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| The trial of the Japanese murderers and torturers on May 3, 1946 |
| 2021-05-03 |
| Direct translation of the article [Regnum] After the Japanese government and command became aware of the terms of surrender, set out in the Potsdam Declaration of the Allied Powers of July 26, 1945, intensive meetings were held in Tokyo at which an answer to the ultimatum was worked out. If politicians from the "party of peace" were ready to accept all the provisions of the declaration and declare surrender, the Japanese generals opposed this, trying to negotiate their agreement to end the war on their own terms. At the same time, fearing retribution for crimes committed by the Japanese army monstrous war crimes, they were opposed to the 10th paragraph of the Potsdam Declaration, which read: "We do not intend that the Japanese shall be enslaved as a race or destroyed as a nation, but all war criminals, including those who committed atrocities against our captives must be severely punished. " The Japanese generals advocated that the war criminals "be punished by the Japanese themselves." |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Hidden Horrors(1996) by Yuki Tanaka; "This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka’s case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments." Grisly and mind-boggling... |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-05-03 16:52 |
| #2 Always buried is the Sack of Manila. When war started in 1941, the American territory of the Philippines was already scheduled for independence. The Japanese occupied the place through 1945. The atrocity of Manila is ignored by the usual suspects who scream Hiroshima like waving a bloody flag. The Japanese just used bullet, bayonet and barbed wire to kill about as many. There is an old saying in warfare, those who give no quarter should expect none themselves. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-05-03 08:15 |
| #1 "...and call for the country's revival the rising sun again as a military power." Good. Let them duke it out with the PRC. |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-05-03 00:46 |