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I'd just like to add another data point. As an American, I don't recall ever being taught anything in school about the atrocities Japan committed on the Chinese
by nogridbag 11y ago
I'd just like to add another data point. As an American, I don't recall ever being taught anything in school about the atrocities Japan committed on the Chinese, etc. Perhaps I was just a poor student :) but it obviously was not a main focus. It wasn't until I met my wife who is Chinese that I learned about this and she could not believe I didn't know about it. Of course it's a big part of the history education there and why many Chinese still hold strong grudges towards Japanese.
- sitkack 11y agoBecause General Douglas MacArthur granted the Japanese who participated in human biological experiments pardons to get their cooperation in collecting the research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii But none of this makes justifying the murder of Japanese civilians ok, esp after the fact.
- nogridbag 11y agoWow, that's probably the first wikipedia page I've ever had to close because I simply could not handle reading it...
- onnoonno 11y agoAnother data point from Germany: I remember being taught (sometime during the 1990s) about atrocities committed by the Japanese during WW2 in history lessons in school. (Obviously, there was a lot more about the atrocities by the Germans)