beginning of 1945, Japan had been requesting peace talks to the United States through Mr. Dulles of the 0SS (the predecessor agency of the CIA) in Switzerland.
The record of repeated contacts calling for peace talks from the Japanese government can be found on the CIA website as a PDF file with the following name:
“Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers”
This PDF file shows that the Government of Japan was asking the United States to talk the end of the war repeatedly.
And it was recorded that they admitted defeat and argued that retention of the Emperor was the only condition for surrender, which was necessary to prevent Japan from becoming a communist nation.
Communist thought denies and destroys tradition and culture. Just as the Russian Empire was lost by the Russian Revolution, becoming a communist country means the destruction of the state.
Even if the war can be ended before the total annihilation of Japan by the Allies, if Japan becomes a communist country due to the loss of the existence of the emperor, it means the destruction of Japan.
So the retention of the Emperor was the condition that Japan couldn’t compromise.
And that's why Stalin continued to persistently demand the execution of the emperor, and some people in the Roosevelt administration who it turned out that they were communists in the Venona document, had tried to have Truman to execute the emperor many times.
The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan.
The draft contained one sentence authorizing the guarantee of the emperor's status along with some conditions of surrender, such as disarming the Japanese army and not colonizing Japan.
Because Grew had heard of the above report, knew well why Japan wanted the retention of the Emperor, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the retention of the Emperor.
This Grew’s action is proven by the Truman memoir.
It says:
"Grew arrived at the end of May and suggested to make a declaration urging Japan to surrender. The declaration provided Japan with a guarantee that the United States would allow the Emperor to remain head of state."
"I told him that I had already considered this issue and that (Grew's suggestion) seemed like a sound opinion."
However, when the Potsdam Declaration was read out, the sentence guaranteeing the emperor's retention was deleted.
Because the United States wanted to conduct a nuclear bomb test that had just been completed on July 16 against the "Japanese".
Since Washington had not responded, Japan had asked also the Soviet Union to mediate negotiations to end the war based on the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact.
In other words, Japan raised a white flag to the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not reply at all until the Potsdam Declaration.
Without replying, the U.S. military carried out air raids on 430 cities in Japan. 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. Air Force 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, when the enemy ignores your request for End-War Talks and continues to attack, it is quite natural to prepare for the next possible attack such as "landing operation on the mainland", isn't it?
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 had finally arrived after several months of negotiations to end the war.
So Prime Minister Suzuki tried to proceed with the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
But what hindered it was that there was no wording to guarantee the Emperor's position. Suzuki inquired about this, but the United States did not give a clear answer.
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.
In short,
In order to end the war, there was no need for atomic bombs or landing operations.
The United States also knew that the atomic bombing was unnecessary. But The United States did experiment of atomic bombings because it wanted to do experiments against Japanese people and cities alive.
What led to the acceptance of Japan's Potsdam Declaration to end the war was not the 2 atomic bombings, but the Soviet invasion.
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What Japanese soldiers did to the women and children you were taught is probably a lie.
I don't think Japanese soldiers did not anything wrong at all, but there are many hoases about the "war crimes of Japanese soldiers" circulated today.
For example, at the post-war Tokyo trial, Chiang Kai-shek said that the number of victims was about 1 million, including 200,000 of the Nanjing Massacre.
However, 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 of the Nanjing massacre.
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 people who claim that there was a massacre in Nanjing think it's strange to hear these numbers?
And I also have to say that the number of casualties doubled every year by the CCP, which has also never fought a war with Japan, is highly questionable.
Because all of their claims are also based on hearsay and rumors, but there is no objective evidence.
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, in 2007, a thorough US investigation for 8 years 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.
It was forbidden by military regulations to force women to work as comfort women against their will.
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 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.
According to a study by a Korean economist, there were an estimated approximately 3,700 Korean comfort women.
As mentioned above, the "massacre of 200,000 Korean comfort women" was also proven to be a fabrication.
From the above examples, “Japanese military war crimes based solely on hearsay and rumors'' should not be recognized as true until objective evidence is presented.
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From JoongAng Ilbo 4/15/2021
"" Nuclear water in Japan is not significantly affected. "The Korean government TF issued a report last year."
It was confirmed that the Korean government issued a report last year saying that there was no scientific problem in connection with the Japanese government's decision to release contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean on the morning of the 13th.
According to Ahn Byung-gil, a member of the opposition party "People Power Party," the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and other government departments' joint task force (TF, working group) announced in October last year that "the current situation related to contaminated water at the Fukushima nuclear power plant." A countermeasure report entitled "" was created. In a report that evaluated the situation at that time as "Japan has completed the decision on the disposal plan for contaminated water stored in the Fukushima nuclear power plant, and only the decision on the timing of announcement remains", the Korean government said that the pollution released by Japan We analyzed the impact of water on the people and the environment.
According to the report, the Nuclear Safety Commission held seven expert meetings and decided that "there is no problem with the performance of Japan's multi-nuclide removal facility (ALPS) that purifies contaminated water." In addition, as a result of evaluating the radiation effects in the area near the coast of Japan using the method of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), which is recognized as an international standard, the radiation values were also evaluated as "reasonable".
In the radioactivity concentration survey in the coastal waters of South Korea, the 2019 standard of 0.892 to 1.88 millibecquerels per kilogram was detected, which is the average value before the Fukushima accident (2006 to 2010 0.864 to 4). It was analyzed to be similar to .04 millibecquerels per kilogram).
Regarding the possibility of tritium exposure, he said, "It is difficult for the body to concentrate and accumulate, and the possibility of meaningful exposure due to ingestion of marine products is very low." "A few years after the release into the ocean, even if it reaches the domestic sea area, it will be moved by the ocean current and diffused and diluted, and there will be no meaningful effect."
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You are wrong.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
(eg: Tongzhou incident)
The atrocities of anti-Japanese terrorism against those Japanese residents and Japanese soldiers were the cause of the Manchurian Incident and the China Incident.
However, the Allies twisted those things, such as "Japan is an evil expansionist country and invaded China."
Because of the China-Japanese War provoked by the United States behind the scenes, the United States notified the cancellation of the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in 1940 and revoked it.
This restricted U.S. exports of iron and oil to Japan.
After that, Japan entered French Indochina with the permission of the French government to shut off the Chiang Kai-shek support route from the United States.
Because Chiang Kai-shek had ignored the repeated requests for ceasefire talks from Japan and prolonged the war.
This Japanese entry into Indochina was labeled as an invasion by the United States.
Because of this, the United States imposed economic sanctions such as a total ban on oil exports to Japan and at the same time as freezing assets against Japan.
At that time, Japan was cornered in a very troubled situation because it depended on the United States for resources such as iron and oil.
So Japan made maximum concessions in negotiations with the United States, but the U.S. demands were only getting stricter.
Because at this time, the United States was provoking a war with Japan.
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 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, in other words, 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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