Please post your stories and anybody from China is welcome. I know about the rape of Nanking and Area 731. Thank you.
2007-07-25 01:08:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Japan
I'm not an expert, but having had three years of military history and having been a career officer in the US Air Force I can share a few things that I remember.
Approx 22,000,000 people were murdered in Korea, China, Phillipines, Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal and other island chains and Burma areas.
Entire cities of defenseless, unarmed civilians were bombed, shot, stabbed and raped. Many women were taken from their homes, their children murdered, and forced into slave prostitution for the Japanese army. The Japanese have never apologized for this to China or Korea. The Japanese army literally raped the Chinese country-side. That's why it is called the raping of Nanking and it wasn't just Nanking. People were enslaved to mine coal, iron ore and whatever else was of value. Move it to port via train or truck and then to Japan via ship. No one was paid. China, Korea, Burma, Tibet, Vietnam or French IndoChina, Phillipines and various island chains were all raped in the same manner as Nanking, but under the guise of the the Co-prosperity Sphere. Asians for Asia....which really meant Asia for Japan.
I had an uncle captured on Guadalcanal. Tortured, had bamboo slits soaked in gasoline, slipped under his finger and toenails, and lit on fire. Beaten nearly to death and as their camp was attacked by US marines had his lower abdomen slit open spilling his intestines onto the ground. A smart Corpsman quickely rinsed them off again and again with water before placing them back into his abdomal cavity and applying a wet dressing. He literally saved his life. My uncle ever foregave the enemy for this.
My, now deceased father in-law, was a member of the China- Burma campaign, Merrills Marauder's. Parachuted behind enemy lines into Burma to disrupt Japanese supply lines and cause confusion. Only about a third of them made it back alive. Most suffered from injuries the remainder of their lives from marching hundereds of miles through swamps, jungles and rivers. Twice while laying in wait to ambush the Japanese he was wounded. He thought he would never return home. He had given himself up for dead.
It was the same story over and over. Clint Eastwood's new movies Iwo Jima and Letters from Iwo show a lot of what it was like from both perspectives. The TV series available on DVD, Victory at Sea" shows the horror all too well.
Hope this helps.
2007-07-25 02:31:18 · answer #1 · answered by Miss Prissy's Dad 1 · 9⤊ 5⤋
I just can tell you that I have watched the rape of Nanking's documentary. I wouldnt want to comment on what I have watched as my comment wouldnt not make any different and your posting would not be welcomed! BECAUSE I have been keeping track on all your questions here and how answerers answered and the all the thumb downs eventhough some of your harshly put q and some answers are quite true. This is not the place to discuss this and this showed that you dont understand the Japanese at all!
2007-07-25 21:03:43 · answer #2 · answered by ANDERSON P 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Like the "Doctors" performing experiments on the prisoners of the concentration camps in Germany....
The Japanese performed experiments on Chinese prisoners of war. They referred to them as "logs" and went so far as to pull out a still beating heart of a person (just to see how long it would take for the heart to stop beating).
Not trying to offend here.... read your history, it's all in there.
2007-07-25 16:10:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Not to bother you, but the rape of Nanking happened before WWII started.
What kinds?
How about rape, murders, random acts of violence, slavery?
2007-07-25 08:28:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Chemical warfare-Japan is still paying for the clean up to this day. Check out the movies "The Men From the Sun" or "Story of a Prostitute".
2007-07-25 11:45:21 · answer #5 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
You mean the horrible street battles and cruel treatment for Iraq and Afgan ppl by the US troops is ordered by the the US as a national command?
You guys are just picking the part of events in the history up.
2007-07-25 18:57:08 · answer #6 · answered by Joriental 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
People (women, children and men alike) shot in the streets while they begged for mercy. Women forced into prostitution and raped 60 times a day, villages burned down, fields set on fire, children trying to escape and being run over by vehicles (purposly). Bombs and grenades thrown at unarmed civilians, people scared and running for their lives only to be taken and beaten or forced into slavery.
2007-07-25 10:29:29 · answer #7 · answered by Smiley 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
It's quite pathetic that you need other people to fuel your hatred for the Japanese. If you truly hate them, then shouldn't you be aware of how "evil" they are?
2007-07-25 18:20:53 · answer #8 · answered by Rabbityama 6 · 4⤊ 6⤋
You posted such a question here is extremely offencive to Japanese people here as a minority.
sincerely
2007-07-25 13:48:12 · answer #9 · answered by . 2 · 5⤊ 7⤋
Miss Prissy's Dad is James M
2007-07-25 09:57:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 9⤋