Japanese World War II veterans recall horrors of Unit 731

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Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia:

"Instead of being tried for war crimes, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for the data they gathered through human experimentation.[10] Others that Soviet forces managed to arrest first were tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949. Americans did not try the researchers so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into the U.S. biological warfare program, as had happened with Nazi researchers in Operation Paperclip.[11] On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[10] Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the West as Communist propaganda.[12]"
 

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Most people seem to view the Japanese as nice and cuddly today, but they've historically been incredibly vicious during warfare.
i have a filipino friend who told me horror stories that were told to him by his grand parent, he said the older people over there hate the japanese with a passion.

throwing babies on top of spikes and shyt.
 

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Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia:

"Instead of being tried for war crimes, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were secretly given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for the data they gathered through human experimentation.[10] Others that Soviet forces managed to arrest first were tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949. Americans did not try the researchers so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into the U.S. biological warfare program, as had happened with Nazi researchers in Operation Paperclip.[11] On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[10] Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the West as Communist propaganda.[12]"

why couldnt they just strong arm the information :why:

these sadistic fukks should have been killed.
 

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that treaty makes sense now.... didnt we make them sign something that they couldnt be a war nation or something?
 

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Most people seem to view the Japanese as nice and cuddly today, but they've historically been incredibly vicious during warfare.
Yea, still pretty amazing how they beat the ever living shyt out of China despite being so much smaller in the second sino-japenese war
 

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I remember watching a flick on the experimenting they did on the Chinese, weird BC I've heard someone from Japan openly say they hate the Chinese. I'm like dang what they do to y'all?
 

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Yea, still pretty amazing how they beat the ever living shyt out of China despite being so much smaller in the second sino-japenese war
i always wondered that, i would often give them credit but now hearing shyt like this it makes sense on what kind of playing field they were on.
 

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I remember watching a flick on the experimenting they did on the Chinese, weird BC I've heard someone from Japan openly say they hate the Chinese. I'm like dang what they do to y'all?
breh from what ive read the japanese have owned the chinese for along time... it wasnt until they went communist that the japs never fukked with them agian.
 

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Most people seem to view the Japanese as nice and cuddly today, but they've historically been incredibly vicious during warfare.

Probably because the 70+ years that have elapsed since their last war is longer than their entire modern history of imperialistic war?

People forget about Japan's war history...but they also forget that from the mid 1600s until the late 1800s, Japan was an isolationist state that wasn't fighting wars then either. The nasty Imperial expansion war period was from 1894 to 1945 - fifty years.

Meanwhile, America has kept attacking nations on the regular for 100+ years now.

I'm not a Japanese apologist by any means. The shyt they did during that era was horrific and should be in all the history classes. But unless you believe in some ridiculous "racist theory of brutality", the decisions made by people born in the 1800s having nothing to do with Japanese people today. And even if you believe in that weird racial theory of brutality, you have to account for the fact that they not only haven't fought a war since 1945, but went more than 200 years straight in the 1600s-1800s without fighting a war either. People and cultures aren't simplistic enough to stereotype with such a little cliche like you did.
 

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breh from what ive read the japanese have owned the chinese for along time... it wasnt until they went communist that the japs never fukked with them agian.
Interesting, my history of Asia is limited but from China's position and history you would have thought otherwise. It might have been a time when China was so disorganized because of it's vast amount of land and the lack of technology in the sense of today.
 

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Probably because the 70+ years that have elapsed since their last war is longer than their entire modern history of imperialistic war?

People forget about Japan's war history...but they also forget that from the mid 1600s until the late 1800s, Japan was an isolationist state that wasn't fighting wars then either. The nasty Imperial expansion war period was from 1894 to 1945 - fifty years.

Meanwhile, America has kept attacking nations on the regular for 100+ years now.

I'm not a Japanese apologist by any means. The shyt they did during that era was horrific and should be in all the history classes. But unless you believe in some ridiculous "racist theory of brutality", the decisions made by people born in the 1800s having nothing to do with Japanese people today. And even if you believe in that weird racial theory of brutality, you have to account for the fact that they not only haven't fought a war since 1945, but went more than 200 years straight in the 1600s-1800s without fighting a war either. People and cultures aren't simplistic enough to stereotype with such a little cliche like you did.
once the west came in, their culture completely changed and they turned to savages


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guess they learned from the best
 
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