We should, when they apologize for starting the f-ing war, or apologize to China for the rape camps they set up:
“An estimated one hundred thousand to four hundred thousand female sex slaves were forced to deliver sexual services to Japanese soldiers, both before and during World War II. They have been variously called “comfort women,” “military sex slaves,” “MSS,” “military comfort women,” and – in Japanese – “jugun ianfu.” This program was approved by the Imperial Conference, which was composed of the emperor, representatives from the armed forces and the main Cabinet ministers. The conference was formed after Japan invaded Manchuria in 1937.”
Etc, etc. I think we should also apologize for then making them an economic super power and covering all their defense needs since that time…sarcasm intended…
Atomic Apology? U.S. to Send First Delegation to Hiroshima A-Bomb Memorial
Published August 04, 2010
Associated Press
TOKYO
TOKYO (AP) — Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are welcoming a decision by the United States to send its first ever delegation to a ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks, but are asking for something they aren’t likely to get — an apology.
We enforced a naval blockade of Japan prior to Pearl Harbor effectively cutting off their oil supply. We weren’t wearing a white hat and neither were they.
Thus preventing them from waging effective war on other countries. We didn’t just wake up one day and decide to screw with Japan. They started their war of aggression in 1933.
If they were not waging war in China, Manchuria, etc. we’d have continued to sell them steel.
Thank you. And it was Japan who walked out on the League of Nations and the path to peaceful resolution.
And I’m not even gonna hold my breath waiting for an apology. I’d be happy if they’d simply acknowledge Nanking, Pearl Harbor and Unit 731.
I can’t tell you the number of people I have met who grew up in Japan with no knowledge of any of it. They think China and Manchuria forced them into war in the 1930s and we simply joined in without cause and then dropped atom bombs on them.
1931 actually. Many consider the official start of WWII Sept 1, 1939 with the German invasion of Poland but I always think of Sept 18, 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria.
Because they were barbarians, and treated people in a sub-human nature.
The things they did to people easily ranks up there are some of the most disgusting and horrible acts ever committed by man. It wasn’t just isolated incidents either. This behavior came from the top down, and was standard procedure. Things like shoving bamboo shoots into women via their vaginas, mass murder of kids (and many others), gang raping woman of ALL ages from little kids to grandmas, beheading contests, etc. There is a lot more they did if you care to read up on it including the mass human torture and testing by 731.
If you want to draw some moral equivalency to Japan and US during the 30’s and 40’s your understanding of history is sorely lacking. We put them into camps during the war where they were treated fairly good. The Japanese created rape camps.
IMO they got off easy. Too bad we didn’t have enough nukes at the time to wipe out many more of their cities. Id rather have been a Jew in Germany than a Chinese woman in Nanking or American POW taken to 731.
I’m going to get shit for it, but how was the use of nuclear weapons against the japanese any different than the use of gas against the kurds? We targeted woman in children of our enemy, the same thing saddam did. People wear blinders when it comes to their team, but right is right, wrong is wrong. The targeting of a civilian population is in the wrong. Killing woman and children is… wrong. So to target a group of woman and children and to blow them to shit is wrong. It was wrong in 1945, and still is wrong in 2010.
