The Horrific War Crimes of Japan, never acknowledged, never atoned for, or apologized for. - Kawaii culture used as propaganda to make Japan look better after killing millions of people.

[Azovka]

All I’m gonna say is that the US welcomed with open arms the lead doctor of the Japanese Unit 731, which conducted some of the worst crimes against humanity (vivisections, freezing and breaking body parts on live human beings, infecting pregnant women with stds, infecting babies etc.)

Shirō Ishii was given full immunity in exchange for pursuing his research in the States.

If Japan has to apologise for crimes of the past, so should the US for harboring these criminals.
But hey, anything to defeat evil communists, amirite?

 

[The best and greatest]

All I’m gonna say is that the US welcomed with open arms the lead doctor of the Japanese Unit 731, which conducted some of the worst crimes against humanity (vivisections, freezing and breaking body parts on live human beings, infecting pregnant women with stds, infecting babies etc.)

Shirō Ishii was given full immunity in exchange for pursuing his research in the States.

If Japan has to apologise for crimes of the past, so should the US for harboring these criminals.
But hey, anything to defeat evil communists, amirite?

There's a lesson in that. If you want safety from persecution over wrongdoing, enrich your allies with the fruits of your labor to make them complicit.

In either case if Japan eventually dies out I vote America gets to keep their stuff.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

All I’m gonna say is that the US welcomed with open arms the lead doctor of the Japanese Unit 731, which conducted some of the worst crimes against humanity (vivisections, freezing and breaking body parts on live human beings, infecting pregnant women with stds, infecting babies etc.)

Shirō Ishii was given full immunity in exchange for pursuing his research in the States.

If Japan has to apologise for crimes of the past, so should the US for harboring these criminals.
But hey, anything to defeat evil communists, amirite?

For sure the US should apologize for it, but then it would look extra bad when it comes out they're still doing that shit.
Or at least, they kept doing it on their own. MK Ultra was just as fucked as any nazi experiment.

Intelligence agencies are fucking evil psychos. Necessary evil psychos, unfortunately, but we do have to keep a leash on them, because they will do horrible things in secret for their own benefit. The US ones too.

We also don't recognize genocides when it's politically inconvenient. What armenians? We can talk about the fucking evils of the US while also talking about the evils of the other countries.

 

[crocodilian]

Imagine trying to persecute a country for crimes their long-dead ancestors committed.

Japan were a bunch of bastards in WWII, but so was literally everybody else. Not a single influential nation in that war totally abstained from wrongdoing or horrific acts. Similarly, trying to make people feel guilty for things they didn't do is counterproductive; it will just make everyone dislike everyone else for alleged, ancient, often-embellished wrongdoings they have no real grasp of & can't possibly atone for.

You know what sort of countries "apologize" for distant history? Germany. You know what that led to?

Grow a pair. Don't apologize for "war crimes" you didn't personally commit. I don't care if the bomb roasted some Japs, it was either that or a bloody land war. Similarly I don't expect Japan to apologize for fucking China in the ass. I don't expect anyone to apologize. Dubya Dubywa Two was nearly a hundred years ago, get over it.

 

[Крыса]

Oooor... we could have a WW3 ! That way we'd turn our SJW boys into men and they'd actually have some stuff to apologize for, win-win

 

[Lemmingwise]

Also in the US, there's really no mention of Japan's WW2 atrocities, because WW2 is about the holocaust and nothing else

The holocaust. Well there's another pillar of propaganda.

I definitely get the tenor of your message. Definitely the degree matters. I agree that (what I know of it), propaganda is worse in China. How could it not be with the regular "random" disappearing of bloggers?

Though Japan and US seem to me to have very similar levels of propaganda. Though perhaps that touches on an interesting question for this forum.

What's worse propaganda, to lie about things or to omit things, assuming similar scale?

 

[Slap47]

Will humanity ever not be fucking horrible?

Kinda funny that China plays the victim considering current events.

All I’m gonna say is that the US welcomed with open arms the lead doctor of the Japanese Unit 731, which conducted some of the worst crimes against humanity (vivisections, freezing and breaking body parts on live human beings, infecting pregnant women with stds, infecting babies etc.)

Shirō Ishii was given full immunity in exchange for pursuing his research in the States.

If Japan has to apologise for crimes of the past, so should the US for harboring these criminals.
But hey, anything to defeat evil communists, amirite?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie

Kills 10,000 french people and the US lets him go to go to work as a mercenary for Latin American dictators.

I doubt we'll see an apology. The CIA still hasn't admitted to overthrowing the government of Iran.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Kills 10,000 french people and the US lets him go to go to work as a mercenary for Latin American dictators.

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[Tasty Tatty]

Acknowledge war crimes? Absolutely. All of them. Lately, looks like children only study the Holocaust, even if there aren't even jews in their countries.

Apologize? Never.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Lately, looks like children only study the Holocaust, even if there aren't even jews in their countries.

And even if it didn't happen.

 

[Slap47]

This is a bad comparison for a few reasons:

The Philippines-American war might be a more apt comparison.

But it is a he said, she said. Has the US published the original contents of the morgenthau plan, for example?

Morgenthau didn't keep his plan a secret. He published a book about it and campaigned to get his plan put into action.

Hell, his plan was used by communists and Nazis during and after the war as propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_is_Our_Problem

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Schäfer

Pinochet kept killing people and creating orphans so the CIA paired his regime with a Nazi-pedo cult.

 

[byuu]

America's nationalist propaganda isn't truth either. Is there any pimary or secondary education in the US that teaches how american soldiers raped in Germany?

Doubtful. Americans still wonder why the French weren't very grateful to them after raping a ton of their women.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Doubtful. Americans still wonder why the French weren't very grateful to them after raping a ton of their women.

The myth of french resistance is probably part of that reason, though.

 

[Hell]

Japan is just like Turkey denying the Armenian genocide.

A floating turd filled with sexual deviants and pedos.

America should had nuked them a third time, and that had been literally hilarious.

 

[QI 541]

Sure just as soon as you nationalistic conservative warmongering degenerates apologize for starting every war in history.

 

[Vendetta™]

They definitely won't, the Japanese are a proud people, and don't dwell on events that are decades-past like we do in the states.

Nothing wrong with that, apologies do nothing but feel-monger, and the people who would be affected by it are usually long-dead. Same reason I find reparations or apologies for slavery pointless.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Sure just as soon as you nationalistic conservative warmongering degenerates apologize for starting every war in history.

In history? I mean, the US is really incredible and awesome, but I never considered it SO great that it retroactively became responsible for events that happened long before it even existed.

All I want is acknowledgement of facts. I don't care about apologies, you can't apologize for something you didn't do personally anyway.

 

[Spatula]

Fun fact: The two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have a lower body count than 30 days of japanese occupation in Nanjing.

 

[The best and greatest]

Fun fact: The two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have a lower body count than 30 days of japanese occupation in Nanjing.

The two bombings themselves had body counts comparable to the bombings of other cities of the time. The big difference is those bombings were the result of weeks/months-long campaigns. We accomplished better results with just one plane; not only laying waste to the city almost completely in an eye-blink but also devastating the surviving population with what surely must looked like some other-worldly maladies.

 

[Slap47]

Sure just as soon as you nationalistic conservative warmongering degenerates apologize for starting every war in history.

Ww1 was caused by globalization and incompetent undemocratic cabinet governments.