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  • File : 1308849285.jpg-(75 KB, 800x370, Superior Asian.jpg)
    75 KB You westerners = You FAT = You fail in Cosplay = You hurt Anime fans = You ruin Anime Proud To Be Asian ^_^ 06/23/11(Thu)13:14 No.51018583  
    Source of facts = www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjCXuojrERA

    Do you racist westerners know that when you Cosplay our Anime characters are only end ruining our Anime? Because we Asians make our Anime characters with :
    - Almond shaped eyes while you racist westerners born with deep set eyes that sink into your western head.
    - Small nose while you racist westerners born with loooong nose that shows how you racist westerners love to lie.
    - Cute round face while you racist westerners born with boney square face that make you racist westerners never can't look cute as cute as us cute Asians.
    - Sharp jaw while you racist westerners born with square jaw that shows your masculinity which are the opposite of our Anime character's femininity.
    - Smallish body form while you racist westerners born with big wide body form that you racist westerners look like giants.
    - Youthful/teenage appearance while you racist westerners aged too fast that make you racist westerners look like old nannies and old pappies on your 2nd puberty when you racist westerners cosplaying our Anime characters.

    And remember it is you racist westerners who massacres Japanese, who :
    - Mass kill over 100.000 innocent Japanese in Tokyo using napalm bombs
    - Mass kill over 500.000 innocent Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki using nuclear bombs
    - Mass kill over 50.000 innocent Japanese in Okinawa
    - Mass rape over 20.000 innocent Japanese in Okinawa
    - Mass rape over 10.000 innocent Japanese in Tokyo
    - Mass rape over 3.200 innocent Japanese in Kyoto
    - Etc
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:16 No.51018617
    >>>/cgl/
    >>>/cgl/
    >>>/cgl/
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:16 No.51018619
    It's like I'm really talking to YotsubaC !
    >> /a/ 06/23/11(Thu)13:16 No.51018620
    >>51018583
    >implying there are no fat asians
    >copypasta
    >the pic in right is probably op.
    >Cosplay is retarded anyway.
    >> Doctor Professor Tripfag !81MaSHiaZ. 06/23/11(Thu)13:16 No.51018640
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    Shuddup.
    >> Rbo !ynVR.xq/s2 06/23/11(Thu)13:17 No.51018645
    Wow. Haven't seen this in a while..
    >> /a/ 06/23/11(Thu)13:17 No.51018648
    I hope OP sees the irony in his post.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:17 No.51018653
    >>>/cgl/
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:17 No.51018661
    Holy fuck, it's stuck to the plate.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:17 No.51018663
    >Proud To Be Asian ^_^
    how is this faggot still here?
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:18 No.51018668
    But OP, you are a nigger from Indonesia.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:19 No.51018714
    >>51018583

    >on your 2nd puberty

    What? You've had more than one? Who did not inform me that there were more?
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:20 No.51018726
    That asian girl cosplaying as Haruhi looks better than actual Haruhi. Wtf...
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:20 No.51018739
    PTBA! Wow this takes me back. Haven't seen your spam since captcha-tan. If you're reading this and not just letting your spambot run, how have ya been?
    >> [/ɐ/ law enforcement squad] Yami Shogun !Zsy/GBaito 06/23/11(Thu)13:21 No.51018758
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    Reported.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:21 No.51018769
    >>51018726
    >>>/soc/ with you and your 3DPD
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:22 No.51018781
    >>51018583
    >INDONESIAN FAG IS BACK.

    Its always nice to get a headcount of newfags.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:22 No.51018799
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    >>51018726
    > 3DPD Haruhi>2D Haruhi
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:22 No.51018804
    >>51018583
    I know you're trolling, but i'll humor you and respond anyway.

    No one here cosplays, we actually hate fat weeaboos. We just like anime, that's it. I don't give a shit about japan or the stupid chinks who live in it. I just like the cartoons produced there.

    You're bitching at the wrong people. Take it to >>>/cgl/ or gaia. Those are the fat cosplayers that you speak of.

    Oh, and japan can sink into the ocean and die for all i care. As long as it doesn't affect my chinese cartoons, i dont give a shit.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:23 No.51018829
    >Do you racist westerners know that when you Cosplay our Anime characters are only end ruining our Anime? Because we Asians make our Anime characters with :
    >A bunch of bullshit here:
    You're style is based of a interpretation of Disney animation. They're cartoons, they don't properly reflect nationality.

    >And remember it is you racist westerners who massacres Japanese, who :
    >- Mass kill over 100.000 innocent Japanese in Tokyo using napalm bombs
    That's war, complain less.
    >- Mass kill over 500.000 innocent Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki using nuclear bombs
    I was unaware ~200,000 was 500,000
    >- Mass kill over 50.000 innocent Japanese in Okinawa
    150,000 civilians died on Okinawa, and it was the Japanese military that killed most of them in forced suicides.
    >- Mass rape over 20.000 innocent Japanese in Okinawa
    >- Mass rape over 10.000 innocent Japanese in Tokyo
    >- Mass rape over 3.200 innocent Japanese in Kyoto
    >- Etc
    LOL NO. A handful of rapes spread across four+ DECADES does not constitute mass rape.

    Yes I replied to a troll pasta, I don't care. I don't have anything better to do than feed.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:23 No.51018834
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    Is that so?
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:23 No.51018840
    >- Mass rape over 20.000 innocent Japanese in Okinawa
    >- Mass rape over 10.000 innocent Japanese in Tokyo
    >- Mass rape over 3.200 innocent Japanese in Kyoto

    To this day it's the lowest instance of rape ever in Japanese history. For this, we can only apologize.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:24 No.51018845
    Cross board spam bros.
    >>>/cgl/4629414
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:24 No.51018846
    >>51018804
    Buddy, this is a copypasta.

    Save some face here and don't respond.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:24 No.51018861
    >>51018799
    2D Haruhi is voiced by Aya Hirano, therefore is inferior to literally any other form of Haruhi, even fat western girl Haruhi.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:24 No.51018863
    It's been a long time, PCPA.
    >> Shana !StAR2riSYM 06/23/11(Thu)13:24 No.51018864
    >>>/cgl/
    Get this 3dpd shit out of here faggot no one gives a fuck except fat hambeasts.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:25 No.51018873
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    >>51018583
    Oh hi PTBA, haven't seen you in a while, how's the kids and family?
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:25 No.51018875
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    ohboyherewegoagain.jpg
    >> Komeiji !!x3STzMfD3PQ 06/23/11(Thu)13:25 No.51018883
    >Proud To Be Asian ^_^
    Did I just transport back to 2008?
    >> Proud To Be Asian ^_^ 06/23/11(Thu)13:26 No.51018917
    >>51018840
    test
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:27 No.51018927
    >>51018883
    Yes you did. It's your job to warn the democrats of the hideous defeat they'll suffer in 2010 if they don't grow a spine and actually get shit done.
    >> Lelouch MERA MERA MERA !!vKeby4ZIHSI 06/23/11(Thu)13:27 No.51018940
    OH GOD YOU'RE BACK.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:27 No.51018944
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    Superior western cirno cosplay
    >> sage sage 06/23/11(Thu)13:27 No.51018949
    >>51018583

    You should be ashamed, you son of a bitch. Proud to be Asian? You're no Asian, because a real Asian remembers Japan raping and murdering it's way across most of the continent. Your words dishonor your ancestors, and those who contributed to your gene-pool, you mongrel bastard.

    ITT: SHAMFUL DISPRAY.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:29 No.51018990
    Stop the copy pasting or another casualty will be added to that list of deadfags.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:29 No.51018992
    Why does this guy post like once a year?
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:29 No.51019006
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    >>51018583
    American Haruhi pic here. My cock you shall suck Indonesian.

    Hell, show me an Indonesian cosplay. I want to laugh badly.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:30 No.51019027
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    >>51018949
    How can you browse 4chan from China?

    Nobody cares about nanking anyways.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:30 No.51019042
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    sup PTBA, fellow asian here. hows indonesia nowadays
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:32 No.51019079
    I used to watch Dragon Ball Z, and it was cool, and Transformers is awesome too. But one thing I never got about anime is why do they have big eyes? It's from Japan, that should mean small eyes.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:32 No.51019092
    >>51019027
    He just as well may be corean. He's not though.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:33 No.51019117
    Japanese war crimes
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Chinese prisoners being buried alive.[1]

    Japanese war crimes occurred during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Some of the incidents have also been described as an Asian Holocaust[2] and Japanese war atrocities.[3][4] Some war crimes were committed by military personnel from the Empire of Japan in the late 19th century, although most took place during the first part of the Shōwa Era, the name given to the reign of Emperor Hirohito, until the military defeat of the Empire of Japan, in 1945.

    Historians and governments of some countries officially hold Japanese military forces, namely the Imperial Japanese Army, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Imperial Japanese family, especially Emperor Hirohito, responsible for killings and other crimes committed against millions of civilians and prisoners of war.[5][6][7][8][9] Some Japanese soldiers have admitted to committing these crimes.[10]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:34 No.51019130
    Japan officially maintains that no international law nor treaties were violated. Many leaders in the Japanese government, including former prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe, have prayed at the Yasukuni Shrine, which includes convicted Class A war criminals in its honored war dead. Some Japanese history textbooks controversially downplay Japanese actions in World War II,[11] and Japanese officials as high as prime minister Shinzo Abe have denied that atrocities occurred.[12][13]Contents [hide]
    1 Definitions
    1.1 International and Japanese law
    1.2 Historical and geographical extent
    2 Background
    2.1 Japanese military culture and imperialism
    2.2 The events of the 1930s and 1940s
    3 Crimes
    3.1 Mass killings
    3.2 Human experimentation and biological warfare
    3.3 Use of chemical weapons
    3.4 Torture of prisoners of war
    3.5 Cannibalism
    3.6 Forced labor
    3.7 Comfort women
    3.8 Looting
    4 War crimes trials
    4.1 Tokyo Trials
    4.2 Other trials
    5 Post-war events and reactions
    5.1 The parole-for-war-criminals movement
    5.2 Official apologies
    5.3 Compensation
    5.4 Debate in Japan
    5.5 Controversial reinterpretations outside Japan
    5.6 Later investigations
    6 List of major incidents
    7 See also
    8 Notes
    9 References
    10 Further information
    10.1 Books
    10.2 Audio/visual media
    11 External links
    >> Boku no Tripfag !!uo+rI9nd/lP 06/23/11(Thu)13:34 No.51019143
    ITT: people fall for old and stale copypasta, and discuss the values of different kinds of 3DPD
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:34 No.51019144
    >You racist westerners
    >Points out tons of reasons why westerners are ugly and asians are beautiful
    >Assumes all westerners are fat
    sure is contradictory in here.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:34 No.51019151
    Definitions

    Hsuchow, China, 1938. A ditch full of the bodies of Chinese civilians, killed by Japanese soldiers.[14]
    Main article: Definitions of Japanese war crimes

    War crimes have been defined by the Nuremberg Charter as "violations of the laws or customs of war," which includes crimes against enemy civilians and enemy combatants.[15] Military personnel from the Empire of Japan have been accused or convicted of committing many such acts during the period of Japanese imperialism from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. They have been accused of conducting a series of human rights abuses against civilians and prisoners of war (POWs) throughout East Asia and the western Pacific region. These events reached their height during the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45 and the Asian and Pacific campaigns of World War II (1941–45).
    [edit]
    International and Japanese law
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:35 No.51019168
    Although the Geneva Conventions did not come into effect until 1949, the crimes committed fall under other aspects of international and Japanese law. For example, many of the crimes committed by Japanese personnel during World War II broke Japanese military law, and were subject to court martial, as required by that law.[16] The Empire also violated international agreements signed by Japan, including provisions of the Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907) such as a ban on the use of chemical weapons and protections for prisoners of war.[17] The Japanese government also signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1929), thereby rendering its actions in 1937-45 liable to charges of crimes against peace,[18] a charge that was introduced at the Tokyo Trials to prosecute "Class A" war criminals. "Class B" war criminals were those found guilty of war crimes per se, and "Class C" war criminals were those guilty of crimes against humanity. The Japanese government also accepted the terms set by the Potsdam Declaration (1945) after the end of the war, including the provision in Article 10 of punishment for "all war criminals, including those who have visited cruelties upon our prisoners."

    In Japan, the term "Japanese war crimes" generally only refers to cases tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as the Tokyo Trials, following the end of the Pacific War.[citation needed] However, the tribunal did not prosecute war crimes allegations involving mid-ranking officers or more junior personnel. Those were dealt with separately in other cities throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:36 No.51019189
    Japanese law does not define those convicted in the post-1945 trials as criminals, despite the fact that Japan's governments have accepted the judgments made in the trials, and in the Treaty of San Francisco (1952). This is because the treaty does not mention the legal validity of the tribunal. Had Japan certified the legal validity of the war crimes tribunals in the San Francisco Treaty, the war crimes would have become open to appeal and overturning in Japanese courts. This would have been unacceptable in international diplomatic circles.[citation needed] Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has advocated the position that Japan accepted the Tokyo tribunal and its judgements as a condition for ending the war, but that its verdicts have no relation to domestic law. According to this view, those convicted of war crimes are not criminals under Japanese law.[19] This view may have been accepted by Japanese courts.[citation needed]
    [edit]
    Historical and geographical extent

    Outside Japan, different societies use widely different timeframes in defining Japanese war crimes.[citation needed] For example, the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910 was enforced by the Japanese military, and was followed by the deprivation of civil liberties and exploitation of the Korean people.[citation needed] Thus, some Koreans refer to "Japanese war crimes" as events occurring during the period of 1910 (or earlier) to 1945.[20]

    By comparison, the Western Allies did not come into military conflict with Japan until 1941, and North Americans, Australasians, South East Asians and Europeans may consider "Japanese war crimes" to be events that occurred in 1941-45.[21]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:36 No.51019201
    Go make the hambeasts in >>>/cgl/ butthurt like always.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:36 No.51019206
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    I'll just leave this here.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_nanking
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:36 No.51019208
    Background
    [edit]
    Japanese military culture and imperialism
    Main articles: Militarism-Socialism in Showa Japan, Japanese militarism, Eugenics in Showa Japan, Xenophobia in Showa Japan

    Military culture, especially during Japan's imperialist phase had great bearing on the conduct of the Japanese military before and during World War II.

    Centuries previously, the samurai of Japan had been taught unquestioning obedience to their lords, as well as to be fearless in battle. After the Meiji Restoration and the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Emperor became the focus of military loyalty. During the so-called "Age of Empire" in the late 19th century, Japan followed the lead of other world powers in developing an empire, pursuing that objective aggressively.

    As with other imperial powers, Japanese popular culture became increasingly jingoistic through the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century. The rise of Japanese nationalism was seen partly in the adoption of Shinto as a state religion from 1890, including its entrenchment in the education system. Shinto held the Emperor to be divine because he was deemed to be a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu. This provided justification for the requirement that the emperor and his representatives be obeyed without question.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:36 No.51019210
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    >>51018758
    post the link!
    post the link!
    post the link!
    post the link!
    post the link!!!111
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:37 No.51019222
    Victory in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) signified Japan's rise to the status of a major military power.

    Unlike many other major powers, Japan had not signed the Geneva Convention (1929)—also known as The Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva July 27, 1929—which was the version of the Geneva Convention that covered the treatment of prisoners of war during World War II.[23] Nevertheless, an Imperial Proclamation (1894) stated that Japanese soldiers should make every effort to win the war without violating international law. According to historian Yuki Tanaka, Japanese forces during the First Sino-Japanese War, released 1,790 Chinese prisoners without harm, once they signed an agreement not to take up arms against Japan again.[24] After the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), all 79,367 Russian Empire prisoners were released, and were paid for labour performed, in accordance with the Hague Convention.[25] Similarly the behaviour of the Japanese military in World War I (1914–18) was at least as humane as that of other militaries,[citation needed] with some German POWs of the Japanese finding life in Japan so agreeable that they stayed and settled in Japan after the war.[26][27]

    Two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda competing to see who could kill (with a sword) one hundred people first. The bold headline reads, "'Incredible Record' (in the Contest To Cut Down 100 People—Mukai 106 – 105 Noda—Both 2nd Lieutenants Go Into Extra Innings".
    [edit]
    The events of the 1930s and 1940s
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:37 No.51019237
    By the late 1930s, the rise of militarism in Japan created at least superficial similarities between the wider Japanese military culture and that of Nazi Germany's elite military personnel, such as those in the Waffen-SS. Japan also had a military secret police force, known as the Kempeitai, which resembled the Nazi Gestapo in its role in annexed and occupied countries.[28] As in other dictatorships, irrational brutality, hatred and fear became commonplace.[citation needed] Perceived failure, or insufficient devotion to the Emperor would attract punishment, frequently of the physical kind.[29] In the military, officers would assault and beat men under their command, who would pass the beating on to lower ranks, all the way down. In POW camps, this meant prisoners received the worst beatings of all,[30] partly in the belief that such punishments were merely the proper technique to deal with disobedience.[29]
    [edit]
    Crimes

    The Japanese military during the 1930s and 1940s is often compared to the military of Nazi Germany during 1933–45 because of the sheer scale of suffering. Much of the controversy regarding Japan's role in World War II revolves around the death rates of prisoners of war and civilians under Japanese occupation.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:38 No.51019254
    >262 replies and 72 image replies omitted
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:38 No.51019260
    The historian Chalmers Johnson has written that:
    It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimised. The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians [i.e. Soviet citizens]; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers—and, in the case of the Japanese, as [forced] prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand or Canada (but not Russia) you faced a 4% chance of not surviving the war; [by comparison] the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30%.[31]

    According to the findings of the Tokyo Tribunal, the death rate among POWs from Asian countries, held by Japan was 27.1%.[32] The death rate of Chinese POWs was much higher because—under a directive ratified on August 5, 1937 by Emperor Hirohito—the constraints of international law on treatment of those prisoners was removed.[33] Only 56 Chinese POWs were released after the surrender of Japan.[34] After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all prisoners taken at sea.[35]
    [edit]
    Mass killings

    Japanese soldiers shooting blindfolded Sikh prisoners. The photograph was found among Japanese records when British troops entered Singapore.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:38 No.51019279
    R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, states that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military murdered from nearly 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most likely 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war. "This democide was due to a morally bankrupt political and military strategy, military expediency and custom, and national culture."[36] According to Rummel, in China alone, during 1937-45, approximately 3.9 million Chinese were killed, mostly civilians, as a direct result of the Japanese operations and 10.2 millions in the course of the war.[37] The most infamous incident during this period was the Nanking Massacre of 1937-38, when, according to the findings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the Japanese Army massacred as many as 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war, although the accepted figure[by whom?] is somewhere in the hundreds of thousands.[38] In Southeast Asia, the Manila massacre, resulted in the death of 100,000 civilians in the Philippines. It is estimated that at least one out of every 20 Filipinos died at the hand of the Japanese during the occupation.[39][40] In the Sook Ching massacre, Lee Kuan Yew, the ex-Prime Minister of Singapore, said during an interview on with National Geographic that there were between 50,000 and 90,000 casualties[41] while according to Major General Kawamura Saburo, there were 5000 casualties in total.[42] There were other massacres of civilians e.g. the Kalagong massacre.

    Historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta reports that a "Three Alls Policy" (Sankō Sakusen) was implemented in China from 1942 to 1945 and was in itself responsible for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians. This scorched earth strategy, sanctioned by Hirohito himself, directed Japanese forces to "Kill All, Burn All, and Loot All."
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:38 No.51019282
    >>51018583

    Asia is OK. But Japan? For christs sake. Just look into your own country's history. There are still many chinese people (Nowadays, mind you) that dislike the Japanese.. God I wonder why?
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:39 No.51019299
    Additionally, captured allied service personnel were massacred in various incidents, including:
    Laha massacre[43]
    Banka Island massacre[44]
    Parit Sulong
    Palawan massacre
    SS Tjisalak massacre perpetrated by Japanese submarine I-8
    Wake Island massacre - See Battle of Wake Island
    Bataan Death March
    [edit]
    Human experimentation and biological warfare

    Shiro Ishii, commander of Unit 731.

    Special Japanese military units conducted experiments on civilians and POWs in China. One of the most infamous was Unit 731 under Shirō Ishii. Victims were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia, amputations, and were used to test biological weapons, among other experiments. Anesthesia was not used because it was believed to affect results.[45]
    To determine the treatment of frostbite, prisoners were taken outside in freezing weather and left with exposed arms, periodically drenched with water until frozen solid. The arm was later amputated; the doctor would repeat the process on the victim's upper arm to the shoulder. After both arms were gone, the doctors moved on to the legs until only a head and torso remained. The victim was then used for plague and pathogens experiments.[46]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:40 No.51019322
    According to GlobalSecurity.org, the experiments carried out by Unit 731 alone caused 3,000 deaths.[47] Furthermore, according to the 2002 International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare, the number of people killed by the Imperial Japanese Army germ warfare and human experiments is around 580,000.[48] According to other sources, "tens of thousands, and perhaps as many as 400,000, Chinese died of bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax and other diseases...", resulting from the use of biological warfare.[49] Top officers of Unit 731 were not prosecuted for war crimes after the war, in exchange for turning over the results of their research to the United States. They were also reportedly given responsible positions in Japan's pharmaceutical industry, medical schools and health ministry.[50][51]

    One case of human experimentation occurred in Japan itself. At least nine out of 12 crew members survived the crash of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber on Kyūshū, on May 5, 1945. (This plane was Lt. Marvin Watkins' crew of the 29th Bomb Group of the 6th Bomb Squadron.[52]) The bomber's commander was sent to Tokyo for interrogation, while the other survivors were taken to the anatomy department of Kyushu University, at Fukuoka, where they were subjected to vivisection or killed.[53][54]On March 11, 1948, 30 people, including several doctors and one female nurse, were brought to trial by the Allied war crimes tribunal.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:40 No.51019333
    Charges of cannibalism were dropped, but 23 people were found guilty of vivisection or wrongful removal of body parts. Five were sentenced to death, four to life imprisonment, and the rest to shorter terms. In 1950, the military governor of Japan, General Douglas MacArthur, commuted all of the death sentences and significantly reduced most of the prison terms. All of those convicted in relation to the university vivisection were free after 1958.[55] In addition, many participants who were responsible for these vivisections were never charged by the Americans or their allies in exchange for the information on the experiments.[56]

    In 2006, former IJN medical officer Akira Makino stated that he was ordered—as part of his training—to carry out vivisection on about 30 civilian prisoners in the Philippines between December 1944 and February 1945.[57] The surgery included amputations.[58] Ken Yuasa, a former military doctor in China, has also admitted to similar incidents in which he was compelled to participate.[59]
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    Use of chemical weapons
    See also: Changde chemical weapon attack

    According to historians Yoshiaki Yoshimi and Kentaro Awaya, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, gas weapons, such as tear gas, were used only sporadically in 1937 but in the spring of 1938, however the Imperial Japanese Army began full-scale use of phosgene, chlorine, Lewisite and nausea gas (red), and from summer 1939, mustard gas (yellow) was used against both Kuomintang and Communists Chinese troops.[60]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:41 No.51019354
    According to Yoshimi and Seiya Matsuno, Emperor Hirohito signed orders specifying the use of chemical weapons in China.[61] For example, during the Battle of Wuhan from August to October 1938, the Emperor authorized the use of toxic gas on 375 separate occasions, despite Article 23 of the Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)[17] and article V of the Treaty in Relation to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare[62] A resolution adopted by the League of Nations on May 14 condemned the use of poison gas by Japan.

    Another example is the Battle of Yichang in October 1941, during which the 19th Artillery Regiment helped the 13th Brigade of the IJA 11th Army by launching 1,000 yellow gas shells and 1,500 red gas shells at the Chinese forces. The area was crowded with Chinese civilians unable to evacuate. Some 3,000 Chinese soldiers were in the area and 1,600 were affected. The Japanese report say that "the effect of gas seems considerable".[63]

    In 2004, Yoshimi and Yuki Tanaka discovered in the Australian National Archives documents showing that cyanide gas was tested on Australian and Dutch prisoners in November 1944 on Kai Islands (Indonesia).[64]
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    Torture of prisoners of war
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:41 No.51019364
    Japanese imperial forces employed widespread use of torture on prisoners, usually in an effort to gather military intelligence quickly.[65] Tortured prisoners were often later executed. A former Japanese Army officer who served in China, Uno Shintaro, stated:
    The major means of getting intelligence was to extract information by interrogating prisoners. Torture was an unavoidable necessity. Murdering and burying them follows naturally. You do it so you won't be found out. I believed and acted this way because I was convinced of what I was doing. We carried out our duty as instructed by our masters. We did it for the sake of our country. From our filial obligation to our ancestors. On the battlefield, we never really considered the Chinese humans. When you're winning, the losers look really miserable. We concluded that the Yamato [i.e., Japanese] race was superior.[66]
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    Cannibalism

    Many written reports and testimonies collected by the Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, and investigated by prosecutor William Webb (the future Judge-in-Chief), indicate that Japanese personnel in many parts of Asia and the Pacific committed acts of cannibalism against Allied prisoners of war. In many cases this was inspired by ever-increasing Allied attacks on Japanese supply lines, and the death and illness of Japanese personnel as a result of hunger. However, according to historian Yuki Tanaka: "cannibalism was often a systematic activity conducted by whole squads and under the command of officers".
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:41 No.51019372
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    NIGGERS OF ASIA fufufu~~
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:42 No.51019385
    This frequently involved murder for the purpose of securing bodies. For example, an Indian POW, Havildar Changdi Ram, testified that: "[on November 12, 1944] the Kempeitai beheaded [an Allied] pilot. I saw this from behind a tree and watched some of the Japanese cut flesh from his arms, legs, hips, buttocks and carry it off to their quarters... They cut it [into] small pieces and fried it."[68]

    In some cases, flesh was cut from living people: another Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali (later a citizen of Pakistan), testified that in New Guinea:
    the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers. I personally saw this happen and about 100 prisoners were eaten at this place by the Japanese. The remainder of us were taken to another spot 50 miles [80 km] away where 10 prisoners died of sickness. At this place, the Japanese again started selecting prisoners to eat. Those selected were taken to a hut where their flesh was cut from their bodies while they were alive and they were thrown into a ditch where they later died.[69]

    Perhaps the most senior officer convicted of cannibalism was Lt Gen. Yoshio Tachibana (立花芳夫,Tachibana Yoshio), who with 11 other Japanese personnel was tried in August 1946 in relation to the execution of U.S. Navy airmen, and the cannibalism of at least one of them, during August 1944, on Chichi Jima, in the Bonin Islands. The airmen were beheaded on Tachibana's orders. As military and international law did not specifically deal with cannibalism, they were tried for murder and "prevention of honorable burial". Tachibana was sentenced to death, and hanged
    >> Proud To Be Asian ^_^ 06/23/11(Thu)13:42 No.51019389
    >>51019042
    Do you know the ugly inferior western scumbags who always fail cosplaying our Anime characters are currently raping Bleach? By making it into another shitty live action movie without featuring Asian actors and actress that will be released in 2012 by warmer bras.

    Dragon Ball
    Dead Or Alive
    Street Fighter
    ....
    ....
    And now Bleach

    This is one of the reason I hate westerners in general, puke them all.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:42 No.51019397
    Forced labor
    Main article: Slavery in Japan

    The Japanese military's use of forced labor, by Asian civilians and POWs also caused many deaths. According to a joint study by historians including Zhifen Ju, Mitsuyoshi Himeta, Toru Kubo and Mark Peattie, more than 10 million Chinese civilians were mobilized by the Kōa-in (Japanese Asia Development Board) for forced labour.[71] More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Burma-Siam Railway.[72]

    The U.S. Library of Congress estimates that in Java, between four and 10 million romusha (Japanese: "manual laborer"), were forced to work by the Japanese military.[73] About 270,000 of these Javanese laborers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia. Only 52,000 were repatriated to Java, meaning that there was a death rate of 80%.

    According to historian Akira Fujiwara, Emperor Hirohito personally ratified the decision to remove the constraints of international law (Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)) on the treatment of Chinese prisoners of war in the directive of August 5, 1937. This notification also advised staff officers to stop using the term "prisoners of war".[74] The Geneva Convention exempted POWs of sergeant rank or higher from manual labour, and stipulated that prisoners performing work should be provided with extra rations and other essentials. However, Japan was not a signatory to the Geneva Convention at the time, and Japanese forces did not follow the convention.
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    Comfort women
    Main article: Comfort women
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    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:45 No.51019479
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    Ha ha ha! How did I show up late to THIS party? PTBA is so pathetic, he makes my ass laugh!
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:46 No.51019512
    >>51019144
    >contradictory
    you keep using that word i do not even think you know what it means. surely you must be thinking of "hypocritical"
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:49 No.51019601
    military brothels in occupied countries, many of whom were recruited by force or deception, and regard themselves as having been sexually assaulted or sex slaves.[75]

    In 1992, historian Yoshiaki Yoshimi published material based on his research in archives at Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies. Yoshimi claimed that there was a direct link between imperial institutions such as the Kôa-in and "comfort stations". When Yoshimi's findings were published in the Japanese news media on January 12, 1993, they caused a sensation and forced the government, represented by Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato Koichi, to acknowledge some of the facts that same day. On January 17, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa presented formal apologies for the suffering of the victims, during a trip in South Korea. On July 6 and August 4, the Japanese government issued two statements by which it recognized that "Comfort stations were operated in response to the request of the military of the day", "The Japanese military was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of the comfort stations and the transfer of comfort women" and that the women were "recruited in many cases against their own will through coaxing and coercion".[76]

    The controversy was re-ignited on March 1, 2007, when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mentioned suggestions that a U.S. House of Representatives committee would call on the Japanese Government to "apologize for and acknowledge" the role of the Japanese Imperial military in wartime sex slavery.
    >> sage sage 06/23/11(Thu)13:49 No.51019607
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    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:50 No.51019621
    The terms "comfort women" (慰安婦 ianfu?) or "military comfort women" (従軍慰安婦 jûgun-ianfu?) are euphemisms for women in Japanese military brothels in occupied countries, many of whom were recruited by force or deception, and regard themselves as having been sexually assaulted or sex slaves.[75]

    In 1992, historian Yoshiaki Yoshimi published material based on his research in archives at Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies. Yoshimi claimed that there was a direct link between imperial institutions such as the Kôa-in and "comfort stations". When Yoshimi's findings were published in the Japanese news media on January 12, 1993, they caused a sensation and forced the government, represented by Chief Cabinet Secretary Kato Koichi, to acknowledge some of the facts that same day. On January 17, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa presented formal apologies for the suffering of the victims, during a trip in South Korea. On July 6 and August 4, the Japanese government issued two statements by which it recognized that "Comfort stations were operated in response to the request of the military of the day", "The Japanese military was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of the comfort stations and the transfer of comfort women" and that the women were "recruited in many cases against their own will through coaxing and coercion".[76]

    The controversy was re-ignited on March 1, 2007, when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe mentioned suggestions that a U.S. House of Representatives committee would call on the Japanese Government to "apologize for and acknowledge" the role of the Japanese Imperial military in wartime sex slavery. However, Abe denied that it applied to comfort stations. "There is no evidence to prove there was coercion, nothing to support it."[77] Abe's comments provoked negative reactions overseas. For example, a New York Times editorial on March 6 said:[78]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:50 No.51019647
    These were not commercial brothels. Force, explicit and implicit, was used in recruiting these women. What went on in them was serial rape, not prostitution. The Japanese Army's involvement is documented in the government's own defense files. A senior Tokyo official more or less apologized for this horrific crime in 1993... Yesterday, he grudgingly acknowledged the 1993 quasi apology, but only as part of a pre-emptive declaration that his government would reject the call, now pending in the United States Congress, for an official apology. America isn't the only country interested in seeing Japan belatedly accept full responsibility. Korea, China, and the Philippines are also infuriated by years of Japanese equivocations over the issue.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:50 No.51019654
    ITT everyone is getting trolled
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:51 No.51019671
    The same day, veteran soldier Yasuji Kaneko admitted to The Washington Post that the women "cried out, but it didn't matter to us whether the women lived or died. We were the emperor's soldiers. Whether in military brothels or in the villages, we raped without reluctance."[79]

    On April 17, 2007, Yoshimi and another historian, Hirofumi Hayashi, announced the discovery, in the archives of the Tokyo Trials, of seven official documents suggesting that Imperial military forces, such as the Tokeitai (naval secret police), directly coerced women to work in frontline brothels in China, Indochina and Indonesia. These documents were initially made public at the war crimes trial. In one of these, a lieutenant is quoted as confessing having organized a brothel and having used it himself. Another source refers to Tokeitai members having arrested women on the streets, and after enforced medical examinations, putting them in brothels.[80]

    On May 12, 2007, journalist Taichiro Kaijimura announced the discovery of 30 Netherland government documents submitted to the Tokyo tribunal as evidence of a forced massed prostitution incident in 1944 in Magelang.[81]

    In other cases, some victims from East Timor testified they were forced when they were not old enough to have started menstruating and repeatedly raped by Japanese soldiers.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:51 No.51019691
    A Dutch-Indonesian "comfort woman", Jan Ruff-O'Hearn (now resident in Australia), who gave evidence to the U.S. committee, said the Japanese Government had failed to take responsibility for its crimes, that it did not want to pay compensation to victims and that it wanted to rewrite history. Ruff-O'Hearn said that she had been raped "day and night" for three months by Japanese soldiers when she was 19.[83]

    To this day, only one Japanese woman published her testimony. This was done in 1971, when a former "comfort woman" forced to work for showa soldiers in Taiwan, published her memoirs under the pseudonym of Suzuko Shirota.[84]

    There are different theories on the breakdown of the comfort women's place of origin. While some Japanese sources claim that the majority of the women were from Japan, others, including Yoshimi, argue as many as 200,000 women,[85] mostly from Korea and China, and some other countries such as the Philippines, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, Netherlands,[86] and Australia[87] were forced to engage in sexual activity.[88]

    On 26 June 2007, the U.S. House of representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution asking that Japan "should acknowledge, apologize and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its military's coercion of women into sexual slavery during the war".[89] On 30 July 2007, the House of Representatives passed the resolution, while Shinzo Abe said this decision was "regrettable".
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:52 No.51019708
    Looting
    Main article: Japanese cultural artifacts controversy

    Many historians state that the Japanese government and individual military personnel engaged in widespread looting during the period of 1895 to 1945.[91][92][93][94] The stolen property included private land, as well as many different kinds of valuable goods looted from banks, depositories, temples, churches, other commercial premises, mosques, museums and private homes.

    Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, in their 2003 book Gold Warriors: America's secret recovery of Yamashita's gold—report that secret repositories of loot from across Southeast Asia, were created by the Japanese military in the Philippines during 1942–45. They allege that the theft was organized on a massive scale, either by yakuza gangsters such as Yoshio Kodama, or by officials at the behest of Emperor Hirohito, who wanted to ensure that as many of the proceeds as possible went to the government. The Seagraves also allege that Hirohito appointed his brother, Prince Chichibu, to head a secret organisation called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) for this purpose.

    General Tomoyuki Yamashita (second right) was tried in Manila between October 29 and December 7, 1945, by a U.S. military commission, on charges relating to the Manila Massacre and earlier occurrences in Singapore, and was sentenced to death. The case set a precedent regarding the responsibility of commanders for war crimes, and is known as the Yamashita Standard.
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    War crimes trials

    Soon after the war, the Allied powers indicted 25 individuals as Class-A war criminals, and 5,700 individuals were indicted as Class-B or Class-C war criminals by Allied criminal trials. Of these, 984 were initially condemned to death, 920 were actually executed, 475 received life sentences, 2,944 received some prison terms, 1,018 were acquitted, and 279 were not sentenced or not brought to trial.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:53 No.51019733
    These numbers included 178 ethnic Taiwanese and 148 ethnic Koreans.[95] The Class-A charges were all tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as "the Tokyo Trials". Other courts were formed in many different places in Asia and the Pacific.
    [edit]
    Tokyo Trials
    Main article: International Military Tribunal for the Far East

    The International Military Tribunal for the Far East was formed to try accused people in Japan itself.

    High ranking officers who were tried included Koichi Kido and Sadao Araki. Three former (unelected) prime ministers: Koki Hirota, Hideki Tojo, and Kuniaki Koiso were convicted of Class-A war crimes. Many military leaders were also convicted. Two people convicted as Class-A war criminals later served as ministers in post-war Japanese governments.
    Mamoru Shigemitsu served as foreign minister both during the war and in the post-war Hatoyama government.
    Okinori Kaya was finance minister during the war and later served as justice minister in the government of Hayato Ikeda. However, these two had no direct connection to alleged war crimes committed by Japanese forces, and foreign governments never raised the issue when they were appointed.

    Hirohito and all members of the imperial family implicated in the war such as Prince Chichibu, Prince Asaka, Prince Takeda and Prince Higashikuni were exonerated from criminal prosecutions by MacArthur, with the help of Bonner Fellers who allowed the major criminal suspects to coordinate their stories so that the Emperor would be spared from indictment.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:53 No.51019750
    Many historians criticize this decision. According to John Dower, "with the full support of MacArthur's headquarters, the prosecution functioned, in effect, as a defense team for the emperor"[97] and even Japanese activists who endorse the ideals of the Nuremberg and Tokyo charters, and who have labored to document and publicize the atrocities of the Showa regime "cannot defend the American decision to exonerate the emperor of war responsibility and then, in the chill of the Cold war, release and soon afterwards openly embrace accused right-winged war criminals like the later prime minister Nobusuke Kishi."[98] For Herbert Bix, "MacArthur's truly extraordinary measures to save Hirohito from trial as a war criminal had a lasting and profoundly distorting impact on Japanese understanding of the lost war."[99]
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    Other trials
    Main articles: Khabarovsk War Crime Trials and Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal

    October 26, 1945, Sandakan, North Borneo. During the investigation into Sandakan Death Marches and other incidents, Sergeant Hosotani Naoji (left, seated), a member of the Kempeitai unit at Sandakan, is interrogated by Squadron Leader F. G. Birchall (second right) of the Royal Australian Air Force, and Sergeant Mamo (right), a Nisei member of the U.S. Army/Allied Translator and Interpreter Service. Naoji confessed to shooting two Australian POWs and five ethnic Chinese civilians.

    Between 1946–51, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, the USSR, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and the Philippines all held military tribunals to try Japanese indicted for Class B and Class C war crimes. Some 5,600 Japanese personnel were prosecuted in more than 2,200 trials outside Japan. Class B defendants were accused of having committed such crimes themselves; class C defendants, mostly senior officers, were accused of planning, ordering, or failing to prevent them.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:54 No.51019769
    The parole-for-war-criminals movement

    In 1950, after most Allied war crimes trials had ended, thousands of convicted war criminals sat in prisons across Asia and across Europe, detained in the countries where they were convicted. Some executions were still outstanding as many Allied courts agreed to reexamine their verdicts, reducing sentences in some cases and instituting a system of parole, but without relinquishing control over the fate of the imprisoned (even after Japan and Germany had regained their status as sovereign countries).

    An intense and broadly supported campaign for amnesty for all imprisoned war criminals ensued (more aggressively in Germany than in Japan at first), as attention turned away from the top wartime leaders and towards the majority of "ordinary" war criminals (Class B/C in Japan), and the issue of criminal responsibility was reframed as a humanitarian problem.

    On March 7, 1950, MacArthur issued a directive that reduced the sentences by one-third for good behavior and authorized the parole of those who had received life sentences after fifteen years. Several of those who were imprisoned were released earlier on parole due to ill-health.

    The Japanese popular reaction to the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal found expression in demands for the mitigation of the sentences of war criminals and agitation for parole. Shortly after the San Francisco Peace Treaty came into effect in April 1952, a movement demanding the release of B- and C-class war criminals began, emphasizing the "unfairness of the war crimes tribunals" and the "misery and hardship of the families of war criminals."
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:54 No.51019791
    The movement quickly garnered the support of more than ten million Japanese. In the face of this surge of public opinion, the government commented that "public sentiment in our country is that the war criminals are not criminals. Rather, they gather great sympathy as victims of the war, and the number of people concerned about the war crimes tribunal system itself is steadily increasing."

    The parole-for-war-criminals movement was driven by two groups: those from outside who had 'a sense of pity' for the prisoners; and the war criminals themselves who called for their own release as part of an anti-war peace movement. The movement that arose out of 'a sense of pity' demanded 'just set them free (tonikaku shakuho o) regardless of how it is done'.

    On September 4, 1952, President Truman issued Executive Order 10393, establishing a Clemency and Parole Board for War Criminals to advise the President with respect to recommendations by the Government of Japan for clemency, reduction of sentence, or parole, with respect to sentences imposed on Japanese war criminals by military tribunals.[101]

    On May 26, 1954, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles rejected a proposed amnesty for the imprisoned war criminals but instead agreed to "change the ground rules" by reducing the period required for eligibility for parole from 15 years to 10.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:56 No.51019838
    Later investigations

    As with investigations of Nazi war criminals, official investigations and inquiries are still ongoing. During the 1990s, the South Korean government started investigating some individuals who had allegedly become wealthy while collaborating with the Japanese military.[119][120] In South Korea, it is also alleged that, during the political climate of the Cold War, many such individuals or their associates or relatives were able to acquire influence with the wealth they had acquired collaborating with the Japanese and assisted in the covering-up, or non-investigation, of war crimes in order not to incriminate themselves. With the wealth they had amassed during the years of collaboration, they were able to further benefit their families by obtaining higher education for their relatives.[120]

    Non-government bodies and individuals have also undertaken their own investigations. For example, in 2005, a South Korean freelance journalist, Jung Soo-woong, located in Japan some descendants of people involved in the 1895 assassination of Empress Myeongseong (Queen Min), the last Empress of Korea. The assassination was conducted by the Dark Ocean Society, perhaps under the auspices of the Japanese government, because of the Empress's involvement in attempts to reduce Japanese influence in Korea. Jung recorded the apologies of the individuals.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:56 No.51019858
    As these investigations continue more evidence is discovered each day. It has been claimed that the Japanese government intentionally destroyed the reports on Korean comfort women.[121][122] Some have cited Japanese inventory logs and employee sheets on the battlefield as evidence for this claim. For example, one of the names on the list was of a comfort woman who stated she was forced to be a prostitute by the Japanese. She was classified as a nurse along with at least a dozen other verified comfort women who were not nurses or secretaries. Currently, the South Korean government is looking into the hundreds of other names on these lists.[123]

    Sensitive information regarding the Japanese occupation of Korea is often difficult to obtain. Many argue that this is because the Government of Japan has gone out of its way to cover up many incidents that would otherwise lead to severe international criticism.[121][122][124] On their part, Koreans have often expressed their abhorrence of Human experimentations carried out by the Imperial Japanese Army where people often became fodder as human test subjects in such macabre experiments as liquid nitrogen tests or biological weapons development programs (See articles: Unit 731 and Shiro Ishii). Though some vivid and disturbing testimonies have survived, they are largely denied by the Japanese Government even to this day.

    Today cover-ups by Japan and other countries such as Britain are slowly exposed as more thorough investigations are conducted. The reason for the cover-up was because the British ministers wanted to end the war crimes trial early in order to maintain good relations with Japan to prevent the spread of communism.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:57 No.51019871
    List of major incidents
    Andaman Islands occupation
    Balalae IslandMassacres
    Alexandra Hospital massacre
    Banka Island massacre[44]
    Changjiao massacre
    Kalagong massacre
    Laha massacre[43]
    Manila massacre Nanking Massacre
    Palawan Massacre
    Parit Sulong Massacre
    Sook Ching massacre
    Tol Plantation massacre
    Wake Island massacre Units
    Unit 100
    Unit 200
    Unit 516
    Unit 543
    Unit 731
    Unit 773 Unit 1644
    Unit 1855
    Unit 2646
    Unit 8604
    Unit 9420 War crimes
    Bataan Death March
    Burma Railway
    Comfort women
    Hell ships
    Panjiayu tragedy Sandakan Death Marches
    Three Alls Policy
    War crimes in Manchukuo
    Changteh chemical weapon attack
    Kaimingye germ weapon attack
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:57 No.51019887
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    Bataan Death March
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Route of the death march. Section from San Fernando to Capas was by rail.[1][2]

    The Bataan Death March (Batān Shi no Kōshin (バターン死の行進?)) was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners.[3]

    The 60 mi (97 km) march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the Japanese Army, and was later judged by an Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime.Contents [hide]
    1 Background
    2 The march
    3 Public responses
    3.1 Japanese
    3.2 United States
    4 War crimes trial
    5 Memorials and commemorative events
    6 See also
    7 References
    7.1 Notes
    8 Further reading
    9 External links

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    Background[hide]
    v · d · e
    Philippines Campaign (1941–1942)

    Bataan – Death march – Corregidor – Mindanao
    U.S. and Filipino forces surrender to the Japanese Army at Bataan

    On April 3, 1942, after 3 months of siege, the Japanese Fourteenth Army, led by Liutenant General Masaharu Homma staged an attack on U.S.-Filipino forces in the Bataan Peninsula. The siege had weakened the U.S.-Filipino forces, who were suffering extensively from malnutrition and disease. The attack smashed their defensive lines, leading to a surrender by U.S. Major General Edward P. King.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:58 No.51019923
    The Japanese planned the march in order to move 78,000 prisoners from the southern Bataan Peninsula, removing them from the theater of operations, in preparation for their siege of Corregidor.[4][5][6]

    There were several motivations for ordering the march. The POWs would have placed a large burden on the Japanese logistics system as they attempted a military buildup along the coast in preparation for the assault on Corregidor. Homma was also planning an amphibious assault, but wanted the U.S. troops at Corregidor to believe that he planned to use blockade and bombardment, and did not want American troops nearby as his Army practiced amphibious landing tactics. Also, the prisoners and their guards would be subject to U.S. artillery bombardment if they remained near the theater of operations.[4]

    The original plan for prisoner transport had been designed in advance of the operation. The Japanese Army at Bataan was not a highly motorized force, and did not have vehicles to spare that could be used to transport the prisoners, so marching the prisoners was the only means of relocating them. They were to be marched 25 miles to the central collection point of Balanga, after which they would be marched an additional 31 miles to the town of San Fernando. From there, they were to be transferred by rail to Capas, where they would then be marched 9 miles to the abandoned military outpost Camp O'Donnell.[4]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:58 No.51019929
    >>51018583
    Fags like you made me glad that I left Indonesia and head over to US.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)13:59 No.51019947
    A march of 25 miles a day was considered standard for the Japanese army, whereas 15-20 miles was achievable by U.S. troops only under the best of conditions (and in this case, the U.S. troops were exhausted after five days of battle, malnourished, and suffering from a host of tropical diseases). The plan anticipated only 25,000 prisoners, and had presumed that the Americans would hold out for a month longer than they did (by which time supply lines would be in place to support the prisoners). The Japanese, unaware that the U.S. troops had been on reduced rations, and also that they were suffering so badly from disease, had planned to have the prisoners marched to Balanga in a day, and did not have plans to distribute food to the prisoners until they arrived at this collection point (after which they had three resupply points set up).[4][7]
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    The march

    Dead soldiers on the Bataan Death March

    The Japanese were clearly unprepared for the volume of prisoners that they were suddenly responsible for, and there was no organized plan for how to handle them. Prisoners were stripped of their weapons and valuables, and told to march to Balanga. Some were beaten and mistreated. The first major atrocity occurred when between 350 and 400 Filipino officers and NCOs were summarily executed after they had surrendered.[4]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:00 No.51019965
    Because of the lack of preparation to supply the prisoners with food or water until they had reached Balanga, many of the prisoners died along the way of heat or exhaustion.[8] Prisoners were given no food for the first three days, and were only allowed to drink water from filthy water buffalo wallows on the side of the road.[9] Furthermore, Japanese troops would frequently beat and bayonet prisoners that began to fall behind, or were unable to walk. Once they arrived in Balanga, the overcrowded conditions and poor hygiene caused dysentery and other diseases to rapidly spread amongst the prisoners. The Japanese failed to provide them with medical care, leaving U.S. medical personnel to tend to the sick and wounded (with little to no supplies).[8]

    Prisoners on the march from Bataan to the prison camp, May 1942. (National Archives). Also appears [1].

    In June, 2001 U.S. Congressional Representative Rohrbacher described the horrors and brutality that the prisoners experienced on the march:
    "They were beaten, and they were starved as they marched. Those who fell were bayoneted. Some of those who fell were beheaded by Japanese officers who were practicing with their samurai swords from horseback. The Japanese culture at that time reflected the view that any warrior who surrendered had no honor; thus was not to be treated like a human being. Thus they were not committing crimes against human beings.[...] The Japanese soldiers at that time [...] felt they were dealing with subhumans and animals."[10]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:00 No.51019968
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    >Mass rape
    >20.000
    Holy shit can you imagine it?
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:00 No.51019984
    Trucks were known to drive over some of those who fell or succumbed to fatigue,[11][12][13] and "cleanup crews" put to death those too weak to continue. Marchers were harassed with random bayonet stabs and beatings.[14]

    From San Fernando, the prisoners were transported by rail to Capas. 100 or more prisoners were stuffed into each of the trains' boxcars, which were unventilated and sweltering in the tropical heat. The trains had no sanitation facilities, and disease continued to take a heavy toll on the prisoners. After they reached Capas, they were forced to walk the final 9 miles to Camp O'Donnell.[8] Even after arriving at Camp O'Donnell, the survivors of the march continued to die at a rate of 30-50 per day, leading to thousands more deaths. Most of the dead were buried in mass graves that the Japanese dug out with bulldozers on the outside of the barbed wire surrounding the compound.[15]

    The death toll of the march is difficult to assess as thousands of captives were able to escape from their guards (although many were killed during their escapes), and it is not known how many died in the fighting that was taking place concurrently. All told, approximately 5,000–10,000 Filipino and 600–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach Camp O'Donnell.[8]
    [edit]
    Public responses

    News of the Bataan Death March sparked outrage in the US, as reflected in this poster.
    [edit]
    Japanese

    In an attempt to counter the propaganda value of the march, the Japanese had The Manila Times claim that the prisoners were treated humanely and their death rate had to be attributed to the intransigence of the American commanders who did not surrender until their men were on the verge of death.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:01 No.51020000
    War crimes trial

    U. S. Army personnel toiled to identify the charred remains of Americans captured at Bataan and burned alive on Palawan. March 20, 1945

    In December 1943, Homma was selected as the minister of information for the incoming prime minister, Kiso Kuniaki. In September 1945, he was arrested and indicted for war crimes by Allied troops.[20] Homma was charged with 43 different counts of crimes against humanity.[21] The court found that Homma had permitted his troops to commit "brutal atrocities and other high crimes".[22] The general, who had been absorbed in his efforts to capture Corregidor after the fall of Bataan, claimed in his defense that he remained ignorant of the high death toll of the death march until two months after the event.[citation needed] On February 26, 1946 he was sentenced to death by firing squad.[20] He was executed on April 3, 1946 outside Manila.[citation needed]

    Also in Japan, Generals Hideki Tōjō (later Prime Minister), Kenji Doihara, Seishirō Itagaki, Heitarō Kimura, Iwane Matsui and Akira Muto, and Baron Kōki Hirota were found guilty in responsible to the brutal maltreatment of American and Filipino POW's, and were executed by hanging at Sugamo Prison in Ikebukuro on December 23, 1948. Several others were sentenced to imprisonment of between 7, 20 and 22 years.[citation needed]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:02 No.51020044
    Xenophobia in Shōwa Japan
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    Xenophobia in Shōwa Japan refers to xenophobia and racial discrimination displayed toward non-Japanese during the first part of the Shōwa era.

    Racial discrimination against other Asians was habitual in Imperial Japan, having begun with the start of Japanese colonialism.[1]. The Shōwa regime thus preached racial superiority and racialist theories, based on sacred nature of the Yamato-damashii. According to historian Kurakichi Shiratori, one of emperor Shōwa's teachers :«Therefore nothing in the world compares to the divine nature (shinsei) of the imperial house and likewise the majesty of our national polity (kokutai). Here is one great reason for Japan's superiority.» [2]

    According to An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (大和民族を中核とする世界政策の検討, Yamato Minzoku o Chūkaku to suru Sekai Seisaku no Kentō?), a 1943 report of the Ministry of Health and Welfare completed on July 1, 1943, just as a family has harmony and reciprocity, but with a clear-cut hierarchy, the Japanese, as a purportedly racially superior people, were destined to rule Asia “eternally” as the head of the family of Asian nations.[3]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:02 No.51020056
    Attacks against Western foreigners and their Japanese friends by ordinary citizens, rose in the 1930s under the influence of Japanese military-political doctrines in the Showa period, after a long build-up starting in the Meiji period when only a few samurai die-hards did not accept foreigners in Japan.[4]

    Racism was omnipresent in the shōwa press during the Holy war against China and the Greater East Asia War and the media's descriptions of the superiority of the Yamato people was unwaveringly consistent.[5]. The first major anti-foreigner publicity campaign, called Bōchō (Guard Against Espionage), was launched in 1940 alongside the proclamation of the Tōa shin Shitsujō (New Order in East Asia) and its first step, the Hakko ichiu.[6]

    Mostly after the launching of the Greater East Asia War, Westerners were detained by official authorities or nationalists, and on occasion were objects of violent assaults, sent to police jails or military detention centers or suffered bad treatment in the street. This applied particularly to Americans and British; in Manchukuo at the same period xenophobic attacks were carried out against Chinese and other non-Japanese.Contents [hide]
    1 Examples of xenophobia
    2 Departure of Westerners
    3 See also
    4 References

    [edit]
    Examples of xenophobia
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:03 No.51020062
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    >- Mass kill over 100.000 innocent Japanese in Tokyo using napalm bombs
    >- Mass kill over 500.000 innocent Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki using nuclear bombs
    >- Mass kill over 50.000 innocent Japanese in Okinawa
    >- Mass rape over 20.000 innocent Japanese in Okinawa
    >- Mass rape over 10.000 innocent Japanese in Tokyo
    >- Mass rape over 3.200 innocent Japanese in Kyoto

    Still not enough, Japan?
    Well, it cannot be helped. It seems like we have to use that
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:03 No.51020078
    Nationalist gangs threw stones at the British embassy in Tokyo and other partisans in China attacked British citizens in Tientsin.
    The American Embassy was spotted with excrement at least twice
    Immediately after the Fall of France in 1940, about 60 British citizens were detained by Kempeitai.
    The case of Journalist Cox, a Reuters correspondent and his fate later when in Kempeitai hands.

    Separate from official authorities, with direct or indirect support the Japanese nationalists believed in their "right" to inflict bad treatment on foreigners.
    In February 1941, when the move of Japanese forces into South Asian lands started, the Count of Tascher, commercial attaché at the French Embassy in Tokyo was subject to a violent assault, suffered blows and was knocked unconscious. The "patriots" kicked the diplomat and inflicted injuries in his stomach and face. The "patriots" abandoned the diplomat with blood over the street, near Kobe where he had recently arriving from Shanghai aboard the American vessel President Coolidge.

    This incident provoked diplomatic protests from ambassadors led by American diplomat Joseph C. Grew accompanied by an Italian diplomat, with exception of German Ambassador. The Italian representative added why his wife was also attacked by nationalists in the same period.
    Other examples of the particular "friendly" reception of natives was with some British merchants, who were objects of citizen "arrests" by nationalists and sent to police prison. It was alleged that they held a list of secret keys. In the end these "keys" were only lists made by his wife for making local crafts from fabric.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:03 No.51020090
    I haven't seen this tripfag and copy pasta bullshit in a while.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:03 No.51020091
    Fucking idiots replying to this guy again. No matter what happens, she's always a fucking successful troll. There is probably a thread in /cgl/ as well.

    Worst Summer yet.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:04 No.51020099
    >>51018829

    >forced suicide
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:04 No.51020105
    Joe Dynan, aide to the chief in the Associated Press local office Max Hill, did not return after making a visit to a friend in the outskirts of Tokyo. Joe had taken the last train out to Yokohama at Shinagawa, but seeing as the train did not finish the journey, he decided to wait in a station. Here he saw some military trucks with soldiers and movements of trains full of Imperial Troops. He continued his observation when a Keishicho officer arrested him for espionage at 1:00 a.m. Joe was taken to the police station and submitted to heavy interrogation by the security authorities. The next day with the assistance of some influential friends they convinced the authorities of his innocence, and he was released.
    The wife of American businessmen of American President Lines, was surprised when meeting some "strange" person searching her home under her furniture for any important papers. This company was important to the authorities and foreign or native workers were kept under surveillance.
    An engineer of the Lockheed Aircraft Company, had his door forced in the Imperial Hotel and his suitcases searched. He saw this with some frequency and seeing one Keishicho officer by mistake one day, he excused his entry as an "error". Another colleague asked why his correspondence sent from California was opened or lost en route.
    Hal Schlieder, another American who remained, was calling upon one day by Keishicho authorities, in the Station Hotel of Tokyo, living with his wife. The authorities wanted to know the meaning of some "object" in their window at the Imperial Palace. He explained that the "object" was only a razor blade left there in error.
    The author of "Goodbye Japan", Joseph Newman was object of similar actions by Keishicho units, and a victim of telephone tapping by the Tokko service, when he sent his information to the New York Herald Tribune.
    The wife of American Tea businessman who cycled the Taihoku streets, was detained.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:05 No.51020142
    >>51020099

    It's like the consensual rape?
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:05 No.51020149
    Matsuo a Japanese worker at the American embassy in the province, was convicted of espionage for the Americans and immediately arrested. The American authorities were ordered to detain any Japanese Custom Dispatches in Manila Port under pressure of the authorities. The allegations by the local security authorities was why Japanese workers had to question about which cars would be bought in the next year. Such questions were considered a national security topic. The Americans energetically protested, but the Japanese reaffirmed their allegations of American spying. Days later Matsuo was freed from jail.
    Surprised when the war broke out in Europe, German and Italian vessels sought refuge in the ports of Formosa, but the request was denied by the Japanese authorities on the islands
    [edit]
    Departure of Westerners

    When they saw these attacks, the United States Department of State sent advice to their citizens and other westerners to leave Japan as promptly as possibly; they started the exodus to America in October 1940 to October 1941.

    2,500 Americans left; only those remained to support necessary commerce and diplomacy. In October 1940 the last edition of the Japan Advertiser was published, the last American independent journal in Japan. Some of the contributors were: Don Brown (from Philadelphia), the director Newton Edgards (from Seattle), Richard Fujii, (American-Japanese from Honolulu), Al Downs (from Montana), Jim Tew (from Florida, Dick Tenelly (from Washington), the social journalist Thelma Hecht (from Hollywood), Wilfred Fleisher, Ray Cromley along with other collaborators Clarence Davies, Al Pinder, and B.W.Fleisher the advertising director decided to sell the properties to locals before return to United States.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:06 No.51020185
    >>51018583
    >>51018583
    >>51018583
    >>51018583
    >>51018583

    Lee, is that you? ;__;
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:08 No.51020241
    Palawan Massacre
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    U. S. Army personnel toiled to identify the charred remains of Americans captured at Bataan and burned alive on Palawan. 20 March 1945

    During World War II, in order to prevent the rescue of prisoners of war by the advancing allies, on 14 December 1944, units of the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army (under the command of General Tomoyuki Yamashita) brought the POWs back to their camp and when an air raid warning was called the remaining 150 prisoners of war at Puerto Princesa dove into three covered trenches for refuge which were then set on fire using barrels of gasoline.[1]

    Prisoners who tried to escape the flames were shot down by machine gun fire. Others attempted to escape by climbing over a cliff that ran along one side of the trenches, but were later hunted down and killed. Only 11 men escaped the slaughter and between 133 and 141 were killed.

    The massacre is the basis for the recently published book Last Man Out: Glenn McDole, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War II by Bob Wilbanks, and the opening scenes of the 2005 Miramax film, The Great Raid. A memorial has been erected on the site and McDole, in his eighties, was able to attend the dedication.

    Evidence of the episode has been recorded by two of the eleven survivors: Glenn McDole and Rufus Willie Smith from the 4th US Marines[2] Bones from the victims were discovered in early 1945.[3] 16 Japanese soldiers were put on trial for the massacre in Yokohama in August 1948.[4]

    A trial of Japanese personnel involved in the massacre
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:09 No.51020255
    Parit Sulong Massacre
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Wreckage of the 45th Indian Brigade still littered on both sides of the road at Parit Sulong on 26 September 1945. Some of the gear of some 150 Australian and Indian troops massacred by the Japanese can be seen on the left.

    On January 23, 1942, the Parit Sulong Massacre was committed against Allied soldiers by members of the Imperial Guards Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. A few days earlier, the Allied troops had ambushed the Japanese near Gemas and blown up a bridge there.

    During the Battle of Muar, members of both the Australian 8th Division and the 45th Indian Infantry Brigade were making a fighting withdrawal when they became surrounded near the bridge at Parit Sulong. The Allies fought the larger Japanese forces for two days until they ran low on ammunition and food. Able-bodied soldiers were ordered to disperse into the jungle, the only way they could return to Allied lines. Approximately 150 Australians and Indians were too badly injured to move, and their only option was surrender. Some accounts estimate that as many as 300 Allied troops were taken prisoner at Parit Sulong.

    The wounded prisoners of war were kicked and beaten with rifle butts by the Imperial Guards. At least some were tied up with wire in the middle of the road, machine-gunned, had petrol poured over them, were set alight and (in the words of Russell Braddon) were "after their incineration — [were] systematically run over, back and forwards, by Japanese driven trucks."[1] Anecdotal accounts by local people also reported POWs being tied together with wire and forced to stand on a bridge, before a Japanese soldier shot one, causing the rest to fall into the Simpang Kiri river and drown.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:09 No.51020261
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    Nanking Massacre greets you from the 30s
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:09 No.51020272
    The massacre's aftermath

    Lt Ben Hackney of the Australian 2/19th Battalion feigned death and managed to escape. He crawled through the countryside for six weeks with two broken legs, before he was recaptured.[2] Hackney survived internment in Japanese POW camps, and was part of the labour force on the notorious Burma Railway. He and two other survivors gave evidence regarding the massacre to Allied war crimes investigators.

    The commander of the Imperial Guards, Lt Gen. Takuma Nishimura, was later in charge of occupation forces in eastern Singapore. He was indirectly involved in the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore. Nishimura retired from the Japanese army in 1942 and was made military Governor of Sumatra. Following the war, he was tried by a British military court in relation to the Sook Ching massacre. Nishimura received a life sentence, of which he served four years. As he returned to Japan, Nishimura was removed from a ship at Hong Kong, by Australian military police and charged in relation to the Parit Sulong massacre. Nishimura was taken to Manus Island in the Territory of New Guinea, where he faced an Australian military court. Evidence was presented stating that Nishimura had ordered the shootings at Parit Sulong and the destruction of bodies. He was convicted and executed by hanging on June 11, 1951.

    In 1996, Australian journalist Ian Ward published Snaring the Other Tiger, which suggested that the Australian Army prosecutor, Captain James Godwin — a former Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot who had been ill-treated as a POW in Sumatra — had "manipulated" evidence to implicate Nishimura.[3] Ward states that Godwin took no action on the testimony of Lieutenant Fujita Seizaburo, who reportedly took responsibility for the Parit Sulong massacre. Fujita was not charged and his fate is unknown.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:09 No.51020277
    >>51018583
    >dirty asians.
    >Innocent.

    >Nope.jpg
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:10 No.51020303
    On 5 October 1943, American naval aircraft from Yorktown raided Wake. Two days later, fearing an imminent invasion, Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara ordered the execution of the 98 captured American civilian workers remaining on the island, kept to perform forced labor. They were taken to the northern end of the island, blindfolded and executed with a machine gun. One of the prisoners (whose name has never been discovered) escaped the massacre, apparently returning to the site to carve the message 98 US PW 5-10-43 on a large coral rock near where the victims had been hastily buried in a mass grave. The unknown American was recaptured, and Sakaibara personally beheaded him with a katana. The inscription on the rock can still be seen and is a Wake Island landmark.

    On 4 September 1945, the remaining Japanese garrison surrendered to a detachment of U.S. Marines. The handover of Wake was officially conducted in a brief ceremony aboard Levy. After the war, Sakaibara and his subordinate—Lieutenant-Commander Tachibana—were sentenced to death for the massacre and other war crimes. Several Japanese officers in American custody had committed suicide over the incident, leaving written statements that incriminated Sakaibara. Admiral Sakaibara was hanged on June 18, 1947.[12] Eventually, Tachibana's sentence was commuted to life in prison. The murdered civilian POWs were reburied after the war in Honolulu's National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, commonly known as Punchbowl Crater.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:11 No.51020324
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    -1/10
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:12 No.51020362
    At about 13:00 on 14 February, Japanese soldiers advanced towards the Alexandra Barracks Hospital.[19] A British lieutenant—acting as an envoy with a white flag—approached the Japanese forces but was bayoneted and killed.[20] After the Japanese troops entered the hospital, a number of patients, including those undergoing surgery at the time, were killed along with doctors and members of nursing staff.[21] The following day about 200 male staff members and patients who had been assembled and bound the previous day,[22] many of them walking wounded, were ordered to walk about 400 m (440 yd) to an industrial area. Anyone who fell on the way was bayoneted. The men were forced into a series of small, badly ventilated rooms and were imprisoned overnight without water. Some died during the night as a result of their treatment.[23] The remainder were bayoneted the following morning.[24]

    Private Haines of the Wiltshire Regiment—another survivor—had been in the hospital suffering from malaria. He wrote a four-page account of the massacre, that was sold by his daughter by private auction in 2008;[25] Haines describes how the Japanese did not consider those who were weak, wounded or who had surrendered to be worthy of life. After surrendering, staff were ordered to proceed down a corridor, where Sergeant Rogers was bayoneted twice in the back and another officer, Captain Parkinson, was bayoneted through the throat. Others killed included Captain Heevers and Private Lewis. Captain Smiley and Private Sutton were bayoneted but survived by playing dead. Many who had not been imprisoned in the tiny rooms in the industrial area were systematically taken away in small groups and bayoneted or macheted to death. This continued for 24 hours, leaving 320 men and one woman dead. Those who lost their lives included a corporal from the Loyal Regiment, who was impaled on the operating table, and even a Japanese prisoner who was perhaps mistaken for a Gurkha.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:12 No.51020367
    >Implying Asians are not ugly as shit and don't resort to plastic surgery.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:13 No.51020391
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    wow i didnt know that 20 and 50 where such big #s when talking about populations. nice use of commas op
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:13 No.51020400
    There were only five known survivors, including George Britton (1922–2009) of the East Surrey Regiment,[26] and Private Haines, also Hugo Hughes, who lost his right leg, and George Wort, who lost an arm, both of the Malay Regiment.[27] There may have been others. Haines' account came to life only after his death. Survivors were so traumatised that they rarely spoke of their ordeal.

    After three days with no food or drink, those unable to walk were taken to Changi on wheelbarrows and carts, no motorised vehicles being available.

    Banka Island massacre
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Coordinates: 2°15′S 106°00′E The Bangka Island massacre took place on 16 February 1942, when Japanese soldiers machine gunned 22 Australian military nurses.
    There was only one survivor.

    On 12 February 1942, the merchant ship Vyner Brooke left Singapore just before the city fell to the Imperial Japanese Army. The ship contained many injured service personnel and 64 Australian nurses of the 2/13th Australian General Hospital.[1] The ship was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sank.[1] Two nurses were killed in the bombing, nine were last seen drifting away from the ship on a raft and were never heard from again, and the rest reached shore at Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

    These nurses joined up with a group of men and injured personnel from the ship. Once it was discovered that the island was held by the Japanese, an officer of the Vyner Brooke went to surrender the group to the authorities in Muntok.[1] A small group of women and children headed off after him. The Australian nurses stayed to care for the wounded. They set up a shelter with a large Red Cross sign on it.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:14 No.51020420
    At mid-morning the ship’s officer returned with about twenty Japanese soldiers. They ordered all the wounded men capable of walking to travel around a headland. The nurses heard a quick succession of shots before the Japanese soldiers came back, sat down in front of the women and cleaned their bayonets and rifles.[1] A Japanese officer ordered the remaining twenty two nurses and one civilian woman to walk into the surf.[1] A machine gun was set up on the beach and when the women were waist deep, they were machine-gunned. All but Sister Lt Vivian Bullwinkel were killed.[1]

    Shot in the diaphragm, Bullwinkel was unconscious when she washed up on the beach and was left for dead. She evaded capture for ten days, but was eventually caught and imprisoned. She survived the war and gave evidence of the massacre at a war crimes trial in Tokyo in 1947.[2]Contents [hide]
    1 Footnotes
    2 References
    3 Further reading
    4 External links

    [edit]
    Footnotes
    ^ a b c d e f L, Klemen (1999-2000). "The Bangka Island Massacre, February 1942". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942.
    ^ Banka Island Massacre (1942)
    [edit]
    References
    L, Klemen (1999-2000). "Massacres of POWs, Dutch East Indies, 1941-1942". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942.
    [edit]
    Further reading
    Lionel Wigmore The Japanese Thrust - Australia in the War of 1939 - 1945, volume 20 (pdf) , Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1957.
    White Coolies, Betty Jeffrey, Eden Books, Sydney, 1954, ISBN 0-207-16107-0
    Shaw, Ian W. (2010). On Radji Beach. Sydney, NSW: Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 9781405040242. OCLC 610570783.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:15 No.51020473
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    oh yah op look at this even azns can ruin cosplay
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:15 No.51020489
    Laha massacre

    Allied casualties in the battle were relatively light. However, at intervals for a fortnight after the surrender, IJN personnel chose more than 300 Australian and Dutch prisoners of war at random and summarily executed them, at or near Laha airfield.[6] In part this was revenge for the sinking of the Japanese minesweeper, as some surviving crew of the minesweeper took part.[6] Those killed included W/Cdr Scott and Maj. Newbury. According to an Australian War Memorial principal historian, Dr Peter Stanley, over the following three and a half years, the surviving POWs:
    ...suffered an ordeal and a death rate second only to the horrors of Sandakan, first on Ambon and then after many were sent to the island of Hainan [China] late in 1942. Three-quarters of the Australians captured on Ambon died before the war's end. Of the 582 who remained on Ambon 405 died. They died of overwork, malnutrition, disease and one of the most brutal regimes among camps in which bashings were routine.[7]

    In 1946, incidents which followed the fall of Ambon became the subject of one of the largest ever war crimes trials: 93 Japanese personnel were tried by an Australian military tribunal at Ambon. R. Adm Hatakeyama was found to have ordered the Laha massacres, however he died before he could be tried.[8] Commander Kunito Hatakeyama, who was in direct command of the massacres, was sentenced to execution by hanging. Lieutenant Kenichi Nakagawa was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Three other Japanese officers were executed for mistreatment of POWs and/or civilians on other occasions, during 1942–45. (The trials were the basis for the feature film Blood Oath, released in 1990.)

    General Itō was sentenced to death that same year for war crimes committed in other parts of the Pacific.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:18 No.51020573
    The Soviet invasion of Manchuria or, as the Soviets named it, the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation (Russian: Манчжурская стратегическая наступательная операция, lit. Manchzhurskaya Strategicheskaya Nastupatelnaya Operaciya), began on August 9, 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and was the largest campaign of the 1945 Soviet-Japanese War. The Soviets conquered Manchukuo, Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia), northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The rapid defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army was a significant factor in the Japanese surrender and the termination of World War II.[1][2][5][6][7][8][9][10]

    Since 1983, the operation has sometimes been called Operation August Storm, after American Army historian LTC David Glantz used this title for a paper on the subject.[1]Contents [hide]
    1 Summary
    2 Background and buildup
    3 Combatant forces
    3.1 Soviets
    3.2 Japanese
    4 Campaign
    5 Aftermath
    6 Importance and consequences
    7 See also
    8 References and notes
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:19 No.51020595
    Soviet gains in North East Asia, August 1945.
    Date August 9 – 20, 1945
    Location Manchuria/Manchukuo,
    Inner Mongolia/Mengjiang,
    Sakhalin,
    the Kuril Islands, and
    Korea
    Result Decisive Soviet victory.
    Contributed to Japanese surrender. Liberation of Manchuria and Defeat of Manchukuo.
    Territorial
    changes Soviets regain territory lost by Imperial Russia after the Russo-Japanese war in 1904.

    Belligerents
    Allies:
    Soviet Union
    Mongolia
    (Outer Mongolia)
    Republic of China Axis:
    Japan
    Manchukuo
    Mengjiang
    (Inner Mongolia)
    Commanders and leaders
    Aleksandr Vasilevsky
    [1][2] Otozo Yamada (POW)
    Strength
    Soviet Union:
    1,685,500 men,[3]
    26,137 artillery,
    1,852 sup. artillery,
    5,556 tanks and self-propelled artillery
    5,368 aircraft
    Mongolia:
    16,000 men Japan:
    1,217,000 men,
    5,360 artillery,
    1,155 tanks,
    1,800 aircraft,
    1,215 vehicles[1]
    Manchukuo:
    200,000 men[4]
    Mengjiang:
    10,000 men
    Casualties and losses
    12,031 KIA/MIA,
    24,425 WIA[3] (Soviet estimate)
    83,737 KIA,
    640,276 POWs;
    (Japanese estimate)
    21,000 KIA
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:19 No.51020619
    >>51018714
    Yeah really I could use a second puberty! Kinda on the short side.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:19 No.51020620
    Summary
    See Soviet–Japanese War (1945)#Summary for a more detailed summary.

    As agreed with the Allies at the Tehran Conference (November 1943) and the Yalta Conference (February 1945), the Soviet Union entered World War II's Pacific Theater within three months of the end of the war in Europe. The invasion began on August 9, 1945, precisely three months after the German surrender on May 8 (May 9, 0:43 Moscow time).

    Although the commencement of the invasion fell between the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, on August 6, and Nagasaki, on August 9, the timing of the invasion had been planned well in advance and was determined by the timing of the agreements at Tehran and Yalta, the long term buildup of Soviet forces in the Far East since Tehran, and the date of the German surrender; on August 3, Marshal Vasilevsky reported to Stalin that, if necessary, he could attack on the morning of August 5.

    At 11pm Trans-Baikal time on 8 August 1945, Soviet foreign minister Molotov informed Japanese ambassador Sato that the Soviet Union had declared war on the Empire of Japan, and that from August 9 the Soviet Government would consider itself to be at war with Japan.[11] At one minute past midnight Trans-Baikal time on 9 August 1945, the Soviets commenced their invasion simultaneously on three fronts to the east, west and north of Manchuria:
    the Khingan-Mukden Offensive Operation (August 9, 1945 – September 2, 1945);
    the Harbin-Kirin Offensive Operation (August 9, 1945 – September 2, 1945); and
    the Sungari Offensive Operation (August 9, 1945 – September 2, 1945).
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:20 No.51020642
    Though the battle extended beyond the borders traditionally known as Manchuria—that is, the traditional lands of the Manchus—the coordinated and integrated invasions of Japan's northern territories has also been called the Battle of Manchuria.[12] Since 1983, the operation has sometimes been called Operation August Storm, after American Army historian LTC David Glantz used this title for a paper on the subject.[1] It has also been referred to as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

    This offensive should not be confused with the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars, (particularly the Battle of Khalkhin Gol/Nomonhan Incident of May–September 1939), that ended in Japan's defeat in 1939, and led to the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact.[13]
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    Background and buildup
    See Soviet–Japanese War (1945)#Background and buildup.
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    Combatant forces
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    Soviets

    The Far East Command,[2] under Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky, had a plan for the conquest of Manchuria that was simple but huge in scale,[1] calling for a massive pincer movement over all of Manchuria. This pincer movement was to be performed by the Transbaikal Front from the west and by the 1st Far East Front from the east; the 2nd Far East Front was to attack the center of the pocket from the north.[2] The only Soviet equivalent of a theater command that operated during the war (apart from the short-lived 1941 "Directions" in the west), Far East Command, consisted of three Red Army fronts.
    Western Front of Manchuria

    The Transbaikal Front, under Marshal R. Y. Malinovsky, included[1]:
    17th Army
    36th Army
    39th Army
    53rd Army
    6th Guards Tank Army
    Soviet Mongolian Cavalry Mechanized Group under I.A.Pliyev
    12th Air Army.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:20 No.51020655
    The Trans-Baikal Front was to form the western half of the Soviet pincer movement, attacking across the Inner Mongolian desert and over the Greater Khingan mountains.[2] These forces had as objective to secure Mukden (present day Shenyang), then meet troops of the 1st Far East Front at the Changchun area in south central Manchuria,[1] and in doing so finish the double envelopment.[1]

    Basic map showing Soviet invasion plan for Manchuria[2]

    Amassing over one thousand tanks and self-propelled guns, the 6th Guards Tank Army had to serve as an armored spearhead, leading the Front's advance and capturing objectives 350 km (217 miles) inside Manchuria by the fifth day of the invasion.[1]

    The 36th Army was also attacking from the west, but with the objective to meet forces of the 2nd Far East Front at Harbin and Tsitsihar.[2]
    Eastern Front of Manchuria

    The 1st Far East Front, under Marshal K. A. Meretskov, included[1]:
    1st Red Banner Army
    5th Army
    25th Army
    35th Army
    10th Mechanized Corps
    9th Air Army.

    The 1st Far East Front was to form the eastern half of the pincer movement. This attack involved the 1st Red Banner Army, the 5th Army and the 10th Mechanized Corps striking towards Mudanjiang (or Mutanchiang).[1] Once that city was captured, this force was to advance towards the cities of Jilin (or Kirin), Changchun and Harbin.[1] Its final objective was to link up with forces of the Trans-Baikal Front at Changchun and Jilin (or Kirin) thus closing the double envelopment movement.

    As a secondary objective, the 1st Far East Front was to prevent Japanese forces from escaping to Korea, and then invade the Korean peninsula up to the 38th parallel,[1] establishing in the process what later became North Korea. The secondary objective was to be carried out by the 25th Army.[1] Meanwhile, the 35th Army was tasked with capturing the cities of Boli (or Poli), Linkou and Mishan.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:21 No.51020669
    Northern Front of Manchuria

    The 2nd Far East Front, under General M. A. Purkayev, included[1]:
    2nd Red Banner Army
    15th Army
    16th Army (whose 56th Rifle Corps was the only formation to see combat, on Sakhalin)
    5th Separate Rifle Corps
    Chuguevsk Operational Group
    Amur Military Flotilla
    10th Air Army.

    The 2nd Far East Front was in a supporting attack role.[1] Its objectives were the cities of Harbin and Tsitsihar,[2] and to prevent an orderly withdrawal to the south by the Japanese forces.[1]

    Once troops from the 1st Far East Front and Trans-Baikal Front captured the city of Changchun, the 2nd Far East Front were to attack the Liaotung Peninsula and seize Port Arthur (present day Lüshun).[1]
    Soviet Forces under the Far East Command[1]

    Total Trans-Baikal
    Front 1st Far East
    Front 2nd Far East
    Front
    Men 1,577,725 654,040 586,589 337,096
    Artillery pieces 27,086 9,668 11,430 5,988
    Multiple rocket launchers 1,171 583 516 72
    Tanks and self propelled guns 5,556 2,416 1,860 1,280
    Aircraft 3,721 1,324 1,137 1,260


    Each Front had "front units" attached directly to the Front instead of an army.[1] The forces totaled 89 divisions with 1.5 million men, 3,704 tanks, 1,852 self propelled guns, 85,819 vehicles and 3,721 aircraft. Approximately one-third of its strength was in combat support and services.[1] The Soviet plan incorporated all the experience in maneuver warfare that the Soviets had acquired fighting the Germans.[1]
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    Japanese
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:21 No.51020673
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    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:22 No.51020693
    The Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army, under General Otsuzo Yamada, was the major part of the Japanese occupation forces in Manchuria and Korea, and consisted of two Area Armies and three independent armies[1]:
    First Area Army (northeastern Manchukuo), including
    3rd Army
    5th Army
    Third Area Army (southwestern Manchukuo), including
    30th Army
    44th Army
    Independent units
    4th Army (an independent field army responsible for northern Manchuria)
    34th Army (an independent field army responsible for the areas between the Third and Seventeenth Area Armies in North Korea)
    Kwangtung Defence Army (responsible for Mengjiang)
    Seventeenth Area Army (responsible for Korea; assigned to the Kwantung Army in the eleventh hour, to no avail)
    Other forces
    Fifth Area Army - responsible for South Sakhalin and the Kurils

    Each Area Army (Homen Gun, the equivalent of a Western "army") had headquarters units and units attached directly to the Area Army, in addition to the field armies (the equivalent of a Western corps). In addition to the Japanese, there was the forty thousand strong Manchukuo Defense Force, composed of eight under-strength, poorly-equipped, poorly-trained Manchukuoan divisions. Korea, the next target for the Soviet Far East Command, was garrisoned by the Japanese Seventeenth Area Army.

    The Kwantung Army had over six hundred thousand men in twenty-five divisions (including two tank divisions) and six Independent Mixed Brigades.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:22 No.51020712
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    Stop using the word racist, you idiot.

    Fat asians exist. Bad asian cosplayers exist. Skinny westerners exist. Good western cosplayers exist. Deal with it.

    Although, all cosplay is stupid.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:23 No.51020725
    These contained over 1,215 armored vehicles (mostly armored cars and light tanks), 6,700 artillery pieces (mostly light), and 1,800 aircraft (mostly trainers and obsolete types; they only had 50 first line aircraft). However, Kwantung Army was far below authorized strength; most of its heavy military equipment and all of its best military units had been transferred to the Pacific front over the previous three years. By 1945, the Kwantung Army contained a large number of raw recruits; as a result, it had essentially been reduced to a light infantry counter-insurgency force with limited mobility and experience. On paper, the Japanese forces were no match for the highly mobile mechanized Red Army, with its vastly superior tanks, artillery, experience and tactics.

    The Imperial Japanese Navy contributed nothing to the defense of Manchuria, the occupation of which it had always opposed on strategic grounds.

    Compounding the problem, the Japanese military made many wrong assumptions and major mistakes, the two most significant being:
    They wrongly assumed that any attack coming from the west would follow either the old railroad line to Hailar, or head in to Solun from the eastern tip of Mongolia. The Soviets did attack along those routes, but their main attack from the west went through the supposedly impassable Greater Khingan range south of Solun and into the center of Manchuria.
    Japanese military intelligence failed to determine the nature, location and scale of the Soviet buildup in the Far East. Based on initial underestimates of Soviet strength, and the monitoring of Soviet traffic on the Trans-Siberian railway, they believed the Soviets would not have sufficient forces in place before the end of August, and that an attack was most likely in Autumn 1945 or in the Spring of 1946.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:23 No.51020733
    it's like i am still in school
    >> Boxer (Typical Index Fan) !8BoXer4n3s 06/23/11(Thu)14:23 No.51020743
    ITT: Westaboos. And you wonder why /a/ sucks ass.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:24 No.51020747
    Due to the withdrawal of the Kwantung Army's elite forces for redeployment into the Pacific Theatre, new operational plans for the defence of Manchuria against a seemingly inevitable Soviet attack were made by the Japanese in the Summer of 1945. These called for the redeployment of the majority of forces from the border areas; the borders were to be held lightly and delaying actions fought while the main force was to hold the southeastern corner in strength (so defending Korea from attack).[5]

    Further, they had only observed Soviet activity on the Trans-Siberian railway and along the east Manchurian front, and so were preparing for an invasion from the east. They believed that when an attack occurred from the west, the redeployed forces would be able to deal with it.[5][6]

    However, although this redeployment had been initiated, it was not due to be completed until September, and hence the Kwantung Army were in the middle of redeployment when the Soviets launched their attack simultaneously on all three fronts.
    [edit]
    Campaign This section does not cite any references or sources.
    Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2009)


    Soviet attacks, 1945.

    Japanese soldier surrendering to Soviet soldiers.

    The operation was carried out as a classic double pincer movement over an area the size of Western Europe. In the western pincer, the Red Army advanced over the deserts and mountains from Mongolia, far from their resupply railways. This confounded the Japanese military analysis of Soviet logistics, and the defenders were caught by surprise in unfortified positions. The Kwantung Army commanders were involved in a planning exercise in (where) at the time of the invasion, and were away from their forces for the first eighteen hours of conflict.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:24 No.51020752
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    >mfw op is right
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:24 No.51020758
    Communication infrastructure was poor, and communication was lost with forward units very early on. However, the Kwantung Army had a formidable reputation as fierce and relentless fighters, and even though understrength and unprepared, put up strong resistance at the town of Hailar which tied down some of the Soviet forces. At the same time, Soviet airborne units were used to seize airfields and city centers in advance of the land forces, and to ferry fuel to those units that had outrun their supply lines.

    The Soviet pincer from the east crossed the Ussuri and advanced around Khanka Lake and attacked towards Suifenhe, and although Japanese defenders fought hard and provided strong resistance, the Soviets proved overwhelming.

    After a week of fighting, during which Soviet forces had penetrated deep into Manchukuo, Japan's Emperor Hirohito recorded the Gyokuon-hōsō which was broadcast on radio to the Japanese nation on August 15, 1945. The idea of surrender was incomprehensible to the Japanese people, and combined with Hirohito's use of formal and archaic language, the fact that he did not use the actual word for "surrender", the poor quality of the broadcast, and poor lines of communication, there was some confusion amongst the Japanese about what the announcement actually meant.

    The Imperial Japanese Army Headquarters did not immediately communicate the cease-fire order to the Kwantung Army, and many elements of the army either did not understand it, or ignored it. Hence, pockets of fierce resistance from the Kwantung Army continued, and the Soviets continued their advance, largely avoiding the pockets of resistance, reaching Mukden, Changchun and Qiqihar by August 20.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:25 No.51020780
    On the Soviet right flank, the Soviet-Mongolian Cavalry-Mechanized Group had entered Inner Mongolia and quickly took Dolon Nur and Kalgan. The Emperor of Manchukuo (and former Emperor of China), Puyi, was captured by the Soviet Red Army. The cease-fire order was eventually communicated to the Kwantung Army, but not before the Soviets had made most of their territorial gains.

    On August 18, several Soviet amphibious landings had been conducted ahead of the land advance: three in northern Korea, one in Sakhalin, and one in the Kuril Islands. This meant that, in Korea at least, there were already Soviet soldiers waiting for the troops coming overland. In Sakhalin and the Kurils, it meant a sudden establishment of Soviet sovereignty.

    The land advance was stopped a good distance short of the Yalu River, the beginning of the Korean peninsula, when even the aerial supply lines became unavailable. The forces already in Korea were able to establish a bit of control in the peninsula's north, but the ambition to take the entire peninsula was cut short when American forces landed at Incheon on September 8, six days after the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
    [edit]
    Aftermath This section's factual accuracy is disputed. Please help to ensure that disputed facts are reliably sourced. See the relevant discussion on the talk page. (February 2011)


    700,000 Soviet troops occupied Manchuria, and looted the entire region of valuable materials and industrial equipment. Soviet troops looted and terrorized the people of Mukden, and were not discouraged by Soviet authorities from "three days of rape and pillage". In Harbin, Chinese posted slogans such as "Down with Red Imperialism!". Soviet forces ignored protests from Chinese communist party leaders on the mass rape and looting.

    It's all the same shit

    Nazis = Japs = Commies
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:26 No.51020799
    Importance and consequences

    From the time of the first major Japanese military defeats in the Pacific, the non-military leaders of Japan had come to realise that the Japanese military campaign was economically unsustainable, and there were a number of initiatives to negotiate a cessation of hostilities and the consolidation of Japanese territorial and economic gains. Hence, elements of the non-military leadership had first made the decision to surrender as early as 1943; the major issue was the terms and conditions of surrender, not the issue of surrender itself. For a variety of diverse reasons, none of the initiatives were successful, the two major reasons being the Soviet Union's deception and delaying tactics, and the attitudes of the "Big Six", the powerful Japanese military leaders.[16] (Refer to Surrender of Japan for more detail.)

    The Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation, along with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, combined to break the Japanese political deadlock and force the Japanese leaders to accept the terms of surrender demanded by the allies.

    In the "Sixty years after Hiroshima" issue of the Weekly Standard, American historian Richard B. Frank points out that there are a number of schools of thought with varying opinions of what caused the Japanese to surrender. He describes what he calls the "traditionalist" view, which asserts that the Japanese surrendered because the Americans dropped the atomic bombs. He goes on to summarise other points of view.[17]
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:26 No.51020810
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    slaughter and rape of tens and hundreds of thousands?
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:26 No.51020823
    Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's research has led him to conclude that the atomic bombings were not the principal reason for Japan's capitulation. He argues it was the swift and devastating Soviet victories on the mainland in the week following Joseph Stalin's August 8 declaration of war that forced the Japanese message of surrender on August 15, 1945.[18] Others with similar views include The "Battlefield" series documentary,[2] Drea,[14] Hayashi,[15] and numerous others, though all, including Hasegawa, state that the surrender was not due to any single factor or single event.

    The Soviet invasion and occupation of the defunct "Manchukuo" marked the start of a traumatic period for the more-than-one-million occupants of the puppet state who were of Japanese descent. The situation for the Japanese military occupants was clear, but the Japanese colonists who had made "Manchukuo" their home, particularly those born in "Manchukuo", were now stateless and homeless, and the (non-Japanese) Manchurians wanted to be rid of these foreigners. Many were killed, many others ended up in Siberian prisons for up to 20 years, and some made their way to the Japanese home islands, where they were also treated as foreigners.[13][19][20][21]

    Manchuria was "cleansed" by Soviet forces of any potential military resistance. With Soviet support for the spread of Communism,[22] Manchuria provided the main base of operations for Mao Zedong's forces, who proved victorious in the following four years of the Chinese Civil War. These military successes in Manchuria and China by the Communist Chinese led to the Soviet Union giving up their rights to bases in China — promised by the Western Allies — because all of the deemed-by-the-Soviets-to-be-"Chinese"-land which had been gained by the Soviets, (as distinct from what the Soviets considered to be "Soviet"-land-which-had-been-occupied-by-the-Japanese), was eventually turned over to the People's Republic of China.
    >> Anonymous 06/23/11(Thu)14:28 No.51020860
    Note, however, that before leaving Manchuria, Soviet forces and bureaucracy dismantled almost all of the portable parts of the considerable Japanese built industry in Manchuria and relocated it to "restore industry in war-torn Soviet territory". That which was not portable was either disabled or destroyed; the Soviets had no desire for Manchuria to be an economic rival, particularly to the underdeveloped Far Eastern Soviet Territories.[13]

    As agreed at Yalta, the Soviet Union had intervened in the war with Japan within three months of the German surrender, and they were therefore entitled to the territories of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands and also to preeminent interests over Port Arthur and Dalian, with its strategic rail connections. The territories on the Asian mainland were subsequently transferred to the full control of the People's Republic of China in 1955; the other possessions are still administered by the Soviet Union's successor state, Russia.

    Though the north of the Korean peninsula was under Soviet control, the logistic machine driving the Soviet invasion forces had given out before the entire peninsula could be seized. With the American landing at Incheon — some time before the Red Army could have remobilized and secured the entire peninsula — Korea was effectively divided. This was a precursor to the Korean War five years later.



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