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No.405322
Blaming the Japanese people or wanting even more war dead is childish and unnecessary. The massacre at Nanjing happened within the first year of the war, but the war dragged on for 7 more years. Even the KMT, that group of incompetents, never gave up. The Nanjing massacre actually helped the Chinese war effort by hardening Chinese resolve to never surrender. Much worse than Nanjing in total was the brutality of Japanese occupation. But there's no reason why Chinese and Japanese can't be friends in the future. For most of recorded history, China and Japan have been at peace and never sought to fight with each other.
t. chinaman
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No.405332
>>405318This looks dope, ty based anon
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No.405430
>>405322I realize. I don't actually think that Japan should have been bombed to oblivion, but when reading about all the shit they did I can't help but feel a strong sense of indignance over the fact that only a few people were held accountable (like the officers who had a contest to see who could kill the most civilians with their swords). It's just lizard brain shit.
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No.405448
>>405430Unfortunately, I think part of (though not by any means the only) reason more Japanese war criminals didn't face justice is due to the lack of record keeping of their atrocities.
The Nazis kept extensive records on the number of civilians they massacred, how many villages they burned down, how many Jews they shipped to the camps, etc. It made it much easier to disprove any plausible deniability they may have had if things were done more informally, like they were in the invasion of China.
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No.405459
>>405430>It's just lizard brain shit.Capitalist logic more like imo
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No.405480
>>405430Abe's grandpa was about to be trialed as a war criminal for the heinous shit he did in Manchuria but the US realized he could be the leader of postwar Japan instead. Funny.
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No.405483
The Soviets should have taken Japan. No more war criminals or royal household kept in the government, no atomic bombs dropped, and East Asia could probably go full communist. There just'd be probably far less anime though.
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No.407512
>So why were the nips never held accountable for their war crimes? Was it solely because the US needed a bulwark against Communism in East Asia? Part of me feels sympathy for and indigence over those killed during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but another part of me thinks that the US and the USSR should have reduced the islands of Japan to nuclear craters, or at least every single Japanese soldier should have been killed.
Because the Pacific conflict (not including Chinese resistance against Japan and the Soviet liberation of Sakhalin, Manchuria and Korea) was an inter-imperialist conflict, much the same as the Western and North African fronts. The USA saw the value of rehabilitating fascist warmongers, the Japanese imperialists were just as anti-communist as the nazis NATO recruited like Gehlen and Speidel.
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No.407525
>>407512Also the USSR wouldn't have killed anywhere near as many as the USA did.
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No.408957
>>405308Because Japan's struggle to liberate the peoples of Asia from western imperialism was cut short by American savagery and cowardly bombing. If the allies had not interfered, Japan and China would have reconciled and formed a counter-hegemonic power to western capitalist domination.
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No.408974
>>408957Let me guess, you are a dengisg
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No.408980
>>408957Japan and the zaibatsu were just trying to accelerate the development of the productive forces in the region by introducing the Chinese to the latest industrial innovations but Amerikkkan imperialists thwarted this and set back Asia by decades.
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No.408982
>>405308>Was it solely because the US needed a bulwark against Communism in East Asia?Yep, that's it. Abe's grandfather
>>405480 was among a handful war criminals set free by the US to run against a resurgent post-war socialist movement. He infamously signed the Anpo treaty in 1960 despite massive demonstrations against it, which allowed the creation of US Military bases in mainland Japan. This served as a staging area for anti-communist activities in Southeast Asia in the following decades (most notably in Vietnam).
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No.408985
>>405308>If they had kept this up in the territory they occupied until, let's say, 1944, then they would have killed around 12 million people disregarding deaths of combatants.But they actually did? The famine they caused over here alone killed more than 2 million. That’s not counting the mountain of corpses they made over in occupied Manchuria where hundreds of thousands are worked to death in mines. Or Korea where genocidal level of colonialism and assimilation occurred. Or in Malay and the Philippines. Most of that had racked up more than such estimations. I think looking at the Nanjing purge alone for the war crimes Japan caused is like only counting the 6 million deaths from the Holocaust as the only people the Nazis killed disregarding the other 20 million non-Jewish victims.
>Was it solely because the US needed a bulwark against Communism in East Asia?None of the Axis members got held accountable. NATO used Nazis as generals and advisors. Nobody even cared about the people the Italians gassed to death in Africa. And the Japanese have most of their war criminals given good positions in the US-made new order. Hell they were directly using Unit 731 and their biological weapons in the Korean War.
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No.408988
>>408980To be fair some uh..
interesting stuff was going on in Manchukuo as far as economic planning was concerned.
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No.409018
>>408988>>408990>>408980>>408957You guys have to die awful deaths
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No.409031
>>408608Omega based, thanks again anon. I've read halfway through the first book and it's mindblowing. I always knew Imperial Japan was depraved, but holy fuck.
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No.409035
>>409018Don't lump me in with those idiots.
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No.409037
>>409035Sorry if you are guy who posted the Twitter thread.