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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The uncomfortable truth about 'comfort women'" - from Japan Times (11/1/2014)
Question: How did you view those people (that you infected with bubonic plague and dissected while still alive)? Didnt you have any feelings of pity?
Answer: None at all. We were like that already. I had already gotten to (a point) where I lacked pity. After all, we were already implanted with a narrow racism, in the form of a belief in the superiority of the so-called Yamato Race. We disparaged all other races. If we didnt have a feeling of racial superiority, we couldnt have done it. People with todays sensibilities dont grasp this. We, ourselves, had to struggle with our humanity afterwards. It was an agonizing process. There were some who killed themselves, unable to endure.
Tamura Yoshio, a member of biological warfare Unit 731, from Japan at War: An Oral History
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According to a report commisioned by the Dutch government in 1993, up to 300 Dutch women worked at Japanese military brothels in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), of which some 65 were most certainly forced into prostitution.
Maybe the right wing only has a problem with allegations made by Korean women? In other words, other women were sexually enslaved but Korean prostitutes were not. Maybe thats the point?
You may think Im conflating the issue of the comfort women by bringing up Unit 731, Japans biological warfare unit that killed hundreds possibly thousands of foreign civilians in experiments. Im not. Im making a point the people killed by the unit werent volunteers; they were captured and used like lab animals.
Does anyone think a military that would go so far has any qualms about coercing women into working in brothels or turning a blind eye to the practice?
The government has never issued a formal apology to the victims of Unit 731.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/01/national/media-national/uncomfortable-truth-comfort-women/#.VcJHJE3bI2w
WWII Japanese authorities were 100% responsible for provoking 'total war'. They don't get to now complain about losing the war.
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"The uncomfortable truth about 'comfort women'" - from Japan Times (11/1/2014) (Original Post)
closeupready
Aug 2015
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)1. Do we need to go through this again? WWII is over. nt
Orrex
(63,216 posts)2. Sure it is, but...
People still love to condemn Truman for bombinb Hiroshima and Nagasaki--even today right here in GD.
Do we need to go through that again? WWII is over.
Stargazer99
(2,585 posts)3. no, but the reality people have a tendancy to forget
reminding them doesn't hurt...I've heard that the Jews were not killed in the 2nd world war by Hitler, there are people still alive that can testify to the reality of Jewish extermination....the human animal needs to be brought up short once in a while