My dads best friend was near worked to death on this railway. He survived and he found himself being nursed by my dad, his best friend. My dad said later he did not recognise him. He recognised his voice. He was a very tall , well built man. My dad stayed with him until he was shipped back home.
Shipped home? Is he Australian? An ancestor of mine was also a POW in this & was one of the remaining Australians who made it home, his name was Harold Arthur De-courcy Browne
Whenever I hear a bleeding heart claim that us dropping Little Boy and Fat Man on the imperial Japanese was unnecessary and brutal, I just point said bleeding heart to the myriad examples of medieval level brutality from the imperial Japanese.
@@raynonabohrer5624 Sorry to hear about the loss of your uncle. As Quint (played to perfection by the late Robert Shaw) said in "Jaws" at the end of his spellbinding speech about his personal involvement with the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, "Anyway...we delivered the bomb."
Paradoxically dropping the bombs actually saved lives when you think of the alternative. But I take your point. My father was on the death railway and he actually witnessed the crucifixion of a man who's surname was Phelps (Indian army). Unlike the Germans the Japanese have never atoned for their barbarity.
I was 12 years old when my dad introduced me to a Filipino man who was a partisan. my dad said this is one of the bravest and toughest men he had the pleasure of befriending. he was captured beaten and tied to a tree beaten and bayoneted. he was saved returned to health and fought again. I will NEVER forget that man and what he did for his country.
My father in law worked on the Burma death railway. He came home a broken man and died from a tropical disease he suffered without treatment from the Japanese. The stories he told were horrific
It was part of my lot in life to serve as both soldier and diplomat. I was fortunate enough to be posted to Rangoon and was well aware of Japan’s military history in Burma. I knew of their behavior toward prisoners of war on the railway of death. It is one thing to read about what happened there, quite another to attend the memorial services and walk through allied military cemeteries. The number of dead young men buried there is beyond comprehension. Yes, I went to that infamous railway for a memorial service held at a bridge, along with other diplomats and military members of allied nations who will not forget this crime against humanity. While WWll is now history, this particular act of long term barbarity lives on in the hearts and minds of those who understand what happened there. My military service as an Army Ranger compelled me to travel north to Mytchinaw to dedicate a memorial wreath for Merrill’s Marauders. The primary purpose of that trip was to return several wartime members of the American OSS to be reunited with the indigenous guerrilla forces they had trained and led against the Japanese. The war in Burma has not been forgotten and sacrifice and loss are remembered. We remember this as well - to die in battle is one thing. Those losses are expected and a soldier takes his chances. What happened along the railway of death is a war crime vile beyond description and that atrocity will not be forgotten any time soon. A rusty old railroad lantern found along that railroad in Burma sits on a shelf in my garage. It is not a momento or a souvenir, but a reminder both of what mankind is capable of and what he has done in the past. I’m now 75 and will carry my Burma experiences to the grave.
Thanks for this one. My grandfather worked as pow at the Burma railway and survived .to be killed in 1946 in an ambush during the Indonesian revolution. The media and the former colonial troops weren't much weren't much of a source in the Netherlands because of shame, lack of interest, there was no time for their story because the places what had seen war needed to be rebuild, and the way how Nazi's treated enemies got in general more priority. These stories (good or bad) telling for me my grandfather's story what life was and what he never could tell to my mother and me.
My Dad was in the ALL VOLUNTEER, USA army group, commonly called the Merrills Marauders. He crept through the dangerous jungles and the narrow mountain passes. A majority of these men didn't survive. They depended on the local people, who were short of food themselves, untimely airplane drops, and food they scavenged along the way. They died from diseases, being caught and worked to death by Japanese soldiers who forced them to build a railroad system to move supplies and soldiers to bases and battlefields. The American Soldiers didn't want to get caught. The mission was extremely dangerous. The completed the mission by blowing up a bridge in North South East Asia, a major bridge, the Japenese needed the war. My father was a mule tender and took care of a mule. As a farm boy, who had experience raising cattle and other livestock. They took the voice box out of these animals to keep them quiet. In today's social climate this probably wouldn't be done. However, it was important to keep the Soldiers safe. Have you ever heard a mule bray? I love reading about this part of WWll. It is not covered very much. Many people don't realize the Japanese war was as bad or worse. They put people in concentration camps, worked their prisoners to death, starved them, tortured them, and killed them after torturing them. Many Americans don't realize this. 😢
My great uncle was a POW in Thailand he managed to survive the war but he was tortured pretty badly he had scars all down his back and legs he had malaria whilst in captivity too. Many things they did to him he would never speak about I have a telegram he sent from the camp he was in to his mother (my grt grandmother). I was lucky to get to meet him he was a gentleman and loved very much. Thank you the video gave me an insight from GB.
And aware of Japan’s fanatic and barbaric behavior during the war, the decision was made to radiate Hiroshima from the air rather than invade. Makes sense to me and saved untold lives on both sides.
My father was a prisoner of war on the Burma railway, he made reference to how cruel the Japanese officers were to the Australian soldiers, with a number being be- headed for standing up to the guards.
I lost an Uncle in Philippines. At the end of the War. God he was working that morning with his tank and crew. Took out 5 Machine guns nests. He was telling his driver where to go next. And he caught a bullet in the throat. We love you and miss you Uncle Earl Roots. He already been in the military when the war started. He's working in military career. 12 years .I think?
The Yasukuni Shrine glorifies Japanese WWll actions and ignores atrocities to this very day. This part of history has been erased from the Japanese psyche. They have refused to apologise for their crimes, only a few were brought to justice. Shame on Japan.
Nobody escapes Judgement Day by the Lord God! Whatever ye shall sow,that shall ye also reap! Those Japanese guards and soldier's won't get away with anything!! And the ones that have passed on,have an eternity of torture beyond anything they could inflict on the Allies.
@@johnnywad7728 Why would Shintoists go to the judeo christian hell? They died in service to the Emperor, the descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu. Beliefs are dangerous, especially ones based on faith. Yours included.
@@freakystyley4000 wrong! u can believe what you like, and so will I,in the end we shall see who is correct. Just because they believed in a false religion doesn't absolve them from eternal torment in hell.
There's a fascinating book called 'the forgotten highlander' about a scotsman who was captured in Malaysia by the Japanese, survived for 6 years, most of which he spent on the Thai/Burma railway. Its harrowing to hear his story, what a man he was.
Aaron Chadburn, I was just going to write about The forgotten Highlander... he gave me so much strength after my daughters head injury, she used to just want to run off day or night and I would run around looking for her and when I felt I could not run anymore I used to think of how strong the Highlander was and he kept going!
Why would Shintoists go to the judeo christian hell? They died in service to the Emperor, the descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu. Beliefs are dangerous, especially ones based on faith.
My great uncle was captured by the Japanese at Bataan and survived the death March. He was taken to Japan and was working 700ft below ground in a coal mine 12 miles from Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. All prisoners were to be executed by the Japanese but were left on their own and abandoned. I have no Sympathy for the Japanese. I saw what it did to him mentally and physically
You saw what soldiers 2 generations ago did to him. It's hard to feel that, though, I get it. But that's like the Vietnamese blaming all Americans now for Mai Lai. That said, the brutality of the Japanese soldiers during the war was horrific.
Alot of people here who had loved ones who were in burma and payed there respects mentioning them here in the comments, is a beautiful thing to see, my grandad who died 10 years ago age 83 name, sean van wunnik, a dutch navy soldier in the line of duty, his ship was shot down by a torpedo and sunk and abanded ship. He and about a 100 other soldiers were waiting to be picked up in shark infested waters, what an ordeal that must have been.. to be eventualy picked up by the japanese and put to labor at the burma railway for about 2 years.I know this because he told me his story himself.. I have a picture of him with the same quality as the pictures shown in this video but upclose so you can see him properly. For some reason i was looking at the pictures in the video to see if maybe i could get a glimpse of him. Much respect for everyone who had a loved one in burma x
My uncle William worked on that railway, when he came home he was white haired, he could never eat a full normal dinner, he would never talk about what happened, he died in his 60s of stomach cancer.
Best thing this Country ever did to Japan was drop those bombs, the Japanese continue to blame the Chinese for their treatment of the so called " comfort women" but , have failed miserably to address what their Soldiers did to the prisons of war....cruelty doesn't begin to show their actions!!
Be grateful you cannot imagine it. Your life would be changed forever. You would likely need psychiatric care and may experience an early death from the burden you would carry to your grave.
I remember a local villager who survived in a Japanese prison camp, he maintained and sold cars for a living, he would never accept a vehicle made in Japan in his garage, another local that I knew as a young man would never allow you to say the name Japan or mention what happened to him during the second world war, I never understood their hatred, but then I was never a prisoner on the Burma railways
my uncle JOHN SHAW died on the burmah road, i never met him, so this is what it was like, nothing but cruelty, i feel worse now i know what he probably had to deal with every day.
My uncle who I believe was in the Royal Norfolks was captured and mistreated by the Japanese, he walked with a limp due to beatings and had a large scar on his jaw due to being struck, he was a kind man and luckily had a good life but died far to early again I think because of the treatment he had received.
I have to agree. Both sides, the Allies and the Axis powers committed atrocities, but the Japanese of that time we're in a class by themselves. I had the privilege of meeting former Marines who fought in the Pacific, still despised the Japanese, and said they were " not human". It was estimated that if we had to invade Japan's home islands, we would have lost at least a million men.
@@susandalton7889 I agree,my uncle Gene Quick,army const,heavy equipment operator, came back with malaria, at 19, hated the Japanese till the day he died, because of the things he saw in the pacific, would never talk about it,very much.it seems like all the veterans of that time were like that. I don't think the young people of today,really understand what they went thru for us. May they rest in peace.
Both of my Grandfathers fought in WW2 one on both fronts. The one on the eastern front died of alcoholism due to his ptsd self medicating from all the atrocities he witnessed done by Japan.
An amazing story, True Heroes.. not someone who kicks a ball for Millions of dollars! Without these Warriors this there would be no Free World as we know it today..
Thanks. Ive heard hundreds of brutality stories but I still find every new one astonishing. Why would otherwise decent people do this?? Btw, Mark Felton made a great documentary explaining Japanese brutality in particular. So, so sad. 😖
My father was a gunner as one of the thousands of British army soldiers and Australians who were the largest faction of slave labour on the Burma Death Railway. That’s not to forget the Dutch soldiers and the hundred or so thousands of native families who were also lured to work there by a false promise of good working conditions. A soldier unlucky enough to be in the middle of the jungle on this railway had chances of survival which were seriously reduced compared with those at the lower camps. I once asked my Dad why the Red Cross didn’t get to him in that dense and dangerous jungle and he answered that it was a place where there were no roads while the 400km+ of railway was being built. The prisoners had had to walk from camp to camp. Hence, no outside agency could report on the cruelty and starvation that they were suffering. Also it was here that disease was the worst and so was the treatment by the Japanese and Korean guards. Dad knew of these comparisons because he had also spent a little amount of time in the lower camps too.
I know it is an old comment, but my grandfather was there too. There where also allied bombings on the railroad even though allied pow's were forced to work on it, so that was added to this horrific situation. Just imagine getting there by,what they called, the "hell ships". Who were also bombed even though there were allied pow's on board.
I just wanted to say I love your channel. I am fascinated by ww2 and have read up, I thought, about almost everything. Some of these stories are fresh as they aren't covered for some reason. Can you please do a longer video on the original "inglorious bastards". The Jewish brigade book is so insightful, I'd love to hear your take on it.
The channel is extremely thorough. The history is spot on but my goodness the narration is annoying. At the end of every sentence it's like he's speaking the form of a question.
They have to magnify German atrocities, so that no one will stop to think about the fact that the Americans, British and Russians did just as much and more. The only reason the Germans are the bad guys is because they lost.
My late mother had a dentist in the 50s who suffered constant pain and had horrific scarring from being tortured by his Japanese guards in Burma. The atomic bombing was barbaric but it ended a horrific regime that had to be stopped.
I visited hellfire pass back in 2022 it sent a shiver thru me and I touched the wall of the cutting and said " you poor bastards we will never forget your suffering and sacrifice'" as an aussie I had not heard of Ringers story I will go rewatch a town like Alice now
I served in the RAF for ten years from 1970 to 80, yep I'm 69 now but it does not seem so long ago, at least, not to me. Many of the Chaps I served with were a lot older than I and as young men they had gone through things like 'Burma, Singapore, Hong Kong. I can tell you there was not one single one of them who did not have an unbelievably strong hatred for the Japanese. The tales I heard were so horrendous. It was said, one man died for every sleeper laid on that railway. It wassaid, the NAZI's were bad but it was just a job to most of them. A huge majority of Japanese soldiers however, seemed to sadistically enjoy what they did. RIP to Ringer and all those other poor souls.
My grandfather was a fepow and survived , he spent the rest of his life suffering with trauma , he now lays in a communal Paupers grave with no headstone , I am not allowed to give him a headstone , in the U.K. he is not entitled to a military headstone with the commonwealth war graves because he survived ,
My cousins pop was a POW at Burma. There was a knock at the door to tell his wife he was killed in action. That night he stood at the foot of his wife’s bed and said. Grace I’m alive and I will be home. True blue. 🇦🇺👍
My uncle was captured in the downfall of Singapore and forced to work on the Burma railway. He survived but according to my dad never spoke of his ordeal. He died aged 46 in the early 60's before I was born, as a direct result of his treatment in the camps. My mother would never watch the Japanese game shows that were popular on television in later years, as she said it just proved that, as a race, they were inherently cruel.
TV’s Dan Snow, for example, maybe thinks he’s a historian who has reported on the Fall of Singapore where the British and Australian soldiers were taken prisoner. Like many others who report this defeat, there are aspects of the full true story that are never included in their reports. I have the feeling that each successive reporter reads or watches reports that a previous reporter has completed and then re hashes it for his/her own reports about the Fall of Singapore. I have NEVER heard an “expert” investigate or report on the fact that Singapore was not captured by Japanese soldiers on bicycles alone. There WERE tanks and aeroplanes. I have NEVER heard an expert tell of the visit to Singapore by General Wavell, as a man who, in truth, famously promised the fighting Brits and Aussie soldiers there, that reinforcements were on their way to give support and said “The skies of Singapore will be dark with planes”. Then after his speech, hopped onto a plane and left. In fact the promised Allied planes never arrived because Winston Churchill had diverted them to fight the war in Europe. Singapore was sacrificed in favour of Europe. Of course this is never mentioned by the reporters. But any squaddie soldier who heard the speech in Singapore could have related this truth. If any one of those reporters had bothered to ask, the world could have learned a bit more of the truth of why Singapore fell. The head of the Singapore defence force, General Percival, to my mind, has been maligned by history accounts, as a poor leader but one should be asking if this is so, why did Churchill allow him his knighthood after the end of WW2? Even worse, the captured soldiers were treated badly and a great many of them were sent to build the Thai Burma Death Railway. The cruelty there compares with anything (and I mean anything) that you will ever read. Starvation, disease, torture, executions, loss of clothing, no protection from a burning hot sun or the dreaded monsoons. No letters from home and families at home not knowing if their sons, brothers, uncles or husbands were even alive. If anyone wants to see or hear a vivid and true depiction of the effect of the sacrificing of Singapore and how it affected the life and death of the enslaved survivors of Singapore after their transportation to the jungle of the Death Railway, there is no better authority on the matter than Rod Beattie. He gives an interesting insight to the conditions there in his videos and talks of the camps such as those at Kinsayok and Hellfire Pass. So to the reporters I say, if you want the real story, read the accounts of the ordinary base line soldiers, who were not invited to write the official government reports, but each had a story to tell. Then you might come across some corking accounts of sacrifice, honour, bravery and humanity. You would certainly read something you didn’t previously know. LIKE MANY MANY OTHERS, THE MEN WHO WERE ENSLAVED THERE ARE NOT FORGOTTEN BY THEIR FAMILIES. WE KNOW WHAT THOSE MEN ENDURED AND THEY DESERVE TO BE BETTER ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE WORLD. TILL THEN, I’LL SAY WITH PRIDE, MY FATHER WAS THERE.
Sadly,the Japanese were so cruel and treated their captives brutally-hard to believe when we see the Japanese so gracious in today’s world! The tragedy of war!
It’s amazing how uncivilized these people were. And it wasn’t even 100 years ago. Human evolution had a lot of catching up to do in that part of the world.
@@johnf8064It’s cultural. The Japanese have come a long way bcuz of US intervention. The Germans have had a complete revolution through denazification. The Russians are still held down by an oppressive government that shields them from the main stream so they are still a bit primitive
My man seems to think that the Japanese are higher than Gods . Really. Tell that to the families of the Burmese , Thai ,Aussie , New Zealand ,British, Irish. Netherland , Canadian , USA citizen , and Indian ( and out of the whole lot of suffering people these suffered the most , eaten alive ) that they are better than gods . They are only human . And when they made mistakes . DID THEY MAKE THEM. .And up to this day unlike the German people no public apology as been made by Japan.
Lady I was talking to told me her brother and a few others got rescued they got all guards and locked them in the hell holes in the ground that had been used on them...to 🥵 bake...
you can just imagine the revenge taken by the allied liberators, stuff we'll never hear about, I'll bet there was a lot of war crime level retribution, same in Europe at the death camps, I imagine the allies committed their share of gruesome revenge, understandable when you think of these soldiers finding their fellow soldiers tortured and abused, human nature for a war addled mind to do stuff they would never even think about in their peacetime life, you can bet there was some ugly revenge exacted on the camp guards and others unfortunate enough to be caught. a lot of stories that went untold and taken to the grave by old soldiers, RIP
There is nothing to regret about any retribution carried out. Although I appreciate your sentiment. My great-uncle Tommy ( Sparrow Force, Portuguese Timor, a ‘ stay-behind ‘ guerrilla unit ) was captured, suffering both immeasurably, and witnessing acts of such extraordinary violence ( including that which was committed against both indigenous and western women ) that I cannot detail them here. In 1945 he had to spend almost six months in hospitalization in order to recover. Please do not be overly sentimental or regretful about the shooting or bayoneting of captured IJA ‘ soldiers ‘. It was infinitely less gruesome than what was visited upon the victims of those ‘ men ‘.
@@matthewwhitton5720 You read me wrong sir, I was not being sentimental, I was just commenting on what it must have been like for the allied liberators, basically a bunch of just out of school boys, suddenly confronted with what had been done to the captives, I was a soldier once, never had to face something like this, but I can well understand the anger that these men must have felt, I'd probably have gone on a killing spree myself. I'm sure a blind eye was turned by many higher-ups as to the type of revenge these guys meted out, wouldn't judge them at all. I do understand a soldiers mind
This and many comments are an understatement of Japanese brutality which many times even went beyond what the Germans did. To get a full picture of what the Japanese did, read „Hidden Horrors“ by the Japanese historian Yuki Tanaka. The Japanese were not victims, they were unbelievable criminals. Truman was against the bomb but Suzuki left him no choice in the matter. Of course, Europeans know very little about the war in the Pacific , but consider themselves specialists, especially the Germans for the simple reason as to bring Truman and Churchill down to the level of Nazi war criminals.
The Germans did exactly nothing during the war that the Russians hadn't already been doing, and that America and Britain didn't do as well. The only reason the Germans are the bad guys is because they lost, and that's the long and the short of it. General Curtis LeMay said after the war that it was a good thing they won, because they would have all been hanged as war criminals for what they had done.
Good Lord, how he survived was a miracle. I cannot understand the terrible brutality of humans against other humans. They will have a special place in hell.
I've never seen a reasonable explanation for not having burned the entirety of the Japan until it was all a moonscape, then turning it into the worlds largest golf course.
My great granddad was a pow and was part of the Thai/burma railway and was in F-force one of the few that survived. If anyone can point me in the right direction where to research into it more I’d appreciate it.
Nice one 👍 thanks another face I didn't know,another face I have never seen,but if it happened a slightly different way,well 🇩🇪 might have won the day,and I might not be ere today,never forget
This guy was similar to a character in the film "A Town Like Alice"
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,Having scrolled though what must have been far more than a couple of hundred comments it's interesting there are none posted in Japanese. I wonder way?
I took my wife’s family on a pontoon boat ride one was her mom’s stepbrother I just got back from a visit to New York and Got to see the museum ship Intrepid in New York Harbor ask this gentleman if ever seen the ship intrepid he said seen it hell I seem to get hit by Kamikazee a few yards away away what do you say to men like this her uncle was sitting there also he didn’t say a word he had seen a lot of action in the Pacific one brother of my wife’s mom was in the battle of the bulge never was the same my wife’s granddad was in world war one these were men so was the man that wouldn’t die from crucifixion may they all rest in peace !!!!! If it was not for them we would be speaking German or Japanese here in the US hundreds of thousands died yet The teachers will not teach this or the aggression other countries put up on the world
As a Korean, the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army is not so shocking. Many Koreans and Chinese were "rape" and killed, and taken to slavery. Our ancestors were deprived of their names, alphabets and languages. The greatest poet became the MARUTA of Unit 731, and the female college student who led the nonviolent peace demonstration was raped and tortured to death in prison. All these things are not yet more than a hundred years old.Perhaps for Koreans and Chinese, the video is not very shocking or surprising. Now, the Japanese government does not 'officially' recognize Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, even reducing and covering up and delivering it to its students. If anyone has heard the song "Flower" by BLACKPINK Jisoo, there is a very interesting story. Ji-Soo's new song is a remake of a very old folk song, and the lyrics say, "Why did you come to my house?~ I came to find flowers." Here, "flower" means a young woman. You expected me to say something, didn't you? In fact, this song is attached to the play "Hanaichi Monme" in Japan, and the content of the song metaphorically contains an expression of human trafficking.This song was transformed into Korea and transmitted.
My dads best friend was near worked to death on this railway. He survived and he found himself being nursed by my dad, his best friend. My dad said later he did not recognise him. He recognised his voice. He was a very tall , well built man. My dad stayed with him until he was shipped back home.
Your dad is a true hero.
Shipped home? Is he Australian? An ancestor of mine was also a POW in this & was one of the remaining Australians who made it home, his name was Harold Arthur De-courcy Browne
I was so pleased to hear that he at least survived and lived a reasonably long life. Truly remarkable. Wherever you are Ringer, bloody well done.
Whenever I hear a bleeding heart claim that us dropping Little Boy and Fat Man on the imperial Japanese was unnecessary and brutal, I just point said bleeding heart to the myriad examples of medieval level brutality from the imperial Japanese.
Amen. More should have been dropped on them, actually.
You know my family who lost my Uncle at the end of the war. If those bombs had been just dropped just just 2 months before he would be alive.
@@raynonabohrer5624 Sorry to hear about the loss of your uncle.
As Quint (played to perfection by the late Robert Shaw) said in "Jaws" at the end of his spellbinding speech about his personal involvement with the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, "Anyway...we delivered the bomb."
Paradoxically dropping the bombs actually saved lives when you think of the alternative. But I take your point.
My father was on the death railway and he actually witnessed the crucifixion of a man who's surname was Phelps (Indian army).
Unlike the Germans the Japanese have never atoned for their barbarity.
Well daid
I was 12 years old when my dad introduced me to a Filipino man who was a partisan. my dad said this is one of the bravest and toughest men he had the pleasure of befriending. he was captured beaten and tied to a tree beaten and bayoneted. he was saved returned to health and fought again. I will NEVER forget that man and what he did for his country.
My father in law worked on the Burma death railway. He came home a broken man and died from a tropical disease he suffered without treatment from the Japanese. The stories he told were horrific
RIP!!
It was part of my lot in life to serve as both soldier and diplomat. I was fortunate enough to be posted to Rangoon and was well aware of Japan’s military history in Burma. I knew of their behavior toward prisoners of war on the railway of death. It is one thing to read about what happened there, quite another to attend the memorial services and walk through allied military cemeteries. The number of dead young men buried there is beyond comprehension. Yes, I went to that infamous railway for a memorial service held at a bridge, along with other diplomats and military members of allied nations who will not forget this crime against humanity. While WWll is now history, this particular act of long term barbarity lives on in the hearts and minds of those who understand what happened there.
My military service as an Army Ranger compelled me to travel north to Mytchinaw to dedicate a memorial wreath for Merrill’s Marauders. The primary purpose of that trip was to return several wartime members of the American OSS to be reunited with the indigenous guerrilla forces they had trained and led against the Japanese. The war in Burma has not been forgotten and sacrifice and loss are remembered.
We remember this as well - to die in battle is one thing. Those losses are expected and a soldier takes his chances. What happened along the railway of death is a war crime vile beyond description and that atrocity will not be forgotten any time soon.
A rusty old railroad lantern found along that railroad in Burma sits on a shelf in my garage. It is not a momento or a souvenir, but a reminder both of what mankind is capable of and what he has done in the past.
I’m now 75 and will carry my Burma experiences to the grave.
God bless you and your troops, sir.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you for what you did . You saw evil. But you told us about it. Never again. We are grateful.
When will Britain get punished for enslaving and killing millions of African and Indians?
@@arny7teen I have no idea. But with a new king in the U.K. your timing is perfect. Try taking it up with him.
Thanks for this one. My grandfather worked as pow at the Burma railway and survived .to be killed in 1946 in an ambush during the Indonesian revolution. The media and the former colonial troops weren't much weren't much of a source in the Netherlands because of shame, lack of interest, there was no time for their story because the places what had seen war needed to be rebuild, and the way how Nazi's treated enemies got in general more priority. These stories (good or bad) telling for me my grandfather's story what life was and what he never could tell to my mother and me.
My Dad was in the ALL VOLUNTEER, USA army group, commonly called the Merrills Marauders. He crept through the dangerous jungles and the narrow mountain passes. A majority of these men didn't survive. They depended on the local people, who were short of food themselves, untimely airplane drops, and food they scavenged along the way.
They died from diseases, being caught and worked to death by Japanese soldiers who forced them to build a railroad system to move supplies and soldiers to bases and battlefields. The American Soldiers didn't want to get caught.
The mission was extremely dangerous. The completed the mission by blowing up a bridge in North South East Asia, a major bridge, the Japenese needed the war.
My father was a mule tender and took care of a mule. As a farm boy, who had experience raising cattle and other livestock. They took the voice box out of these animals to keep them quiet. In today's social climate this probably wouldn't be done. However, it was important to keep the Soldiers safe. Have you ever heard a mule bray?
I love reading about this part of WWll. It is not covered very much. Many people don't realize the Japanese war was as bad or worse. They put people in concentration camps, worked their prisoners to death, starved them, tortured them, and killed them after torturing them. Many Americans don't realize this. 😢
My great uncle was a POW in Thailand he managed to survive the war but he was tortured pretty badly he had scars all down his back and legs he had malaria whilst in captivity too. Many things they did to him he would never speak about I have a telegram he sent from the camp he was in to his mother (my grt grandmother). I was lucky to get to meet him he was a gentleman and loved very much. Thank you the video gave me an insight from GB.
And aware of Japan’s fanatic and barbaric behavior during the war, the decision was made to radiate Hiroshima from the air rather than invade. Makes sense to me and saved untold lives on both sides.
My father was a prisoner of war on the Burma railway, he made reference to how cruel the Japanese officers were to the Australian soldiers, with a number being be- headed for standing up to the guards.
I lost an Uncle in Philippines. At the end of the War. God he was working that morning with his tank and crew. Took out 5 Machine guns nests. He was telling his driver where to go next. And he caught a bullet in the throat. We love you and miss you Uncle Earl Roots. He already been in the military when the war started. He's working in military career. 12 years .I think?
The Yasukuni Shrine glorifies Japanese WWll actions and ignores atrocities to this very day. This part of history has been erased from the Japanese psyche. They have refused to apologise for their crimes, only a few were brought to justice. Shame on Japan.
Nobody escapes Judgement Day by the Lord God! Whatever ye shall sow,that shall ye also reap! Those Japanese guards and soldier's won't get away with anything!! And the ones that have passed on,have an eternity of torture beyond anything they could inflict on the Allies.
It doesn't glorify their actions or atrocities. It honours their war dead (including those we were allied with in WW1)
@@johnnywad7728 Why would Shintoists go to the judeo christian hell? They died in service to the Emperor, the descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu. Beliefs are dangerous, especially ones based on faith. Yours included.
@@freakystyley4000 wrong! u can believe what you like, and so will I,in the end we shall see who is correct. Just because they believed in a false religion doesn't absolve them from eternal torment in hell.
@@johnnywad7728 tHe bIbLe iS tRuE bEcAuSe iT sAyS sO iN tHe bIBlE!!!
There's a fascinating book called 'the forgotten highlander' about a scotsman who was captured in Malaysia by the Japanese, survived for 6 years, most of which he spent on the Thai/Burma railway. Its harrowing to hear his story, what a man he was.
Aaron Chadburn, I was just going to write about The forgotten Highlander... he gave me so much strength after my daughters head injury, she used to just want to run off day or night and I would run around looking for her and when I felt I could not run anymore I used to think of how strong the Highlander was and he kept going!
@@sallyblythe7936 what a story he has. I'm sorry to hear about your daughter, and I hope she has made a full recovery.
Thank you for your videos and all your research. Linda in Australia.
There is a special place in Hell for those who would do this to a fellow human being. Hopefully Justice was served upon them.
Unfortunately nothing happened to most of perpetrators.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem much more justified now...
@@WSmogpule I think that every time I see something bad happening going on in the country, even if it's wrong.
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They were a good start, that's for sure.
Why would Shintoists go to the judeo christian hell? They died in service to the Emperor, the descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu. Beliefs are dangerous, especially ones based on faith.
My great uncle was captured by the Japanese at Bataan and survived the death March. He was taken to Japan and was working 700ft below ground in a coal mine 12 miles from Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. All prisoners were to be executed by the Japanese but were left on their own and abandoned. I have no Sympathy for the Japanese. I saw what it did to him mentally and physically
You saw what soldiers 2 generations ago did to him. It's hard to feel that, though, I get it. But that's like the Vietnamese blaming all Americans now for Mai Lai. That said, the brutality of the Japanese soldiers during the war was horrific.
Alot of people here who had loved ones who were in burma and payed there respects mentioning them here in the comments, is a beautiful thing to see, my grandad who died 10 years ago age 83 name, sean van wunnik, a dutch navy soldier in the line of duty, his ship was shot down by a torpedo and sunk and abanded ship. He and about a 100 other soldiers were waiting to be picked up in shark infested waters, what an ordeal that must have been.. to be eventualy picked up by the japanese and put to labor at the burma railway for about 2 years.I know this because he told me his story himself..
I have a picture of him with the same quality as the pictures shown in this video but upclose so you can see him properly. For some reason i was looking at the pictures in the video to see if maybe i could get a glimpse of him. Much respect for everyone who had a loved one in burma x
I always learn so much from your YT channel and am always looking forward to your uploads. Keep them coming!
My uncle William worked on that railway, when he came home he was white haired, he could never eat a full normal dinner, he would never talk about what happened, he died in his 60s of stomach cancer.
His Will to Live was Incredible!! RIP
Never heard of this. Thankyou for getting the story out there
Great content
Thank you for this. The horrific fate of POW's is still a huge problem. Imagine how will the next wars POW's will be treated. Bye the millions.
Thank you for your history lessons.
Good morning, and Thank You! I really Appreciate these videos! I'm learning so much! Rest In Peace to All of the Innocent Victims 🕊️💔💔🙏💔🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Best thing this Country ever did to Japan was drop those bombs, the Japanese continue to blame the Chinese for their treatment of the so called " comfort women" but , have failed miserably to address what their Soldiers did to the prisons of war....cruelty doesn't begin to show their actions!!
Thank you for this informative video, my great uncle died on the Burma Railway as a POW, I can’t imagine what he must have gone through.
Be grateful you cannot imagine it. Your life would be changed forever. You would likely need psychiatric care and may experience an early death from the burden you would carry to your grave.
I remember a local villager who survived in a Japanese prison camp, he maintained and sold cars for a living, he would never accept a vehicle made in Japan in his garage, another local that I knew as a young man would never allow you to say the name Japan or mention what happened to him during the second world war, I never understood their hatred, but then I was never a prisoner on the Burma railways
my uncle JOHN SHAW died on the burmah road, i never met him, so this is what it was like, nothing but cruelty, i feel worse now i know what he probably had to deal with every day.
John Shaw. Never forget!
R.I.P John Shaw, thank you for your sacrifice.
I’m sorry for your uncle mate really really sorry that sucks so bad
John Shaw. Never forget
I’m so sorry, what a awful thing to know. This was as cruel as it can get..💔💔
My uncle who I believe was in the Royal Norfolks was captured and mistreated by the Japanese, he walked with a limp due to beatings and had a large scar on his jaw due to being struck, he was a kind man and luckily had a good life but died far to early again I think because of the treatment he had received.
cheer up 2 nukes later they are your vassal slave
Because of reports like this and many others, I feel no sympathy or compassion for the dropping of the A bombs.
I have to agree. Both sides, the Allies and the Axis powers committed atrocities, but the Japanese of that time we're in a class by themselves. I had the privilege of meeting former Marines who fought in the Pacific, still despised the Japanese, and said they were " not human". It was estimated that if we had to invade Japan's home islands, we would have lost at least a million men.
BBB[OOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
@@susandalton7889 I agree,my uncle Gene Quick,army const,heavy equipment operator, came back with malaria, at 19, hated the Japanese till the day he died, because of the things he saw in the pacific, would never talk about it,very much.it seems like all the veterans of that time were like that. I don't think the young people of today,really understand what they went thru for us. May they rest in peace.
Should've dropped more not like Japan even recognizes it's wrongdoings today.
Both of my Grandfathers fought in WW2 one on both fronts. The one on the eastern front died of alcoholism due to his ptsd self medicating from all the atrocities he witnessed done by Japan.
An amazing story, True Heroes.. not someone who kicks a ball for Millions of dollars!
Without these Warriors this there would be no Free World as we know it today..
Thanks. Ive heard hundreds of brutality stories but I still find every new one astonishing. Why would otherwise decent people do this?? Btw, Mark Felton made a great documentary explaining Japanese brutality in particular. So, so sad. 😖
How can people be so CRUEL 😡
I guess this is where Nevil Shute got his ideas for his excellent novel A town like Alice. Thanks for yet another fascinating but macabre video
My father was a gunner as one of the thousands of British army soldiers and Australians who were the largest faction of slave labour on the Burma Death Railway. That’s not to forget the Dutch soldiers and the hundred or so thousands of native families who were also lured to work there by a false promise of good working conditions. A soldier unlucky enough to be in the middle of the jungle on this railway had chances of survival which were seriously reduced compared with those at the lower camps. I once asked my Dad why the Red Cross didn’t get to him in that dense and dangerous jungle and he answered that it was a place where there were no roads while the 400km+ of railway was being built. The prisoners had had to walk from camp to camp. Hence, no outside agency could report on the cruelty and starvation that they were suffering. Also it was here that disease was the worst and so was the treatment by the Japanese and Korean guards. Dad knew of these comparisons because he had also spent a little amount of time in the lower camps too.
I know it is an old comment, but my grandfather was there too. There where also allied bombings on the railroad even though allied pow's were forced to work on it, so that was added to this horrific situation. Just imagine getting there by,what they called, the "hell ships". Who were also bombed even though there were allied pow's on board.
Japan earned the nukes.
My thoughts exactly imagine if Japan had the capability to drop nukes. I really don't think we would be here right now.
I've watched A town like Alice a few times , my Father was in Burma , l thank God he was never captured. Ringa Edwards was a tough and brave man .
Lovely shows mate keep it up mate 👍😀
This is very Sad.All those poor prisoner's.The Japanese military had a Very cruel Streak in them..🇬🇧
Cruel streak? They were fucking SAVAGES!
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They were subhuman vermin.
I really love and appreciate these historical videos .It 's like going back in time
My father's brother died on the railway buried at kanchanaburi was in 2/30th battalion r.i.p.
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This is where Nevil Shute got the idea for his book "A town like Alice."
I loved the film..
yes we know he just told us.
Now the Japanese live in little apartments wear hoodies with animal ears and hello kitty back packs. Good call Harry Truman.
It's almost unfathomable.
I just wanted to say I love your channel. I am fascinated by ww2 and have read up, I thought, about almost everything. Some of these stories are fresh as they aren't covered for some reason. Can you please do a longer video on the original "inglorious bastards". The Jewish brigade book is so insightful, I'd love to hear your take on it.
Yes!
The channel is extremely thorough. The history is spot on but my goodness the narration is annoying. At the end of every sentence it's like he's speaking the form of a question.
That was the most awful WWII Japanese prisoner story I have ever heard. Thank you...
The pig basket atrocity is also diabolically awful.
Why has this not be told? Unbelievable Japanese sadism. German atrocities are routinely and specifically described!
They have to magnify German atrocities, so that no one will stop to think about the fact that the Americans, British and Russians did just as much and more. The only reason the Germans are the bad guys is because they lost.
The Japanese have erased history. But we won’t forget.
My late mother had a dentist in the 50s who suffered constant pain and had horrific scarring from being tortured by his Japanese guards in Burma. The atomic bombing was barbaric but it ended a horrific regime that had to be stopped.
I visited hellfire pass back in 2022 it sent a shiver thru me and I touched the wall of the cutting and said " you poor bastards we will never forget your suffering and sacrifice'" as an aussie I had not heard of Ringers story I will go rewatch a town like Alice now
Thankyou very much for this
I served in the RAF for ten years from 1970 to 80, yep I'm 69 now but it does not seem so long ago, at least, not to me. Many of the Chaps I served with were a lot older than I and as young men they had gone through things like 'Burma, Singapore, Hong Kong. I can tell you there was not one single one of them who did not have an unbelievably strong hatred for the Japanese. The tales I heard were so horrendous. It was said, one man died for every sleeper laid on that railway. It wassaid, the NAZI's were bad but it was just a job to most of them. A huge majority of Japanese soldiers however, seemed to sadistically enjoy what they did. RIP to Ringer and all those other poor souls.
My grandfather was a fepow and survived , he spent the rest of his life suffering with trauma , he now lays in a communal Paupers grave with no headstone , I am not allowed to give him a headstone , in the U.K. he is not entitled to a military headstone with the commonwealth war graves because he survived ,
I'm an Aussie, there was worse than this done to our men, we will never forget.
My cousins pop was a POW at Burma. There was a knock at the door to tell his wife he was killed in action. That night he stood at the foot of his wife’s bed and said. Grace I’m alive and I will be home. True blue. 🇦🇺👍
My uncle was captured in the downfall of Singapore and forced to work on the Burma railway. He survived but according to my dad never spoke of his ordeal. He died aged 46 in the early 60's before I was born, as a direct result of his treatment in the camps. My mother would never watch the Japanese game shows that were popular on television in later years, as she said it just proved that, as a race, they were inherently cruel.
I wonder if all 'humans' have souls
A town like Alice is a brilliant movie about the Australian and British POWs of the Japanese and has a crucifixion scene.
TV’s Dan Snow, for example, maybe thinks he’s a historian who has reported on the Fall of Singapore where the British and Australian soldiers were taken prisoner. Like many others who report this defeat, there are aspects of the full true story that are never included in their reports.
I have the feeling that each successive reporter reads or watches reports that a previous reporter has completed and then re hashes it for his/her own reports about the Fall of Singapore. I have NEVER heard an “expert” investigate or report on the fact that Singapore was not captured by Japanese soldiers on bicycles alone. There WERE tanks and aeroplanes. I have NEVER heard an expert tell of the visit to Singapore by General Wavell, as a man who, in truth, famously promised the fighting Brits and Aussie soldiers there, that reinforcements were on their way to give support and said “The skies of Singapore will be dark with planes”. Then after his speech, hopped onto a plane and left. In fact the promised Allied planes never arrived because Winston Churchill had diverted them to fight the war in Europe. Singapore was sacrificed in favour of Europe. Of course this is never mentioned by the reporters. But any squaddie soldier who heard the speech in Singapore could have related this truth. If any one of those reporters had bothered to ask, the world could have learned a bit more of the truth of why Singapore fell. The head of the Singapore defence force, General Percival, to my mind, has been maligned by history accounts, as a poor leader but one should be asking if this is so, why did Churchill allow him his knighthood after the end of WW2? Even worse, the captured soldiers were treated badly and a great many of them were sent to build the Thai Burma Death Railway. The cruelty there compares with anything (and I mean anything) that you will ever read. Starvation, disease, torture, executions, loss of clothing, no protection from a burning hot sun or the dreaded monsoons. No letters from home and families at home not knowing if their sons, brothers, uncles or husbands were even alive. If anyone wants to see or hear a vivid and true depiction of the effect of the sacrificing of Singapore and how it affected the life and death of the enslaved survivors of Singapore after their transportation to the jungle of the Death Railway, there is no better authority on the matter than Rod Beattie. He gives an interesting insight to the conditions there in his videos and talks of the camps such as those at Kinsayok and Hellfire Pass. So to the reporters I say, if you want the real story, read the accounts of the ordinary base line soldiers, who were not invited to write the official government reports, but each had a story to tell. Then you might come across some corking accounts of sacrifice, honour, bravery and humanity. You would certainly read something you didn’t previously know. LIKE MANY MANY OTHERS, THE MEN WHO WERE ENSLAVED THERE ARE NOT FORGOTTEN BY THEIR FAMILIES. WE KNOW WHAT THOSE MEN ENDURED AND THEY DESERVE TO BE BETTER ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE WORLD. TILL THEN, I’LL SAY WITH PRIDE, MY FATHER WAS THERE.
So sad ...
Sadly,the Japanese were so cruel and treated their captives brutally-hard to believe when we see the Japanese so gracious in today’s world! The tragedy of war!
GREAT JOB!!!
So much research, editing and voice work.
Thank YOU sir.
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It’s amazing how uncivilized these people were. And it wasn’t even 100 years ago. Human evolution had a lot of catching up to do in that part of the world.
Primal
The part I can't get my head round is Japan had a civilization 2-3 thousand years ago while all good wetsterners were living in caves
People are still like this on the planet 🌎
They're the same people now. Same for the Germans, Russians, all of us the same.
@@johnf8064It’s cultural. The Japanese have come a long way bcuz of US intervention. The Germans have had a complete revolution through denazification. The Russians are still held down by an oppressive government that shields them from the main stream so they are still a bit primitive
My man seems to think that the Japanese are higher than Gods . Really. Tell that to the families of the Burmese , Thai ,Aussie , New Zealand ,British, Irish. Netherland , Canadian , USA citizen , and Indian ( and out of the whole lot of suffering people these suffered the most , eaten alive ) that they are better than gods . They are only human . And when they made mistakes . DID THEY MAKE THEM. .And up to this day unlike the German people no public apology as been made by Japan.
My great grandfather survived this, his shirt and hat still lives in the Australian war memorial
What a hero God bless him. 🇭🇲
Lady I was talking to told me her brother and a few others got rescued they got all guards and locked them in the hell holes in the ground that had been used on them...to 🥵 bake...
Thank you
you can just imagine the revenge taken by the allied liberators, stuff we'll never hear about, I'll bet there was a lot of war crime level retribution, same in Europe at the death camps, I imagine the allies committed their share of gruesome revenge, understandable when you think of these soldiers finding their fellow soldiers tortured and abused, human nature for a war addled mind to do stuff they would never even think about in their peacetime life, you can bet there was some ugly revenge exacted on the camp guards and others unfortunate enough to be caught. a lot of stories that went untold and taken to the grave by old soldiers, RIP
If the dead could talk
We would here the unthinkable
There is nothing to regret about any retribution carried out. Although I appreciate your sentiment. My great-uncle Tommy ( Sparrow Force, Portuguese Timor, a ‘ stay-behind ‘ guerrilla unit ) was captured, suffering both immeasurably, and witnessing acts of such extraordinary violence ( including that which was committed against both indigenous and western women ) that I cannot detail them here. In 1945 he had to spend almost six months in hospitalization in order to recover. Please do not be overly sentimental or regretful about the shooting or bayoneting of captured IJA ‘ soldiers ‘. It was infinitely less gruesome than what was visited upon the victims of those ‘ men ‘.
@@matthewwhitton5720 You read me wrong sir, I was not being sentimental, I was just commenting on what it must have been like for the allied liberators, basically a bunch of just out of school boys, suddenly confronted with what had been done to the captives, I was a soldier once, never had to face something like this, but I can well understand the anger that these men must have felt, I'd probably have gone on a killing spree myself. I'm sure a blind eye was turned by many higher-ups as to the type of revenge these guys meted out, wouldn't judge them at all. I do understand a soldiers mind
This and many comments are an understatement of Japanese brutality which many times even went beyond what the Germans did. To get a full picture of what the Japanese did, read „Hidden Horrors“ by the Japanese historian Yuki Tanaka. The Japanese were not victims, they were unbelievable criminals. Truman was against the bomb but Suzuki left him no choice in the matter. Of course, Europeans know very little about the war in the Pacific , but consider themselves specialists, especially the Germans for the simple reason as to bring Truman and Churchill down to the level of Nazi war criminals.
The Germans did exactly nothing during the war that the Russians hadn't already been doing, and that America and Britain didn't do as well. The only reason the Germans are the bad guys is because they lost, and that's the long and the short of it. General Curtis LeMay said after the war that it was a good thing they won, because they would have all been hanged as war criminals for what they had done.
They also committed canibleisum cooking and eating POWS
my grandfather was caputred and tortured. he died in imprison. he was a big stocky man. whan he died he was all skin andbones.
Ahh, nice to have some Aussie content, albeit grisly and horrible subject matter. Cheers, cobber. 🇦🇺🍺
Good Lord, how he survived was a miracle. I cannot understand the terrible brutality of humans against other humans. They will have a special place in hell.
The Aussie cattlemen and sheep farmers made incredible soldiers. They were made of something else those guys
I've never seen a reasonable explanation for not having burned the entirety of the Japan until it was all a moonscape, then turning it into the worlds largest golf course.
Have a look at it now, it's a great place
It doesn't answer the question: were any of the Japanese held accountable and tried for war crimes?
My great granddad was a pow and was part of the Thai/burma railway and was in F-force one of the few that survived. If anyone can point me in the right direction where to research into it more I’d appreciate it.
Only two nukes? Not nearly enough.
Narrator you said they "cast a shadow of their former selves". That is not correct! They NO LONGER cast a shadow of their former selves!
You should do a video about the imperial Japanese army's rules on cannibalism
Nice one 👍 thanks another face I didn't know,another face I have never seen,but if it happened a slightly different way,well 🇩🇪 might have won the day,and I might not be ere today,never forget
Horrific!
At 5:46 in, the etching -does anyone know why the man has been crucified with an umbrella in his hand?
Japan got off easy in WWII.
Both my pops caught the Japanese. One army and one Air Force. Two very different wars they had.
That is to see in the Movie To End all Wars.
The Japanese have much to answer for
The-phrase that to “the Japanese, participating in the war, have much to answer for.” Can’t blame the current generation of Japanese.
Whether this line was used for passenger service?
This guy was similar to a character in the film "A Town Like Alice"
,Having scrolled though what must have been far more than a couple of hundred comments it's interesting there are none posted in Japanese.
I wonder way?
The Japanese Military had NO REGARD FOR THE GENEVA CONVENTION! So JUCK FAPAN!
Read also :
" PRISONER ON THE KWAI "
by Basil Peacock
printed by William Blackwood & Sons Ltd .
Edinburgh and London
1966
My father in law was a Japanese POW 4.5 years 1:21
"Killed by a ..... A Frust Frough the Froat"..... Awful !!
I took my wife’s family on a pontoon boat ride one was her mom’s stepbrother I just got back from a visit to New York and Got to see the museum ship Intrepid in New York Harbor ask this gentleman if ever seen the ship intrepid he said seen it hell I seem to get hit by Kamikazee a few yards away away what do you say to men like this her uncle was sitting there also he didn’t say a word he had seen a lot of action in the Pacific one brother of my wife’s mom was in the battle of the bulge never was the same my wife’s granddad was in world war one these were men so was the man that wouldn’t die from crucifixion may they all rest in peace !!!!! If it was not for them we would be speaking German or Japanese here in the US hundreds of thousands died yet The teachers will not teach this or the aggression other countries put up on the world
Please use punctuation marks in comments, makes it so much easier to read.
@@mariacompton1416 No thanks
I hope everyone sees this
I read there were 6900 British and Indians died on the railway. Do you know how many Indians were killed?
As a Korean, the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army is not so shocking. Many Koreans and Chinese were "rape" and killed, and taken to slavery. Our ancestors were deprived of their names, alphabets and languages. The greatest poet became the MARUTA of Unit 731, and the female college student who led the nonviolent peace demonstration was raped and tortured to death in prison. All these things are not yet more than a hundred years old.Perhaps for Koreans and Chinese, the video is not very shocking or surprising. Now, the Japanese government does not 'officially' recognize Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, even reducing and covering up and delivering it to its students. If anyone has heard the song "Flower" by BLACKPINK Jisoo, there is a very interesting story. Ji-Soo's new song is a remake of a very old folk song, and the lyrics say, "Why did you come to my house?~ I came to find flowers." Here, "flower" means a young woman. You expected me to say something, didn't you? In fact, this song is attached to the play "Hanaichi Monme" in Japan, and the content of the song metaphorically contains an expression of human trafficking.This song was transformed into Korea and transmitted.
See the film The Highest Honor
What about Coolies of Westem America?