Jap War Criminals (1940-1949)

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Various shots of the Chinese villagers parading along lines of Japanese war prisoners to see if they can identify war criminals.
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[@thomaschevalier9356]

Did you forget battam death marches the hell ships the beheading of people the starvation in the pow camps and u think Japanese soldiers were mistreated as prisoners

[@gregbennett4254]

Ever hear of the Batan death march

[@dfui.]

What about American War Criminals?

[@alexkessel5980]

I don't understand What happened?

[@Der_Beobachter_Edelweiss7X7X7]

REALLY??

[@alexkessel5980]

@@Der_Beobachter_Edelweiss7X7X7 Do you think... I'm lier?

[@paopohou]

You are unbelievably ignorant

[@popj-xg4to]

Operation Ichi-Go is an operation conducted by the Japanese Army on the Chinese mainland from April 17th to December 10th, 1944 during the Sino-Japanese War. It was the last major offensive of the Japanese Army, which caused the National Revolutionary Army to be hit hard and affected during the Chinese Civil War. However, on the other hand, the United States is also mediating the conclusion of the Double Tenth Agreement with Chiang Kai-shek in order to avoid a civil war. According to a study by Barbara W. Tuchman, the results of this operation had a more significant impact on the subsequent war situation than the Japanese had imagined, and had a decisive impact on Japan's fate. According to it, Franklin Roosevelt has consistently strongly trusted and supported Chiang Kai-shek since the beginning of the war, and encouraged him in the war against Japan so that he would not drop out of the Allies in a single peace with Japan during the Cairo Conference. However, he said that he changed his mind because the front of Chiang Kai-shek collapsed due to this operation. In fact, Chiang Kai-shek has not been invited to important Allied conferences ("Yalta Conference" and "Potsdam Conference") since then. According to the Stilwell document, Roosevelt said, "Can China win?" Stilwell said, "There is no choice but to eliminate Chiang Kai-shek." During the 1944 Hengyang battle, he could not sleep at night and twice. He says he thought about suicide. The American side also planned to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek, and three methods of "poisoning", "aircraft incident", and "pretending to be suicide" were considered, but it was canceled in 1944 due to changes in the international situation such as Burma. The successor that the United States envisioned is Sun Fountain. As Roosevelt's Chief of Staff George Marshall and General Joseph Stilwell have long insisted, Chiang Kai-shek's army is actually a demoralized and corrupt organization that does not form an army. It became clear that he had no desire or ability to fight with the United States and other Allied forces. As a result, President Roosevelt changed the scenario of the operation against Japan from the conventional bombing of Japan and other countries from the air bases of mainland China to the one that MacArthur and others claimed to occupy the islands of the Pacific Ocean one after another. China was dismissed at the Yalta Conference, and the Allied nation's footsteps were disturbed, with angry Chiang Kai-shek presenting a peace plan to Japan against the will of the United States. The Japanese Operation Ichi-Go attack left the National Revolutionary Army with 750,000 casualties. This caused the Kuomintang to lose to the Communist Party in the civil war. China would not have been dominated by the dictatorship Communist Party if it had made peace with Japan and cooperated in protecting it from communism.

[@petergianarakos9203]

Thanks for that enlighting bit of history.

[@betobasefortunas]

The biggest criminal was the Emperor, and he was forgiven

[@fod1855]

Not really, he was essentially a puppet at the time after what was essentially a military coup. There was even an attempt during the war to overthrow the military leadership and restore the emperor to his proper status. The allies also needed someone to be a figurehead for post-war Japan so he was the ideal figure

[@lioneltaniguchi9108]

I do not like seeing japanese soldiers to be treated like this. Who knows about japanese war criminals. Is there any proof?

[@energeticbombom328]

Well apart from the hundreds of thousands of survivors and eyewitnesses, hundreds of hours of footage and thousands of photographs taken by the Japanese, hundreds of hours of footage and thousands of photographs taken by the allies, thousands of Japanese admitting to their crimes, hundreds of camps and thousands crime-scenes, Japanese news articles in Japanese newspapers, thousands of diaries detailing all kinds of crimes, official reports from commanders to their superiors and millions of dead bodies. Apart from all of that, there’s very little evidence indeed. It’s not surprising that the Japanese government doesn’t want their population to know about their awful past. And if you don’t believe me, I’d recommend looking up unit 731, their actions alone pretty much prove the level of barbarity that the Japanese government tolerated.

[@philbeattie3978]

@@energeticbombom328 My Dads brother was in Changi he told me how nice the Japanese were.

[@alphasheep7116]

Millions witness what Japanese did in ww2

[@mjscorn7943]

@@philbeattie3978 Bless your heart Phil.

[@neilphipp6905]

They're being treated a lot better than anyone who was a prisoner of the Japanese. You ought to check the history books before you make statements about there not being any proof. Plenty of evidence out there if you can be bothered to look.