I still don’t understand why the Japanese got away with their war crimes and to this day have never even acknowledged what they did was wrong. Primitive and savage behaviour.
Politics -The Allies thought it was expedient to sweep a whole lot under the carpet so that the country was easier to govern during the American occupation and also help it to rebuild quicker and let the Allies get out of a costly occupation and rebuild their own countries and economies heavily impacted by WW2.
Adding to what Chris & Shaun have said, the Japanese did the unthinkable: they lost. That caused a great deal of introspection. Realising (as far as they were concerned) the Americans won WWll, so they must have been doing something better. Best not to point out any major differences in fighting techniques but rather follow their methods more closely. The other point is that there were few independent witnesses (but there were some!), so modern Japan claims that China has exaggerated beyond any possible reality the numbers “accidentally” killed, and maintains only “a few” were killed and probably for various ‘crimes’ anyway. Basically the whole episode is an embarrassment for Japan and, as in many other instances (sex slaves which insists on calling “comfort women” - and they were all volunteers, don’t you know?, treatment of POWs in Asian camps, etc. etc), the govt either refuses to look at the past and apologise, or gives mealy-mouthed half-apologies and admissions. There has never been any love lost between Japan and China. The govt (at least) in Japan is very racially prejudiced against China. Chinese people and Koreans in Japan are still regarded with suspicion and if they do not become naturalised Japanese, receive reduced benefits. Those in China are regarded as inferior to Japanese, perhaps because China has progressed so much faster than Japan. Products from China are regarded as inferior quality, food too. Japan is jealous of China’s development, economy, power and influence. The govt in Japan is also jealous of the Chinese govt’s control over its citizens. Japan is also very worried by China’s size, it’s military numbers, power, and technology, and by its proximity. And China’s expansion into the S. China Sea. To admit _any_ misdeeds ‘so long ago’(?!) would be unthinkable to the govt, so controlled has it been by one party (LDP) for so long. The lately departed ex PM Abe was a hawk towards China, a nationalist, a rightist and desperately tried to rewrite Japan’s anti-war constitution to allow an offensive army capable of first strike. He was also Japan’s longest serving PM and packed the govt with like minds whose influence is considerable, especially as the general population of Japan is generally so pathetically apolitical (most know no other party line). Finally (you’ll be happy to read), Japan’s philosophy of ‘bushido’ (way of the warrior) does not allow for surrender: that is not ‘honourable’ - death was not to be feared but embraced. Such can be the result of indoctrination. Losers lose everything, including reputation.
The saddest part is that many of these soldiers and generals responsible lived out their lives to old age, never regretting their actions. They really believed their monstrous acts were something to be proud of. If hell exists, they are there, burning for eternity.
The Nanjing Massacre is a lie! It's Chinese propaganda, the soldier in the image is the uniform of the Chinese army. In the first place, the Japanese have been kind and considerate since ancient times, so they have no prejudice against foreigners.However, South Koreans and Chinese are taught history education based on propaganda as a national policy.These history textbooks are false. They are just looking down on Japanese people. I think that humanity is a race that is completely different from Japanese.
@@user-sg8kq7ii3yNot just wounded knee, slaughtered millions of Native Americans, First Nations, and indigenous people all over the world., including bringing African American slaves to America and exploiting them, beating them, torturing them and killing millions of them. Not to mention the atrocities done to Japanese American people during the Second World War , and the countless atrocities done by the United States., and it’s happening today in Gaza. United States sending billions of dollars of our tax money to bomb, murder and destroy the Palestinian people..!
@darthdistix1895 We all know of the atrocities that were committed against the Native Americans. This is very well known, and no one needs to cite their sources. Google is your friend. Native Americans were seen as savages and treated as such. They were brutalized by people who didn't want to understand them, wanted what they had, and didn't want peace. War is never kind to the citizens caught up in the midst of it, because soldiers, warriors, dehumanize the enemy.
@@user-sg8kq7ii3y NOT EVEN CLOSE. not even close to nanking. In six weeks the Japs killed more civilians and POWS than the US did for their entire existence.
What many people don’t know and all the Japanese denied is that ten thousands of Chinese women and girls during Nanking massacre were sexually assaulted, and the Japaneses were using Chinese newborn babies to do cruel experiments that changed their bodies and killed them. Every time I saw the pictures from Nanking massacre, I always cry even I have never experienced it. It also made me so angry that the Japanese always deny it.
It's not unusual. After WW2 the allied forces occupying Japan committed many rapes and used Japanese tactics and tech in Korea. Further on in Vietnam there were such forces as the Tiger Force which would employ tactics such as beheading and raping 13 year old girls and killing enough people to get a body count equal to their unit number. It's not just the Japanese who ignore their victims, it's a common thing on all sides. We see victims of the Nazis and Soviets in Ukraine while the British did similar in India and the victims we mourne there are our soldiers only. We condemn Germans and Russians if the mourne their soldiers but really they just copy what we do or we copy them.
Yes, and I'm one of them! The Japanese crossed boundaries that normal thinking human beings wouldn't dare to cross. I can't ever forgive them for what they have done without remorse nor apology.🇦🇺🕊
Well it's important to not blame a whole nation/ethnicity for past crimes, but the Japanese government haven't really made the same effort as Germany to own up and make amends to their crimes in WW2. Just like nationalists in the west pretending slavery "wasn't all that bad", the Japanese right-wing prefers to white-wash their war crimes. Germany went through decades of reparations, and ingrained the dangers of ideologies that lead to these sorts of crimes into their societal fabric. Japan seems to be happier to just pretend it never happened.
I was doing research at the U.S. National Archives while Iris Chang was researching her book on Nanking. I, along with several other researchers and Archive employees, was keeping an eye on her as she looked more and more distressed and ghastly. She finally left the research room and disappeared for about 45 minutes. We got more and more worried, and finally, one of the women Archives employees checked the women's washroom and discovered that she had been in there throwing up and sobbing. She finally came back in the research room and the staff recommended that she take a break for a day or two, and that they would keep the documents she was using in the research room, contrary to normal practice, until she felt able to return. I keep thinking that what she saw in the horrific photos preserved at the Archives and what she read had to have contributed to her suicide. No one could look at all of the material without having permanent nightmares from it. As for the death total, based on what research I have done, I would argue that it was higher than 200,000, and much higher if you count the deaths in the surrounding towns and villages. The Japanese Army essentially went totally evil with respect to the treatment of Nanking. Also, as the Japanese did not declare war on China, but referred to it as the China Incident, they viewed that any Chinese prisoners were not Prisoners of War, but brigands who could be shot out of hand. China, without a doubt, suffered the greatest casualties of all countries in World War 2.
I first heard about her book, "The Rape Of Nanking" when she was interviewed by Brian Lamb on "Book Notes" as part of the C-Span Network many years ago. It was worse than I ever imagined, she showed photos and I still remember that interview. Sad to hear she committed suicide. Looking up more information as I type this. Thanks for the info, I had forgotten her name. Iris Chang (RIP).
I appreciate you bringing awareness to people about the infamous war crimes at the Rape of Nanking. However, I would not call these killings an “execution.” Those poor people were murdered in coldblood! These were war crimes committed by Japanese soldiers against innocent Chinese civilians. The word “execution” makes people think about some sort of justice being delivered against the person being executed. These killings had absolutely nothing to do with any form of justice. It was just coldblooded murder!
If anybody hasn't yet you need to read Iris Chang's "The Rape Of Nanking". I thought I knew everything about Nanking (or Nanjing as it is called today) but damn, I wasn't even close to understanding the brutality of this massacre. All the deaths, executions, and the rape, it's incomprehensible. It's a read I'll never forget. No wonder many Asian nations haven't forgotten or forgiven the Japanese for their crimes in World War II. Especially for Japan's denial of the massacres they committed during WW2 including Nanking
I have read the book you talk of many years back. I have also read several dozen others dealing with the Japanese during the second world war and never once, in thousands of pages, have I as much as read just one act of kindness or common humanity from them.
John Rabe was known as the good Nazi. Despite the atrocities of his countrymen, he had the compassion and heart to save his fellow man from a similar fate. There’s a statue of him too and some of the people have actually named their kids John after him
All the top Japanese scientists who tested biological weapons on allied pows and Chinese civilians, were given immunity and new lives in America They were Unit 731. The book by the same name is fascinating
They weren't _"given new lives in America"._ They were not transported to the US. They were not prosecuted and many had successful careers in Japan. We thought that their research into biological and chemical warfare was going to be valuable in the coming Cold War. But it wasn't. I don't understand why, upon discovering this, we didn't just renege on the deal and convict and execute them anyway. We were the victors, we could have done whatever we wanted..
@@SuperGetoverhere Actually, the US was very interested in the results of the experiments, in return for the information and details many were given new lives in the US rather than be tried for the crimes.
When I debate the ethics of the U.S. dropping nukes on Japan, I always reference the Rape of Nanking, Unit 731, and the Bataan death march. The Japanese deserved no mercy from anyone during WWII and their well known atrocities and targeting of civilians justified the dropping of nukes in lieu of an invasion that would have cost million of allied and civilian lives. It says much that the chances of survival for an Allied P.O.W. was higher if they were captured by the Nazis than the Japanese.
That's not even the main reason. They were given prior warnings, not given America at Pearl Harbor, and the chance to surrender before each bomb and refused. If Allies had to invade by land, the estimates of casualties ran into the hundreds of thousands. No sane person would take that trade off.
The Japanese killed 200,000+ during the Rape of Nanking. They also killed approximately 250,000 Chinese in reprisals for the Doolittle Raid in 1942. And the use of the Bomb did save many more lives than it took. If it saved thousands of allied lives it saved millions of Japanese lives. And no doubt they would have used it on us if they had one. Without hesitation.
Agree, it was a necessary circuit breaker. Otherwise the Allies would have continued firebombing cities which would have killed way more people and questionable if it would have resulted in surrender. The nukes gave the Japanese a way of backing down from their never surrender stance.
Man's inhumanity to man. Unfortunately all cultures involved in war are guilty of some form of war crime throughout history. As a soldier myself I have no explanation for this.
@@thecatalunya1 let's look at the likes of you, soldiers from your country have provided you with the freedom you have to sleep at night in a comfortable bed, also make the asinine comments you have. Shut up, or even better try and pass basic training and wear a uniform before u make yourself look like an idiot.
@@einwd depends on the situation. Also the conflict. What do you class as a refugee. Thare are economic reffos, asylum seekers, reffos with alterior motives example terrorists. Personally countries tgat are imploding should fix their own violent and monetary problems. Let the poluticians do the fighting stop sending soldiers to fight for them. A soldier rarely comes home without psychological scarring.
I witnessed a Chinese Aussie give a Japanese Aussie a hard time a couple of yrs ago.After this incident I told the Chinese businessman that he had not forgiven Nanking.He smiled and said "You know your History"
That’s just ridiculous. You can’t go blaming people for what happened close to 100 years ago. No where near as extreme but that’s like giving a half Chinese Aussie a hard time for covid in 2108
@@aydendunne6051 The thing is modern Japanese actually revere these fucking monsters as saints, and deny wholeheartedly the war crimes they did.. In my eyes they are no different than their predecessors
People are upset at them due to them being incredibly ignorant and denying all of the barbaric things they did. Can you imagine what it would be like in Germany if they celebrated their war criminals as heroes. It is insulting to the tens of millions of people the Japanese massacred. The part That upsets people the most is that they play the victim. And act like America randomly attacked them and nuked them
@@aydendunne6051 they build a fucking shrine for those war criminals, they deny the invasion and their school never teach about this, their government make visit to the shrine every year and justify what they did. You are right not every Japanese deny the history, but the truth is the overwhelming majority of Japanese deny it, and some even think Chinese deserved to be killed. I know this cuz I lived in Japan, Tokyo to be exact for a few years, and people do think like that, almost all my Japanese friend don’t know this part of history before I told them what really happened, and even after that, some of them still refuse to believe it by saying I’m exaggerating it. It’s truly shocking
The Nanjing Massacre is a lie! It's Chinese propaganda, the soldier in the image is the uniform of the Chinese army. In the first place, the Japanese have been kind and considerate since ancient times, so they have no prejudice against foreigners.However, South Koreans and Chinese are taught history education based on propaganda as a national policy.These history textbooks are false. They are just looking down on Japanese people. I think that humanity is a race that is completely different from Japanese.
After I heard what the Japanese did from my mam's cousin, I have never felt bad about the bombing of those cities, it was a deserved punishment for all they did in the 2nd war. My mam's cousin, jack, was a prisoner of war and before he was captured he had a snakes head tattooed on his shoulder and the japs thought it was funny to finish the tattoo around his body and finish it on his penis. He was then ordered to strip and dance for the amusement of the guards, at first he refused so they dragged out a fellow prisoner and even though he said he would do as they say they beheaded the soldier in front of them all as a lesson, he despised all japs to the day he died, I can't say I blame him.
@bobjim245 The soldiers that committed all the atrocities were also children once and look how they turned out and the women were very cruel to the POWs in Japan, if the war had continued they would have been the next crop of soldiers so I'm sorry if it upsets you but I have no sympathy at all.
That’s how I always felt. When the Americans were polled in 1945, the vast majority thought the atomic bombs were necessary to prevent millions more deaths in an amphibious invasion against people encouraged to commit suicide rather than surrender by their government to serve the honor of their emperor who was perceived as a God. Interestingly, each new generation of Americans are more split on whether the bombs were justified. From the boomers to millennials, each one has a harder time than the last in polls accepting the reality the bombs saved lives. I guess it’s different when it’s only history instead of a life and death struggle the greatest generation faced. That generation is the best the US ever produced. Their bravery sometimes drives me to tears tbh and I’m pretty hard to make cry due to reading about so many atrocities in ww2.
I'm Irish/English and my grandad was a Japanese prisoner of war Captured in Singapore in 1942 and released in 45 I won't go into the details of the many horrors he saw and suffered which he documented in his diary in the late 70s. As grandchildren we were all offered the chance to read it from the age of about 15 and of cause I did. It's the most upsetting and harrowing read and still haunts me to this day. The one thing he wrote that always stood out for me above the horrors was this. (The context is it's about a Japanese officer who would sneak extras to the prisoner's like cigarettes food and reading material) " If you have made a real friendship with a Japanese man you'll have the best friend you could ever have. If you have a Japanese man as an enemy you'll have the worst enemy any man could have." I harbor no resentment to the Japanese whereas my mother understandably does. My cousin ended up as a banker in Tokyo and in a cosmic twist of fate he met married and had children with a Japanese woman. My grandad died not knowing that one day he would be a great granddad to half Japanese kids. I like to pretend that my cousin's wife is a relation to the Japanese officer who showed my grandad and his fellow prisoners acts of kindness at a time when suffering and pain was their daily existence RIP granddad. Edward John Butler. 1925 to 1982 Gone but never forgotten.
I remember watching a documentary on Nanking and a group of old Japanese soldiers were boasting and laughing about all the raping they carried out, quite shocking to watch and listen.
That's who they are! Many people don't even know the history. They hate China bc Chinese still hate Japanese, who seem to be nice and polite superficially.
I will never forget this picture of the men of Nanking waiting in single file after being rounded for execution. The men were forced to kneel, were shot, then thrown in water. It was obvious the vast majority of these men were not soldiers. One of the guys waiting to be executed was a boy of around 12 years old. He was crying and absolutely terrified because he knew in a short time he would be executed. The Japanese soldiers were not just looking for soldiers, they were in acting revenge against the Chinese people and the soldiers and officers who conducted these horrors received their just award after the war. The Japanese commander who said he did not know rings totally false. Of course he knew and he unleashed his men to conduct these atrocities.
Why The Japanese Royals were never Held Responsible? Beats me !!!! The Japanese got really good and Easy with Hiroshima and Nagasaki compared with the Atrocities they committed in Nanking. What Goes around Comes back around
Execution is for murders, maybe traitors to your people, these people were simply murdered for no reason other than it was fun or because it was “orders”
This is true, because I am Chinese... In fact, over the years, some of my compatriots have raised the truth many times in the international community, but few people know………so I am very grateful to Mr. who released the photos
Us westerns that desire the truth know the fact that the Japanese committed these atrocities. When I came out of high school, I thought Hitler started WW2 and d-day was the start of it. The power of propaganda to keep blood of the hands is astonishing. All in all let's just pray this doesn't happen again.
If you are Chinese, everything will be true😂 I am from Hong Kong, so I understand what you say, but that silly reason is just an emotional one which no one without Chinese could comprehend.
When I went to Phuket Thailand in 1992 I learned there were three prices the less price was for the locals the second price was for Europeans and Americans the third price the most expensive was for the Japanese. When I went to Indonesia 3 years ago to stay with my ex-girlfriend her father used to be a ambassador for the Swedish colony and also he spoke Japanese and during World War II was an ambassador for the Japanese. Several different Indonesian people told me about the atrocities committed by the Japanese it was the worst time of their history! I also seen a monument in Singapore referring to the Japanese atrocities there and I know Filipinos that have also told me about the atrocities that happened there so everywhere the Japanese went were horrible atrocities same thing over and over it was inexcusable! I know that was a long time ago but for the people they went through it it should have never happened! The Nazi war trials they should have happened a lot more for the Japanese!
The monument in Singapore is for the Sook Ching massacre. 25000 dead. The planner Masanobu Tsuji was gunning (sorry for the pun) for 50000 but was reigned in by this superiors. Why the massacre? To cow the Chinese population of Singapore into submission. The Japanese called it "The Great inspection of Singapore". Masanobu Tsuji escaped punishment, returned to Japan, wrote a bestseller was voted into Japanese parliament. Twice. There is even - to this day - a statue of him.
@@TomFynn you know it really doesn't make sense if they would have treated the people kindly some of them may have been helpful but they turn the people so far against them,so that they help whoever was fighting the Japanese in almost every country that I'm aware of.
@@jerrydonquixote5927 Simple: Racism. The Japanese thought themselves unique, decedents from the gods and therefore entitled to rule "the eight corners of the world". And in the end it was all "for the greater good". Couple that with a military which routinely and habitually brutalized its own soldiers and you have the perfect storm.
@@TomFynn I agree it was a perfect storm of brutality and Evil I had no respect for human life not even their own so definitely not the civilians they abused! Of all the armies that fought in World War II I would think they were the most hyenas of all...
There are still several elderly people in China waiting for an apology, but the Japanese have repeatedly claimed that they volunteered. I don't think they can wait long because most of the survivors are dying one after another.
Imperial Japan was a military dictatorship, infants and children were also to blame? Some people were trying to live their lives, but would have been executed had said something. I know what Japan did in China, but this blind hatred.
The Japanese had at Nanking an official policy named " The Three 'Alls' ", which was short for "Loot All", "Rape All", "Kill All". How's that for top to bottom barbarity. Yes, I'm using the "B" word; the Japanese, who consider themselves so civilized, we're one-on-one acting like the worst barbarians of history. And to this day, the people who never want the world to forget Hiroshima & Nagasaki, cannot overcome their personal feelings of shame & dishonor to take proper responsibility for Nanking & the 4 years of unparalleled brutality they inflicted in thousands of locations across Asia & the Pacific. "Many unfortunate occurrences in war"--Indeed! As one can probably surmise from the foregoing, I think the Japanese are WAY too easy/kind to themselves. Doubt me? Then take another, closer look at the photos in this video.
I have to correct you although doing so makes what Japan did in China seem so much worse . They inflicted this atrocity against the Chinese from 1931 till they were finally thrown out in 1945 . 14 Years...... No other country suffered as long as they did .
The Japanese got off lightly because of the bargaining with the US no? If the Japanese were to fully take responsibility, I suppose the entirety of Japan will be part of Russia today
Because they refuse to acknowledge the history which is not wise, for other countries who suffered and for the Japanese themselves. What goes around comes around!
WW2 did indeed start with the Japanese military expansionism in 1931. The number of murdered in the Nanking massacre of 1937 has been studied extensively, with the likeliest number arrived at through consensus being, at least, 350,000 killed. The competition of the two Japanese officers was to see who could first reach that number killed through BEHEADING, not stabbing or thrusting. The Japanese were known to engage in the consumption of human flesh throughout the entire war. When their rations failed to keep up with military movements, they would first kill and eat their POWs, but would also devour their own soldiers having been killed in combat. So the Japanese army's diet didn't only consist of a bowl of rice. Japan was an ungodly nation back then, and still may be today on many levels. I recommend the book titled, " The Rape of Nanking ". There you will find the most accurate accounting of what happened there.
A few days back I was reading a news item how Japanese fishermen kill several dozens of dolphins and their siblings, that too in such a brutal way that reading became unbearable. These dolphins are beautiful and adorable creatures whom Japanese kill with babarity and impunity, just for its tasty meat and high price, leading it to extinction in the area.
@@ASHKUM-uw2qg Indians shouldn't be hypocrites, Indians are meat eaters and eat chicken a lot as well, give up on eating meat entirely then you can think about criticizing other countries who eat meat.
The execution of war criminals pusuant to judicial process should not be referred to as "reprisals". "Reprisals" refer to retaliatory actions taken during a conflict against enemy soldiers or civilians who are not necessarily responsible for the perceived misconduct which triggers the reprisal. Execution of war criminals refers to judicially sanctioned criminal punishment applied specifically to those responsible for the misconduct in question.
My uncle was an Army MD, Who was taken prisoner and forced to work in a coal mine in Japan where he was starved to death. The Japanese got paid in spades for the horror they unleashed!
The Japanese were back then very cowardly. Attacking innocent defenceless civilians as part of their sick depraved games will never be forgotten. Even to this day their actions will always be remembered in appalling ways
Horrific sadism was ALWAYS part of Japanese warfare and the way they treated POWs. Their cruelty was comparable to the worst Nazi crimes. Every year there’s a remembrance day of the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima. However, there NEVER was any such day remembering Japan‘s countless war crimes everywhere. Even worse: It took Japan almost 40 years after World War II to apologize for the atrocities of Nanking - Shanghai, Manila and countless other places of Japanese cruelty were not mentioned. The atom bombs dropped on Japan and ending that cruel war definitely had the unexpected effect of turning Japan from a war crimes nation to a war victim nation…
That's a little different. Postwar Japan has consistently been under a conservative government. Their ideology is pro-American and anti-China. Acknowledging the Nanking Massacre is a pro-China act, and claiming damage from the atomic bomb is an anti-American act. Therefore, our appeal for the damage caused by the atomic bomb is merely an annual event.
@@takaakiyy3983 Well, why don't you acknowledge the atrocities in the Phillipines, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, etc.. ? Those are pro-USA countries, let me guess.. because they didn't happen
John White, I read and understand how you hated the Japanese. After 75 years of living, studying, and 35 years of traveling. I too was very consumed by this particular hatred for the Japanese. Until l viewed 3 films; End of Wars(in Saipan- about Japanese General who took a radical path of conciliation. ), 7 Samurai, and Sayonara( Marlo Brando). And last my own mother who loved and gave birth to me. She obviously suffered UNBEARABLE persecution because she gave birth to half-breed, moi, and after 2 days she left me on the steps of an orphanage in Yokohama. After 15 years of adoption by Americans who borderline psychological abusers, I was kicked out by these so-called parents, l learned to accept myself as a worthy human. Through my travels and meeting many kind people, I began my journey to who I was and what my purpose. Even after many years of rough bumps, l gained not only a direction but also some meaning. I am half Japanese and was pretty resentful towards the Japanese for over half of my life, until I saw that was wasteful and wrong. I began to be selective and treat each accordingly. John, we need to guard our thoughts and heart ❤️ in LOVE. BE tough, yet gentle as we meet with each person or situation, that's how we can CHANGE THE WORLD. CIAO...
I grew up listening to unbelievable horror stories by Chinese people who eyewitness the Japanese Army war crimes in Nanjing, these were the very few lucky survivors. Being born in Nanjing just after WW2, the horror stories I have heard cast very deep scars in my memory. I used to, and some times still am, wish I were born 20 years earlier so that I could had chances to eliminate Japanese soldiers. Even though the Japanese people were severely suffered by the war, I still think Truman made the best decision in the 20th century to end Japanese war by dropping nukes.
Hello Mr. John Chen ! In my opinion, 2 bombs were not enough. I would rather see the Chinese invade Japan and wipe them off the map, than see them attack Taiwan. I despise the Japanese as much as you.
I grew up watching horror war movies that are based on these events with my grandparents and gosh it really traumatized me and I can say that I will never ever forgive those Japanese devils for doing such horrible crimes…RIP to all my poor ancestors that died in their hands😢
It’s also worth it to listen to Japanese soldiers accounts, one of them said that they used Chinese to practice thrusting their bayonets into human body, he remembered how the blood splattered into his face, it’s on yt but I can no longer remember the title
Iris Chang's 1997 book about this event is probably the single most horrifying history I have ever read. The stuff of nightmares that you want to forget until somebody reminds you of them again.
Poles will never forget the massacre in Volhynia by the Banderites of the UPA or the slaughter of Wola by the Germans on defenseless civilians during WWII, just as the Chinese will never forget the brutal massacre in Nanjing by the Japanese Nazis.
At least Germary apologised for the atrocities commited by the Nazis. Japan never did. In fact its history books show Japan helped Asians against the western imperialists. What a joke.
And that's why "Karma" returned their actions with the two atomic bomb droppings. Their demonic savage brutality awarded them, the distinct honor of being the only country to have the atomic bomb dropped upon them twice, and almost a third bomb. That taught them, who was actually in control.
I can't recall his name exactly, but there was a rather famous Japanese writer that fruitlessly tried to downplay - and even deny - Japanese crimes. Shit like that wouldn't bode well in Europe with the Nazis.
It's actually boding very well at the moment in Europe if you look past the media lies about Ukraine and do some research on the Azov Battalion that was trained and financed by NATO and was defeated only last month by Russian forces - and the Right Sector that was in office until very recently and still holds huge political influence in that country: and they are only 2 of the nazi/neo nazi entities that are in control of Ukraine.
@@DakotaofRaptors No - I mentioned one battalion and one government entity in a whole system full of them: just do your research on exactly what the EU/US and NATO has not only allowed but embraced in Ukraine. Of course if your argument is over semantics its completely irrelevant to your original point: you said the EU would never tolerate this - I've told you otherwise and why.
@@jackspring7709 given the circumstances surrounding Ukraine, I think it's a little more complicated than "Nazis good." Anyway, I'm referring to countries like Germany and Ireland - where so much as referencing the Nazis can very well land you in jail.
@@DakotaofRaptors It's much better to do independent research rather than conveniently dismiss it with such a glib comment as "I think it's a little more complicated than 'nazis good'". But that's your prerogative, I won't begrudge you it.
My grandfather's brother was stationed in Nanjing at the time. One of the neighbors he lived with was a Chinese man who was close to him like family. He was a school teacher. He was very educated and was like a best friend with whom he talked. At the end of the war, he was still in China, but in the chaos he was able to return safely to Japan, where he was sheltered by this Chinese man. My grandfather's brother was forever grateful to the Chinese, but after the war he lost contact with them. After the Cultural Revolution, he was informed much later that he had been executed. My grandfather's brother, a very strict man, was wailing. My grandmother told me this story when I was in high school (My grandmother sometimes told me wartime stories) . PS I am currently a faculty member at a university in Japan. There is a Chinese professor from Nanjing at the university where I work now. He is a wonderful educator. The teaching assistants in my seminar (which changes every two years) are mostly students from China and are very good. I pray for the souls of the victims in China and hope that the friendly relationship between Japan and China will be maintained.
You know....you don't hear much about the atrocities committed by Japan. It's all “GERMANY GERMANY GERMANY.” Japan WAS the “Germany “ of Asia (still is; the parallels are striking ), China is the Russia. This is really when WW2 began, in China. It begs the question why we don't hear much about it.
Because it has been hijacked and commercialised for a particular modern narrative. If anyone points out other historical atrocities, they are labelled and stigmatised.
What I don't understand is that the Japanese are always going on about honour, but then they do this. This is cowardice, and nowhere near honourable. I'm betting that the Chinese will get their vengeance at some point in the future.
Wow, you really know your a true "warrior" when you can win a contest that involves killing 100 unarmed, defenseless, and quite possibly fleeing people. Honestly, it surprises me that the Japanese military allowed such a contest to exist. They are such an honor bound society and there is nothing brave or honorable about cutting down defenseless people. What's next? The race to kill 100 babies and kittens? The Showa Period was indeed a dark one for Japan. Addendum- Don't worry, every country in existence has had monsters like these running around. Our job is to learn from the mistakes of the past and never repeat them again. This goes for each and every person living today.
Not the point, Japanese pass themselves off and are seen as such passive, honorable, polite people due to their propaganda. All a ruse. Wouldn't doubt they would do the same today, a culture and DNA doesn't end in just 80 years.
@@spaniardsrmoors6817 Yeah...we're going to have to agree to disagree here. It only takes one generation to truly change. Did you know that Japan chose to disarm after WW2? Japan could have re-armed at any point in history and gone back to war but they have not. I refuse to condemn a people who were not alive during the atrocities committed by their ancestors. Continuing to do so is a guarantee that war will never end. No, the biggest problem facing our world today is China. The hatred of the past burns brightly in them. If World War 3 is an inevitability it will be the Communist that starts it. They are the sole reason Japan has chosen to restart their industrial military complex and I don't blame them for it either. I believe we are very close to the precipice of no return and a war of that scale will gulf both World Wars in scope by a wide margin. It will end modern life as we know it.
@@Sinn0100 just like the germans. We shouldn’t forget the Nazi barbarism but shouldn’t hold the children of them responsible. The Nazis are not those where we’re not alive
@@BruhTNT4258 That doesn't make any sense at all. He was seen as their God. He absolutely could have said "no more" at any point in the war and the people would listen..
There is an excellent and extremely moving museum in Nanjing in memorial to this act of brutality by the Japanese on the Chinese. A visit there will help anyone who has any doubt understand why to this day the Chinese people are not especially well disposed towards the Japanese.
I took my japanese girlfriend to a chinese restaurant in america. The chinese waitress walked over smiling and asked my girlfriend "Are you chinese?" My girlfriend said "No Im japanese." The smile dropped instantly and the chinese waitress turned and walked away without a word. I was blown away, but my japanese girlfriend wasnt phased at all. She said that its just the way it is.
@@velveetaslingshot In fact, if your gf is young, she might not even know what her ancestors did bc their education didn't cover that history. Young Japanese dislike China and see Chinese as angry and absurd who have trouble to make a conversation.
I had a friend (a Marine) who fought in the South Pacific; he’d NEVER do anything that involves ANYONE of Oriental descent; once a young Oriental MD entered an examination room to are for my friend. My friend saw the M.D., and left the room with out saying anything to the MD. (I can only imagine WHAT my friend had seen & dealt with). RIP…My friend was very honorable…. ❤️👣
First of all, it's not "Oriental". It's "Asian". Secondly, the most highly decorated unit in U.S. military history is a Japanese-American unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Nicknamed, "The Purple Heart Battalion", these Japanese-Americans fought in some of the most bloody battles of WW2, despite the fact that their birth country, The United States, were racists towards them, and held their parents in prisons during the war. It's too bad that your WW2 friend never knew about these guys because he'd no doubt have lots of respect for them. "World War II: The Rescue of the Lost Battalion"
"The rape of Nanking" was NOT an atrocity committed during WWII. This atrocity began in early December 1937 and lasted for about 6wks - just under 2yrs BEFORE WWII began.
Technically, yes. But many historians view the war as being a connected series of wars that eventually led up to a world conflict. WW2 didn't start in a vacuum. There were many years of build-up and wars fought from the mid-1930's. The Soviet general Zhukov was the first general to use 'blitzkrieg' tactics in 1939 when he annihlated the Japanese 6th Army at Kalkin Gohl in Manchuria. Germany was already at war in Europe. Japan had been at war in China and Manchuria since 1936. China itself was at war within its own borders with a civil war between Communists and Nationalists - basically since the late 1920's. WW1 officially ended in 1918, but not for many millions of Russians, Turks, Armenians, Greeks, and Chinese. The Treaty of Versaisse that ended hosilities in WW1 just set the stage for WW2. The 20th Century was easily the most hideous time in human history.
Bushido is the "code of honour"... This reminds me what the officer of the ship of the line Kent said to Surcouf when he surrendered. "You frenchs fight for the riches and gold... We britishs fight for honour !" Then Surcouf answered "then we all fight for what we do not possess..." So the japanese made a code for a thing they did not even dream of possessing or understand at all...
Chiang Kai-shek's position in history has always been controversial. . Although he led China to resist Japanese aggression during World War II, he should be recognized, but after Japan surrendered, he announced that he would deal with Japan's crimes leniently, which is really difficult to understand and accept.
The Japanese invaded Shanghai after they were promised a quick victory and propaganda told them that the Chinese army were weak and their soldiers inferior. Thus morale was high among the imperial soldiers. What awaited them was close to a million Chinese, with some divisions were trained by the German before the war. Not only that, the Chinese army were well supplied with their own armoured division. Japan just had air and naval superiority. Thus the battle became Stalingrad before there was even the battle for Stalingrad. After three months of attrition and house to house combat, the Japanese won but had to force marched over to Nanjing. Their grievances and anger were directed at the unarmed Chinese civilians. And their officer gave the go head while some even participated. Even news papers back in Japan reported the infamous “who killed more with a sword” challenge.
They failed to realize Han were not emperors slaves anymore they would die for their newly found republic. And Chiang is not a Hanjian like Wu SanGui who let Manchus enter China
If there are no gun rights, it means there would be no gun violence, and that's such a dumb argument anyways, if you think during the war everyone having guns would help them your more than wrong, like what are they gonna do shoot a tank with a pistol
I'm afraid it wasn't only women who were at risk from the Japanese but any human being! Don't think that men and children weren't targeted too. Even going to extremes of sneaking into the hospital and other places inside the 'safety zone' to get at whoever they chose. Despite being studied relentlessly, no-one can seem to work out just what triggered these soldiers to behave in such a sickening and barbaric manner. How they could even think of carrying out such vile atrocities makes the mind boggle. There were claims that they didn't see the Chinese as being human beings but only on an even keel with pigs which was the justification for some. It's as if they carried out on these people the most extreme, vile acts they could possibly dream up. To read what went on during this disgusting and disgraceful show of humanity is not at all easy but the world needs to know what depths the Japanese were capable of going down to and this surely has to be the worst of the worst due to the horrendous acts they managed to think up and then let loose to do as they pleased with everyone in this city. What the Japanese did at Nanking was beyond anything else experienced in modern times. There really aren't words to describe how despicable their behaviour was as it went so far away from the boundaries that most would not dare to ever venture across.🇦🇺🕊
@@daviddoran3673 it seems to me that humanity during the 1930s - 1940s era were truly some of the worst in history, very little empathy or compassion was felt or given to fellow man (on every continent). Just a horrible time to live in, so glad I wasn't alive then..
The Imperial Japanese military training process was meant to turn human being into humanoid beasts, you could say that the whole country is a giant asylum.
The Washington Post covered the story of a 12-year-old girl, an Alaska native student, whose remains was buried more than 100 years ago in Pennsylvania. She was among more than 100,000 indigenous children distributed to around 375 boarding schools throughout the US from the late 1800s through the 1960s. It was believed they could be "civilized" by being forced to leave home. "To take children away from their homes and families and subject them to assimilation is to commit cultural genocide," the Washington Post quoted Christine DiinDiisi McCleave, executive director of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, as saying. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary, said last week that the department will identify boarding facilities, cemeteries and the children buried there to "uncover the truth about the loss of human life, and the lasting consequences of the schools."
You cannot begin to compare what is happening in Ukraine to what happened in China after 1937. In fact, nothing compares to that, except perhaps the Mongols or the Tartars. What is happening in Ukraine is just a dirty little bush war, it's not organised genocide.
The IJA thought it acceptable to travel in their trucks with their bayonets mounted on rifles, sticking out of the side whilst passing lines of allied POW’s - with obvious results. Unfortunately the British government have never held the Japanese military/government responsible for the numbers of war crimes - preferring to provide assorted Japanese industries with financial assistance to build car plants in the UK. All whilst ignoring the plight of those that survived being POW’s and the dire health issues that resulted. The POW’s never received any recognition by the British government so it wasn’t too surprising that no apology was forthcoming from Japan, at least not whilst there were any survivors to accept it. My uncle that only just survived the Burma railroad died before Japan ever offered an apology, and that seemed to be the preferred result of our politicians. The survivors tried for many years to have the British government deal with their grievances but our government decided that building car plants in Sunderland was far more important.
Not wishing to belittle this channel in any way - war stories with Mark Felton - The Tokyo Trials - How America Sabotaged Justice in the Far East, 1945-58 , is a good place to visit after this video
The reason? Look for it in history books. Even during feudal wars in Japan they never took prisoners. The vanquished were massacred armed or not. They did not have the concept of taking prisoners.
Man's inhumanity to man will never end. Our cruelty has no limes, it knows no bounds. Our thirst for blood can never be quenched. Our ravenous hunger for human flesh will never be filled. Our lust for death can never be satisfied. This is our true nature. This is what we are. This is why we were created. To entertain god by human suffering and death. When one war ends, another one begins. It’s a game we play over and over again. We die, god laughs. It's been this way since the dawn of man. For along as there is man, there is evil.
This is a Western journalist. We want the Nanjing Massacre to be a fake more than any other country. We still have a lot of witnesses. Wuzhen. There are also certifications from some foreign friends. The evidence is irrefutable. Your government is really ugly
It’s referred to as the RAPE OF NANKING not the assault of Nanking - Like the HOLOCAUST is not the simply the “ Final Solution “ - The Barbarism is theirs, the Shame is theirs, why allow Demontaization to cushion the narrative? Hmmmm I suppose that honest language would get the content removed. Another instance of history being altered and made tolerable for the narrative in place of the accurate account of history. Love your channel and thank you! I’m simply stating a fact
I don't think they would understand the concept of shame they enjoyed it and probably felt a great sense of pride and superiority along with enjoying the bounty of war
Research the 'Sook Ching' program carried out in Singapore, Malaya and other parts of SEA during occupation where young Chinese men were lined up and selected for execution at the mere whim of Japanese officers. The brutality served upon POWs and locals is beyond imagination and can only be described as the work of animals. Another never mentioned gross atrocity is the last days of the Japanese occupation of Manila. The Filipinos, like everyone else suffered horrendous inhumanity at the hands of the Japanese.
There is no bottom to the evil people will do in the name of nationalism, racism, and political or religious disagreement. The keystone to this fanatical behavior is a fanatical leader. Nothing brings a country or even an empire to destruction faster than a fanatical, powerful leader or a relatively small group of like minded zealots. If I live to be 200, I will never understand why whole masses of people will allow themselves to get caught up in the hatred and assanine behavior. Path of least resistance thing I suppose. Say what you want, but we are currently watching this situation unfolding on every continent on the planet.
@@Coddlebean You don't seem to know why Germans don't see the Nazis as heroes. It's not because we lost the war. The Nazis racist Jews and tried to exterminate them. Before the war, the Japanese military had no plans for racism or racial extermination like the Nazis. It is clear that even the Tokyo trial did not take up this issue. Anti-Japanese forces seem to want Japan to be like the Nazis, but the reality was completely different. Japanese Chiune Sugihara saved 4,500 Jews in Lithuania by giving them visas. In Manchuria, Kiichiro Higuchi and Hideki Tojo took in and saved thousands of Jews. These facts are recognized and praised by the Jews as well. Japan was allied with Nazi Germany, but Nazi Germany issued a directive to Japan not to save the Jews, but the Japanese military ignored this due to humanitarian concerns.
Don't forget that at the time, the Japanese soldiers had it drilled into their heads repeatedly that you fought to the death. It was better to die with honor than live with shame. Anyone not dying by fighting deserved to abused expecially foreign enemies. They were trained to be inhumane without mercy. I started reading the Nanking book several years ago and didn't make it all the way through. I also started a book on the Batan Death March (Tears in the Darkness (?)) which had several POV's from both sides. One Japanese soldier who survived WW2 said when he left to serve his father said, "Don't come back alive!" as it would shame the family. Both books showed the worst in humanity. While Japan might have started it, the US finished it and numerous accounts have shown that the US soldiers weren't that sympathetic to humane treatment of the Japanese. War is hell from all sides and while there is a winner and loser, in the end, no one wins.
Japanese soldiers were also taught to believe they'd be treated as badly by the allies as they treated their POWs. Thus giving them more reason to fight to the death
Exactly as the Ukrainian soldiers are told today....surrender and you'll be tortured....yet the only torturing is by the Ukrainians...there is drone footage of Ukrainian soldiers in shallow trenches simply staring at the drone....just hopelessly waiting for the Russian artillery....
We have seen a lot films on Nazi tortured and killed Jews but rarely westerns showed what happened to Asia as well as how the war started. People needs to be educated and learned from the past. Thank you for sharing this, an untold history.
I am a Japanese male. Incredibly, Japanese anime and manga are very popular in modern China, and finally they have succeeded in recreating Japanese anime as video games, which have been imported to Japan and have become a hit. Even on Chinese video sites, which are closed due to Chinese government policy, Japanese anime culture is respected and Japanese language study is flourishing. There are even street musicians singing Japanese anime songs on the streets. In contrast, Japanese old people not only refuse to admit that they are the perpetrators, but have been bad-mouthing China for the past 30 years. China has a bad image because it is a dictatorship, but the Chinese people's hearts are generous and free. I firmly believe in the development of China and its bright future. P.S. I made a misleading notation. I am now ashamed to see how much the world hates the barbaric acts of the Japanese military after reading the comments section. However, the Japanese anime boom in modern China that I pointed out in the previous paragraph is also a fact. How could the Chinese people own the culture of a people who slaughtered them? I live in a closed island nation, so I don't understand here.
the anime is not important compare the barbaric act by japanese soldier in WW2. especially at nanjing. war sometimes will happen. buat surrender country, a defeated country should not be treated brutally. killing the man, rape woman and then kill it, killing contest, killing surrender soldier. where is their human heart ? where is the mercy ? why brutal kill people. that it make me angry when saw the video and read the history. comfort woman, manila massacre, mandor incident, sookching massacre, unit 317 manchukuo, and many more. i know the history
If you ever do some research of the history of Japanese manga culture you will know why.After the WW2 Jpanaese manga culture was leading by some left-wing creators such as Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫) and Mamoru Oshii (押井守) etc. Their works represents the reflection of what Japan did in some ways. The other hand, China has imported a lot of these anime and manga during the 90s, so the past three generations in China got influences by Jpanese culture. In my opinion, there is no conflict that ppl likes modern Jpanese culture and remember the history of being invaded, our country taught us to remember the history but not hates(Its literally what Chinese government said when brings up this history)
@@nnmz2011mo However, the acceptance of Japanese anime and manga culture in Korea does not seem to be the case as far as game development is concerned. The acceptance of the culture of the former aggressor country in China is partly due to the difference in national power in terms of territory and population.
@@takaakiyy3983 Countries and nations are just fictitious concepts of mankind. If you look at these things deconstructively, you will eventually find that everything is meaningless. Therefore, from the perspective of governance, giving the citizens a common enemy can effectively increase national cohesion. Given what Japan has done to China, Japan is a good target both from an objective and subjective perspective. Some people in China also ask why we have experienced more serious foreign invasions in history, why do we not hate them and even selectively downplay part of this history. A very important part of the reason is that these nations that have invaded us have become part of China, and with the development of the times, we need some new goals to strengthen everyone’s identification with the fictional subject of "country". Perhaps a hundred years later or when the world situation enters a new stage, this history between China and Japan will be slowly diluted. But at this stage, there is a simple fact in front of all beautiful fantasies. The Japanese government did something wrong and did not make due reflections and apologies for it. The upper class of Japan during World War II was not actually punished. The emperor and many government officials at that time continued to rule Japan until today. Therefore, it is normal to have hatred for historical facts and enemies without reflection. At the same time, the development of the world cannot be separated from communication. As neighbors with similar cultures and long-term communication in history, our relationship is very complicated and difficult to separate from each other. As for South Korea, the situation is a little different. I don’t want to spend too much time talking about this, but my point of view is that because of South Korea’s historical problems, their government should actually be regarded as a puppet regime supported by the United States rather than a sovereign state. Almost all of South Korea’s diplomatic actions and ideologies can be regarded as actions under the instruction of the United States. (Japan has the same problem but is much better than South Korea) The simple understanding is that it is in the interests of the United States to have a certain hatred between China, Japan and South Korea, because they do not want to see a united Asia.
Douglas MacArthur (GHQ Commander-in-Chief) " Their(Japan/Japanese) purpose, therefore in going to war was largely dictated by security. In the past 100 years, the biggest political mistake U.S. had committed was that by the defeat of Japan, we made the communist most powerful in China. " at the USA Congress in 1951. MacArthur noticed it at last during the Korean War in 1950, but it was already too late !
Communist China's accounting of the so called doubtful Nanjing incident has been consistently propagandized by politics. During the war in 1937 Nanjing was the capital of the Chinese Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which mounted a brief investigation after the Japanese defeat in 1945. From the time of the Communist takeover in 1949 until the early 1980's there was no any claim at all to Japan from Communist China regarding so called Nanjing incident in Dec. 1937. Furthermore very curious and mysterious still, there is no record to show that Mao Zedong ,who died in 1976, ever spoke publicly about it. Other Communist China's leaders didn't mention about the so called Nanjing incident at all too. Save for a brief mention in a 1960 middle school textbook that there was a Nanjing battle between Japan's Imperial Army and Chiang Kai-shek, the Nanjing Massacre was not featured in even Chinese textbooks until the early 1980.It's well known scarcely trained Chinese conscripts stripped off their military uniforms and escaped into the Safety Zone in Nanking with some weapons. Before entering into the Safety Zone some of those Chinese conscripts killed and raped some Han residents of Nanjing to get their clothes. In recent decades, partly in response to Japan, Beijing has itself looked toward nationalism as a spur to unity and a way to quell social troubles, especially in light of Marxism's fading relevance. "It was in the last 20 years that we found it essential to intensify our PROPANGANDA, to make sure that our people remember this better," said Zhang Lianhong in 2006,a historian at Nanjing University.
This is a terrible story filled with death 😢 and destruction. Very sad. RIP each and every victim of these heinous crimes. I hope that the soldiers rot in hell.
The torture and wholesale rape of the women of Nanking was particularly savage. After being raped and abuse by Japanese soldiers they were routinely murdered using swords and bayonets in ways that would cause the most intense pain and humiliation. Use your imagination.
I still don’t understand why the Japanese got away with their war crimes and to this day have never even acknowledged what they did was wrong. Primitive and savage behaviour.
Jewish leadership around the world deverted all the attention to the holicost.
Politics -The Allies thought it was expedient to sweep a whole lot under the carpet so that the country was easier to govern during the American occupation and also help it to rebuild quicker and let the Allies get out of a costly occupation and rebuild their own countries and economies heavily impacted by WW2.
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Adding to what Chris & Shaun have said, the Japanese did the unthinkable: they lost. That caused a great deal of introspection. Realising (as far as they were concerned) the Americans won WWll, so they must have been doing something better. Best not to point out any major differences in fighting techniques but rather follow their methods more closely. The other point is that there were few independent witnesses (but there were some!), so modern Japan claims that China has exaggerated beyond any possible reality the numbers “accidentally” killed, and maintains only “a few” were killed and probably for various ‘crimes’ anyway. Basically the whole episode is an embarrassment for Japan and, as in many other instances (sex slaves which insists on calling “comfort women” - and they were all volunteers, don’t you know?, treatment of POWs in Asian camps, etc. etc), the govt either refuses to look at the past and apologise, or gives mealy-mouthed half-apologies and admissions.
There has never been any love lost between Japan and China. The govt (at least) in Japan is very racially prejudiced against China. Chinese people and Koreans in Japan are still regarded with suspicion and if they do not become naturalised Japanese, receive reduced benefits. Those in China are regarded as inferior to Japanese, perhaps because China has progressed so much faster than Japan. Products from China are regarded as inferior quality, food too.
Japan is jealous of China’s development, economy, power and influence. The govt in Japan is also jealous of the Chinese govt’s control over its citizens. Japan is also very worried by China’s size, it’s military numbers, power, and technology, and by its proximity. And China’s expansion into the S. China Sea.
To admit _any_ misdeeds ‘so long ago’(?!) would be unthinkable to the govt, so controlled has it been by one party (LDP) for so long. The lately departed ex PM Abe was a hawk towards China, a nationalist, a rightist and desperately tried to rewrite Japan’s anti-war constitution to allow an offensive army capable of first strike. He was also Japan’s longest serving PM and packed the govt with like minds whose influence is considerable, especially as the general population of Japan is generally so pathetically apolitical (most know no other party line).
Finally (you’ll be happy to read), Japan’s philosophy of ‘bushido’ (way of the warrior) does not allow for surrender: that is not ‘honourable’ - death was not to be feared but embraced. Such can be the result of indoctrination. Losers lose everything, including reputation.
@@ianplatt5607 Chinese products suck in quality.. You can’t trust China
The saddest part is that many of these soldiers and generals responsible lived out their lives to old age, never regretting their actions. They really believed their monstrous acts were something to be proud of. If hell exists, they are there, burning for eternity.
@@user-sg8kq7ii3y first of all did how could you comepare that to RAPING an entire city second of all where is you source?
The Nanjing Massacre is a lie! It's Chinese propaganda, the soldier in the image is the uniform of the Chinese army. In the first place, the Japanese have been kind and considerate since ancient times, so they have no prejudice against foreigners.However, South Koreans and Chinese are taught history education based on propaganda as a national policy.These history textbooks are false. They are just looking down on Japanese people. I think that humanity is a race that is completely different from Japanese.
@@user-sg8kq7ii3yNot just wounded knee, slaughtered millions of Native Americans, First Nations, and indigenous people all over the world., including bringing African American slaves to America and exploiting them, beating them, torturing them and killing millions of them. Not to mention the atrocities done to Japanese American people during the Second World War , and the countless atrocities done by the United States., and it’s happening today in Gaza. United States sending billions of dollars of our tax money to bomb, murder and destroy the Palestinian people..!
@darthdistix1895 We all know of the atrocities that were committed against the Native Americans. This is very well known, and no one needs to cite their sources.
Google is your friend.
Native Americans were seen as savages and treated as such. They were brutalized by people who didn't want to understand them, wanted what they had, and didn't want peace.
War is never kind to the citizens caught up in the midst of it, because soldiers, warriors, dehumanize the enemy.
@@user-sg8kq7ii3y NOT EVEN CLOSE. not even close to nanking. In six weeks the Japs killed more civilians and POWS than the US did for their entire existence.
What many people don’t know and all the Japanese denied is that ten thousands of Chinese women and girls during Nanking massacre were sexually assaulted, and the Japaneses were using Chinese newborn babies to do cruel experiments that changed their bodies and killed them. Every time I saw the pictures from Nanking massacre, I always cry even I have never experienced it. It also made me so angry that the Japanese always deny it.
It's not unusual. After WW2 the allied forces occupying Japan committed many rapes and used Japanese tactics and tech in Korea. Further on in Vietnam there were such forces as the Tiger Force which would employ tactics such as beheading and raping 13 year old girls and killing enough people to get a body count equal to their unit number. It's not just the Japanese who ignore their victims, it's a common thing on all sides. We see victims of the Nazis and Soviets in Ukraine while the British did similar in India and the victims we mourne there are our soldiers only. We condemn Germans and Russians if the mourne their soldiers but really they just copy what we do or we copy them.
@@ExpatScotiI mean even though you're right I still think that if we were to rank who did worst Japan would win..
Perhaps you are right but we tend to focus on what they do and ignore what we do. @@Nate_631
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You can understand why many to this day still despise the Japanese for what they did in WW2.
Yes and Japan likes to pretend WW II never actually happened, only Hiroshima and Nagasaki
As they should
Yes, and I'm one of them! The Japanese crossed boundaries that normal thinking human beings wouldn't dare to cross. I can't ever forgive them for what they have done without remorse nor apology.🇦🇺🕊
Well it's important to not blame a whole nation/ethnicity for past crimes, but the Japanese government haven't really made the same effort as Germany to own up and make amends to their crimes in WW2. Just like nationalists in the west pretending slavery "wasn't all that bad", the Japanese right-wing prefers to white-wash their war crimes. Germany went through decades of reparations, and ingrained the dangers of ideologies that lead to these sorts of crimes into their societal fabric. Japan seems to be happier to just pretend it never happened.
@@hayleyxyz Will you elaborate on who you mean when you say "nationalist"?
Japan to this day still refuses to acknowledge the Nanking Massacre in their history classes.
'Nanking Massacre' We Japanese believe that was created to hide US war crimes(Dropping A-bombs in Hiroshima & Nagasaki)
Why should they? Chinese don’t recognize their own self inlficted genocides
Wouldn't you ?
@Social Bankruptcy The Chinese never invaded other countries like the Japanese, British, French, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch did.
@@iedco4 have you forgotten about tibet
I was doing research at the U.S. National Archives while Iris Chang was researching her book on Nanking. I, along with several other researchers and Archive employees, was keeping an eye on her as she looked more and more distressed and ghastly. She finally left the research room and disappeared for about 45 minutes. We got more and more worried, and finally, one of the women Archives employees checked the women's washroom and discovered that she had been in there throwing up and sobbing. She finally came back in the research room and the staff recommended that she take a break for a day or two, and that they would keep the documents she was using in the research room, contrary to normal practice, until she felt able to return. I keep thinking that what she saw in the horrific photos preserved at the Archives and what she read had to have contributed to her suicide. No one could look at all of the material without having permanent nightmares from it.
As for the death total, based on what research I have done, I would argue that it was higher than 200,000, and much higher if you count the deaths in the surrounding towns and villages. The Japanese Army essentially went totally evil with respect to the treatment of Nanking. Also, as the Japanese did not declare war on China, but referred to it as the China Incident, they viewed that any Chinese prisoners were not Prisoners of War, but brigands who could be shot out of hand. China, without a doubt, suffered the greatest casualties of all countries in World War 2.
I first heard about her book, "The Rape Of Nanking" when she was interviewed by Brian Lamb on "Book Notes" as part of the C-Span Network many years ago. It was worse than I ever imagined, she showed photos and I still remember that interview.
Sad to hear she committed suicide.
Looking up more information as I type this.
Thanks for the info, I had forgotten her name.
Iris Chang (RIP).
Usually comments like this are blocked/deleted. I only hope this remains untouched.
@@lelandrobbins2310 I agree that saying that China suffered more casualties than anyone else, but it's up there in brutality of war!
Most people are fully aware about Stalingrad nearly so much Nanking.
Not nearly.
I appreciate you bringing awareness to people about the infamous war crimes at the Rape of Nanking. However, I would not call these killings an “execution.” Those poor people were murdered in coldblood! These were war crimes committed by Japanese soldiers against innocent Chinese civilians. The word “execution” makes people think about some sort of justice being delivered against the person being executed. These killings had absolutely nothing to do with any form of justice. It was just coldblooded murder!
My Dad was a World War 2 Navy veteran and he hated the Japanese until the day he died he he was not afraid to tell them what he thought of them
NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID NUKING THEM WAS JUSTIFIED
@@xxxdarksiderxxxaarnthemena585 In 2022 it sounds awful saying that but I do Agree.💣💣
@@charlesxix Hell, even Hitler probably was horrified at what they did.. i also agree that they deserved those 2 bombs, reality check was needed
@@xxxdarksiderxxxaarnthemena585 yeah mass bombing is justified right ?
cause the one who dead is normal people and not soldier
@@xxxdarksiderxxxaarnthemena585 I am an Asian and my grandparents would agree that nuking Japan was perfectly justified.
If anybody hasn't yet you need to read Iris Chang's "The Rape Of Nanking". I thought I knew everything about Nanking (or Nanjing as it is called today) but damn, I wasn't even close to understanding the brutality of this massacre. All the deaths, executions, and the rape, it's incomprehensible. It's a read I'll never forget. No wonder many Asian nations haven't forgotten or forgiven the Japanese for their crimes in World War II. Especially for Japan's denial of the massacres they committed during WW2 including Nanking
It's disgraceful that Japan still won't recognise the war crimes of WW2 to this day
I have read the book you talk of many years back. I have also read several dozen others dealing with the Japanese during the second world war and never once, in thousands of pages, have I as much as read just one act of kindness or common humanity from them.
I read it....she took her own life. An unforgettable book.
You took my comment. "The Rape of Nanking" is a very good book. Should be read by everyone. Not just those interested in WW II history.
This is a typical cheap propaganda for ignorant small kids guys !! Stinky Tommy speaking bunches of lies😁
John Rabe was known as the good Nazi. Despite the atrocities of his countrymen, he had the compassion and heart to save his fellow man from a similar fate. There’s a statue of him too and some of the people have actually named their kids John after him
And a movie about his story,title is John rabe
Bless him for his humanity in the face of such inhumanity.
"Good Nazi" ? It really feels like an oxymoron... But you are right John Rabe was a good guy still.
@@vermicelledecheval5219 he was a member of the Nazi party so I'm guessing that people put two and two together
拉贝先生是一位可敬的人，我们永远对他心怀感恩！
All the top Japanese scientists who tested biological weapons on allied pows and Chinese civilians, were given immunity and new lives in America
They were Unit 731.
The book by the same name is fascinating
The same happen with the Nazi scientist's
@@deputybluevein93 Just goes to show America was no better.
They weren't _"given new lives in America"._ They were not transported to the US. They were not prosecuted and many had successful careers in Japan.
We thought that their research into biological and chemical warfare was going to be valuable in the coming Cold War. But it wasn't.
I don't understand why, upon discovering this, we didn't just renege on the deal and convict and execute them anyway. We were the victors, we could have done whatever we wanted..
Immunity is given not for free, they obviously paid lots of $.
@@SuperGetoverhere Actually, the US was very interested in the results of the experiments, in return for the information and details many were given new lives in the US rather than be tried for the crimes.
When I debate the ethics of the U.S. dropping nukes on Japan, I always reference the Rape of Nanking, Unit 731, and the Bataan death march. The Japanese deserved no mercy from anyone during WWII and their well known atrocities and targeting of civilians justified the dropping of nukes in lieu of an invasion that would have cost million of allied and civilian lives. It says much that the chances of survival for an Allied P.O.W. was higher if they were captured by the Nazis than the Japanese.
That's not even the main reason. They were given prior warnings, not given America at Pearl Harbor, and the chance to surrender before each bomb and refused. If Allies had to invade by land, the estimates of casualties ran into the hundreds of thousands. No sane person would take that trade off.
The Japanese killed 200,000+ during the Rape of Nanking. They also killed approximately 250,000 Chinese in reprisals for the Doolittle Raid in 1942. And the use of the Bomb did save many more lives than it took. If it saved thousands of allied lives it saved millions of Japanese lives. And no doubt they would have used it on us if they had one. Without hesitation.
If the bombs were not dropped and there was an invasion of the Japanese mainland there would have been millions upon millions of more deaths
Agree, it was a necessary circuit breaker. Otherwise the Allies would have continued firebombing cities which would have killed way more people and questionable if it would have resulted in surrender. The nukes gave the Japanese a way of backing down from their never surrender stance.
@@aaaht3810 , inasmuch as the Japanese toyed with the possibility of infesting the United States with bubonic plague, I agree.
Man's inhumanity to man. Unfortunately all cultures involved in war are guilty of some form of war crime throughout history. As a soldier myself I have no explanation for this.
the universal soldier .buffy st marie says it all..
@@thecatalunya1 let's look at the likes of you, soldiers from your country have provided you with the freedom you have to sleep at night in a comfortable bed, also make the asinine comments you have. Shut up, or even better try and pass basic training and wear a uniform before u make yourself look like an idiot.
I am rather young and want to know whether, how soldiers help refugees
@@einwd depends on the situation. Also the conflict. What do you class as a refugee. Thare are economic reffos, asylum seekers, reffos with alterior motives example terrorists. Personally countries tgat are imploding should fix their own violent and monetary problems. Let the poluticians do the fighting stop sending soldiers to fight for them. A soldier rarely comes home without psychological scarring.
I witnessed a Chinese Aussie give a Japanese Aussie a hard time a couple of yrs ago.After this incident I told the Chinese businessman that he had not forgiven Nanking.He smiled and said "You know your History"
That’s just ridiculous. You can’t go blaming people for what happened close to 100 years ago. No where near as extreme but that’s like giving a half Chinese Aussie a hard time for covid in 2108
@@aydendunne6051 The thing is modern Japanese actually revere these fucking monsters as saints, and deny wholeheartedly the war crimes they did..
In my eyes they are no different than their predecessors
@@salivatingfarmhand5409 that’s a wild way to view a couple hundred million humans.
People are upset at them due to them being incredibly ignorant and denying all of the barbaric things they did. Can you imagine what it would be like in Germany if they celebrated their war criminals as heroes. It is insulting to the tens of millions of people the Japanese massacred. The part That upsets people the most is that they play the victim. And act like America randomly attacked them and nuked them
@@aydendunne6051 they build a fucking shrine for those war criminals, they deny the invasion and their school never teach about this, their government make visit to the shrine every year and justify what they did. You are right not every Japanese deny the history, but the truth is the overwhelming majority of Japanese deny it, and some even think Chinese deserved to be killed. I know this cuz I lived in Japan, Tokyo to be exact for a few years, and people do think like that, almost all my Japanese friend don’t know this part of history before I told them what really happened, and even after that, some of them still refuse to believe it by saying I’m exaggerating it. It’s truly shocking
I was in Nanjing last week. It's nice. It has a soul and character but the massacre will never be forgotten. Shame on soldiers.
The Nanjing Massacre is a lie! It's Chinese propaganda, the soldier in the image is the uniform of the Chinese army. In the first place, the Japanese have been kind and considerate since ancient times, so they have no prejudice against foreigners.However, South Koreans and Chinese are taught history education based on propaganda as a national policy.These history textbooks are false. They are just looking down on Japanese people. I think that humanity is a race that is completely different from Japanese.
Well, I don't feel so bad about Nagasaki and Hiroshima any more.
After I heard what the Japanese did from my mam's cousin, I have never felt bad about the bombing of those cities, it was a deserved punishment for all they did in the 2nd war.
My mam's cousin, jack, was a prisoner of war and before he was captured he had a snakes head tattooed on his shoulder and the japs thought it was funny to finish the tattoo around his body and finish it on his penis.
He was then ordered to strip and dance for the amusement of the guards, at first he refused so they dragged out a fellow prisoner and even though he said he would do as they say they beheaded the soldier in front of them all as a lesson, he despised all japs to the day he died, I can't say I blame him.
@bobjim245 They have also prevented a major world war as well, they are a deterrent.
@bobjim245 The soldiers that committed all the atrocities were also children once and look how they turned out and the women were very cruel to the POWs in Japan, if the war had continued they would have been the next crop of soldiers so I'm sorry if it upsets you but I have no sympathy at all.
That’s how I always felt. When the Americans were polled in 1945, the vast majority thought the atomic bombs were necessary to prevent millions more deaths in an amphibious invasion against people encouraged to commit suicide rather than surrender by their government to serve the honor of their emperor who was perceived as a God.
Interestingly, each new generation of Americans are more split on whether the bombs were justified. From the boomers to millennials, each one has a harder time than the last in polls accepting the reality the bombs saved lives. I guess it’s different when it’s only history instead of a life and death struggle the greatest generation faced. That generation is the best the US ever produced. Their bravery sometimes drives me to tears tbh and I’m pretty hard to make cry due to reading about so many atrocities in ww2.
感谢您的报道
I'm Irish/English and my grandad was a Japanese prisoner of war Captured in Singapore in 1942 and released in 45
I won't go into the details of the many horrors he saw and suffered which he documented in his diary in the late 70s. As grandchildren we were all offered the chance to read it from the age of about 15 and of cause I did.
It's the most upsetting and harrowing read and still haunts me to this day.
The one thing he wrote that always stood out for me above the horrors was this. (The context is it's about a Japanese officer who would sneak extras to the prisoner's like cigarettes food and reading material)
" If you have made a real friendship with a Japanese man you'll have the best friend you could ever have. If you have a Japanese man as an enemy you'll have the worst enemy any man could have."
I harbor no resentment to the Japanese whereas my mother understandably does. My cousin ended up as a banker in Tokyo and in a cosmic twist of fate he met married and had children with a Japanese woman. My grandad died not knowing that one day he would be a great granddad to half Japanese kids.
I like to pretend that my cousin's wife is a relation to the Japanese officer who showed my grandad and his fellow prisoners acts of kindness at a time when suffering and pain was their daily existence
RIP granddad. Edward John Butler. 1925 to 1982
Gone but never forgotten.
I remember watching a documentary on Nanking and a group of old Japanese soldiers were boasting and laughing about all the raping they carried out, quite shocking to watch and listen.
That's who they are! Many people don't even know the history. They hate China bc Chinese still hate Japanese, who seem to be nice and polite superficially.
Documentary link?
....and we keep letting these idiots into North America. The words "please" and "thank you" dont exist with the Asians
@@Madraxoo pretty sure he made it and didn't watch any documentary.....
I will never forget this picture of the men of Nanking waiting in single file after being rounded for execution. The men were forced to kneel, were shot, then thrown in water. It was obvious the vast majority of these men were not soldiers. One of the guys waiting to be executed was a boy of around 12 years old. He was crying and absolutely terrified because he knew in a short time he would be executed. The Japanese soldiers were not just looking for soldiers, they were in acting revenge against the Chinese people and the soldiers and officers who conducted these horrors received their just award after the war. The Japanese commander who said he did not know rings totally false. Of course he knew and he unleashed his men to conduct these atrocities.
the chinese are about to atone for the rape of Nanking any day now
Why The Japanese Royals were never Held Responsible?
Beats me !!!!
The Japanese got really good and Easy with Hiroshima and Nagasaki compared with the Atrocities they committed in Nanking.
What Goes around Comes back around
@@joeycornejo-moncada5646 I always said we should have dropped 10 bombs on them .
@@joeycornejo-moncada5646 I mean we dropped the sun on their asses twice
Execution is for murders, maybe traitors to your people, these people were simply murdered for no reason other than it was fun or because it was “orders”
This is true, because I am Chinese... In fact, over the years, some of my compatriots have raised the truth many times in the international community, but few people know………so I am very grateful to Mr. who released the photos
@@ven4846 Shut up winnie the pooh
Us westerns that desire the truth know the fact that the Japanese committed these atrocities. When I came out of high school, I thought Hitler started WW2 and d-day was the start of it. The power of propaganda to keep blood of the hands is astonishing. All in all let's just pray this doesn't happen again.
@@kurtistjones6337 Thank you very much. We will be happier if more people know what Japan has done
If you are Chinese, everything will be true😂
I am from Hong Kong, so I understand what you say, but that silly reason is just an emotional one which no one without Chinese could comprehend.
@@kc5226 你不是港独太好了
Every aspect of Japan's behavior in WWII was insane, just like Germany's. And they both lost everything in 1945.
Lost everything...? I don't think so.
Muslims are now acting like them in the U.K
@@jackaubrey8614 They did for a few years until the US bailed them out.
How did they lose everything? Both countries are now leading economic superpowers.
Both their economies are some of the strongest in the world.. they never lost
When I went to Phuket Thailand in 1992 I learned there were three prices the less price was for the locals the second price was for Europeans and Americans the third price the most expensive was for the Japanese. When I went to Indonesia 3 years ago to stay with my ex-girlfriend her father used to be a ambassador for the Swedish colony and also he spoke Japanese and during World War II was an ambassador for the Japanese. Several different Indonesian people told me about the atrocities committed by the Japanese it was the worst time of their history! I also seen a monument in Singapore referring to the Japanese atrocities there and I know Filipinos that have also told me about the atrocities that happened there so everywhere the Japanese went were horrible atrocities same thing over and over it was inexcusable! I know that was a long time ago but for the people they went through it it should have never happened! The Nazi war trials they should have happened a lot more for the Japanese!
The monument in Singapore is for the Sook Ching massacre. 25000 dead. The planner Masanobu Tsuji was gunning (sorry for the pun) for 50000 but was reigned in by this superiors. Why the massacre? To cow the Chinese population of Singapore into submission. The Japanese called it "The Great inspection of Singapore". Masanobu Tsuji escaped punishment, returned to Japan, wrote a bestseller was voted into Japanese parliament. Twice. There is even - to this day - a statue of him.
@@TomFynn you know it really doesn't make sense if they would have treated the people kindly some of them may have been helpful but they turn the people so far against them,so that they help whoever was fighting the Japanese in almost every country that I'm aware of.
@@jerrydonquixote5927 Simple: Racism. The Japanese thought themselves unique, decedents from the gods and therefore entitled to rule "the eight corners of the world". And in the end it was all "for the greater good". Couple that with a military which routinely and habitually brutalized its own soldiers and you have the perfect storm.
@@TomFynn I agree it was a perfect storm of brutality and Evil I had no respect for human life not even their own so definitely not the civilians they abused! Of all the armies that fought in World War II I would think they were the most hyenas of all...
There are still several elderly people in China waiting for an apology, but the Japanese have repeatedly claimed that they volunteered. I don't think they can wait long because most of the survivors are dying one after another.
Thank you for your videos of past history.
There is a saying in China: “no innocent died from the nuclear bombs.” Every civilian in Japan was guilty of not stopping their government.
Imperial Japan was a military dictatorship, infants and children were also to blame? Some people were trying to live their lives, but would have been executed had said something. I know what Japan did in China, but this blind hatred.
@@grandcanyon-d4d imagine justifying Japan's past actions...
The Japanese had at Nanking an official policy named " The Three
'Alls' ", which was short for "Loot All", "Rape All", "Kill All". How's that for top to bottom barbarity. Yes, I'm using the "B" word; the Japanese, who consider themselves so civilized, we're one-on-one acting like the worst barbarians of history. And to this day, the people who never want the world to forget Hiroshima & Nagasaki, cannot overcome their personal feelings of shame & dishonor to take proper responsibility for Nanking & the 4 years of unparalleled brutality they inflicted in thousands of locations across Asia & the Pacific. "Many unfortunate occurrences in war"--Indeed! As one can probably surmise from the foregoing, I think the Japanese are WAY too easy/kind to themselves. Doubt me? Then take another, closer look at the photos in this video.
I read the rape of Nanking....I saw the photos...it took 3 attempts for me to buy the book...horrific.
I have to correct you although doing so makes what Japan did in China seem so much worse . They inflicted this atrocity against the Chinese from 1931 till they were finally thrown out in 1945 . 14 Years...... No other country suffered as long as they did .
The Japanese got off lightly because of the bargaining with the US no? If the Japanese were to fully take responsibility, I suppose the entirety of Japan will be part of Russia today
Because they refuse to acknowledge the history which is not wise, for other countries who suffered and for the Japanese themselves. What goes around comes around!
WW2 did indeed start with the Japanese military expansionism in 1931. The number of murdered in the Nanking massacre of 1937 has been studied extensively, with the likeliest number arrived at through consensus being, at least, 350,000 killed. The competition of the two Japanese officers was to see who could first reach that number killed through BEHEADING, not stabbing or thrusting. The Japanese were known to engage in the consumption of human flesh throughout the entire war. When their rations failed to keep up with military movements, they would first kill and eat their POWs, but would also devour their own soldiers having been killed in combat. So the Japanese army's diet didn't only consist of a bowl of rice. Japan was an ungodly nation back then, and still may be today on many levels. I recommend the book titled, " The Rape of Nanking ". There you will find the most accurate accounting of what happened there.
A few days back I was reading a news item how Japanese fishermen kill several dozens of dolphins and their siblings, that too in such a brutal way that reading became unbearable. These dolphins are beautiful and adorable creatures whom Japanese kill with babarity and impunity, just for its tasty meat and high price, leading it to extinction in the area.
@@ASHKUM-uw2qg Curiously, dolphin fishing is also taking place in Denmark.
But guys like you don't condemn Denmark.
@@ven4846 gonna cry?
@@ASHKUM-uw2qg Indians shouldn't be hypocrites, Indians are meat eaters and eat chicken a lot as well, give up on eating meat entirely then you can think about criticizing other countries who eat meat.
@@ven4846 dolphin killing is pretty common back then
why you want to mock him
Well, don’t search 731 Japanese in ww2, you probably feel more sick.
The execution of war criminals pusuant to judicial process should not be referred to as "reprisals". "Reprisals" refer to retaliatory actions taken during a conflict against enemy soldiers or civilians who are not necessarily responsible for the perceived misconduct which triggers the reprisal. Execution of war criminals refers to judicially sanctioned criminal punishment applied specifically to those responsible for the misconduct in question.
Hear, hear. Beautifully stated and duly noted, David.
Thank you. Well said sir.
@Geoff Rowley Superstar I have to agree with both points, especially the former. It's refreshing to see so many erudite comments, fantastic.
In the museum in Nanking that covers this terrible time.
They have made a space for Iris Chang for her effort to bring this knowledge to the world.
My uncle was an Army MD, Who was taken prisoner and forced to work in a coal mine in Japan where he was starved to death. The Japanese got paid in spades for the horror they unleashed!
for pearl harbor usa got nukes revenge
japan better do reparation or revenge from asian nations is coming
Japanese really lost the plot in WW2
The Japanese tried to outdo their Axis Powers partner Germany in everything, not so much Italy for obvious reasons.
@@AutomatedPersonnelUnit_3947 I think it was the way old bushido, new imperialism and axis fascism all combined to make the Japanese army a monster..
The Japanese were back then very cowardly. Attacking innocent defenceless civilians as part of their sick depraved games will never be forgotten. Even to this day their actions will always be remembered in appalling ways
The Japs viewed the Chinese as dogs, not innocent, defenseless civilians. In fact, they viewed them as quite uncivilized, not worthy of life.
"Urging the city to surrender in 24 hours, otherwise there would be no mercy" as if there was mercy
Every time someone tries to say the atomic bombs shouldn't have been dropped this is one of the crimes I remind them about.
Dropping nuke bombs was the crime , Nanking massacre was part of war with China , so shut up
Horrific sadism was ALWAYS part of Japanese warfare and the way they treated POWs. Their cruelty was comparable to the worst Nazi crimes.
Every year there’s a remembrance day of the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima. However, there NEVER was any such day remembering Japan‘s countless war crimes everywhere.
Even worse: It took Japan almost 40 years after World War II to apologize for the atrocities of Nanking - Shanghai, Manila and countless other places of Japanese cruelty were not mentioned.
The atom bombs dropped on Japan and ending that cruel war definitely had the unexpected effect of turning Japan from a war crimes nation to a war victim nation…
There are actually some days commerorating victims of the Imeprial Japanese
That's a little different. Postwar Japan has consistently been under a conservative government. Their ideology is pro-American and anti-China. Acknowledging the Nanking Massacre is a pro-China act, and claiming damage from the atomic bomb is an anti-American act. Therefore, our appeal for the damage caused by the atomic bomb is merely an annual event.
@@takaakiyy3983 Well, why don't you acknowledge the atrocities in the Phillipines, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, etc.. ? Those are pro-USA countries, let me guess.. because they didn't happen
John White, I read and understand how you hated the Japanese.
After 75 years of living, studying, and 35 years of traveling. I too was very consumed by this particular hatred for the Japanese. Until l viewed 3 films; End of Wars(in Saipan- about Japanese General who took a radical path of conciliation. ), 7 Samurai, and Sayonara( Marlo Brando). And last my own mother who loved and gave birth to me. She obviously suffered UNBEARABLE persecution because she gave birth to half-breed, moi, and after 2 days she left me on the steps of an orphanage in Yokohama. After 15 years of adoption by Americans who borderline psychological abusers, I was kicked out by these so-called parents, l learned to accept myself as a worthy human. Through my travels and meeting many kind people, I began my journey to who I was and what my purpose. Even after many years of rough bumps, l gained not only a direction but also some meaning. I am half Japanese and was pretty resentful towards the Japanese for over half of my life, until I saw that was wasteful and wrong. I began to be selective and treat each accordingly. John, we need to guard our thoughts and heart ❤️ in LOVE. BE tough, yet gentle as we meet with each person or situation, that's how we can CHANGE THE WORLD. CIAO...
I grew up listening to unbelievable horror stories by Chinese people who eyewitness the Japanese Army war crimes in Nanjing, these were the very few lucky survivors. Being born in Nanjing just after WW2, the horror stories I have heard cast very deep scars in my memory. I used to, and some times still am, wish I were born 20 years earlier so that I could had chances to eliminate Japanese soldiers. Even though the Japanese people were severely suffered by the war, I still think Truman made the best decision in the 20th century to end Japanese war by dropping nukes.
Hello Mr. John Chen ! In my opinion, 2 bombs were not enough. I would rather see the Chinese invade Japan and wipe them off the map, than see them attack Taiwan. I despise the Japanese as much as you.
I grew up watching horror war movies that are based on these events with my grandparents and gosh it really traumatized me and I can say that I will never ever forgive those Japanese devils for doing such horrible crimes…RIP to all my poor ancestors that died in their hands😢
It’s also worth it to listen to Japanese soldiers accounts, one of them said that they used Chinese to practice thrusting their bayonets into human body, he remembered how the blood splattered into his face, it’s on yt but I can no longer remember the title
Dropping atomic bombs can directly end the suffering of the two peoples
We Americans made them pay for their sins. We unleashed Hellfire on them they won't EVER FORGET.
Thank you for the post.
Iris Chang's 1997 book about this event is probably the single most horrifying history I have ever read. The stuff of nightmares that you want to forget until somebody reminds you of them again.
You probably know that eventually, Iris Chang shot herself.
@@bobtaylor170 stare into the darkness, the darkness stares into you.
"Execution" is no way to describe Atrocious Murder.
Poles will never forget the massacre in Volhynia by the Banderites of the UPA or the slaughter of Wola by the Germans on defenseless civilians during WWII, just as the Chinese will never forget the brutal massacre in Nanjing by the Japanese Nazis.
At least Germary apologised for the atrocities commited by the Nazis. Japan never did. In fact its history books show Japan helped Asians against the western imperialists. What a joke.
And that's why "Karma" returned their actions with the two atomic bomb droppings. Their demonic savage brutality awarded them, the distinct honor of being the only country to have the atomic bomb dropped upon them twice, and almost a third bomb. That taught them, who was actually in control.
I can't recall his name exactly, but there was a rather famous Japanese writer that fruitlessly tried to downplay - and even deny - Japanese crimes. Shit like that wouldn't bode well in Europe with the Nazis.
It's actually boding very well at the moment in Europe if you look past the media lies about Ukraine and do some research on the Azov Battalion that was trained and financed by NATO and was defeated only last month by Russian forces - and the Right Sector that was in office until very recently and still holds huge political influence in that country: and they are only 2 of the nazi/neo nazi entities that are in control of Ukraine.
@@jackspring7709 are you comparing an official government entity to a battalion?
@@DakotaofRaptors No - I mentioned one battalion and one government entity in a whole system full of them: just do your research on exactly what the EU/US and NATO has not only allowed but embraced in Ukraine. Of course if your argument is over semantics its completely irrelevant to your original point: you said the EU would never tolerate this - I've told you otherwise and why.
@@jackspring7709 given the circumstances surrounding Ukraine, I think it's a little more complicated than "Nazis good." Anyway, I'm referring to countries like Germany and Ireland - where so much as referencing the Nazis can very well land you in jail.
@@DakotaofRaptors It's much better to do independent research rather than conveniently dismiss it with such a glib comment as "I think it's a little more complicated than 'nazis good'". But that's your prerogative, I won't begrudge you it.
My grandfather's brother was stationed in Nanjing at the time. One of the neighbors he lived with was a Chinese man who was close to him like family. He was a school teacher. He was very educated and was like a best friend with whom he talked. At the end of the war, he was still in China, but in the chaos he was able to return safely to Japan, where he was sheltered by this Chinese man. My grandfather's brother was forever grateful to the Chinese, but after the war he lost contact with them.
After the Cultural Revolution, he was informed much later that he had been executed. My grandfather's brother, a very strict man, was wailing. My grandmother told me this story when I was in high school (My grandmother sometimes told me wartime stories) .
PS I am currently a faculty member at a university in Japan.
There is a Chinese professor from Nanjing at the university where I work now. He is a wonderful educator. The teaching assistants in my seminar (which changes every two years) are mostly students from China and are very good.
I pray for the souls of the victims in China and hope that the friendly relationship between Japan and China will be maintained.
John Rabe was very much a hero! I still can’t understand why no one’s made a film about him.
because he was a nazi supporter. a good man unknowingly supporting an almost equal vile government.
Nobody has made a film about John Rabe because they are too busy making films that disparage the United States.
There is.
You know....you don't hear much about the atrocities committed by Japan. It's all “GERMANY GERMANY GERMANY.” Japan WAS the “Germany “ of Asia (still is; the parallels are striking ), China is the Russia. This is really when WW2 began, in China. It begs the question why we don't hear much about it.
Because it has been hijacked and commercialised for a particular modern narrative. If anyone points out other historical atrocities, they are labelled and stigmatised.
True!!!
japan was way worse than the german but history is told from a white man's point of view so german is gonna get more attention.
There is plenty of blame placed on Japan’s atrocities, not just Germany. Maybe read more.
@@Cool-Lake thats false the only thing that happend to japan was they were forced to become a us alined satellite state
So far, the Japanese have changed their textbooks as if nothing had happened. But the victims will always remember.
Yeah fr
War is the one thing that really defines humanity. It's something we have always done.
What I don't understand is that the Japanese are always going on about honour, but then they do this. This is cowardice, and nowhere near honourable. I'm betting that the Chinese will get their vengeance at some point in the future.
yup the nukes will fly from china soon--the first nukes from russia will hit the maggots of euro land,Germ many and the UK will turn to ash
@@dethray1000 ahaha. UK had it coming for a long time.
君子报仇，十年不晚
Wow, you really know your a true "warrior" when you can win a contest that involves killing 100 unarmed, defenseless, and quite possibly fleeing people. Honestly, it surprises me that the Japanese military allowed such a contest to exist. They are such an honor bound society and there is nothing brave or honorable about cutting down defenseless people. What's next? The race to kill 100 babies and kittens? The Showa Period was indeed a dark one for Japan.
Addendum- Don't worry, every country in existence has had monsters like these running around. Our job is to learn from the mistakes of the past and never repeat them again. This goes for each and every person living today.
Not the point, Japanese pass themselves off and are seen as such passive, honorable, polite people due to their propaganda. All a ruse. Wouldn't doubt they would do the same today, a culture and DNA doesn't end in just 80 years.
@@spaniardsrmoors6817
Yeah...we're going to have to agree to disagree here. It only takes one generation to truly change. Did you know that Japan chose to disarm after WW2? Japan could have re-armed at any point in history and gone back to war but they have not. I refuse to condemn a people who were not alive during the atrocities committed by their ancestors. Continuing to do so is a guarantee that war will never end.
No, the biggest problem facing our world today is China. The hatred of the past burns brightly in them. If World War 3 is an inevitability it will be the Communist that starts it. They are the sole reason Japan has chosen to restart their industrial military complex and I don't blame them for it either. I believe we are very close to the precipice of no return and a war of that scale will gulf both World Wars in scope by a wide margin. It will end modern life as we know it.
@@Sinn0100 just like the germans. We shouldn’t forget the Nazi barbarism but shouldn’t hold the children of them responsible. The Nazis are not those where we’re not alive
Don’t bring Hirohito into this. He wanted none of it.
@@BruhTNT4258
That doesn't make any sense at all. He was seen as their God. He absolutely could have said "no more" at any point in the war and the people would listen..
There is an excellent and extremely moving museum in Nanjing in memorial to this act of brutality by the Japanese on the Chinese. A visit there will help anyone who has any doubt understand why to this day the Chinese people are not especially well disposed towards the Japanese.
I took my japanese girlfriend to a chinese restaurant in america. The chinese waitress walked over smiling and asked my girlfriend "Are you chinese?"
My girlfriend said "No Im japanese."
The smile dropped instantly and the chinese waitress turned and walked away without a word. I was blown away, but my japanese girlfriend wasnt phased at all. She said that its just the way it is.
I visited that museum. This video doesn't scratch the surface of how bad things really were.
@@velveetaslingshot In fact, if your gf is young, she might not even know what her ancestors did bc their education didn't cover that history. Young Japanese dislike China and see Chinese as angry and absurd who have trouble to make a conversation.
@@velveetaslingshothonestly, I don't think anyone can blame her
A fake museum?😂😂
Literally just hearing this makes my stomach queasy. To hear the horrible things they did to this innocent people. I can’t even imagine watching that.
I had a friend (a Marine) who fought in the South Pacific; he’d NEVER do anything that involves ANYONE of Oriental descent; once a young Oriental MD entered an examination room to are for my friend. My friend saw the M.D., and left the room with out saying anything to the MD. (I can only imagine WHAT my friend had seen & dealt with). RIP…My friend was very honorable…. ❤️👣
First of all, it's not "Oriental". It's "Asian". Secondly, the most highly decorated unit in U.S. military history is a Japanese-American unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Nicknamed, "The Purple Heart Battalion", these Japanese-Americans fought in some of the most bloody battles of WW2, despite the fact that their birth country, The United States, were racists towards them, and held their parents in prisons during the war. It's too bad that your WW2 friend never knew about these guys because he'd no doubt have lots of respect for them. "World War II: The Rescue of the Lost Battalion"
Oriental
"The rape of Nanking" was NOT an atrocity committed during WWII. This atrocity began in early December 1937 and lasted for about 6wks - just under 2yrs BEFORE WWII began.
Technically, yes. But many historians view the war as being a connected series of wars that eventually led up to a world conflict. WW2 didn't start in a vacuum. There were many years of build-up and wars fought from the mid-1930's. The Soviet general Zhukov was the first general to use 'blitzkrieg' tactics in 1939 when he annihlated the Japanese 6th Army at Kalkin Gohl in Manchuria. Germany was already at war in Europe. Japan had been at war in China and Manchuria since 1936. China itself was at war within its own borders with a civil war between Communists and Nationalists - basically since the late 1920's. WW1 officially ended in 1918, but not for many millions of Russians, Turks, Armenians, Greeks, and Chinese. The Treaty of Versaisse that ended hosilities in WW1 just set the stage for WW2. The 20th Century was easily the most hideous time in human history.
@@OutnBacker So, long story short, you've agreed with my point. Thank you. 🙄
@@tim7052 no they did not
@@Somespideronline Did! - you just don't know your history.
@@tim7052 no
mcArthur comitted the worst war crime ever , letting hiroito live
Not just that, pardoning war criminals as well!
Bushido is the "code of honour"... This reminds me what the officer of the ship of the line Kent said to Surcouf when he surrendered. "You frenchs fight for the riches and gold... We britishs fight for honour !" Then Surcouf answered "then we all fight for what we do not possess..."
So the japanese made a code for a thing they did not even dream of possessing or understand at all...
It’s bizarre how brutal the Japanese were just 2 generations ago; but now seem to be a very humble, peaceful society today. What changed?
Got nuked
@@mukundchavan1714 justifiably so
Isn't a generation about 25 years?
@@mukundchavan1714 After that they figured out that they are better off making hentai, anime, comic and scary movies.
Democracy???
They still deny it to this day…such a shame.
Chiang Kai-shek's position in history has always been controversial.
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Although he led China to resist Japanese aggression during World War II, he should be recognized, but after Japan surrendered, he announced that he would deal with Japan's crimes leniently, which is really difficult to understand and accept.
Because of communists! Pathetic history for Chinese fighting among us
What did Mao do then? He didn't even fucking accept the compensation just to make he look good.
We need more video's like This. Tell how War is. No War Peace.
The Japanese invaded Shanghai after they were promised a quick victory and propaganda told them that the Chinese army were weak and their soldiers inferior. Thus morale was high among the imperial soldiers. What awaited them was close to a million Chinese, with some divisions were trained by the German before the war. Not only that, the Chinese army were well supplied with their own armoured division. Japan just had air and naval superiority.
Thus the battle became Stalingrad before there was even the battle for Stalingrad. After three months of attrition and house to house combat, the Japanese won but had to force marched over to Nanjing. Their grievances and anger were directed at the unarmed Chinese civilians. And their officer gave the go head while some even participated. Even news papers back in Japan reported the infamous “who killed more with a sword” challenge.
They failed to realize Han were not emperors slaves anymore they would die for their newly found republic. And Chiang is not a Hanjian like Wu SanGui who let Manchus enter China
Imagine a country with no gun rights and people cannot defend themselves. This is what you get. Those Japanese were horrible human beings.
If there are no gun rights, it means there would be no gun violence, and that's such a dumb argument anyways, if you think during the war everyone having guns would help them your more than wrong, like what are they gonna do shoot a tank with a pistol
I'm afraid it wasn't only women who were at risk from the Japanese but any human being! Don't think that men and children weren't targeted too. Even going to extremes of sneaking into the hospital and other places inside the 'safety zone' to get at whoever they chose. Despite being studied relentlessly, no-one can seem to work out just what triggered these soldiers to behave in such a sickening and barbaric manner. How they could even think of carrying out such vile atrocities makes the mind boggle. There were claims that they didn't see the Chinese as being human beings but only on an even keel with pigs which was the justification for some. It's as if they carried out on these people the most extreme, vile acts they could possibly dream up. To read what went on during this disgusting and disgraceful show of humanity is not at all easy but the world needs to know what depths the Japanese were capable of going down to and this surely has to be the worst of the worst due to the horrendous acts they managed to think up and then let loose to do as they pleased with everyone in this city. What the Japanese did at Nanking was beyond anything else experienced in modern times. There really aren't words to describe how despicable their behaviour was as it went so far away from the boundaries that most would not dare to ever venture across.🇦🇺🕊
True....but read more on Warsaw in August 1944...Zalewsky, Dirlewanger, the Azeris, RONA....it compares to Nanking in 1937....
@@daviddoran3673 it seems to me that humanity during the 1930s - 1940s era were truly some of the worst in history, very little empathy or compassion was felt or given to fellow man (on every continent). Just a horrible time to live in, so glad I wasn't alive then..
@@daviddoran3673 Thanks for the reference.💖
The Imperial Japanese military training process was meant to turn human being into humanoid beasts, you could say that the whole country is a giant asylum.
@@billhsu6349 I couldn't agree more!
The Washington Post covered the
story of a 12-year-old girl, an Alaska native
student, whose remains was buried more than 100
years ago in Pennsylvania.
She was among more than 100,000 indigenous
children distributed to around 375 boarding
schools throughout the US from the late 1800s
through the 1960s. It was believed they could
be "civilized" by being forced to leave home.
"To take children away from their homes and
families and subject them to assimilation is
to commit cultural genocide," the Washington
Post quoted Christine DiinDiisi McCleave,
executive director of the National Native
American Boarding School Healing Coalition,
as saying. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland,
the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet
secretary, said last week that the department
will identify boarding facilities, cemeteries
and the children buried there to "uncover the
truth about the loss of human life, and the
lasting consequences of the schools."
Catching babies with your bayonet was a 'game' between the solders
Thanks for letting the more people to know in UA-cam ❤❤
While not to this scale, this makes me think of what pootyn's forces have done in Ukraine
You cannot begin to compare what is happening in Ukraine to what happened in China after 1937. In fact, nothing compares to that, except perhaps the Mongols or the Tartars. What is happening in Ukraine is just a dirty little bush war, it's not organised genocide.
ukraine asked for it--putters forces have been very restrained--that about to end,good bye ukraine and Poland
@@dethray1000
Doubt it.
Seems both forces enjoy tourching one another lots of burnt corpses and even attacks on citizens (Ukraine) ones
The IJA thought it acceptable to travel in their trucks with their bayonets mounted on rifles, sticking out of the side whilst passing lines of allied POW’s - with obvious results.
Unfortunately the British government have never held the Japanese military/government responsible for the numbers of war crimes - preferring to provide assorted Japanese industries with financial assistance to build car plants in the UK. All whilst ignoring the plight of those that survived being POW’s and the dire health issues that resulted.
The POW’s never received any recognition by the British government so it wasn’t too surprising that no apology was forthcoming from Japan, at least not whilst there were any survivors to accept it. My uncle that only just survived the Burma railroad died before Japan ever offered an apology, and that seemed to be the preferred result of our politicians.
The survivors tried for many years to have the British government deal with their grievances but our government decided that building car plants in Sunderland was far more important.
Every time I see these photos, I still feel sad and desperate
clueless
Not wishing to belittle this channel in any way - war stories with Mark Felton - The Tokyo Trials - How America Sabotaged Justice in the Far East, 1945-58 , is a good place to visit after this video
The reason? Look for it in history books. Even during feudal wars in Japan they never took prisoners. The vanquished were massacred armed or not. They did not have the concept of taking prisoners.
makes it ok does it CNUT?
Japan should have been given to china after the war
@@TRUMP20Z4 no.
Only defeated countries are accused of war crimes. I envy everyone born in a victorious country.
Killing innocent civilians is evil for victorious or defeated nations.and Japan should get out world
The thumbnail photo is not Japanese soldiers, they are Chinese soldiers.
You can’t really tell just by looks
Sadly, less than 4%, were punished.
Man's inhumanity to man will never end. Our cruelty has no limes, it knows no bounds. Our thirst for blood can never be quenched. Our ravenous hunger for human flesh will never be filled. Our lust for death can never be satisfied. This is our true nature. This is what we are. This is why we were created. To entertain god by human suffering and death. When one war ends, another one begins. It’s a game we play over and over again. We die, god laughs. It's been this way since the dawn of man. For along as there is man, there is evil.
This is why war is immoral. It's always the men in power who do the most damage.
これらの写真の「撮影者、日時、場所、被写体は誰か」を教えて下さい。
This is a Western journalist. We want the Nanjing Massacre to be a fake more than any other country. We still have a lot of witnesses. Wuzhen. There are also certifications from some foreign friends. The evidence is irrefutable. Your government is really ugly
Please keep showing the truth which the world has ignored
It’s referred to as the RAPE OF NANKING not the assault of Nanking - Like the HOLOCAUST is not the simply the “ Final Solution “ - The Barbarism is theirs, the Shame is theirs, why allow Demontaization to cushion the narrative? Hmmmm I suppose that honest language would get the content removed. Another instance of history being altered and made tolerable for the narrative in place of the accurate account of history. Love your channel and thank you! I’m simply stating a fact
I don't think they would understand the concept of shame they enjoyed it and probably felt a great sense of pride and superiority along with enjoying the bounty of war
Research the 'Sook Ching' program carried out in Singapore, Malaya and other parts of SEA during occupation where young Chinese men were lined up and selected for execution at the mere whim of Japanese officers.
The brutality served upon POWs and locals is beyond imagination and can only be described as the work of animals.
Another never mentioned gross atrocity is the last days of the Japanese occupation of Manila. The Filipinos, like everyone else suffered horrendous inhumanity at the hands of the Japanese.
Sometimes forgive but we never forget those bustards..
They were not animals, animals don't cause pain for fun.. more like incarnations from hell
Haven't watched the whole video yet, but I can tell this will make me cry
EDIT: It did :( RIP
You have no clue the Rape of Nanking ? 📕 Where did you go to school ?
Brutal people, the Imperial Japanese.
@@AutomatedPersonnelUnit_3947 No need to be rude. I Have read the book. Have a good day Sir :)
@@AutomatedPersonnelUnit_3947 And please Don't like your own comment, its a little silly
Yes, it was definitely one of the worst warcrimes in history, atleast that's what I believe
thank you!
these uniforms in this thumbnail's photo are obviously chinese army's, not japanese ones.
Could talk about the Canadian POW's during WW2? My Father was one of them.
There is no bottom to the evil people will do in the name of nationalism, racism, and political or religious disagreement. The keystone to this fanatical behavior is a fanatical leader. Nothing brings a country or even an empire to destruction faster than a fanatical, powerful leader or a relatively small group of like minded zealots. If I live to be 200, I will never understand why whole masses of people will allow themselves to get caught up in the hatred and assanine behavior. Path of least resistance thing I suppose.
Say what you want, but we are currently watching this situation unfolding on every continent on the planet.
The Japanese were ruthless and savage people. Don’t feel bad at all for the bomb drop on their cities
What's more, in Japan's Yasukuni Shrine, the Japanese still regard them as heroes
are you stupid?
In every country in the world, those who die defending their country become heroes.
is your country different?
@@bluehawaii0007 imagine hitler, himmler and other nazi become hero in nowaday germany
@@Coddlebean
You don't seem to know why Germans don't see the Nazis as heroes.
It's not because we lost the war.
The Nazis racist Jews and tried to exterminate them.
Before the war, the Japanese military had no plans for racism or racial extermination like the Nazis.
It is clear that even the Tokyo trial did not take up this issue.
Anti-Japanese forces seem to want Japan to be like the Nazis, but the reality was completely different.
Japanese Chiune Sugihara saved 4,500 Jews in Lithuania by giving them visas.
In Manchuria, Kiichiro Higuchi and Hideki Tojo took in and saved thousands of Jews.
These facts are recognized and praised by the Jews as well.
Japan was allied with Nazi Germany, but Nazi Germany issued a directive to Japan not to save the Jews, but the Japanese military ignored this due to humanitarian concerns.
@@bluehawaii0007 😂😂😂
@@bluehawaii0007 🤣👉🇯🇵🐒
The Imperial Japanese made the Nazis look like angels.
Far, far more brutal.
Nazis are also demons. Japan regards massacre as a movement and Nazis regard massacre as an industry
@@bbbzhong4166 Japan were far more brutal; from their holocaust to their human experiments. Not to mention their treatment of prisoners
Don't forget that at the time, the Japanese soldiers had it drilled into their heads repeatedly that you fought to the death. It was better to die with honor than live with shame. Anyone not dying by fighting deserved to abused expecially foreign enemies. They were trained to be inhumane without mercy. I started reading the Nanking book several years ago and didn't make it all the way through. I also started a book on the Batan Death March (Tears in the Darkness (?)) which had several POV's from both sides. One Japanese soldier who survived WW2 said when he left to serve his father said, "Don't come back alive!" as it would shame the family. Both books showed the worst in humanity. While Japan might have started it, the US finished it and numerous accounts have shown that the US soldiers weren't that sympathetic to humane treatment of the Japanese. War is hell from all sides and while there is a winner and loser, in the end, no one wins.
Japanese soldiers were also taught to believe they'd be treated as badly by the allies as they treated their POWs. Thus giving them more reason to fight to the death
I don't buy it. Go from death and slaughter. Now there hooked on Yugioh?????????
Exactly as the Ukrainian soldiers are told today....surrender and you'll be tortured....yet the only torturing is by the Ukrainians...there is drone footage of Ukrainian soldiers in shallow trenches simply staring at the drone....just hopelessly waiting for the Russian artillery....
We have seen a lot films on Nazi tortured and killed Jews but rarely westerns showed what happened to Asia as well as how the war started. People needs to be educated and learned from the past. Thank you for sharing this, an untold history.
Chinese people all over the world can possibly forgive, but will never forget the Nanking Massacre.
No one would forgive this, and we do not forget.
君子报仇，十年不晚
We won’t forgive the ones that committed the crime.
But we can for the peaceful Japan people today.
Truth is Japan deserved the atomic bombs but people today get mad that America used the atomic bombs. I don't.
Next Video, the Savage Crime of Klaus Barbie, "The Butcher of Lyon"
It cannot be one of the worst crimes of WWII as WWII hadn't even starte yet, but it was one of the worst war crimes in all human history.
I am a Japanese male. Incredibly, Japanese anime and manga are very popular in modern China, and finally they have succeeded in recreating Japanese anime as video games, which have been imported to Japan and have become a hit. Even on Chinese video sites, which are closed due to Chinese government policy, Japanese anime culture is respected and Japanese language study is flourishing. There are even street musicians singing Japanese anime songs on the streets.
In contrast, Japanese old people not only refuse to admit that they are the perpetrators, but have been bad-mouthing China for the past 30 years. China has a bad image because it is a dictatorship, but the Chinese people's hearts are generous and free. I firmly believe in the development of China and its bright future.
P.S. I made a misleading notation. I am now ashamed to see how much the world hates the barbaric acts of the Japanese military after reading the comments section.
However, the Japanese anime boom in modern China that I pointed out in the previous paragraph is also a fact. How could the Chinese people own the culture of a people who slaughtered them? I live in a closed island nation, so I don't understand here.
the anime is not important compare the barbaric act by japanese soldier in WW2. especially at nanjing. war sometimes will happen. buat surrender country, a defeated country should not be treated brutally. killing the man, rape woman and then kill it, killing contest, killing surrender soldier. where is their human heart ? where is the mercy ? why brutal kill people. that it make me angry when saw the video and read the history.
comfort woman, manila massacre, mandor incident, sookching massacre, unit 317 manchukuo, and many more. i know the history
因为我们在极力的告诉自己要放下仇恨，可是，越是这样越纵容了伤害我们的人，你们的政府从来没有道歉，部分日本人不仅没有任何歉意，甚至还拿这件事嘲笑中国人，这是不能容忍的。所以，我仅仅代表个人，以后只有仇恨，没有善意，没有原谅，哪怕以生命为代价。
If you ever do some research of the history of Japanese manga culture you will know why.After the WW2 Jpanaese manga culture was leading by some left-wing creators such as Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫) and Mamoru Oshii (押井守) etc. Their works represents the reflection of what Japan did in some ways. The other hand, China has imported a lot of these anime and manga during the 90s, so the past three generations in China got influences by Jpanese culture.
In my opinion, there is no conflict that ppl likes modern Jpanese culture and remember the history of being invaded, our country taught us to remember the history but not hates(Its literally what Chinese government said when brings up this history)
@@nnmz2011mo However, the acceptance of Japanese anime and manga culture in Korea does not seem to be the case as far as game development is concerned. The acceptance of the culture of the former aggressor country in China is partly due to the difference in national power in terms of territory and population.
@@takaakiyy3983 Countries and nations are just fictitious concepts of mankind. If you look at these things deconstructively, you will eventually find that everything is meaningless. Therefore, from the perspective of governance, giving the citizens a common enemy can effectively increase national cohesion. Given what Japan has done to China, Japan is a good target both from an objective and subjective perspective.
Some people in China also ask why we have experienced more serious foreign invasions in history, why do we not hate them and even selectively downplay part of this history. A very important part of the reason is that these nations that have invaded us have become part of China, and with the development of the times, we need some new goals to strengthen everyone’s identification with the fictional subject of "country".
Perhaps a hundred years later or when the world situation enters a new stage, this history between China and Japan will be slowly diluted. But at this stage, there is a simple fact in front of all beautiful fantasies. The Japanese government did something wrong and did not make due reflections and apologies for it. The upper class of Japan during World War II was not actually punished. The emperor and many government officials at that time continued to rule Japan until today. Therefore, it is normal to have hatred for historical facts and enemies without reflection. At the same time, the development of the world cannot be separated from communication. As neighbors with similar cultures and long-term communication in history, our relationship is very complicated and difficult to separate from each other.
As for South Korea, the situation is a little different. I don’t want to spend too much time talking about this, but my point of view is that because of South Korea’s historical problems, their government should actually be regarded as a puppet regime supported by the United States rather than a sovereign state. Almost all of South Korea’s diplomatic actions and ideologies can be regarded as actions under the instruction of the United States. (Japan has the same problem but is much better than South Korea) The simple understanding is that it is in the interests of the United States to have a certain hatred between China, Japan and South Korea, because they do not want to see a united Asia.
Douglas MacArthur (GHQ Commander-in-Chief)
" Their(Japan/Japanese) purpose, therefore in going to
war was largely dictated by security. In the past 100 years, the biggest political
mistake U.S. had committed was that by the defeat of Japan, we made the communist
most powerful in China. " at the USA Congress in 1951.
MacArthur noticed it at last during the Korean War in 1950, but it was already too late !
Thanks for the information. Curse those murderers.
Communist China's accounting of the so called doubtful Nanjing incident has been consistently propagandized by politics.
During the war in 1937 Nanjing was the capital of the Chinese Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which mounted a brief investigation after the Japanese defeat in 1945. From the time of the Communist takeover in 1949 until the early 1980's there was no any claim at all to Japan from Communist China regarding so called Nanjing incident in Dec. 1937.
Furthermore very curious and mysterious still, there is no record to show that Mao Zedong ,who died in 1976, ever spoke publicly about it. Other Communist China's leaders didn't mention about the so called Nanjing incident at all too. Save for a brief mention in a 1960 middle school textbook that there was a Nanjing battle between Japan's Imperial Army and Chiang Kai-shek, the Nanjing Massacre was not featured in even Chinese textbooks until the early 1980.It's well known scarcely trained Chinese conscripts stripped off their military uniforms and escaped into the Safety Zone in Nanking with some weapons. Before entering into the Safety Zone some of those Chinese conscripts killed and raped some Han residents of Nanjing to get their clothes.
In recent decades, partly in response to Japan, Beijing has itself looked toward nationalism as a spur to unity and a way to quell social troubles, especially in light of Marxism's fading relevance. "It was in the last 20 years that we found it essential to intensify our PROPANGANDA, to make sure that our people remember this better," said Zhang Lianhong in 2006,a historian at Nanjing University.
This is a terrible story filled with death 😢 and destruction. Very sad. RIP each and every victim of these heinous crimes. I hope that the soldiers rot in hell.
The torture and wholesale rape of the women of Nanking was particularly savage. After being raped and abuse by Japanese soldiers they were routinely murdered using swords and bayonets in ways that would cause the most intense pain and humiliation. Use your imagination.