How come so little is said about the Japanese war crimes against China as well as the scientific experiments?

Question

on Chinese yet they still seek an apology for the atomic bomb?

Why don't they apologize to the Chinese and the POWs they tortured first?

Exactly, it was just sixty years ago so we should just forget it.

Hey, let's forget about the Holocaust and Slavery too. I mean, it's in the past right?

Answer 1

Japan like to consider themselves the victim of aggression by the US but they were one of the most aggressive nations in the world next to the Germans.

Answer 2

While the bomb can be justified as weapon to shorten the war and thus lives in the long run. What the Japanese have done in Nan-king and their biological weapons labs cannot ever be justified as they are prime examples of war crimes. It burns me to no end that Japanese history books don't tell about the barbarity of japan during those years. So you and I are quite right that Japan has a lot of explaining and apologizing to do! By confronting their past they will least likely repeat their past mistakes and worst of all crimes!

Answer 3

About 600 Japanese soldiers were hanged for war crimes after the war. AFAIK not very many Japanese expect an apology for the atomic bomb, it's mostly Americans who are falling all over themselves to apologize to Japan. For better or worse, the Pacific war is all in the past for most Japanese.

Answer 4

Because Japanese companies own media outlets. They should apologize and pay the "comfort women" like they were supposed to several years ago. A major difference between Germany and Japan is that the German government acknowledged what happened and the Japanese gov't really hasn't.

Answer 5

Yess me too I like the culture of Japan especially anime and manga but I will never forget their atrocities during ww2 especially in my country where Bataan death march happened. I think the Japanese SHOULD be taught of their atrocities(because I read that Japan education don't teach history of their wrongdoings and because ww2 is very well documented because we have cameras and photos back then) so they don't repeat the past especially today the govt of japan is becoming a right wing fascist

Answer 6

Good questionl the Japanese military had their "Unit 731" in Manchuria. It was a rough equivalent to the NKVD political sections and or politruk (political commissar) units of the Soviets; or the German Nazi SS propaganda departments. They promoted racial superiority, racialist theories, counterespionage, intelligence, political sabotage and infiltration of enemy lines. They liased with the Manchukuo military police, the Manchu intelligence service, regular Manchu police, Manchu Residents committees, Local Nationalist Manchu Parties and the Japanese Secret Service detachment in Manchukuo. The section in Manchukuo used some agents from White Russian, Chinese, Manchu, Mongol and other foreign backgrounds for special services or covert actions at home and abroad.

As many as ten thousand people, both civilian and military, of Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, and Soviet origin were subjects of experimentation by Unit 731. Some American and European Allied prisoners of war also died at the hands of Unit 731. In addition, the use of biological weapons researched in Unit 731's bioweapons program resulted in tens of thousands of deaths in China – possibly as many as 200,000 casualties by some estimates.

Unit 731 was one of many units used by the Japanese to research biological warfare; other units included Unit 516 (Qiqihar), Unit 543 (Hailar), Unit 773 (Songo unit), Unit 100 (Changchun), Unit 1644 (Nanjing), Unit 1855 (Beijing), Unit 8604 (Guangzhou), Unit 200 (Manchuria) and Unit 9420 (Singapore).

Answer 7

You know, there has been a lot written and said about it-the Japanese government is re-writing history to say it never happened , and the rest of the world pretty much doesn't care beacause it was 60 years ago. Every day several thousand more of the perpetrators die of old age , and soon there won't be anybody to even blame. What's to do?

Answer 8

well, they hanged many Japanese for doing what they did...and China is not a democracy and its leaders don't see a need...let's just be thankful Japan has been non-military for 60 years and its people have a Constitution of a democracy...the people running Japan are our freinds for the most part, hopefully they can confront their old demons at some point, but to demand it could be counter-productive...

Answer 9

Every government wants to move on when war crimes are committed, unless it's against them and their own peoples. Just another example of governmental hypocrisy, proving that not just us silly Westerners fall prey to it..

Answer 10

they actually handed over some of the results of their biological weapons program to the USA in exchange for amnesty