i can confirm they say it all the time, even though i'm not technically chinese. here's a hellish gag: several BBQ restaurants in china are named after Curtis Lemay.
Thank you for mentioning and keeping the memories of these attoricities alive. My grandmother was born in Surabaja, Java in 1935 and was arrested with her family to be shipped off to ambarawa in 1942. She spent three years there and has told me countless stories of the struggles they endured. As a seven year old, she was forced to entertain the Japanese officers and clean up corpses from the camp infirmary. One thing that really stood out to me is that after the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, much of their weaponry was distributed to Indonesian independence groups who sought to seek revenge against the Dutch population. In-turn, the internees at ambarawa found themselves under siege from mortars and small arms for over 4 months, until allied troops arrived in December to relieve them. She still struggles with these events to this day.
My wife's grandmother who is also Dutch said the same thing about the Indonesian independence groups that would shoot at the prison camps holding Dutch civilians, although fortunately the Indonesians were bad at aiming.
All of my Grandmother's 4 brothers served during WW2 but only one of them served in the Far East and he was a POW after the fall of Singapore where he stayed until the end of the war. He weighed less than a hundred pounds when he came out and only lived for 5 years. Considering the efforts put into catching Nazi war criminals I don't know why more wasn't done to bring more Japanese to justice. Really informative video. Thank you for posting.
Same with my uncle who i never met. He died a few years after the war as a direct result of being a Japanese POW. My father said he refused to talk about it. He also was captured after the fall of Singapore.
@@POPJack1717 No it was not! There was only one condition of the surrender and that was that they could keep the emperor. But even then, some in the West still wanted to try him as a war criminal as it wasn't in the treaty that we couldn't. But MacArthur knew the emperor was necessary to keep the peace so that idea was nixed. The main reason many Japanese weren't tried for war crimes was that the Japanese had days to destroy documents and records. It was just simply difficult to find the people who were responsible unless we had the intelligence before the war.
@@POPJack1717 Many Japanese were put on military trials after the war and executed for unforeseen charges.Japanese soldiers disarmed after the end of the war were abused and often killed without trial. In the post-war trial, about 5,700 people were charged and about 1,000 were sentenced to death.
Never underestimate imperial war crimes's ability to ruin ones day, There's never enough coverage of Japanese war crimes during WW2. Abseloutley atrocious.
Payback was a bitch though-----over 100,000 vaporized in milliseconds and radiation poisoning in thousands more. Before someone whines that they were civilians, Emperor Hirohito had issued an edict militarizing the entire Japanese population near the end of the war when Japanese defeat seemed an absolute certainty.,
@@donreinke5863 Japanese soldiers during World War 2 r*ped civilian women. Gunned down POWs. Not to mention, a Japanese officer during WW2 stated that Japan is not part of the Geneva Convention. Hence why they committed these atrocities during WW2
Japan unlike Germany, was never made to atone for what they did during the war. Even today, the Japanese government is not at all shy about branding as racist anyone who criticizes or even mentions what Japan did in World War II.
@@bagsikdangal I'm enraged by the people who want to wave their hand and make some false equivalence. They say things like "everyone did bad things, everyone was guilty" as if that sums it up. No, just no. Yes, the Allies did some awful things, it was war after all. But there was no tolerance or condoning of these kind of sex crimes, torture, and murder, often inflicted on civilians as well. There is no comparison.
@@ManDuderGuy over time tremendous evil was done on all sides, so critical as far as the issue of moral high ground is doing an objective historical research on the cause and start of WW2. Surely those that started the event are most guilty.
For us Malaysian, we never forget those atrocities committed by the Japanese. The kempetai atrocities were mentioned in our history subjects in schools. Never forget.
When I was in elementary school my teacher told me that during Japanese occupation of Java, her mom and her friend (they lived in Ambarawa and were around 8-9) were walking home from church/school when they stumbled upon a sugar cane field. They took a small piece as a snack and they got chased by some Kenpeitais. Her mom managed to escaped, but her friend got caught. They pulled all of her finger nails with pliers before letting her go. Imagine having the guts to did such horrible thing to a little girl...
Thank you for this video sir . My uncle was beheaded the next to last day of the war . He survived the Baton death March an the hell ships to making it to main land Japan . He was forced to work in a condemned coal mine till he became to ill to work . He had bright red hair an bright blue eyes . Because of this he stood out for punishment besides of the normal hell American pows were forced to endure . My family is still waiting for a apology’s. What a dishonorable lot these animals were an still are if any are still alive .
agreed. information such as this is incredibly important to be remembered. Another channel I'd recommend if you wish to learn more about ww2 atrocities is from the Channel "WW2" and their series called "War Against Humanity". a diffocult series to watch, but incredibly important for the sheer depth of research and commitment to facts. Never Forget.
My father was a POW held by the Kenpeitai - His words were always " never forget, never forgive". He was taught Japanese the hard way (learn or be beaten). Later in life he was offered a job as a translator in a tourist facility in Australia- he turned it down, couldn't stand the memories, I guess.
I recently found out that my grandmother forged signatures on ID's so that her friends and sisters had a chance to avoid being captured as sex slaves. They put false ages on the ID's so everyone was of a younger age. She was Indonesian and lived in the Netherlands after the Indonesian independence. Shame that what happened there gets 0 attention when we have the yearly memorial of the end of the German occupation.
A lot of it had to do with Indonesian and Korean pro-independence leaders needing to cover their own tracks, or needing Japanese business during the various red scares
Just any infos about the Kenpeitai are really scarce, didn't know about them until I saw that video, I read the entire WW2 related section in the public library in my area, only one book about Unit 731 but nothing about Kenpeitai, tried another public library nearby and nothing there either... They still had plenty about the war in Europe, mostly by far, a few books about the Soviet Union during the war and some about the NKVD though... Not many about the Japanese during WW2 and it was mostly about the Imperial Japanese Navy and the parts they played it... For a while, I thought the worst was the NKVD despite the fact the Waffen SS was already well known for it's atrocities and were pretty bad themselves...
What I find shocking is there has never been an official apology for the atrocities committed by the Japanese Empire and its army and navy branches . The rape of Nanking was so bad that even the Nazis were horrified .
They were even allowed to keep the head of state in whose name these atrocities were carried out! Imagine Hitter surviving the war and becoming chancellor of West Germany.
@typo pit You're right the nukes were unnecessary, why waste such technology on those savages? Should've just let the Soviets invade and have their way with them.
Something I heard on a podcast that I thought was interesting was how after ww2, the allies knew Russia was going to be a problem so they wanted to move on from the Axis and gear up for war with Rus. I imagine Japan's new position in the world plus the impending cold war left the allies in a "deal with the devil" when it comes to these crimes, ignore and bring Japan (and her resources) into the fold.
I also think the whole Germany first mentality and finding the death camps made people kind of just having "enough" and not wanting to hear anymore about the brutality of what happened during ww2
@@CupOhCoffeeTwitch Well when they don't want to hear about it then it doesn't get taught and can happen again. When do you think so many people think communism is so good they haven't been taught the truth.
There was this incident in Muntilan, about 20 km south of Magelang, in Java, where those animals rounded up all "European looking" people in a school. The school name is Van Lith (still exist now), in case anyone of the reader want to visit it. So, long story short, those animals gathered all "European looking" people including but not limited to the priests, nuns, missionaries, and captured Dutch troops and hold them captive in the school dormitory. One day, they're called one by one to the school hall for "data and identification purpose". So, this hall is like a mini opera hall, where there's a basement for props storage. One by one, they beheaded the captives and the head fell into that storage room. Each and every one of them (read them slowly for dramatic purpose). The bodies then thrown into a small river just outside the hall. How do I know this? Well, I was a student of the very school in 1998. I know exactly when the scream can be heard, and what they scream sound like. There's this one particular nun ghost. She'd bow down facing the wall, like she's looking for something. If asked what she is doing, she'd stand up straight holding her head in her arms and say mijn hood, or something 😅 Trust me, it's not a pleasant scene 👀 Any ghost hunter here? Please visit my old school, Van Lith High school. Everyone in the town would gladly show you how to go there. A little warning, though, do not visit the old toilets at night. Just don't 👀
@@TheFront I knew a Army vet that was captured in the P.I. & sent by way of the "Hell Ships" to be a slave in Japan. He came out after the war bearing permanent damage to his body and walked with a very distinct limp the rest of his life. He became a Christian Pastor & college teacher. After talking with him many times in the 1970's I asked him how he felt about the Japanese people, he said I don't hate them ... but I don't like them.
I have been to the Philippines and seen where the Death March started and been to the headquarters of Imperial Japanese General Homma. I have been to the school house where American General King met with Imperial Japanese Major General Nagano. Adjacent to the school house was another building that was the Kenpeitiai headquarters. Right outside is a tree and a small building, both still standing, where the Kenpeitai would would tie up prisoners prior to takiing them into this small building, in the building they would "interrogate" thier prisons. In my life, I have never felt something so evil, knowing what must have gone on there it is no surprise, though. It is still on the school grounds but is a seperate muesum, the small building is surrounded by candles and flowers as a reminder.
My grandfather was guerilla soldier in La Union under American and Filipino guerilla unit. Although the stories I've heard were from my grandmother since my grandfather had long passed away by the time i was born, all i can say is they gave exact revenge to those unlucky japanese who have been taken alive. One story that stuck to me is when they captured japanese officers who raped our women and forced them to be comfort women. They tied them up naked to a tree(mango tree i recall) and stir up the fire ants nest that lives in the tree. The japanese were screaming in pain and those who survived that torture.....well....they got more torture and a slow death.
@@Martyn-1337 My Father in Law was a Guerilla, too. Several of my wifes relatives were forced on the Death March. My Uncle was with the US 7th Infantry and was there when the Philippines was taken back.
Average Person: "OMG, Japan were the biggest victims of WW2. The US was evil for dropping two atomic bombs. The Japanese did nothing wrong during the war. Kempetai: "Allow us to introduce ourselves and our massive list of crimes against humanity that would make Hitler proud".
My history teacher said straight out to the class that the 2 atomic bombs were dropped on Japan because of racism, she said there was no atomic bombs dropped on Germany because the Germans are white. Trust me she believes what she said it was because of racism, I’m glad I had the common sense to know that that was completely false, but to most of the class that’s their truth on the topic now the bombs were dropped because of racism. Education is dangerous when you have people like that teaching classes
True...Many people now including those in my country are unaware of the exact reasons of why the bomb was dropped. They blame US of highhandness in dealing with Japan. They dont know brutal and vicious Imperial Japan was during WW2.
@@oldtownairsoft3899 Truly is and why the US history is so fickle with so much bias spewed by its teachers who ignore evidence. Germany surrendering in May and the first bombs being tested in July should tell you enough. It's not like the US suddenly hurried up on production after dragging their feat for years just to bomb Japan. While the US certainly has some issues, people need to acknowledge and respect that other courtesies do as well. You are disrespecting most of Asia if you think the Japanese were the victims of WW2. The Japanese military was documented in their own propaganda to be willing to sacrifice the lives of every man, woman, and children just to protect their ruling class.
@@divinewind6313 That's very sad and a disappointment to most of Asia. People are so aware of Na*i Germany and wouldn't think twice of dropping some A bombs on them, but choose to ignore and feel sympathy for a people who were just like them. They should learn the crimes committed against other Asians by the Japanese and encouraged by their command. Japan had no problem getting every single of their citizens killed in a mass attack just to protect their ruling class.
@@oldtownairsoft3899 interesting fact that you might already know. The original target for the Atomic bomb was Berlin, had the fighting in Europe lasted longer German would get hit with Nukes the same way it got firebombed by both the USAAF and Royal Air force bomber command.
They deserve to stand in the same ranks as the entire Japanese imperial army. None of them should be memorialised. I know it’s 77 years later and we can forgive the German army for serving their country ( the SS can fuck off still) but the Japanese army was essentially the same level of assholes as the SS
@@jackcloud4728 So Germany gets the whole Wehrmacht vs SS treatment, while Japan’s army get no examination for any moral gray or shred of human decency ?
@@jackcloud4728 There was no clean Wehrmacht. to try and paint the Army and the SS in completely different colors is to do a disservice to the people massacred by the wehrmacht during the invasion of Poland. German General and Chief of Staff Franz Halder participated in the strategic planning of the invasion of Poland, plans which from the START, directed the mass imprisonment and execution of Poles. There is No innocent German army. individuals yes, but not as an organization.
I don't know if it was the Kenpatai, or just regular forces, but in the middle of Singapore city is a park with a large, simple monument. The park is the site of a mass grave that thousands of ethnically Han Chinese were rounded up and shot. It is not as well known as other memorials, such as the Changi Prison memorial and museum, or the Commonwealth War Graves, but it is one of the sites most notable for widespread massacre in Singapore.
Did you know that they also inflicted pain & torment on their own people? It was a surprise to me too. In early 1980's I visited Kyushu (Southern Island of ) Japan, and a Japanese lady that I became friends with, told me about this WW2 terrible Japanese group known as Kenpatai, and the fear they instilled within the Japanese civilian population. Subsequent to that visit, I have seen movies featuring Kenpatai and some of the treatment to the Japanese people that ranged from unkind to cruel. My Japanese language skills weren't very good and so I couldn't get much information from her, nor did I want to make her uncomfortable. I did however wonder if the khaki pants & beige shirt that I wore, perhaps brought back bad memories for her, since she frowned upon that colour choice (something unusual for a Japanese to do). Following that I made sure that I wore something more cheerful to make her feel comfortable in my presence. The good news is that we remain close friends even to this day.
Wanna know why we hear more about the german war crimes as about the japanese ones??? Because of the religion of the german victims. Nothing else. The japanese killed like 10 times more chinese people than the Germans killed jews. But crybabies only cry because of the jews. Thats why some people call them the most powerful society in the world.
Secret military police forces. Always an acceptable target for scrutiny and damnation in both real life and fiction, alongside private military companies, military desk jobs, "General Rippers", and bureaucrats.
Germans today: We own our past despicable behavior. Japan: Let's not teach in schools how we were absolute barbarians and never acknowledge comfort women/Bataan/Nanking
If you do your research they actually do teach those things in school. It should be noted however most of these text books are written in a neutral and bland tone making them easier to forget.
@俊也角田 better that than to be dishonorable and deny or even amend for your crimes. if u forget the past then u can recreate the same horror again. but hey why educate when u can hide it. props to the troops that took many of the creul peeps down (dont misread i mean those who did this not the regular soldiers). im glad im teached both sides to not forget.
@@waynemcauliffe2362 no worse than any other imperial army. We just don’t hear about it cause a lot of the most brutal aspects of colonialism from other powers wasn’t written down
My grandpa's father and uncle were taken by the Kenpeitai after been discovered to be supporting the guerillas in their town. My grandpa never found their bodies after the war.
Do you have a 2nd UA-cam channel? Or does someone else just sound similar to you? That was an awesome video. The Kenpeitai was definitely underlooked in WW2.
@@TheFront ahh! So it is a SW channel (sorry I follow so many I forget them sometimes). Love your SW content! And had no idea you had this channel --- love all the MIL history content too
Ambarawa...my Father was there during WWII He was briefly in a volunteer militia and was sent to help guard the airfields at Kalidjati. He was only 18 that year, his mother had heard that if he was caught in his uniform, the Kenpeitei (Kempeitei?) would treat him harshly. So when he and friends in uniform went back to their families after fleeing the battle at the airfields cause they were outnumbered, he hid the uniform. He was away from the home when they took his family away, and they were taken to a civilian camp. He was considered of possible military age, so they wanted him for questioning of course, and left a notice saying that they knew his folks had a son, and he was to report to a place to be questioned. An Indonesian boy who played with my Dad in school warned him, don't go, they will kill you! He took off and hid in the jungles outside Jakarta, and he and a few other friends, became teenage resistance fighters, committing acts of sabotage against the enemy til he was captured by a kenpeitei officer who was waiting for him to try and sneak back to the Family home to get clean clothes. He was then tortured, and interrogated, water-boarded, everything on their list just about! He was about to have his head cut off along with a dozen or more teenage prisoners, but the Bishop of Jakarta got them to spare them....at a cost....he had to pick their replacements out of the large crowd that had assembled by order of the Kempeitei to watch. He then was forced to watch as all those innocent victims were decapitated. If my dad or any others of his group closed their eyes or tried to run, they were next! He never forgot that day, how could anybody? He then spent a while in the old city jail Tchipinang (sorry if miss spelled, then a 2nd camp called Suka Miskin, before being shipped east to the 3rd camp, Ambarawa by rail car, packed like cattle! There he said it was the worst! At best, he received maybe a handful of rotten food a day, he said. To this day, my 3 brothers and i try and never waste food. He made us know the value of food! He finally escaped from Ambarawa after the war had been over for a few weeks. About Sept, 12th or 13th in my guess for the day he and a friend escaped the camp and barely avoided a massacre at the camp maybe a week later. Many years after the war my dad received the Royal Dutch Resistance Cross medal for his actions and suffering as a teenage soldier. He passed away in 2003 after a long successful career as a Geologist. Niet Vergeten.
My grandfather refused to surrender and continued fighting the Japanese as a guerrilla in the Philippines. He once told me that when they captured a Kempeitai officer once, they executed him without trial. The beast was known for his sadistic brutality. And yet, when he was being tied up to be shot, he was pleading pathetically for his life.
@@gilanbarona9814 So the Kempeitai officer was wimp enough that your grandpa kept his sword as a trophy ! Dude I really like your story it gets better every time you tell it ! LMAO
@@osvaldoiamashita6289 It was not a sword. It was a pistol. A Nambu of some weird design. Grandpa said it was unsafe to carry loaded, and after the war, there were no 8mm Japanese pistol rounds available anyway. So it sits in a display case.
@@gilanbarona9814 it does not mattet, a Stick, a powder gun, a sword, a hatchet , a black belt karate strike, you know what I mean, Don tbe such an A....h.. ! You are making this whole story up ! Anyway now you have some sort of an anti Asian sentiment and you wanna beat them all up , right because of your grandpa ? LOL
I would politely but firmly say you should include the French's la Milice or the national front organizations that built up to the Milice. From one lecture I had on history, a French professor in perhaps a brutally honest way said "The Milice did things that would make the German SS blush." Essentially, the brutality that got swept under the rug in his recalling of things was insane.
I saw on a WW2 documentary before that french war crimes against german citizens were equally as bad as the soviet war crimes against german citizens. Also the soviets have more war crimes against ukraine too.
You could probably do a whole series on just the events of the Kenpeitai "jail" at Outram Road Singapore. Sad part is most Kenpeitai got away with things and never saw war crimes trials.
@@Merlinsbigbeard What fits for one video response may not fit for another but the pic would be difficult to change for every response. Yes, it was 80 years ago but that doesn't stop the posts when it comes to the Nazi's. Also the Soviets don't get nearly enough scrutiny, and they did most of their harm to the people under their umbrella. Ask the Koreans and Chinese how they feel about 80 years ago, you will get some heartfelt responses from them. I lived in South Korea for a few years in the 80's and the older folks have extremely strong feelings about the crimes by the Japanese.
@@Akillesursinne except Japan has never denied its actions. You have countries like turkey that denies it's genocide of Armenia or even the U.S which white washes our treatment of native Americans yet Japan is one of the few countries that actually does own their actions. Like the previous comment said it's been 80 years today's japanese owe those people they hurt nothing but they openly acknowledge how bad they were if asked
Those atrocities were committed by people 80 years ago, whom of which none are actually still alive to this day. Why would the world hate people that had nothing to do with those atrocities? Thats like hating modern day germany because of the nazi regime. Or hating skandinavia because of what the vikings did.
@@PAINZDA How about the fact that japan has never owned up to thier atrocities? Why do German children learn about the holocaust but japanese children learn they were "victims" of atom bombs and that it? Japanese nowadays don't carry their past wickedness like Germans *have* to. And that's pretty damn despicable.
@@endutubecensorship And how exactly do you even know they arent taught what happened? I willing to bet youre just assuming thats the case. But thats honestly completely besides the point. The way you phrase it is like todays children should atone for and carry the weight of their grandparents sins. Which is just wrong. A person should not feel responsible for something they had no part in.
@@PAINZDA Not my point at all. What I'm saying is that what was done in the past should be taught in thier schools to prevent history from repeating itself. My other point is that Germany has owned thier atrocities, japan has swept them under the rug and happily played the "victim" because of the atom bomb. They should take responsibility for what they have done. Edit: Look up Mark Feltons video on a japanese WW2 museum, it's very telling on their attitude
My great grandfather was beheaded by the Kenpeitai in Melaka during the Japanese invasion of Malaya because of his records of supporting the war against the Japanese in China.
10:05: Already heard of the beasts when I was first learning of the Japanese involvement in WW2 Thought police are a given in regimes like imperial Japan. Never surprising anymore. I'll start looking. Say, ever heard of Leonard Keysor? You might want to check out his tale of constant grenade hot potato nonsense for The Braved.
The 'thought, police' is a term that's starting to be used in the UK, where the Police, the people once charged with protecting the population against crime, appear to more interested in 'checking people's thinking, than they are in solving actual crime. It's strange how we don't seem to learn much from history.
My Uncle Bob Chapman was a special forces Commando by wars end. He and some others were redeployed east in anticipation of an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Which of course never took place. During occupation duties just after the surrender, a group of Kenpeitai prisoners about 15 strong, had roped themselves together and refused to move. They attacked any who approached them. The Military police called on Bob and his colleagues to assist. After sizing up the situation, 15 men, no clothing apart from loin cloths, very determined to resist, Bob noticed that the end of their rope straggled some way behind them after a few struggles. He hitched it to a 4 tonner, and drove off. "Just far enough to cool them off" said Bob. It worked. Given a bottle of Rum by a grateful MP officer at the time, Bob was later verbally reprimanded for his conduct by an intelligence officer.
It's a shame that most Japanese war criminals were simply let go and allowed to continue their careers in post-war japanese society, many still got into politics afterwards.
I believe you're talking about A-class criminals. Many of others were executed in battlefields like Burma, and much more JP soldiers were forced labour up to death without any proceedings. You are similar to us I think.
@@minoru-kk Where exactly were Japanese soldiers forced to labor without a hearing? And whatever happened to any B-class criminals? You sound like a typical Japanese ignorant of what your country systematically did during WW2. I bet you believe Japanese were victims in the war because of the atomic bombs. You have some English skills. You really should study everything that the Japanese did during the war. In the West there were isolated incidents, but in the Japanese Army it was everywhere they went. Everywhere.
@@rabbit251 My English is poor, so I can only show the words. Abuse to the JP soldiers, were discussed on "Japanese Surrendered Personnel" and soldiers butchered for Allies entertainments. Someone says it for honor of JP, and keep silence on their own persecuting during/after WW2, like in Aaron, Mingaladon or Kokkaing. Lack of their legal positions omitted too. I think these cases are other examples of ignorance or denial of war crime. Now probably you are surprised, Japanese high school students study what the Japanese did in the era on schedules. Bataan, Death Railway, Internment, etc. They're also told with what Japanese civilians have done. Not limited on A-bombs.
@@minoru-kk I have been teaching in Japan for the last 19 years. Except for a few students that went to Australia for a year to study, I have never found any students that were taught about the atrocities that the Japanese committed during WW2. All they knew was about the atomic bombs. At my daughter's school that is all they have been taught about the war. Even adults and friends that I have don't know about these things. How often did the Allies butcher Japanese POWs? Where? But systematically, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, wherever the Japanese military went they killed POWs and civilians. You really cannot say that about the Allies except for rare cases, even after we took over after Japan surrendered.
@@rabbit251 At least my and my friend's schools couldn't enter exams without knowing these. And, on denying Allied war crimes, I cannot be silent. The Allies massacred Japanese POWs and civilians too at least in China, Manchuria, Burma, Indonesia, New Guinea, other theatres, Okinawa and of course Japan. How often did? HOW DARE YOU? The report I'd read said that killing of unarmed Japanese was common and couldn't count the cases. Also reported abusing for entertainment, intantional neglect, etc. Even in English report, JP POWs killed almost 100:1 rate on 1944 Pacific (killed 100). It wasn't an incident, but on the statistics. So, did you search the word JSP? I swear you not. They were about 630 thousands, systematically enslaved and killed in all over SEA. The camps mentioned above are NOT "rare cases". I repeat, how often? Countless. Where? All of East Asia. So you are similar to us.
I have to be honest, I had heard of the Kenpeitai before watching Man in the High Castle which they are a major element in, but, I'd never heard of the Kokkeitai before.
Lets not forget the Sook Ching programme that occurred in the island of Singapore and Malayan peninsula, where probably tens of thousands of men agedn 18-50 were rounded up and systematically executed by the kenpeitai. Even the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew himself was almost a victim of this, but managed to escape by asking to go to the washroom. Such atrocities are proof of how greed, instillation of radical ideological beliefs can turn humans into beasts. Let us learn from our past mistakes and remember that everyone, including the people we hate, are just as much human as we are, should be treated with a basic level of humanity.
A Dutch teenager whom became a resistant on Java told me of the "Pencil trick" involving pencils in both ears. He survived the War and the Indonesian war and removed to California.
The Japanese military definitely got off lightly after the war, most never had to account for their actions, mainly because there were so many offenders punishment was impossible and the allies wanted to move onto to the soviets, there was never the interest in prosecuting them. The lack of any suitable Japanese apology or recognition of their crimes is especially galling.
My late grandmother used to tell us stories of mad Japanese soldiers during Japanese occupation. It was a must to bow down to a Japanese soldier, if not you'll be struck or killed on the spot. She used to tell me that there was one Japanese official who frequented their hut to bring her gifts. Apparently as a sign of courtship, and this officer was a humble gentleman. He knelt and bowed down whenever he would bring gifts for her. However, my grandmother's father was very suspicious and cautious. And then, that Japanese officer stopped coming. The Americans returned, Gen McArthur the great general came back to fulfill his promise...days after American planes dropped flyers and sounded speakerphones inviting them to come out of their caves and down their hills to the seashore. The went and were given chocolates and corned beef by Yankee boys. Many ladies from their little village fell in love and married GIs, but she didn't because her dad didn't like the idea of marrying her to a foreigner. This story happened in Western side of Samar island Philippines. I guess what gran was trying to say is that even in terrible times, there's always a few good men left.
I read somewhere the reason why the imperial Japanese military was so brutal was due to the bushido they employed. Apparently they used the most barbaric and savage version of bushido instead of the virtuous and honorable one.
Nope. It's was racism, pure and simple. Anyone who was not Japanese was considered inferior and their lives were in the hands of the Emporer..... who didn't care what happened to them.
@@louisavondart9178 which wouldn't have happened if they employed the other version of bushido. Then again, that would mean they didn't employed it during the boshin war, which is unrealistic considering the circumstances of the time.
First time I read about the Kempeitai it was in a novel. What they got up to in the novel was sadistic, but when you find out they really did that sort of stuff, no words,
No, see the story of the survivors of the USS Tang and specifically what happened to their captain Richard O Kane. Also read the book Unbroken to get some idea of what many went through.
Identified but never prosecuted. A general amnesty was declared by the Americans 2 or 3 years after the war ended and most Japanese war criminals escaped any punishment.
In 1948, the US military administration under General MacArthur halted all war crime prosecutions in Japan. The suspected Class B and Class C war criminals ran into hundreds of thousands but only just over 5000 cases were ever processed. After 1948, all classes of suspected Japanese war criminals were virtually free from war crime prosecution. In comparison, about 140000 cases were processed for war crimes in West Germany and then united Germany.
I’ve read as well that the Cold War took up right after the hot war ended and resources considered better spent against battling Communist overreach in philosophy and treasure helped curtail the prosecution of Japanese war crimes. The pro-war imperialists, a minority segment of the population at the end of the war, were every bit as disparaging of life as the Nazi’s, however, the communist threats, the exhaustion of outrage and the desire to move past the all consuming hell of war benefited these scoundrels and psychopaths at the expense of justice.
Yeah. I'd listen to WWII Veterans talk over coffee & desserts, Sun nites. They especially tortured red heads like on marches. Mom's childhood friend was nicknamed "Red" & always had white hair. So I asked why? He had been so terrified of Japanese bonzai charges. During Guadelcanal months long battles. One morning he woke up & his hair had gone snow white. It protected him from being singled out. Knew a Dutch lady who married American & was forced to be a comfort woman. I wasn't allowed to hear details till 18. It was horrific how much PTSD she had. Even 40 years on & her very gentle husband.
Now this is something you don’t hear or see in history books nor video, thank you for doing a video of the Japanese Secert police, also this is japan during the 2nd world war and before Japanese officer:Ok you see that book full of what not do to war crimes Japanese solider:Yes what about it? Japanese officer:We do the exact opposite of that Japanese solider:Okay
Indeed, I was aware there existed a secret police in Japan during WWII, though unaware of their name. In the Buddhism that I practice, Nichiren Buddhism, as practiced by the SGI (Soka Gakkai or value creation), these thought police harassed our first and second presidents ( Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, and Josei Toda) for refusing to place a Shinto talisman on the alter. They were both arrested. President Makiguchi died in prison and Mr. Toda experienced an awakening. President Toda prepared the way for this lay Buddhist sect to grow from 3,000 members when he was released from prison in 1945, to 12million members in 192 countries today. The brutal treatment Mr. Toda received at the hands of the psycho pain inflicters blinded him in one eye and the torture definitely cut his life short. He was 57yrs when his body gave out in 1958.
I recall years ago looking at a time magazine. In the front there was an article about all the people agree with Ronald Reagan because he visited Bitburgy cemetery because some SS were buried there. At the back of the same issue there was a story about old GIs returning swords and other trophies of war. With the Japanese all was forgiven and forgotten?!?! Need I say more?
Strange how these atrocities were more or less swept under the rug and forgotten. The Germans were vilified for their actions, rightfully so, but not a lot of people know that the Kempetai were on the same level, if not exceeding the Nazi’s brutality.
The only thing I will grant Tojo is that he took responsibility for his crimes. At least he didn't go with "I was only following orders" nonsense that many of the German military did.
@@hooper4581 Yes they were, you should search for the Tokio trials, people like Tojo Hideki and Iwane Matsui were judged and hunged. Before that, General Yamashita Tomoyuki was also hunged. But to be honest, too few were. Many war criminals escaped without punishment. But there were trials held for war crimes.
@@hooper4581 far eastern tribunal and the respective tribunals held in the phillipines, burma and east indies. many war criminals were hung, these trials even helped set the bar for what's considered a modern war crime.
I will never forget when I was listening to a veteran talk about the Japanese. He was saying that he saw some horrible things they did while during one of the first serious battles with them. Then he said: "We didn’t take many prisoners after that."
In the early 2990s I was stationed in Yokosuka Japan as a US Navy Military Policeman . I witnessed Japanese Police Officers rough up suspects on a couple of occasions , but nothing approaching this .
The inhumanity and brutality characteristic of Japan's military and police has generally been overlooked during the past century by both allies and postwar Japanese. Contrasts between the focus on Gestapo and SS atrocities, or even those of the Soviet NKVD, with the silence (coverups?) over the equally well-documented Kenpeitai barbarity against their fully comparable numbers of victims is indeed APPALLIN
Great video as always. I must agree these guys were pretty much the definition of cowardly a-holes. These jagoffs were so repulsive, they had to hang pork chops around their necks just to get dogs to play with them. Likewise, their idea of sweet-talking a woman was saying "Scream and I'll kill you"
My dad was an Army Ranger Scout in the Pacific. He was ship board waiting to invade Japan, and told to expect 80% casualties.. The civilians were told to die fighting, because they would be eaten by Americans. Women would hold their babies in their arms and jump off mountains or high cliffs.
0:16 Sir, this picture is not about Kenpeitai. This is Chinese soldiers executing “Hanjian(汉奸)”, or Chinese collaborators with Japanese occupation force. You can see the Chinese words in the background. I know you people can not distinguish our faces, but please, check the uniforms at least.
The story of the Singapore raids is amazing and the second which fired under a false flag is filled with honor on both sides as the Japanese were so impressed with the how the survivors of the attack never disputed that they fired under a false flag were given the Japanese honor of having their own individual executioner who marched along side the condemned to the place of ezecution instead of being executed one after another. It is a very Japanese thing but it showed their respect for those commandos.
@typo pit yeah correct, they did it to get information from Philippine revolutionists that time but in turn, Americans captured were either beheaded or skinned them alive and put on vinegar or salt or something more nasty. The Philippine-American War was the US first Vietnam.
@@MH-kc1eu how would you define the US making sure a bunch if war criminals didn't convicted or even charged with war crimes because they were useful to us? We saved a lot of Axis criminals from justice. History books in high-school will tell you about German war crimes but you would be hard pressed to find a high-school textbook talking about what Japan did. We went the extra mile to clean up their image and make them presentable to the American people.
The Kenpetai looted my ancestral home, looking especially for gouden rijksdalder. My father got hit by the local Kenpetai commandant during a routine inspection. And his DKW 200cc got confiscated. Uncle of my father was accused of secretly listening to the BBC, and he got arrested, detained in Besuki, and then sent to Ambarawa untill the war's end.
I wish that I had this video the last time I heard someone speak of the traditionally peaceful productive nature of Asian cultures as evidence of their advanced societies.
11 million people murdered with bayonets and shovels is hard to overshadow.... unless no-one talks about it. The Japanese have been allowed to shove it under the carpet.
In Vietnam, which returned to French colonial rule, 700 to 800 Japanese soldiers remained and weapons such as aircraft and tanks were left behind. Kwangai Army Junior High School was established in 1946 during the Vietnam Independence War. At some military schools, military education was conducted by former Japanese Army officers and non-commissioned officers. Some of the former Japanese soldiers who died in the Vietnam Independence War have been honored at the Martyr's Cemetery. Some Japanese soldiers who returned to Japan were later awarded a medal by Vietnam. In addition, we will continue to maintain friendly relations between the two countries by establishing organizations such as the Japan-Vietnam Trade Association and the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association.
I was at a bar while on duty, one time, drinking a Coke at the stand-up bar.. A WW2 movie came on and I decided to watch it. When the movie stopped, I turned to leave and a Japanese man was standing beside me. When I realized who it was, I drew my gun 1/2 way out of the holster. He knew it, too. I had to hurry up leave. I can still see the look on his face.
A history teacher said something that stuck with me. "Americans will say nukes were too cruel, Chinese would say they weren't enough"
Chinese, Malaysians and Filipinos
Add in Koreans to, to this day, we Chinese will casually say how the nukes on Japan was a "Good day in Sino-Japanese war"
Turn out Asian are racist to each other more Americans it self lol
Our dropping of the bombs were justified, though today Japan goes to sea to defend SK whenever NK starts hurling missiles.
i can confirm they say it all the time, even though i'm not technically chinese.
here's a hellish gag: several BBQ restaurants in china are named after Curtis Lemay.
Thank you for mentioning and keeping the memories of these attoricities alive. My grandmother was born in Surabaja, Java in 1935 and was arrested with her family to be shipped off to ambarawa in 1942. She spent three years there and has told me countless stories of the struggles they endured. As a seven year old, she was forced to entertain the Japanese officers and clean up corpses from the camp infirmary. One thing that really stood out to me is that after the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, much of their weaponry was distributed to Indonesian independence groups who sought to seek revenge against the Dutch population. In-turn, the internees at ambarawa found themselves under siege from mortars and small arms for over 4 months, until allied troops arrived in December to relieve them. She still struggles with these events to this day.
Wait, are you from Indonesia ?
@@steventimotiustejo4182 No, the Netherlands, but my family lived in Indonesia from the 1600s until 1954.
Tot de dag van vandaag geen tot weinig begrip voor de landgenoten die jarenlang geleden hebben in de voormalige kolonie.
My wife's grandmother who is also Dutch said the same thing about the Indonesian independence groups that would shoot at the prison camps holding Dutch civilians, although fortunately the Indonesians were bad at aiming.
Goodness, bless her soul, and yours for telling her story. Thank you
All of my Grandmother's 4 brothers served during WW2 but only one of them served in the Far East and he was a POW after the fall of Singapore where he stayed until the end of the war. He weighed less than a hundred pounds when he came out and only lived for 5 years. Considering the efforts put into catching Nazi war criminals I don't know why more wasn't done to bring more Japanese to justice. Really informative video. Thank you for posting.
It was part of the conditions of surrender to not put them on trial like with the Germans.
Same with my uncle who i never met. He died a few years after the war as a direct result of being a Japanese POW. My father said he refused to talk about it. He also was captured after the fall of Singapore.
@@POPJack1717 No it was not! There was only one condition of the surrender and that was that they could keep the emperor. But even then, some in the West still wanted to try him as a war criminal as it wasn't in the treaty that we couldn't. But MacArthur knew the emperor was necessary to keep the peace so that idea was nixed.
The main reason many Japanese weren't tried for war crimes was that the Japanese had days to destroy documents and records. It was just simply difficult to find the people who were responsible unless we had the intelligence before the war.
@@POPJack1717 Many Japanese were put on military trials after the war and executed for unforeseen charges.Japanese soldiers disarmed after the end of the war were abused and often killed without trial. In the post-war trial, about 5,700 people were charged and about 1,000 were sentenced to death.
@@nitro2525k not nearly enough. 😡
Very informative and sheds light on the brutality that came from the Japanese organizations during ww2.
Thanks for watching!
The saddest part is that the japanese refuse to acknowledge the war crimes that they committed during ww2.
@@Professional.American
and that fuels chinese ultranationalism nowadays
@@TheFront thank you for always producing quality content.
@@Livetravellearn so the guy assume all Japanese people are like that?, not assume anything but sound kinda racist to me
Never underestimate imperial war crimes's ability to ruin ones day, There's never enough coverage of Japanese war crimes during WW2. Abseloutley atrocious.
Payback was a bitch though-----over 100,000 vaporized in milliseconds and radiation poisoning in thousands more.
Before someone whines that they were civilians, Emperor Hirohito had issued an edict militarizing the entire Japanese population near the end of the war when Japanese defeat seemed an absolute certainty.,
@@donreinke5863 Japanese soldiers during World War 2 r*ped civilian women. Gunned down POWs. Not to mention, a Japanese officer during WW2 stated that Japan is not part of the Geneva Convention. Hence why they committed these atrocities during WW2
Japan unlike Germany, was never made to atone for what they did during the war. Even today, the Japanese government is not at all shy about branding as racist anyone who criticizes or even mentions what Japan did in World War II.
@@bagsikdangal I'm enraged by the people who want to wave their hand and make some false equivalence. They say things like "everyone did bad things, everyone was guilty" as if that sums it up.
No, just no. Yes, the Allies did some awful things, it was war after all. But there was no tolerance or condoning of these kind of sex crimes, torture, and murder, often inflicted on civilians as well. There is no comparison.
@@ManDuderGuy over time tremendous evil was done on all sides, so critical as far as the issue of moral high ground is doing an objective historical research on the cause and start of WW2. Surely those that started the event are most guilty.
For us Malaysian, we never forget those atrocities committed by the Japanese. The kempetai atrocities were mentioned in our history subjects in schools. Never forget.
amen, to that....
Yes bro, we can forgive but we can't forget.
Kita boleh Maafkan tetapi tidak akan sesekali Melupakan
Spartacus Olson's reference!
When I was in elementary school my teacher told me that during Japanese occupation of Java, her mom and her friend (they lived in Ambarawa and were around 8-9) were walking home from church/school when they stumbled upon a sugar cane field. They took a small piece as a snack and they got chased by some Kenpeitais. Her mom managed to escaped, but her friend got caught. They pulled all of her finger nails with pliers before letting her go. Imagine having the guts to did such horrible thing to a little girl...
Thank you for this video sir . My uncle was beheaded the next to last day of the war . He survived the Baton death March an the hell ships to making it to main land Japan . He was forced to work in a condemned coal mine till he became to ill to work . He had bright red hair an bright blue eyes . Because of this he stood out for punishment besides of the normal hell American pows were forced to endure . My family is still waiting for a apology’s. What a dishonorable lot these animals were an still are if any are still alive .
That was truly awful to hear. Thank you for putting yourself through this to make such a good video on the topic.
Thanks for listening
agreed. information such as this is incredibly important to be remembered. Another channel I'd recommend if you wish to learn more about ww2 atrocities is from the Channel "WW2" and their series called "War Against Humanity". a diffocult series to watch, but incredibly important for the sheer depth of research and commitment to facts. Never Forget.
My father was a POW held by the Kenpeitai - His words were always " never forget, never forgive". He was taught Japanese the hard way (learn or be beaten). Later in life he was offered a job as a translator in a tourist facility in Australia- he turned it down, couldn't stand the memories, I guess.
I'm so sorry your dad had to go through that.
@@KellyTheReiss I'm laughing. White retribution for colonialism
I recently found out that my grandmother forged signatures on ID's so that her friends and sisters had a chance to avoid being captured as sex slaves. They put false ages on the ID's so everyone was of a younger age. She was Indonesian and lived in the Netherlands after the Indonesian independence. Shame that what happened there gets 0 attention when we have the yearly memorial of the end of the German occupation.
A lot of it had to do with Indonesian and Korean pro-independence leaders needing to cover their own tracks, or needing Japanese business during the various red scares
Just any infos about the Kenpeitai are really scarce, didn't know about them until I saw that video, I read the entire WW2 related section in the public library in my area, only one book about Unit 731 but nothing about Kenpeitai, tried another public library nearby and nothing there either...
They still had plenty about the war in Europe, mostly by far, a few books about the Soviet Union during the war and some about the NKVD though...
Not many about the Japanese during WW2 and it was mostly about the Imperial Japanese Navy and the parts they played it...
For a while, I thought the worst was the NKVD despite the fact the Waffen SS was already well known for it's atrocities and were pretty bad themselves...
What I find shocking is there has never been an official apology for the atrocities committed by the Japanese Empire and its army and navy branches . The rape of Nanking was so bad that even the Nazis were horrified .
They were even allowed to keep the head of state in whose name these atrocities were carried out! Imagine Hitter surviving the war and becoming chancellor of West Germany.
@typo pit "two unessecary Nukes on Japanese Cities" lmaooooooooooooo
@typo pit Yeah, it's a shame that they stopped at 2....
@typo pit snowflake
@typo pit You're right the nukes were unnecessary, why waste such technology on those savages? Should've just let the Soviets invade and have their way with them.
Something I heard on a podcast that I thought was interesting was how after ww2, the allies knew Russia was going to be a problem so they wanted to move on from the Axis and gear up for war with Rus. I imagine Japan's new position in the world plus the impending cold war left the allies in a "deal with the devil" when it comes to these crimes, ignore and bring Japan (and her resources) into the fold.
True but the Soviets did the exact same thing.
probably to help things go smooth to stop a split occupation of japan like east/west germany
I also think the whole Germany first mentality and finding the death camps made people kind of just having "enough" and not wanting to hear anymore about the brutality of what happened during ww2
@@CupOhCoffeeTwitch Well when they don't want to hear about it then it doesn't get taught and can happen again. When do you think so many people think communism is so good they haven't been taught the truth.
@@letsgowinnietheflu5439 bro democracy is no better...
There was this incident in Muntilan, about 20 km south of Magelang, in Java, where those animals rounded up all "European looking" people in a school. The school name is Van Lith (still exist now), in case anyone of the reader want to visit it. So, long story short, those animals gathered all "European looking" people including but not limited to the priests, nuns, missionaries, and captured Dutch troops and hold them captive in the school dormitory. One day, they're called one by one to the school hall for "data and identification purpose". So, this hall is like a mini opera hall, where there's a basement for props storage. One by one, they beheaded the captives and the head fell into that storage room. Each and every one of them (read them slowly for dramatic purpose). The bodies then thrown into a small river just outside the hall.
How do I know this? Well, I was a student of the very school in 1998. I know exactly when the scream can be heard, and what they scream sound like. There's this one particular nun ghost. She'd bow down facing the wall, like she's looking for something. If asked what she is doing, she'd stand up straight holding her head in her arms and say mijn hood, or something 😅 Trust me, it's not a pleasant scene 👀
Any ghost hunter here? Please visit my old school, Van Lith High school. Everyone in the town would gladly show you how to go there. A little warning, though, do not visit the old toilets at night. Just don't 👀
“Sadistic A-holes” Not even the half of it my dude. Brutal indeed😳.
Yeah, can't put it into words how bad they were
How surprisingly polite
@@TheFront I knew a Army vet that was captured in the P.I. & sent by way of the "Hell Ships" to be a slave in Japan. He came out after the war bearing permanent damage to his body and walked with a very distinct limp the rest of his life. He became a Christian Pastor & college teacher. After talking with him many times in the 1970's I asked him how he felt about the Japanese people, he said I don't hate them ... but I don't like them.
@@TheFront I think you have a thing against Japan
Fast-Effect There is always a weeb to diminish what the japanese did.
I have been to the Philippines and seen where the Death March started and been to the headquarters of Imperial Japanese General Homma. I have been to the school house where American General King met with Imperial Japanese Major General Nagano. Adjacent to the school house was another building that was the Kenpeitiai headquarters. Right outside is a tree and a small building, both still standing, where the Kenpeitai would would tie up prisoners prior to takiing them into this small building, in the building they would "interrogate" thier prisons. In my life, I have never felt something so evil, knowing what must have gone on there it is no surprise, though. It is still on the school grounds but is a seperate muesum, the small building is surrounded by candles and flowers as a reminder.
My grandfather was guerilla soldier in La Union under American and Filipino guerilla unit. Although the stories I've heard were from my grandmother since my grandfather had long passed away by the time i was born, all i can say is they gave exact revenge to those unlucky japanese who have been taken alive.
One story that stuck to me is when they captured japanese officers who raped our women and forced them to be comfort women. They tied them up naked to a tree(mango tree i recall) and stir up the fire ants nest that lives in the tree. The japanese were screaming in pain and those who survived that torture.....well....they got more torture and a slow death.
@@Martyn-1337 My Father in Law was a Guerilla, too. Several of my wifes relatives were forced on the Death March. My Uncle was with the US 7th Infantry and was there when the Philippines was taken back.
Martin and Joe ,your relatives were HEROES !
Average Person: "OMG, Japan were the biggest victims of WW2. The US was evil for dropping two atomic bombs. The Japanese did nothing wrong during the war.
Kempetai: "Allow us to introduce ourselves and our massive list of crimes against humanity that would make Hitler proud".
My history teacher said straight out to the class that the 2 atomic bombs were dropped on Japan because of racism, she said there was no atomic bombs dropped on Germany because the Germans are white. Trust me she believes what she said it was because of racism, I’m glad I had the common sense to know that that was completely false, but to most of the class that’s their truth on the topic now the bombs were dropped because of racism. Education is dangerous when you have people like that teaching classes
True...Many people now including those in my country are unaware of the exact reasons of why the bomb was dropped. They blame US of highhandness in dealing with Japan. They dont know brutal and vicious Imperial Japan was during WW2.
@@oldtownairsoft3899 Truly is and why the US history is so fickle with so much bias spewed by its teachers who ignore evidence. Germany surrendering in May and the first bombs being tested in July should tell you enough. It's not like the US suddenly hurried up on production after dragging their feat for years just to bomb Japan. While the US certainly has some issues, people need to acknowledge and respect that other courtesies do as well. You are disrespecting most of Asia if you think the Japanese were the victims of WW2. The Japanese military was documented in their own propaganda to be willing to sacrifice the lives of every man, woman, and children just to protect their ruling class.
@@divinewind6313 That's very sad and a disappointment to most of Asia. People are so aware of Na*i Germany and wouldn't think twice of dropping some A bombs on them, but choose to ignore and feel sympathy for a people who were just like them. They should learn the crimes committed against other Asians by the Japanese and encouraged by their command. Japan had no problem getting every single of their citizens killed in a mass attack just to protect their ruling class.
@@oldtownairsoft3899 interesting fact that you might already know. The original target for the Atomic bomb was Berlin, had the fighting in Europe lasted longer German would get hit with Nukes the same way it got firebombed by both the USAAF and Royal Air force bomber command.
Geneva convention: Exists
Japan in WW2: I’m gonna just pretend I didn’t see that
guess it can be said for USSR and Germany aswell.
Japan never signed the Geneva Accords and therefore didn't feel bound by it.
@@marcuspoosz2190 also for the UK, USA and Italy
I don't know the correct term, I think they signed the convention, but then didn't ratify it.
@@M167A1 just looked it up. They signed it, but didn't ratify it.
"Kenpei" literally means Military Police. "Tai" means "team". "Te" means "special", and "kei" is police.
no, ken(憲) means law or official and pei(兵) means soldier. word of special is 特 in
japanese
@Zachary Durocher i'm japanese
"Kenpei" ＝Military Police.
The men of the Kenpeitai do not deserve to be memoralized. They do not deserve to stand with the ranks of the other soldiers of WW2.
They deserve to stand in the same ranks as the entire Japanese imperial army. None of them should be memorialised. I know it’s 77 years later and we can forgive the German army for serving their country ( the SS can fuck off still) but the Japanese army was essentially the same level of assholes as the SS
@@jackcloud4728 So Germany gets the whole Wehrmacht vs SS treatment, while Japan’s army get no examination for any moral gray or shred of human decency ?
@@jackcloud4728 There was no clean Wehrmacht. to try and paint the Army and the SS in completely different colors is to do a disservice to the people massacred by the wehrmacht during the invasion of Poland. German General and Chief of Staff Franz Halder participated in the strategic planning of the invasion of Poland, plans which from the START, directed the mass imprisonment and execution of Poles. There is No innocent German army. individuals yes, but not as an organization.
@@jackcloud4728 IJA and SS weren’t on the same level give me a break
Wehrmacht pfp ironic
I don't know if it was the Kenpatai, or just regular forces, but in the middle of Singapore city is a park with a large, simple monument. The park is the site of a mass grave that thousands of ethnically Han Chinese were rounded up and shot. It is not as well known as other memorials, such as the Changi Prison memorial and museum, or the Commonwealth War Graves, but it is one of the sites most notable for widespread massacre in Singapore.
Did you know that they also inflicted pain & torment on their own people? It was a surprise to me too. In early 1980's I visited Kyushu (Southern Island of ) Japan, and a Japanese lady that I became friends with, told me about this WW2 terrible Japanese group known as Kenpatai, and the fear they instilled within the Japanese civilian population.
Subsequent to that visit, I have seen movies featuring Kenpatai and some of the treatment to the Japanese people that ranged from unkind to cruel. My Japanese language skills weren't very good and so I couldn't get much information from her, nor did I want to make her uncomfortable. I did however wonder if the khaki pants & beige shirt that I wore, perhaps brought back bad memories for her, since she frowned upon that colour choice (something unusual for a Japanese to do). Following that I made sure that I wore something more cheerful to make her feel comfortable in my presence. The good news is that we remain close friends even to this day.
@B1GFRONTO Are you Japanese?
Movies...but have you ever seen real footage of the kenpeitai doing that?
when you all think the gestapo or the nkvd were brutal, remember: there's always an asian better than you
in this case worse
Is that why they call it American Exceptionalism?
Japan has always been a crappy little country full of disease and an inhumane lifestyle that's disgusting and gross food and cannibalism
Wanna know why we hear more about the german war crimes as about the japanese ones??? Because of the religion of the german victims. Nothing else. The japanese killed like 10 times more chinese people than the Germans killed jews.
But crybabies only cry because of the jews. Thats why some people call them the most powerful society in the world.
Very informative...hadn't a clue. Great job delivering it to us!..👏🏼🇯🇲
Secret military police forces. Always an acceptable target for scrutiny and damnation in both real life and fiction, alongside private military companies, military desk jobs, "General Rippers", and bureaucrats.
Lol, you just described every single Hollywood war villain ever.
Although, I don’t see why military desk jobs are on that list.
@@Kaiserboo1871 Desk jobs tend to boring setpieces compared to, say, battles and gun fights.
Germans today: We own our past despicable behavior.
Japan: Let's not teach in schools how we were absolute barbarians and never acknowledge comfort women/Bataan/Nanking
And let's put pressure on countries like the Philippines whenever they put up memorials to our comfort Women.
If you do your research they actually do teach those things in school. It should be noted however most of these text books are written in a neutral and bland tone making them easier to forget.
@@Necrodermis Then isn't that called Token acknowledgement.
@俊也角田 True. No denying that
@俊也角田 better that than to be dishonorable and deny or even amend for your crimes. if u forget the past then u can recreate the same horror again. but hey why educate when u can hide it. props to the troops that took many of the creul peeps down (dont misread i mean those who did this not the regular soldiers). im glad im teached both sides to not forget.
I hope you do more videos on this. I love learning more about the Imperial Japanese
What germs they were
@@waynemcauliffe2362 no worse than any other imperial army. We just don’t hear about it cause a lot of the most brutal aspects of colonialism from other powers wasn’t written down
@@Merlinsbigbeard Worst i`ve ever heard of mate
@@waynemcauliffe2362 look into Belgium in the Congo
@@Merlinsbigbeard oh no, not him.
I don't think Japanese children have been taught extensively about this, probably why many adults deny this.
My grandpa's father and uncle were taken by the Kenpeitai after been discovered to be supporting the guerillas in their town. My grandpa never found their bodies after the war.
I had heard that the Japanese had a Secret Police during WWII. But didn't know what they were called. Now I do. Nice job The Front.
Watch the show "The man in High Castle" , they play a central role in the plot.
@@SagaciousNihilist---Sounds interesting. Thanks.
Do you have a 2nd UA-cam channel? Or does someone else just sound similar to you?
That was an awesome video. The Kenpeitai was definitely underlooked in WW2.
Thank you, and yes I do!
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@@TheFront ahh! So it is a SW channel (sorry I follow so many I forget them sometimes). Love your SW content! And had no idea you had this channel --- love all the MIL history content too
Ambarawa...my Father was there during WWII He was briefly in a volunteer militia and was sent to help guard the airfields at Kalidjati. He was only 18 that year, his mother had heard that if he was caught in his uniform, the Kenpeitei (Kempeitei?) would treat him harshly. So when he and friends in uniform went back to their families after fleeing the battle at the airfields cause they were outnumbered, he hid the uniform. He was away from the home when they took his family away, and they were taken to a civilian camp. He was considered of possible military age, so they wanted him for questioning of course, and left a notice saying that they knew his folks had a son, and he was to report to a place to be questioned. An Indonesian boy who played with my Dad in school warned him, don't go, they will kill you! He took off and hid in the jungles outside Jakarta, and he and a few other friends, became teenage resistance fighters, committing acts of sabotage against the enemy til he was captured by a kenpeitei officer who was waiting for him to try and sneak back to the Family home to get clean clothes. He was then tortured, and interrogated, water-boarded, everything on their list just about! He was about to have his head cut off along with a dozen or more teenage prisoners, but the Bishop of Jakarta got them to spare them....at a cost....he had to pick their replacements out of the large crowd that had assembled by order of the Kempeitei to watch. He then was forced to watch as all those innocent victims were decapitated. If my dad or any others of his group closed their eyes or tried to run, they were next! He never forgot that day, how could anybody? He then spent a while in the old city jail Tchipinang (sorry if miss spelled, then a 2nd camp called Suka Miskin, before being shipped east to the 3rd camp, Ambarawa by rail car, packed like cattle! There he said it was the worst! At best, he received maybe a handful of rotten food a day, he said. To this day, my 3 brothers and i try and never waste food. He made us know the value of food! He finally escaped from Ambarawa after the war had been over for a few weeks. About Sept, 12th or 13th in my guess for the day he and a friend escaped the camp and barely avoided a massacre at the camp maybe a week later. Many years after the war my dad received the Royal Dutch Resistance Cross medal for his actions and suffering as a teenage soldier. He passed away in 2003 after a long successful career as a Geologist. Niet Vergeten.
My grandfather refused to surrender and continued fighting the Japanese as a guerrilla in the Philippines. He once told me that when they captured a Kempeitai officer once, they executed him without trial. The beast was known for his sadistic brutality. And yet, when he was being tied up to be shot, he was pleading pathetically for his life.
You made that up didn t you ? I m sure your story goes the other way around ! LOL
@@osvaldoiamashita6289 No, I did not make that up. Grandpa kept the man's Nambu pistol. It is still in the family.
@@gilanbarona9814 So the Kempeitai officer was wimp enough that your grandpa kept his sword as a trophy ! Dude I really like your story it gets better every time you tell it ! LMAO
@@osvaldoiamashita6289 It was not a sword. It was a pistol. A Nambu of some weird design. Grandpa said it was unsafe to carry loaded, and after the war, there were no 8mm Japanese pistol rounds available anyway. So it sits in a display case.
@@gilanbarona9814 it does not mattet, a Stick, a powder gun, a sword, a hatchet
, a black belt karate strike, you know what I mean, Don tbe such an A....h.. ! You are making this whole story up ! Anyway now you have some sort of an anti Asian sentiment and you wanna beat them all up , right because of your grandpa ? LOL
I would politely but firmly say you should include the French's la Milice or the national front organizations that built up to the Milice. From one lecture I had on history, a French professor in perhaps a brutally honest way said "The Milice did things that would make the German SS blush." Essentially, the brutality that got swept under the rug in his recalling of things was insane.
I saw on a WW2 documentary before that french war crimes against german citizens were equally as bad as the soviet war crimes against german citizens. Also the soviets have more war crimes against ukraine too.
They were all dealt with by the French population where they lived. Not many survived.....
The Kempeitai's sending of prisoners to Unit 731 was actually called "Special Transfer"...
To the research facility :(
You could probably do a whole series on just the events of the Kenpeitai "jail" at Outram Road Singapore.
Sad part is most Kenpeitai got away with things and never saw war crimes trials.
Great video. Even today the Japanese don't face enough scrutiny for their prior disgusting actions towards civilians and military personnel alike.
It was 80 years ago. Also speaking of atrocities against civilians while having a crusader pfp is ironic lmao
Yes, 80 years is a long time to stand up for what you've done. Japan should honour itself by owning up to what happened.
@@Merlinsbigbeard
What fits for one video response may not fit for another but the pic would be difficult to change for every response.
Yes, it was 80 years ago but that doesn't stop the posts when it comes to the Nazi's. Also the Soviets don't get nearly enough scrutiny, and they did most of their harm to the people under their umbrella. Ask the Koreans and Chinese how they feel about 80 years ago, you will get some heartfelt responses from them. I lived in South Korea for a few years in the 80's and the older folks have extremely strong feelings about the crimes by the Japanese.
@@Akillesursinne
Exactly..... 👍
@@Akillesursinne except Japan has never denied its actions. You have countries like turkey that denies it's genocide of Armenia or even the U.S which white washes our treatment of native Americans yet Japan is one of the few countries that actually does own their actions. Like the previous comment said it's been 80 years today's japanese owe those people they hurt nothing but they openly acknowledge how bad they were if asked
TheFront: "unforgivable crimes they committed during the war"
The world: "AHAHA I LOVE ANIME I FORGIVE YOU JAPAN YOU'RE SO KAWAIIIII"
Those atrocities were committed by people 80 years ago, whom of which none are actually still alive to this day. Why would the world hate people that had nothing to do with those atrocities? Thats like hating modern day germany because of the nazi regime. Or hating skandinavia because of what the vikings did.
@@PAINZDA How about the fact that japan has never owned up to thier atrocities? Why do German children learn about the holocaust but japanese children learn they were "victims" of atom bombs and that it?
Japanese nowadays don't carry their past wickedness like Germans *have* to.
And that's pretty damn despicable.
And China is trying to do the same soft power projection. Lots of sexy Chinese Gacha games.
@@endutubecensorship And how exactly do you even know they arent taught what happened? I willing to bet youre just assuming thats the case. But thats honestly completely besides the point. The way you phrase it is like todays children should atone for and carry the weight of their grandparents sins. Which is just wrong. A person should not feel responsible for something they had no part in.
@@PAINZDA Not my point at all. What I'm saying is that what was done in the past should be taught in thier schools to prevent history from repeating itself.
My other point is that Germany has owned thier atrocities, japan has swept them under the rug and happily played the "victim" because of the atom bomb.
They should take responsibility for what they have done.
Edit: Look up Mark Feltons video on a japanese WW2 museum, it's very telling on their attitude
My great grandfather was beheaded by the Kenpeitai in Melaka during the Japanese invasion of Malaya because of his records of supporting the war against the Japanese in China.
R u living in Malacca?
Thankyou for this video! Learning new things!
10:05: Already heard of the beasts when I was first learning of the Japanese involvement in WW2
Thought police are a given in regimes like imperial Japan. Never surprising anymore.
I'll start looking.
Say, ever heard of Leonard Keysor? You might want to check out his tale of constant grenade hot potato nonsense for The Braved.
The 'thought, police' is a term that's starting to be used in the UK, where the Police, the people once charged with protecting the population against crime, appear to more interested in 'checking people's thinking, than they are in solving actual crime. It's strange how we don't seem to learn much from history.
In Indonesia, we learned the existence of Kenpetai in school... in my time.
My Uncle Bob Chapman was a special forces Commando by wars end. He and some others were redeployed east in anticipation of an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Which of course never took place. During occupation duties just after the surrender, a group of Kenpeitai prisoners about 15 strong, had roped themselves together and refused to move. They attacked any who approached them. The Military police called on Bob and his colleagues to assist. After sizing up the situation, 15 men, no clothing apart from loin cloths, very determined to resist, Bob noticed that the end of their rope straggled some way behind them after a few struggles. He hitched it to a 4 tonner, and drove off. "Just far enough to cool them off" said Bob. It worked. Given a bottle of Rum by a grateful MP officer at the time, Bob was later verbally reprimanded for his conduct by an intelligence officer.
It's a shame that most Japanese war criminals were simply let go and allowed to continue their careers in post-war japanese society, many still got into politics afterwards.
I believe you're talking about A-class criminals. Many of others were executed in battlefields like Burma, and much more JP soldiers were forced labour up to death without any proceedings.
You are similar to us I think.
@@minoru-kk Where exactly were Japanese soldiers forced to labor without a hearing?
And whatever happened to any B-class criminals?
You sound like a typical Japanese ignorant of what your country systematically did during WW2. I bet you believe Japanese were victims in the war because of the atomic bombs.
You have some English skills. You really should study everything that the Japanese did during the war. In the West there were isolated incidents, but in the Japanese Army it was everywhere they went. Everywhere.
@@rabbit251 My English is poor, so I can only show the words.
Abuse to the JP soldiers, were discussed on "Japanese Surrendered Personnel" and soldiers butchered for Allies entertainments.
Someone says it for honor of JP, and keep silence on their own persecuting during/after WW2, like in Aaron, Mingaladon or Kokkaing. Lack of their legal positions omitted too.
I think these cases are other examples of ignorance or denial of war crime.
Now probably you are surprised, Japanese high school students study what the Japanese did in the era on schedules. Bataan, Death Railway, Internment, etc.
They're also told with what Japanese civilians have done. Not limited on A-bombs.
@@minoru-kk I have been teaching in Japan for the last 19 years. Except for a few students that went to Australia for a year to study, I have never found any students that were taught about the atrocities that the Japanese committed during WW2. All they knew was about the atomic bombs. At my daughter's school that is all they have been taught about the war. Even adults and friends that I have don't know about these things.
How often did the Allies butcher Japanese POWs? Where? But systematically, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, wherever the Japanese military went they killed POWs and civilians. You really cannot say that about the Allies except for rare cases, even after we took over after Japan surrendered.
@@rabbit251 At least my and my friend's schools couldn't enter exams without knowing these.
And, on denying Allied war crimes, I cannot be silent.
The Allies massacred Japanese POWs and civilians too at least in China, Manchuria, Burma, Indonesia, New Guinea, other theatres, Okinawa and of course Japan.
How often did? HOW DARE YOU?
The report I'd read said that killing of unarmed Japanese was common and couldn't count the cases. Also reported abusing for entertainment, intantional neglect, etc.
Even in English report, JP POWs killed almost 100:1 rate on 1944 Pacific (killed 100). It wasn't an incident, but on the statistics.
So, did you search the word JSP? I swear you not.
They were about 630 thousands, systematically enslaved and killed in all over SEA. The camps mentioned above are NOT "rare cases".
I repeat, how often? Countless. Where? All of East Asia.
So you are similar to us.
During the occupation in Hong Kong ,Kenpeitai are so brutal , even the government officials send from Tokyo are scare
I have to be honest, I had heard of the Kenpeitai before watching Man in the High Castle which they are a major element in, but, I'd never heard of the Kokkeitai before.
Excellent work about behaviours I had heard of but not in nearly so much researched detail. Thsnk you.
I knew that the Japanese were brutal during WW2, but I had absolutely no idea that they were this brutal
All we ever hear is NAZI NAZI NAZI as if Japan's atrocities were just a footnote in History...
Lets not forget the Sook Ching programme that occurred in the island of Singapore and Malayan peninsula, where probably tens of thousands of men agedn 18-50 were rounded up and systematically executed by the kenpeitai.
Even the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew himself was almost a victim of this, but managed to escape by asking to go to the washroom.
Such atrocities are proof of how greed, instillation of radical ideological beliefs can turn humans into beasts. Let us learn from our past mistakes and remember that everyone, including the people we hate, are just as much human as we are, should be treated with a basic level of humanity.
The picture at 1:40 is from the set of "the man in the high castle" with a grey filter on it lol.
I knew there was something off about that photo. Too... modern looking
Great video and great channel!
Maybe I’m missing something here. But don’t “secret police” usually = a holes?
Yea I don’t think there’s any “secret police” that were good lol they’re pretty much always awful.
Good job dude on this vid 👍🏾
Asians knew about them, those kempetais. They even employed local people as their underlings
Yup
Great video documentary.
I subscribed after watching.
They say nazi is evil
A Dutch teenager whom became a resistant on Java told me of the "Pencil trick" involving pencils in both ears. He survived the War and the Indonesian war and removed to California.
The Japanese military definitely got off lightly after the war, most never had to account for their actions, mainly because there were so many offenders punishment was impossible and the allies wanted to move onto to the soviets, there was never the interest in prosecuting them. The lack of any suitable Japanese apology or recognition of their crimes is especially galling.
My late grandmother used to tell us stories of mad Japanese soldiers during Japanese occupation. It was a must to bow down to a Japanese soldier, if not you'll be struck or killed on the spot. She used to tell me that there was one Japanese official who frequented their hut to bring her gifts. Apparently as a sign of courtship, and this officer was a humble gentleman. He knelt and bowed down whenever he would bring gifts for her. However, my grandmother's father was very suspicious and cautious. And then, that Japanese officer stopped coming. The Americans returned, Gen McArthur the great general came back to fulfill his promise...days after American planes dropped flyers and sounded speakerphones inviting them to come out of their caves and down their hills to the seashore. The went and were given chocolates and corned beef by Yankee boys. Many ladies from their little village fell in love and married GIs, but she didn't because her dad didn't like the idea of marrying her to a foreigner.
This story happened in Western side of Samar island Philippines. I guess what gran was trying to say is that even in terrible times, there's always a few good men left.
Most Japanese never learn this in school. Largely unaware of WWII history or facts
Same thing media/cancel culture doing in the U.S. 😡
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
btw, the Gen in The French Gendarmerie 0:57 is pronounced as the french male name Jean, or "jon"... "Jondarmerie" 🙂
1:37 Is that Inspector Kido from The Man In The High Castle Amazon Prime Original Series?! The only one who wore glasses.
I read somewhere the reason why the imperial Japanese military was so brutal was due to the bushido they employed. Apparently they used the most barbaric and savage version of bushido instead of the virtuous and honorable one.
Nope. It's was racism, pure and simple. Anyone who was not Japanese was considered inferior and their lives were in the hands of the Emporer..... who didn't care what happened to them.
@@louisavondart9178 which wouldn't have happened if they employed the other version of bushido. Then again, that would mean they didn't employed it during the boshin war, which is unrealistic considering the circumstances of the time.
I learn something new every time I watch one of ur videos.
That is 1 reason why fighting the Japanese was so brutal.
The Germans was on drugs but it seems to me the Japanese did it for fun
First time I read about the Kempeitai it was in a novel. What they got up to in the novel was sadistic, but when you find out they really did that sort of stuff, no words,
Have these individuals been identified and prosecuted as diligently as German criminals were?
No, see the story of the survivors of the USS Tang and specifically what happened to their captain Richard O Kane. Also read the book Unbroken to get some idea of what many went through.
Identified but never prosecuted. A general amnesty was declared by the Americans 2 or 3 years after the war ended and most Japanese war criminals escaped any punishment.
In 1948, the US military administration under General MacArthur halted all war crime prosecutions in Japan. The suspected Class B and Class C war criminals ran into hundreds of thousands but only just over 5000 cases were ever processed. After 1948, all classes of suspected Japanese war criminals were virtually free from war crime prosecution. In comparison, about 140000 cases were processed for war crimes in West Germany and then united Germany.
I’ve read as well that the Cold War took up right after the hot war ended and resources considered better spent against battling Communist overreach in philosophy and treasure helped curtail the prosecution of Japanese war crimes.
The pro-war imperialists, a minority segment of the population at the end of the war, were every bit as disparaging of life as the Nazi’s, however, the communist threats, the exhaustion of outrage and the desire to move past the all consuming hell of war benefited these scoundrels and psychopaths at the expense of justice.
Books by Tom Bower ~ "Blind Eye to Murder" and "The Paperclip Conspiracy" give details of post-war US collusion with these nasty people.
Yeah. I'd listen to WWII Veterans talk over coffee & desserts, Sun nites. They especially tortured red heads like on marches. Mom's childhood friend was nicknamed "Red" & always had white hair. So I asked why? He had been so terrified of Japanese bonzai charges. During Guadelcanal months long battles. One morning he woke up & his hair had gone snow white. It protected him from being singled out.
Knew a Dutch lady who married American & was forced to be a comfort woman.
I wasn't allowed to hear details till 18.
It was horrific how much PTSD she had. Even 40 years on & her very gentle husband.
Now this is something you don’t hear or see in history books nor video, thank you for doing a video of the Japanese Secert police, also this is japan during the 2nd world war and before
Japanese officer:Ok you see that book full of what not do to war crimes
Japanese solider:Yes what about it?
Japanese officer:We do the exact opposite of that
Japanese solider:Okay
better intro then TV shows. Cant say it enough!!
Indeed, I was aware there existed a secret police in Japan during WWII, though unaware of their name.
In the Buddhism that I practice, Nichiren Buddhism, as practiced by the SGI (Soka Gakkai or value creation), these thought police harassed our first and second presidents ( Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, and Josei Toda) for refusing to place a Shinto talisman on the alter.
They were both arrested. President Makiguchi died in prison and Mr. Toda experienced an awakening.
President Toda prepared the way for this lay Buddhist sect to grow from 3,000 members when he was released from prison in 1945, to 12million members in 192 countries today.
The brutal treatment Mr. Toda received at the hands of the psycho pain inflicters blinded him in one eye and the torture definitely cut his life short. He was 57yrs when his body gave out in 1958.
Learned something new today.
I recall years ago looking at a time magazine. In the front there was an article about all the people agree with Ronald Reagan because he visited Bitburgy cemetery because some SS were buried there.
At the back of the same issue there was a story about old GIs returning swords and other trophies of war. With the Japanese all was forgiven and forgotten?!?!
Need I say more?
Just finished an episode of man in the high castle, glad you made this video!
1:34
You snuck a "man in the high castle" pic in there, didn't you?
Either that or the dude was cast WAY too well.
Strange how these atrocities were more or less swept under the rug and forgotten. The Germans were vilified for their actions, rightfully so, but not a lot of people know that the Kempetai were on the same level, if not exceeding the Nazi’s brutality.
The only thing I will grant Tojo is that he took responsibility for his crimes. At least he didn't go with "I was only following orders" nonsense that many of the German military did.
Well, I think it was because he was the one giving out those orders lol
Good video mate well done! Good that the Allies got rid of them
It’s a shame Japanese we’re never held responsible for war crimes
well, they were
@@yallahhabibi1012 well if you mean the bombs then maybe. I don’t recall anyone tried and hung like the Nuremberg trials.
@@hooper4581 Yes they were, you should search for the Tokio trials, people like Tojo Hideki and Iwane Matsui were judged and hunged. Before that, General Yamashita Tomoyuki was also hunged. But to be honest, too few were. Many war criminals escaped without punishment. But there were trials held for war crimes.
The Japanese burned any and all evidence that would have been vital to bringing them in the hotspot.
@@hooper4581 far eastern tribunal and the respective tribunals held in the phillipines, burma and east indies. many war criminals were hung, these trials even helped set the bar for what's considered a modern war crime.
I will never forget when I was listening to a veteran talk about the Japanese. He was saying that he saw some horrible things they did while during one of the first serious battles with them.
Then he said: "We didn’t take many prisoners after that."
I heard about these guys in the show "The Man in the High Castle"
isn't the picture at 1:40 from the show?
@@Dennis-2000 yup, Chief Inspector Kido is right there.
In the early 2990s I was stationed in Yokosuka Japan as a US Navy Military Policeman . I witnessed Japanese Police Officers rough up suspects on a couple of occasions , but nothing approaching this .
@@victorwaddell6530 HELLO TIME TRAVELLER there how is the future of NEOYOSUKO 2990s?
It's easy to yell at someone you've lost,
and feels so good!
Actually the kempeitai wasn't really forgotten they were also featured in the man in the high castle and in the great raid
The inhumanity and brutality characteristic of Japan's military and police has generally been overlooked during the past century by both allies and postwar Japanese. Contrasts between the focus on Gestapo and SS atrocities, or even those of the Soviet NKVD, with the silence (coverups?) over the equally well-documented Kenpeitai barbarity against their fully comparable numbers of victims is indeed APPALLIN
Great video as always. I must agree these guys were pretty much the definition of cowardly a-holes. These jagoffs were so repulsive, they had to hang pork chops around their necks just to get dogs to play with them. Likewise, their idea of sweet-talking a woman was saying "Scream and I'll kill you"
My dad was an Army Ranger Scout in the Pacific. He was ship board waiting to invade Japan, and told to expect 80% casualties.. The civilians were told to die fighting, because they would be eaten by Americans. Women would hold their babies in their arms and jump off mountains or high cliffs.
0:16 Sir, this picture is not about Kenpeitai. This is Chinese soldiers executing “Hanjian(汉奸)”, or Chinese collaborators with Japanese occupation force. You can see the Chinese words in the background. I know you people can not distinguish our faces, but please, check the uniforms at least.
Authoritarianism always has a spot for this type of person.
Good video. ty
The story of the Singapore raids is amazing and the second which fired under a false flag is filled with honor on both sides as the Japanese were so impressed with the how the survivors of the attack never disputed that they fired under a false flag were given the Japanese honor of having their own individual executioner who marched along side the condemned to the place of ezecution instead of being executed one after another. It is a very Japanese thing but it showed their respect for those commandos.
As Malaysian we can forgive what happen in our country during Japan invation but we can't forget what happen during That time.
The guerillas in the Philippines equally showed brutally with the Japanese soldiers especially the Kempeitai.
You say that like it's a bad thing
Well the Japanese soldiers deserve it.
That's what happens when you go to the philippines and the commies are still doing guerilla warfare on the countryside
@@danolix yep Hukbalahap commies
@typo pit yeah correct, they did it to get information from Philippine revolutionists that time but in turn, Americans captured were either beheaded or skinned them alive and put on vinegar or salt or something more nasty. The Philippine-American War was the US first Vietnam.
Nice video bro
I really wonder where the state of world politics would be if America never swept Japan's war crimes under the rug.
Japan would be more morally altruistic and less repugnant degenerate than what they are doing sadistically in terms of JAV now.
America didn't sweep war crimes under the rug, Americans openly criticized Japan and support South Korea over the crimes
@@MH-kc1eu how would you define the US making sure a bunch if war criminals didn't convicted or even charged with war crimes because they were useful to us? We saved a lot of Axis criminals from justice. History books in high-school will tell you about German war crimes but you would be hard pressed to find a high-school textbook talking about what Japan did. We went the extra mile to clean up their image and make them presentable to the American people.
The Kenpetai looted my ancestral home, looking especially for gouden rijksdalder. My father got hit by the local Kenpetai commandant during a routine inspection. And his DKW 200cc got confiscated. Uncle of my father was accused of secretly listening to the BBC, and he got arrested, detained in Besuki, and then sent to Ambarawa untill the war's end.
I wish that I had this video the last time I heard someone speak of the traditionally peaceful productive nature of Asian cultures as evidence of their advanced societies.
Japanese were on a whole different level but is over shadow by the German
The Germans preferred their genocide as industrial-level, the Japanese were up-close and personal. I'm not sure which is worse.
11 million people murdered with bayonets and shovels is hard to overshadow.... unless no-one talks about it. The Japanese have been allowed to shove it under the carpet.
In Vietnam, which returned to French colonial rule, 700 to 800 Japanese soldiers remained and weapons such as aircraft and tanks were left behind. Kwangai Army Junior High School was established in 1946 during the Vietnam Independence War. At some military schools, military education was conducted by former Japanese Army officers and non-commissioned officers. Some of the former Japanese soldiers who died in the Vietnam Independence War have been honored at the Martyr's Cemetery. Some Japanese soldiers who returned to Japan were later awarded a medal by Vietnam. In addition, we will continue to maintain friendly relations between the two countries by establishing organizations such as the Japan-Vietnam Trade Association and the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association.
When you drop and think about this it was less than a hundred years ago how cruel humanity can be to one another.
And soon. China will do that.
@@silverhawkscape2677 do you have evidence? What about Israel? Don't you know that President Xi and Ben Nehayanhu used to be buddies?
I was at a bar while on duty, one time, drinking a Coke at the stand-up bar.. A WW2 movie came on and I decided to watch it. When the movie stopped, I turned to leave and a Japanese man was standing beside me. When I realized who it was, I drew my gun 1/2 way out of the holster. He knew it, too. I had to hurry up leave. I can still see the look on his face.
That is some little known information. In many ways it is more barbaric than the nazis… which is really saying something.