anon
2007-08-07 20:52:19
The Kempeitai were every bit as brutal as the Gestapo, if not more. But few if any were persecuted for their war crimes. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were payback for the horrors the Japanese inflicted all over Asia, especially in Manchuria with Unit 731 and their germ warfare experiments and other atrocities that would make Mengele blush. In fact, another three bombs wouldn’t have gone amiss if vengeance for the nigh-forgotten Asian victims of Japanese imperialism were a consideration for dropping them.
Until the Japanese as a people face up squarely to their history as the Germans did – and by that I mean no wishy-washy statements of ‘regret’ while perpetuating a victim myth amongst their own people – they’ll get no sympathy from me.
