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Philip  • 6 days ago  


Dennis Halpin, THANK YOU, sir, for writing this. It seems to me because we consider Japan to be our allie now, while China as an adversary, we are shying away from calling out Japan for its revisionist views. However, by doing so we are allowing our national conscience to be compromised while losing the moral leadership of the free world. Asian countries (and the world) will no longer see the U. S. as a steadfast leader, but just a greed merchant who sides with whoever is beneficial at the time. While I greatly respect and admire Douglas MacArthur, in his drive to check the communist and revitalize Japan, he made a grave mistake some 70 years ago by giving a blanket amnesty to Japan's royal family and reducing/minimizing the criminals brought to justice by the IMTFE.

jmjoker > Philip  • 6 days ago  

we've been supporting Japan's lies since the end of the war because of our "national interest" in making Japan an ally first against communism and now against China

scottindallas > Philip  • 6 days ago  


the ignorant author is the revisionist. The US embargo of Japaneses 
oil, an act of war by the way, means the Pearl Harbor attack cannot be 
deemed "unprovoked" Indeed, the Jurists on the Asian equivalent of the 
Nuremberg tribunals found Japan justified in attacking at Pearl Harbor, 
sorry. And, it's notable that none of our carriers or latest ships 
were in Hawaii that day. We fight against Japan was indeed to protect 
Western Colonialism in the Pacific.

mike no > scottindallas  • 6 days ago  

You are not very educated on International Trade, Laws, Treaties or history. I do not want to call you ignorant as you call others. You gotta be Japanese to make the remarks you make, no body with any kind of education would say what you say. First off, the embargo of oil is any nations option. No country can make another country sell them anything. I feel like I am talking to a 8 year old. A act of war for not selling oil or steel to a foreign nation? Are the remarks you make serious?

PoliticallyIncorrect > mike no  • 5 days ago  

You are completely ignorant, believing the lies the ZOG feeds you. Good goy, Mike, I hope you remember this and you're proud to bear the brand of the mark of the beast the day the synagogue of Satan declares the NWO's global supremacy. 

RisingSun > mike no  • a day ago  

Just think who owned those oil fields back then. You can start from there.

mike no > RisingSun  • 17 hours ago  


Which oil fields, the ones in the US were owned by Americans.The US was a exporter of oil in those days. We also exported stell in those days and this was something Japan did not have also. Japan owned neither, just as today.

RisingSun > mike no  • 7 hours ago  


Japan wasn't simply fighting with the US. The US, UK and Netherland (which had oil fields in Indonesia) was adopting bloc economy to cope with the Great Depressions and the trade embargo, like Glass-Steagall Act, was implemented to segregate Japan from doing business with anyone.

Hull Note was issued in 1937, and Roosevelt made the speech to segregate Japan in the same year. The export of Iron and Steel was restricted in July 1940, and oil and oil products in August. The Pearl Harbar wasn't really the begining of the war of Pacific.

PoliticallyIncorrect > scottindallas  • 5 days ago  


The Japanese museum holds the most truthful view of history.
I mean, the evil imperial Japanese occupation was so brutal, 
look what they did to Korea in only 40 years! 
http://www.geocities.jp/dineto...

That's right, they took it from a Sub-sahran Africa tier society, to a modern nation! The fiends! How dare they threaten Western / Zionist global hegemony! That was Japan's crime. Because when Soviet Russia (firmly under Zionist control) invaded China and annexed Outer Manchuria (which it still holds to this very day as part of the Russian Far East), but there was no international outrage or backlash.
Red China and Korea have reason to deflect hatred towards Japan, but what about the Chinese nationalists of Taiwan? Taiwan was actually quite uplifted by Japanese rule, and the Taiwanese today still reminisce fondly on that period. The reality is, "Japanese occupation" wasn't brutal at all, and in fact was the best thing that ever happened to Korea and Taiwan.

It's time for the world to wake up. There was no "surprise attack on Pearl Harbor". The attack was deliberately provoked and eagerly anticipated to swing public opinion in favor of the war against the will of the American public. You see, the American leaders and indeed, all allied leaders, fought not for freedom, but for greed. They held the Zionist globalist international bankers' interests above the best interests, and indeed, above the very lives of their own people, and conspired to further their Zionist overlords' agenda above all else to reap the handsome rewards. That's right the real purpose of WW2 was to legitimize Israel and establish more Zionist central banks throughout the world. Gentile blood to fuel Zionist greed.

I urge everyone to familiarize themselves with this:

   
http://madmonarchist.blogspot....
http://madmonarchist.blogspot....

The fact is, the Zionists continue to manipulate and control the 'leaders' of the world, and we continue to fight more wars almost exclusively on their behalf, simply for installing Zionist central banks and cementing Zionist control worldwide.

Reality Check > PoliticallyIncorrect  • 3 days ago   


"The Japanese museum holds the most truthful view of history." 
That is buIIshit. They are obviously liars. 


"Taiwan was actually quite uplifted by Japanese rule." 
That is B.S. too. When Taiwan was conceded to Japan, Taiwanese rebellion was widespread, 16% of the population was lost in the resistance movements, that is more than twice the percentage of what China suffered as a whole, in WW II.

They did find the faults, crimes committed by the Western Zionists, that was why after WW II, most of the colonies began to gain independence, worldwide, except there were a few left, like Vietnam under France, Hong Kong under the UK.

U.S. Should Be Appalled by Japan's Historical Revisionism

U.S. Should Be Appalled by Japan's Historical Revisionism

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-should-be-appalled-by-japans-historical-revisionism-12381

 

If Imperial Japan was the victim in WWII, than Harry Truman, not Hideki Tojo, must be the war criminal.

Dennis P. Halpin 

March 9, 2015

In a late January address to Parliament, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe directly entered the fray in Tokyo’s accelerated attempts to rewrite World War II history.

As the New York Times reported at the time, in the speech Mr. Abe vowed “to step up efforts to fight what he called mistaken views abroad concerning Japan’s wartime actions [4].”

The prime minister was referring specifically to references to Comfort Women in a McGraw Hill-published textbook used in some California high schools. However, while Japan’s historic revisionism may begin with the Comfort Women and the Nanking Massacre, it ends with President Truman and the atomic bomb. If Japan is the victim in the Pacific War, Tokyo would have it, then America must be the aggressor and Harry Truman, not Hideki Tojo, the war criminal.

(Recommended: Japan's Master Plan to Defeat China in a War [5])

Those who argue that the United States should have little interest in the current debate raging over the historic legacy of the Second World War in Asia need to think again. First and foremost, the Pacific War, which ended 70 years ago this coming summer, was very much America’s war too.

While the Second World War had raging in both Asia and Europe for years, it began for the United States on December 7, 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Following the surprise attack, America declared war on Imperial Japan, NOT Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy. The recent movie “Unbroken” is a chilling reminder of what that declaration of war meant for America’s Greatest Generation.    

(Recommended: Sorry, China: Japan Has the Better Claim over the Senkakus [6])

Tokyo’s revisionist logic is centered on the premise of Japan being victimized by the Allied powers, most notably in the fire bombings of Tokyo and the devastating atomic bombings of the of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which resulted in thousands of civilian casualties.

This revisionist narrative is laid out in detail at the Yushukan museum in Tokyo next to the Yasukuni war shrine. The logic is as follows: Imperial Japan waged the Great East Asia War (Daitowa Senso) in an effort to liberate the Asian peoples from the yoke of Western Imperialism. The “selfless goal” was to bring the enlightened modernization of Meiji Japan to hopelessly backward Asian brothers and sisters.  

The Yushukan museum claims that U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt sought to halt this crusade of “Asia for Asians” by imposing an oil embargo that aimed to cripple Tokyo’s war-making capacity. According to the narrative, then, Japan had no choice but to respond to Roosevelt’s interference by attacking the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.

The unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor was the greatest such attack on American soil before 9/11. Notably, the Pearl Harbor attack also had civilian casualties, including a seven month-old infant.

(Recommended: Five Ways Japan Could Have Won World War II [7])

In truth, Pearl Harbor likely had more to do with Japan signing the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in Berlin on September 27, 1940 than with FDR’s oil embargo. Even the bravado of Japanese militarists would likely have been tempered by the sobering thought of taking on the industrial might of the United States all alone.

When the decision to attack Pearl Harbor was reached in the fall of 1941, Nazi troops were engaged in a full-scale invasion of the Soviet Union. It looked as though the Allies would be preoccupied with stopping the Nazi blitzkrieg, leaving Tokyo a free hand in Asia. Hitler’s troops reached the outskirts of Moscow before a Soviet counterattack on December 5, 1941 – a mere forty-eight hours before Pearl Harbor. As Japanese bombs fell in the Pacific, the Red Army and a ferocious Russian winter combined to begin to turn the tide against Hitler in Europe. Still, Hitler and Mussolini, foolishly in retrospect, honored their treaty commitment to Tokyo by declaring war on the United States in response to Congress declaring war on Japan.

Unlike in Europe, history revisionists in Tokyo are not limited to isolated neo-Nazis and skinheads. Rather they include respected figures in Japanese society, including politicians and journalists. The crimes committed during the Pacific War which these Japanese opinion leaders now deny are critical to the judgment of history. While the overwhelming majority of the victims in the Nanking massacre, the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore, the sacking of Manila, Tokyo’s slave labor system, Unit 731’s bio-chemical experiments in Manchuria, and the Comfort Women stations, were Asians, rather than Americans or Europeans, these atrocities join other Axis war crimes and crimes against humanity as a major rationale for post-war international tribunals, including Nuremberg.

(Recommended: Germany's New Confrontation with the Holocaust [8])

(The torture of POW slave laborers, as chronicled in “Unbroken,” along with the Bataan Death March and Siam-Burma Railway laborer abuse, was directed primarily against Caucasians and African-Americans. One sobering statistic [9]: “Overall, an estimated 40 percent of U.S. Army and Air Force POWs died while in Japanese captivity, compared to 1.2 percent in German and Italian custody.” The bushido militarist culture in Imperial Japan preached that any soldier who surrendered rather than dying in battle was below contempt.)

The continued validation of crimes committed by Imperial Japan during the war, thus, remains essential if the Allied narrative of repelling a war of aggression is to prevail. The structure of the United Nations itself, whose five permanent Security Council members are WWII’s victorious powers, is premised upon this. Remaining silent in the face of Japanese denials of Comfort Women or the Nanking Massacre could ultimately undermine the whole rationale for the post-war international system.    

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) was convened in Tokyo to try Japanese leaders— including Hideki Tojo, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack— as war criminals. The IMTFE, however, is widely dismissed in Japan as “victor’s justice.” Many argue that those who were tried were only performing their patriotic duty to the Emperor, whose role in the war was never officially examined. Many also contend that the Allies sitting in judgment had committed far greater war crimes on a helpless Japan, including, as noted previously, the firebombing of Tokyo and the dropping of the atom bombs.

In his excellent book, Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan [10], Ian Buruma points out that when the United Nations convened a Conference on Disarmament in Hiroshima in July 1992, “all went well” until an American Harvard professor spoke. Buruma records how the professor presented the Greatest Generation’s explanation for the atomic bombing by stating that “it ended World War II and saved a million Japanese lives.” Buruma records that the professor’s statements caused “outrage” among the Japanese public and that the Asahi Shimbun opined that unless the United States [11] “disentangled itself from this kind of view” it would face opposition from non-nuclear countries.

Yet without this explanation, the use of atomic bombs on two cities filled with civilians is horrific and unjustifiable. War correspondent John Hersey’s compelling book Hiroshima, written in the immediate aftermath of the attack, with its graphic description of melted eyeballs and the shadow of a vaporized victim burned into a tile wall, would stir any person’s conscience. Japanese people cannot be criticized for reacting with horror, especially since their textbooks and educational system reportedly gloss over the war crimes Imperial Japan committed before the atomic bombings.

If the Nanking Massacre “never happened,” as NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Governor Naoki Hyakuta declared in February [12] of last year, then there is no problem with going to Yasukuni Shrine to honor the spirit tablet of General Iwane Matsui, who commanded the Shanghai Expeditionary Force (SEF) in the assault on Nanking in 1937-38 and was sentenced to death by the IMTFE. However, if, as documented by the IMTFE, at least 200,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed in the massacre, then honoring the memory of Matsui is the equivalent of honoring Adolf Eichmann, who was convicted of murdering 437,000 Hungarian Jews.

Both the Obama administration and Congress should be concerned that, by losing control of the World War II historic narrative, they could pave the way to the ultimate determination that President Harry S. Truman was the real war criminal in WWII. Without the crimes against peace chronicled by the IMTFE, there is little moral justification for the atomic bombings beyond the “they saved lives” narrative (which is largely dismissed in Japan).

One reportedly popular narrative in Japan is that Harry Truman and his advisors were white racists determined to use the ultimate weapon on an Asian people to demonstrate to the Soviet Union the horror of a nuclear holocaust. (This ignores the fact that the bomb was developed to be used against the Nazis, who were busy trying to perfect their own atomic weapon. The plan changed when Nazi Germany surrendered and Imperial Japan kept fighting.)  

Those who advocate expressing remorse for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, such as Nancy Pelosi— who placed flowers at the Hiroshima bombing site when she was House Speaker in 2008— should be aware that such gestures will be misrepresented by the revisionist right in Japan to paint Truman as a war criminal.

And such gestures, without some reciprocal official gesture of remorse from Tokyo over the attack on Pearl Harbor, would not only undermine American prestige in Asian countries victimized by Imperial Japan, but would also jeopardize the whole Allied justification for the war. Furthermore, such a one-way American apology would disturb the spirits of the 1,102 sailors and marines enshrined forever in a watery grave in the hull of the USS Arizona at the bottom of Pearl Harbor.  

Dennis Halpin, a former advisor on Asian issues to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is currently a visiting scholar at the US-Korea Institute at SAIS (Johns Hopkins) and a consultant to the Poblete Analysis Group (PAG).