The Japanese regime was up to worse shit than the German one
The firebombing of Tokyo was as nightmarish a war crime as the London Blitz.
I’m not necessarily defending anyone here; all three suck, but it feels like weird revisionism
History is written by the victors. So there’s always a justification for atrocity in the bylines when it comes time to explain your own campaigns of horror.
In another fifty years, I suspect the subject of the Gaza Genocide will be treated with the same backhanded accounting as the genocides in Kenya and Armenia, the Red Scares in America, and the White Terror in Taiwan.
The modern relationship between Korea and Japan is deeply fucked, especially given the historical context.
But during the US Occupation of Japan I’m 1946 and 1947, U.S. authorities offered Unit 731’s leader, Shirō Ishii, and other perpetrators immunity from prosecution for war crimes in exchange for the biological weapons data collected from their experiments.
The people we slaughtered were civilians and the ones we spared were the worst war criminals.
The Japanese regime was up to worse shit than the German one, rhey just weren’t doing it to white people.
So there was this city called Dresden…
I’m not necessarily defending anyone here; all three suck, but it feels like weird revisionism.
The firebombing of Tokyo was as nightmarish a war crime as the London Blitz.
History is written by the victors. So there’s always a justification for atrocity in the bylines when it comes time to explain your own campaigns of horror.
In another fifty years, I suspect the subject of the Gaza Genocide will be treated with the same backhanded accounting as the genocides in Kenya and Armenia, the Red Scares in America, and the White Terror in Taiwan.
Remember that Japanese PM who got got wiyh a diy shotgun? Lookup his grandpa.
Or “unit 731” and the guy who ran it.
The modern relationship between Korea and Japan is deeply fucked, especially given the historical context.
But during the US Occupation of Japan I’m 1946 and 1947, U.S. authorities offered Unit 731’s leader, Shirō Ishii, and other perpetrators immunity from prosecution for war crimes in exchange for the biological weapons data collected from their experiments.
The people we slaughtered were civilians and the ones we spared were the worst war criminals.
Well yes. The wrong thing got done. Kind if reliably.