The Execution Of The Japanese Prisoners Of Sugamo Prison

At the end of the Second World War in the Pacific, Sugamo Prison in Tokyo was occupied by the American Army, and it became a place of execution where many former high ranking Japanese soldiers and politicians were executed. These were men who were condemned following the Tokyo Trials such as former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and also General Doihara. But inside of Sugamo Prison these executions were carried out on the gallows.
There were over 50 Japanese war criminals who were executed at Sugamo Prison by American executioners and they used a wooden gallows similar to what was used in Europe at prisons such as Landsberg. Some of the executions were very secretive due to worries about causing uprisings in post WW2 Japan.
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[@Marcfj]

In my lifetime, I met a number of Westerners who had been prisoners of the Empire of Japan and none of them had anything nice to say about the Japanese.

[@guaporeturns9472]

My uncle Bill was captured on Bataan and spent the entire year in Japanese concentration camps. His stories were horrific , but he told a story about a Japanese guard that would smuggle turnips and carrots to the fence near his area and toss them over to the starving men when nobody was looking. If he had been caught he surely would have suffered a fate worse than death. There are good people everywhere , sometimes it’s just hard to find them.

[@richardbeckenbaugh1805]

Pappy Boyington was smuggled food along with the other prisoners in the camp in Tokyo by a group of Japanese soldiers who were drafted college students. They were also christians. If they had been found out, they would’ve been killed, not for smuggling food but being christians. After he was freed, he put in writing statements of fact that these young men saved many prisoners of war. The statements were disregarded and some of the guards who saved the prisoners lives were imprisoned for years simply because they were camp guards. Pappy found out ten years later that one of the guards that saved him was still in prison. He wrote letters to everyone he could think of and the man was eventually freed. None of the young christians participated in war crimes or tortured the prisoners in any way.

[@guaporeturns9472]

@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 Are you really gonna push that Christian propaganda crap? 🤦‍♂️ Dude that uncle Bill was talking about was a Shinto Buddhist.. he knew because being a Christian he asked (through an interpreter)after they were liberated. Bill also said that they just basically opened the gates of the camp and most of the CHRISTIAN Americans that were strong enough went on a a brutal murdering and raping rampage through the Japanese villages nearby. You sure won’t hear any American history book mention that.

[@johnness2457]

I still don't

[@guaporeturns9472]

@@johnness2457 Obviously you’re scared of Japanese people 😂

[@hodaka1000]

My father testified at the War Crimes Tribunals at Rabaul and Tokyo Some were hung but too many escaped justice

[@johnallen7807]

A tiny number considering the very high number of war crimes they committed, remembering also the hundreds of thousands of allied PoWs' imprisoned, tortured and murdered during the war. The truly disgusting thing is that they have still not made a full apology for their actions.

[@honeperrott9607]

true

[@user-ny9cm3ni9u]

Странно то, что они ещё благодарят американцев за то что те сбросили на них атомную бомбу. Но кто то уже и этого не знает и считает, что это сделал СССР.

[@giorgioditizio6293]

Neanche gli Americani si sono scusati per le 2 (due) bombe atomiche né per Guantanamo...

[@zworm2]

Remember Obama apologized to Japan for what America did!

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@brucewessel7753]

The Japanese got off too light.

[@boondocker7964]

Hiroshima, Nagasaki.

[@darrellcaraway6068]

They demolished wright's imperial hotel so I lost belief In culture if all that happens

[@darrellcaraway6068]

Less painless to make it work. Perhaps

[@guardkeeper]

@@darrellcaraway6068 Most citizens and victims were as innocent as the men the Japanese brutalized in POW camps. An eye for an eye until the whole world is blind!

[@Marcfj]

@@boondocker7964 - The Japanese still got off too light. They murdered at least 10 million people in China.

[@mikeg8630]

The real crime, from what I've heard, is that most of the Japanese deny the past torture of prisoners.

[@cgardner85]

There’s a collective 1:02 memory gap starting December 8, 1941 up to August 5, 1945. The day before the atomic bomb was detonated on Japan.

[@1949cr]

Not true. None of the Japanese I know deny any of this. You confuse loss of face in wanting to recognize this with denial.

[@mikeg8630]

@@1949cr The source I remember was from another KZbin channel, which provided official statements from the Japanese. It's something that stuck with me that I'll never forget.

[@michaelneville2915]

How can you know what they think when they still do not speak on a mobile phone whilst in public out of courtesy for those in their environment. I just wish we would have learned from those wars. We still find ourselves in them. Have and will those wars be recognized by their invaders? I think not.

[@gregorybathurst7171]

All the allied P.O.W s that were killed or died in Japanese custody died at the hands of their fellow prisoners all starvation was self inflicted beating was done to each other . The wonderful Japs would never act this way .

[@russellbentley8813]

In the early 1990s my wife and I bought a a new Honda. We parked the car in front of our house. Shortly after parking the car an older neighbor lady knocked at our front door. She kindly explained that her husband couldn’t speak to us anymore as he had served in the pacific theater in WW2. She was so apologetic as up to that point they had been very kind. I felt very sad for inadvertently bringing back the memories of that period of my neighbors life. Eventually he started to speak to us again.

[@IO-zz2xy]

A friend of mine at school in the 70s who's Polish father was a German POW. Because he was starved in captivity he had to, for many years after that, drink a mild acid medication through a straw after meals because of the damage done to his stomach lining and did not produce enough natural secretions. He was always emaciated even in 60s / 70s. He hated anything German and always made sure anything the family bought was not made in Germany. BTW my Austrailian grandfather who fought in 1st WW and had lifelong nerve damage from German gas, drove an Opel car and had a Blaupunkt radio. Regards from South Africa

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@jds6206]

My father was a WWII Marine ......to him, the Japanese were "Japs" for a long, long time. Not until in his 80s did he soften his opinion.

[@dhstadt]

Then again we bombed civilians in Japan and Germany and used incendiary bombs which cause fires that could not be put out. That is a war crime. Our allies the Russians were also horrendous in what they did in Germany. At least two sides to every story. We and our allies were absolutely complicit. What we did in Viet Nam was much worse. One needs to do their homework before drawing conclusions.

[@ABC_DEF]

@@dhstadt At the time, the use of incendiary bombs was not a war crime.

[@johnholmes6897]

As a combat vet i have to ask; Is there a war that isn't a crime against humanity ?

[@mrsaundersmusings2972]

When I was working in a supermarket in 1993, I was stacking cat food one day when an elderly man came along my aisle. He paused, and said to me "There should be a Japanese inside every one of those cans." I was too stunned to say anything. To this day, I can't imagine what he must have been through.

[@zworm2]

I am a child of war parents and the feelings were deep!

[@JohnMerchant-tc3yf]

I was in US Navy and I met a friend of my grandfather who was a US Navy WW2 sailor who hated the Japanese and at that time it was 40 years after the end of the war and he refused to buy any Japanese products. He said "I spent 4 years fighting those bastards I won't buy anything made in Japan".

[@Bokfanlettucelip]

One of my great uncles died on the death railway (bridge over the river Kwai line). His brothers also never ever bought anything made in Japan.

[@richardbaxter2057]

At Changi Prison, the Senior Allied Officer (British I believe) at Wars end, convened a Courts Martial and tried and executed certain members of the Japanese Military, who had run Changi. The former inmates formed an open square and the condemned were then dragged into the centre of it and beaten to death, beaten to death with their scabbard sword, this being the most humiliating execution that could be inflicted on a Military Man.

[@drewwagner4802]

Imagine, 250+ thousand Chinese men women, and children were killed just for helping 20+ American Army Air-Corp pilots escape Japanese capture after the Dolittle Air rade! Unreal!

[@jthomas4361]

Imagine? So did it happen or not?

[@drewwagner4802]

@@jthomas4361 Yes, the Japanese military killed 250 thousand + Chinese citizens for helping the American military escape capture after the Dolittle raid!

[@vinnieboombotz399]

This was on top of the 250,000 Chinese murdered during the "Rape of Nanking".

[@Mike-tu7uw]

@@jthomas4361 🙄

[@drewwagner4802]

@@vinnieboombotz399 Yes, I respect the Japanese Warrior spirit, but a true Warrior doesn't make War against unarmed Women and children!

[@jimwiskus8862]

My wife was a pharmacist for a major drug store chain for years. As a new pharmacist out of college, many of her clientele were survivors of the holocaust. Their numbered tattoos on their arms were often quite visible. We also had a neighbor who was a Belgium war bride. She could tell stories that would curl your hair. Incidentally, even though she loved America, she hated the Fourth of July because of all the fireworks. It brought back way too many bad memories.

[@ChrisVail-di5mw]

Jimbo I hate to tell you this, but the holocaust, tattoos and Belgium war brides were in the European Theater of War (ETO). I live in a senior citizen facility, and we have a female resident here who spent a few years in one of those horror camps. When I took a trip to Germany, I visited Dachau which is in Munich. Of course, the original barracks had been torn down, but one of the furnaces is still there. That'll send chills up and down your spine.

[@Goneaway-4-gud]

I worked with a guy who as a young man was serving in Singapore when the JIA invaded through the back door and mostly using cycles! The guy and all his fellow soldier’s ended up in Changi Jail. We started work at 8am, he already had a cigarette lit up…all day..he lit the new cigarette off the stubb of the about to be stood on ..what we called then…the dog end. Never answered any questions about his war days… and this was just weeks after I had left the UK Army and could talk “Army” he just ignored any questions. His brother later told me that post war and coming home family knew he was coming up to his home town by train..do neighbours, Family and his mates before the war arranged a welcome home at their local train station. Told what expect the night before travelling north, he got off the train at the station before the one he would normally have used….just to avoid the fuss. His brother told me, he never would talk about it to anybody in including family. On a different war with Japan, my uncle was serving as a Gunnery Officer on HMS Prince of Wales…which the Japanese Air Force attacked it and its sister ship by bombing. I still have the telegram my grandmother got to advise….your son is a survivor of the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales.

[@Tom-bm7mm]

I used to live in Tokyo about 15 minutes from where Sugamo prison once stood. It was located in the Ikebukuro area of Tokyo and torn down in the early 1970's. An office building, Sunshine City, now stands on the site of the prison. Next to Sunshine city is a small park. In that park, on the site of the gallows, is a small memorial which in Japanese reads A Prayer for Eternal Peace.

[@rachaelcourtnell7275]

War is terrible but to use it as an excuse for cruel and torturous behaviour on others is despicable.

[@joebrumfield2952]

I agree. They should have given them some graham crackers and sent them off to bed.

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@senakaweeraratna741]

Justice must work not only to address the crimes of the losers of the WW2 but also the victors of the War. The latter also committed heinous war crimes but they have not been held accountable for them.

[@geraldperyman6535]

Well what for example,secondly if you start a war and then lose,you're at the wrong end of history .

[@aboynamed666]

No videos of the executions? Apparently I was mislead!

[@skylarkman2000]

Most of the videos that show The Drop have now been taken down . Ther used to be a few .

[@silverhammer7779]

The only reason Emperor Hirohito's life was spared was because the Allies didn't want a full-scale uprising of the Japanese populace on their hands, as the emperor was considered to be holy (kami) under the Shinto religion by most Japanese even though he renounced his divinity in 1946. Gen. MacArthur needed Hirohito's cooperation with the Allied occupation. Otherwise, he probably would have been the first one strung up. Hirohito died in 1989.

[@seanlander9321]

The Australian judiciary was in favour of putting Hirohito on trial and Australia occupied a third of Japan and carried out dozens of executions. It was the Americans alone who opposed the justified Australian pursuit of the emperor.

[@keithorr6878]

Hirohito never wanted to go to war, with anyone. The admirals of the navy went behind his back. He never ever gave his consent to any of it.

[@stanislavbutsky8432]

Hirohito was certified marine biologist. War was the last thing he personally wanted to participate. However he didn't have much choice since the large militarist group wanted war and seizures.

[@spsniper1170]

​@@keithorr6878this was proven incorrect..hirohito was very much involved..but..because MacArthur didn't want a national revolt in which millions would have died..he let hirohito off the hook, and tried n executed everyone involved, but instituted a Constitution and ordered hirohito to renounce his divinity..or else..

[@mcmc2386]

Another banger video Mark Felton!

[@lolkevandewitte1713]

I’m sorry, meaning…?

[@davidgrahamscott]

Mark Feltons videos are much better. His voice is less annoying too.

[@hodaka1000]

Do you mean Mark "Dribbles Sh!t Short Arse" Felton ? Short Arse plagiarizes the previously plagiarised good work of others

[@mcmc2386]

@davidgrahamscott wait this isn't mark Felton? Oh snap

[@lolkevandewitte1713]

@@davidgrahamscott ah, clear. Mark Felton has done an excellent job, but to say his are much better is a long stretch. There are more excellent historical channels to find here on KZbin.

[@Eid-yy3ot]

Years ago, there was a man who lived near us and worked at our local bowling alley; he had been one of the prisoners who had experienced the Bataan Death March. As a solder, he stated that when they ran out of ammunition they hid behind small hills and threw rocks and boards into the air to hit the propellors of low flying Japanese planes. He thought that, after the war, the Japanese never did get punished like the Germans did. I remember he called the Japanese, "Nips" when most everybody else called them (the Japanese) simply "Japps." I guess he would be charged with a Hate Crime today. He had a bad limp and his right shoulder always sunk down a bit. He had been hit in the back with a rifle butt by a Japanese guard and had a bayonet wound to his leg which gave him his limp. He did neither like the Japanese nor did he ever get over the war or how he was treated by the Nips. I once saw his issued post WWII uniform; he was a well-decorated soldier.

[@breakrite9785]

My late WW2 father used to shake his head in amazement when the Rose Bowl was sponsored by Honda. He also drive a Honda at one time, we had several Yamaha motorcycles, and his final car was a Toyota. How far we’ve come he said.

[@breakrite9785]

@@FortescueGimlet Ah..no on the scalping.

[@keithorr6878]

Sounds like he was able to separate the art from the artist. It's a fine line.

[@davidjaap2130]

Im surprised there is no mention of "Unit 731" & its members. 🙏❤

[@user-ot4ip1wl2j]

ウンデットニーでの先住民虐殺についても　あまり言わないですので同じでしょうか？💦

[@alphabeta492]

The anger among Pacific WW2 veterans when Japan got the 1964 Olympics was palpable. When I found out a younger co worker had spent 2 years teaching English in Vietnam I nearly flipped. What the WW2 vets and I suffered at the hands of the enemy scarred us for life. And yes the guys back from the Middle East feel the same.

[@47of74]

My grandpa served at Sugamo for a time after the end of the war. The executions were all carried out after he had returned to Iowa and started a family.

[@lanceconover9600]

My uncle survived the Bataan death march he forgave them before he died that haunted him his whole life they where brutal people

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@frankeimer3906]

Thankyou for your uploads .From this older Canuck

[@donlum9128]

They didn't hold 1% responsible

[@johncitizen3927]

Sadly, less than 4%, were punished.

[@stevoschannel4127]

War criminals are always on the losing side...

[@zworm2]

Not true.

[@bryonslatten3147]

Eisenhower and MacArthur ordered the executions of several American soldiers for crimes during WWII.

[@Napoleon40000]

You're right, Goering, Himmler and Dr Mengele were "only following orders"

[@keithorr6878]

Yes that's true but only if you believe the stories as told by the victors. That part never changes.

[@ajoybanerjee2819]

😂😊

[@Andy-gk8bb]

My mother's brother's were killed by the Japanese. She hated them throughout her life until she died. They are a very strict people even now and you can understand how easy it is for them to be cruel

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@BROOKS39]

Not one Japanese soldier stood trial for the Bangka island massacre.

[@bjccook1352]

The Japanese realeased plague in China and were scheduled to repeat this atrocity in San Diego, California in USA

[@KevinBullard]

Didn't the PRC recently release a plague?

[@drewwagner4802]

True!

[@dave-d-grunt]

My great aunt was a civilian POW at the UST in Manila for the duration of WWII

[@Manfred-cf9rn]

That University is still Haunted today.. So Many souls not finding Peace 😢😰

[@shawnrhaweh4582]

Spiritual guidance.. how thoughtful

[@raysmyth8596]

25+ years ago I met some elderly Australian men who had served against the IJA in New Guinea (and also against the Italians and Germans in North Africa), they had no tolerance for the Japanese due to their experiences.

[@stephenkeen6039]

The author failed to mention, that after the bodies were cremated, the ashes were surreptitiously preserved, to be reburied in a new shrine after the end of the American occupation.

[@richardbeckenbaugh1805]

Hirohito opposed the war but was prohibited by law and tradition from speaking out. His diary was seized by prosecutors after the war. After it was translated, it was quietly returned to him, since it was of no use in prosecuting him. It actually provided proof that he opposed the war and the generals and admirals of the war party were the ones responsible for the war. This put the Americans in something of a bind. If they had put Hirohito on trial, he had evidence that he was not responsible for the war or any war crimes. He knew intimately who was responsible but calling him to testify was out of the question. In the end, prosecutors decided that they could do without his testimony and left him alone. He provided peace and prosperity along with good governance for the rest of his life.

[@David-hk3ly]

The prominent people who got away with murder: Shiro Ishii head of Unit 73 and his deputy Masaji Kitano, exonerated and given immunity after turning over to the US data on their depraved human experiments. Along with them a staff of 3,000 were let go without any punishment. Prince Asaka who gave the order to kill all prisoners at Nanking in 1937. Prince Chichibu and Higashikuni, both involved in Unit 731. Many others got away since US officials wanted Japan as its ally in its anti-communist crusade.

[@Eric-jo8uh]

Please people, humans are HANGED, a picture is HUNG.

[@priscamolotsi]

THANK YOU! I have tried telling people but they just don’t care!

[@jenjen.rutherford8559]

This is absolutely the most important detail of this documentary 😂

[@priscamolotsi]

@@jenjen.rutherford8559 🤣😂🤣😂

[@user-lb3nw1pg9o]

U would be hard pressed to correct all the errors on comment specially if I don't have my glasses

[@sallyannwheeler6327]

Really!!! Is that your priority, all you can think of!🤦🏻‍♀️ syfrdanol!👎

[@michaelmallal9101]

My uncle was a war correspondent and may have covered these executions.

[@davidbnsmessex.5953]

Is that your real accent or are you putting it on for the video !

[@ChrisVail-di5mw]

There is no denying the fact that the Japanese were extremely cruel to American POWs during World War II. However, I was a witness many times over that showed a different picture. I was a Marine during the Korean War (8 years after the end of WWII) and stationed at the 1st Marine Division's R & R Center in Kyoto, Japan from 1953 - 1955. My favorite bar was the Leatherneck Bar immediately outside our main gate. The bar was owned and operated by a Japanese man with the American name of Jack (never knew or even heard of his Japanese name) and he was a master of the English language. He and I had many good conversations during those two years. More interesting, however, was listening to his conversations with Marines coming to Kyoto for their five day R & R leaves. Many of those guys had been in his prison camp and there was high respect for each other. Jack treated his prisoners with high respect and they respected him accordingly. Jack even remembered many of them by name and even knew some of their wives' and children's names. It was quite an experience to learn some of the events never seen or heard in the news media. By coinicidence, another bar - the California - was only a few yards away with a bartender who had been a guard in another Japanese prison camp. I was in there one night when a Marine Corps captain walked in, spotted the former guard and jumped over the bar and started to kill the bartender. We got him out of there before the MPs were called, but it certainly reflects the mindset of those who suffered very badly in most of the camps. It's a shame there weren't more Jacks during the war.

[@Absaalookemensch]

In many areas, Japanese troops even slaughtered, cooked, and ate their prisoners. There are documented accounts of Japanese troops bringing prisoners on movements with them to slaughter and eat later, so the meat remained fresh. I have read accounts of cannibalism on the Russian front by German troops, but only of dead bodies.

[@peterdodd1942]

It is difficult to eat a living body.

[@Absaalookemensch]

@@peterdodd1942 They brought POWs or prisoners with them on a march to preserve the meat, then slaughtered the prisoner and cooked the meat with rice. No one said they ate raw human flesh.

[@steffenjonda8283]

The japanese eat even their allied forces, "low worth korean workers" - they cut away a leg and eat that, then the other. The stuff about cannbalims on the russian fronts are mostly false, but for example in the stalingrad cauldron, around 8000 russian prisoners were in. With not enough food, they were starved to death - here some started to eat the already dead to survive. That is the only "true" example of such thing. THe war in the east was a very brutal one, in the same battle for stalingrad, at one point there was ordered another useless frontal attack by russian forces. In one division, at that time around 4000 men, they denied this order. On order by stalin the artillery and tanks slaughtered them all for denying the order. But nothing was so brutal and cruel as the war in the pacific. For one thing, the japanese military was - dishuman. I cannot explain it otherwise. While even the most brutal nazis (exception Brigade Dirlewanger) acted "normal" for war, these were just mad men. But not only against enemies but also against their own people. The americans weren´t better - or the australians. The cold evil brutality, this means "slaughter and kill enemies" was common, the myth that no japanese wanted to surrender is just a big fat lie. While some did not want to, the most were coldly slaughtered by allied forces. Basically the things you see in all american war movies (with the evil enemy slaughtering surrendering american troops) was common praxis by the allied forces, esp. the americans. All BEFORE anybody knew about the bataan death march and other cruelties. So there never was an excuse for this (it would still be wrong) This is something that was hidden deep into the american glorification of war. Only vietnam made clear how evil the americans acted, based on their brutal treatment of enemies - it never interested them if these were soldiers, prisoners, woman or children.

[@Absaalookemensch]

@@steffenjonda8283 I've spent 40 years working with the military, half that on active duty. While some brutality did happen by the allies and Americans, it was not the rule. Are your experiences in the US military different?

[@steffenjonda8283]

@@Absaalookemensch i talk about ww2 , Korea, Vietnam

[@migueltor6434]

I appreciate the dialog. Where's the video?

[@bobkirk7538]

1961 as a Military Police 8th Army , I was stationed at Fort Gordon Georgia, I was assigned duty with the records group. The ropes (and photos ) used on the prisoners hangings were stored there. Very interesting history as I had many conversations with the First Sargent who put the ropes on each prisoner.

[@user-mp5zt7qj5h]

Sergeant not sargent

[@robertwilliamson922]

But Tojo and most of his men were Shinto…..not Buddhist. A Buddhist taking part in killing would be breaking the very first Precept……the Precept against killing. Such a person might call themselves Buddhist….but would not be Buddhist in their heart. Shinto was most likely the religion…..

[@mari-greciaodal2436]

I'm Buddhist. You're right.

[@mari-greciaodal2436]

oye, Argentino, asi que fuiste tu, eh? Mira eso, caballero! Y yo me he estado proguntando, pero dios que le esta pasando a este? Me gustaron tus videos de antes, cuando estabas (spellbound by your Muse) Corazon, no se lo que estas haciendo en esos dias, pero tus videos eran fabulosos quando tu Musa te tenia in a state of Grace! Que bello fuiste, chico! besos y un abrazo, che!

[@mari-greciaodal2436]

oye, che, porque no me escribes, corazon? como se dice en Spanish, "long time no see, chico? Algunas veces es verdad, que te extrano, sin la~ sobre la n, pero bien se que todo cambia, y que te podria decir? Me gustaia much a saber que estas trabajando como trabajaste cuando estabamos junto. tu cancion "crazy" fue una de mis favoritas! ;)

[@garvinhooper]

most Japanese war criminals never were tried thanks to General MacArthur who didn't approve of making too many waves for the Japanese as he lived in Japan after the war and managed things there

[@sputnikginger]

The video footage shows nothing

[@nigelmorgan3449]

I don’t know who was the worst the Japanese or the Germans a tag team

[@tutekohe1361]

All sides committed atrocities. No-one was innocent. That is the nature of war, however history is written by the victors, so the losers are always going to appear to be the worst.

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@DonAbrams-hq7ln]

Not one Allied ate "Jap" sushi

[@keithorr6878]

I'm sure no one wanted to be a POW on either side. That being said there a lot of relatives of German POWs still living in Southern Alberta who didn't want to go back when the war ended. I really don't think that would have happened if they were treated badly as war prisoners. I've never heard of any POWs staying in Germany or Japan when they could come home. The ones I really do feel sorry for are especially the Canadian Japanese who lost everything they had worked for as good Canadian citizens and had nothing to do with what Japan was doing as a country at the time. I got to know quite well a Japanese family on the west coast of BC who had a nice salmon fishing boat and were working hard making a decent living with it long before the war was even a thought. It was a twenty year struggle but they finally got it back and were able to get to go back to work with it in 1966. I guess it did finally work out for them in the end but over twenty years fighting for something they already owned is a long time living in poverty. War is NEVER fair.

[@davidb6730]

At 2:37 the war criminals are referred to as victims as they are being executed.

[@FJB8885]

Oh dear

[@MrEmperorApples]

You can have vengeance, or you can have peace, but you cannot have both. That’s why some deem the US as having been too lenient in their post war punishments. But that is a European thought process, and the same one that led to the disastrous Treaty of Versailles, which all but guaranteed a Second World War.

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@rgarri6396]

Never underestimate how mean humans can be. Humans can be animals at times.

[@hookywookywithmalarkyman704]

I used to deliver Albert pierpoints daily pint of milk early 70s Southport UK

[@alexanderevanska4274]

A family friend, long dead now was a prisoner of war. He wouldn't even sit in any Japanese made car. He would have killed any Japanese person who spoke to him. This was the 60s and 70s when I knew him . He died traumatised.

[@barryhepburn4461]

I remember the POW’s coming home from the Far East after the war. They were broken men, physically and mentally. It took months to get them back because they were so ill and emaciated that they were not fit to travel. Neither must we forget the brutal treatment handed out to the female prisoners - civilians caught up in the war in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaya. I will never forget the cruelty of the Japanese and have never and will never buy anything Japanese

[@TheJHMAN1]

To this day I am surprised that China allowed even a single Japanese soldier to live after the war.

[@johnwright9372]

It is not well known that many POW camp guards were Korean and Taiwanese.

[@MrShenyang1234]

First of all, I find it interesting that these War Criminals were executed in secrecy, so as not to 'inflame hatred from the Japanese People'. Who cares? The Allies didn't care about the reaction from Germans, when their War Criminals were executed. In addition, these scumbags may have been cremated. However, they were buried at Yasukuni Shrine, where they are now Honored as Hero's. Lastly, for Political Reasons, Japanese War Criminals were never held fully accountable for their War Crimes in comparison to their German Counterparts. Why is that?

[@marypopehn7834]

The narrator is almost incomprehensible!

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

Still the narrator's voice accent is a mistery to me.

[@user-yh4ee4is2r]

His accent and pronounciation is Aussie or Australian,it is not american or British accent.

[@paulhundy2986]

He’s british

[@josephinepeery6938]

The accent is British, I'm a fellow Brit 🙂@user-yh4ee4is2r

[@keithdrower9120]

Man's inhumanity to man knows no limits.....!

[@chrisnesbitt8454]

i take it the hangings weren't performed by John C. Woods?

[@raymondclouston6255]

Before hostilities between Japan and the US broke out…the united states sent over 230 CIVILIAN construction workers…to wake island …they were captured when wake fell…the Japanese were obligated to look after them but they decided instead to execute them. Each civilian was instructed to dig their own grave and then were executed by being beheaded by sword. After Bataan fell the Japanese forced the American pow’s to do the “ the Bataan death march” where 7000 troops were killed. The Japanese soldiers used to amuse themselves by picking out someone and then proceeding to take turns striking them with the butts of their rifles to see how many bones could be broken before death was induced. The Japanese liquidated out of hand…20 million Chinese people because they didn’t show enthusiasm for joining the greater asian co prosperity sphere, in the states the Americans put their POWs in camps and eventually to work….

[@ba1100string]

Retired Marine speaking. I spent many years in Japan and I summit that their younger generation loves Americans and are terribly upset and embarrassed about what their people did in the past. One world one love.

[@Mike-xh7wb]

You were never a prisoner, or saw the butchered women and children of Singapore, My advice to you, Zip it

[@haroldmartin4547]

Of course none of the Allies committed war crimes, such hypocrisy.

[@cliffwendy3765]

Yeah, well research the evidence and make a you tube video

[@bradburks6941]

Considering how evil the Japanese were they got off lightly.

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@archiebald4717]

Justice was not really completely done. A disgrace.

[@mikemann903]

And people wonder why they got nuked.

[@kathyabbass5420]

1:39

[@johnwarwick7684]

Too many escaped justice!

[@SuperLuminalElf]

TOO Many

[@historygradstu]

Ol tojo got a neck like an accordion

[@stephendoing2253]

6????

[@104thDIVTimberwolf]

The crime continues when you consider the fact that modern Japanese have no idea what their army did between 1937 and 1945. Too many think the Americans were the aggressors and even today Japanese Children will great Americans in Hiroshima with "Hello, murderer."

[@tectoramia-sz1lu]

The Japanese were a brutal and sadistic race, but they were the same towards their own troops. Towards the end of WWII tens of thousands of Japanese troops died of starvation and disease on Philippine islands.

[@johnness2457]

Too many Japanese got away with war crimes.

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@thomaschinn6344]

they were evil

[@MWEric]

why the white out of the accused have notice this lately.

[@robinpeach-toon2595]

"evil" is such a noneplus word to use . horrific, horrendous etc

[@metallampman]

Sorry i missed it

[@kathycain8118]

Both horrible How can such. Cultured people behave in terrible way

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@alfonso-madrid-espanaalfon9522]

Un sacerdote en el ahorcamiento de un japonés? Pone el mismo video para todo

[@user-iz5ue7xd4o]

Thats a swinger party

[@brandonkew9122]

Is it me or are most of the hangings shown of Germans?

[@sardatep]

sounds like they escaped

[@05Hogsrule]

It is said, the last words from Tojo was, "EEGGGGHHHHH".

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

United States War Crimes against the Japanese Enjoy Reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_state_war_crimes Excerpts: United States war crimes are the violations of the laws and customs of war which the United States Armed Forces has committed against signatories after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. These have included the summary execution of captured enemy combatants, the mistreatment of prisoners during interrogation, the use of torture, and the use of violence against civilians and non-combatants. During and after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 3-5, 1943), U.S. PT boats and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships. Japanese castaways were shot while they tried to swim to the shore or anywhere for safety. This went on all day and the next. The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle. Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened. American servicemen in the Pacific War deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the University of Nottingham. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and Australian soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war. According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or en route to prison compounds."] According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners. His analysis is supported by British historian Niall Ferguson, who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese." When prisoners were taken at Guadalcanal, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in". U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war. The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians-as Untermenschen (i.e., "subhuman"). If this isn’t evil and wickedness on behalf of self-righteous Americans, I don’t know what is. American mutilation of Japanese war dead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead “American mutilation of Japanese war dead (excerpts): “During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. “The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were also taken and were occasionally modified, such as by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[9] Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive. “But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed. “Pictures showing the "cooking and scraping" of Japanese heads may have formed part of the large set of Guadalcanal photographs sold to sailors which were circulating on the U.S. West-coast. According to Paul Fussel, pictures showing this type of activity, i.e. boiling human heads, "were taken (and preserved for a lifetime) because the Marines were proud of their success". (Note: The original lengthy article is supported by many sources, also regarding the murder of most Japanese POWS and the raping of thousands of Japanese women by “the greatest generation of American thugs”.)

[@svs8909]

FDR AND CHURCHHILLSHOULD BE THERE, HE KNEW IT WAS COMING

[@williamdrake2315]

Churchill was appointed only after Hitler started the war and Chamberlin resigned in disgrace.

[@kjosef5426]

裁判という名の鬼畜たちの宴会

[@johnmacdonald6698]

Too long winded

[@HAsdnf_fooosjd]

The fact that few American politicians & military personnel who massacred large numbers of civilians have been brought to trial is only due to the fact that this trial was by the victors. Japan committed a large number of war crimes. So there were many executed. What about the Allies?

[@user-ot4ip1wl2j]

先住民やアフリカ諸国やベトナムでしてきたこと　棚に上げて　日本だけを責める動画だけでなく　欧米が植民地でしてきた非道も同時にあげて欲しいです❗️公平に🙌

[@gasgaslex_photos]

The narrators accent is irritating

[@user-yh4ee4is2r]

The accent of this narrator is Australian,but in my observations,many cases if international news or blogs,almost all narrator is american, because american is best accent very clear and best pronounciation...

[@pita3823]

อโหสิกรรมต่อกันไป

[@KevinBullard]

Wasn't Bomber Harris behind Dresden? UK

[@billashby7858]

Big difference!

[@drewwagner4802]

Yes, I agree, the English murdered thousands of German civilians in Dresden!

[@jameswade4097]

Dresden was an a tragedy, but then being an ally of one totalitarianism GOV [ Russia } against another totalitarianism GOV { Germany }never made any sense to me

[@Mike-tu7uw]

They’re always has to be a least one dumbass making a dumbass comment 🙄

[@jeffpotipco736]

Yes

[@user-nc5tb5go3d]

Slant eyes got off lightly.

[@benballinger8810]

Biggot!

[@hodaka1000]

​@@benballinger8810 I enjoy "The Big Boom Celebration Days"

[@robv141414]

​@@benballinger8810 Cry harder.

[@georgelustrea2912]

This narrator is horrible, can't these documentaries get someone that speaks so we can understand

[@bertiewooster3326]

The US needs Japan as Japan needs the US today.

[@Jim-ni9ek]

And just think, Obama apologized to them.

[@eh5987]

every bloody video shows the same films or pics. this is rubisch

[@davidpenney2334]

Your narration is terrible..

[@marauxmichel4675]

Et les monstres de l us air force qui ont a leur actif Hiroshima nagazaki dresde l agent orange au vietnam..... on les juge qd ?

[@sarge4455]

Who are you to judge?

[@bruceyung70]

Drezen bombing was awful but naturally, civilians always get killed in higher numbers in every war. It's sad.

[@Whatt787]

Japanese Imperial Army were inhuman monsters

[@Martin-tn5lm]

The Japanese Imperial Army was brutal and savage beyond belief. The soldiers enjoyed killing helpless people in particular and made it a competitive sports game in China. It's hard to believe that the subsequent generations of civilised young men that grew up in Japan after 1945 are from the same nation.

[@marcofratnik4533]

Mais bien sur. Japon et Allemagne ont décidé de commencer ces massacres. Les Japonais à eux seuls ont tué 14 millions de personnes. Mais évidemment c'est la faute des Américains (pas des Russes d'ailleurs je suppose). Il faut grandir à un certain moment.