Why Japan Keeps Apologizing for World War II

Since the end of WWII, Japanese politicians have apologized for atrocities committed against a number of countries. What are they apologizing for now?
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[@FizzhEyy]

Imagine a grandfather used to fight against the Japanese during WWII, but his grandson became a weeb

[@voiser6077]

Grandfather : why we still here just to suffer every night i can feel my legs.

[@adankmeme651]

Grandpa: TRAITOR

[@PracticallyBlind]

You’re talking to one pal

[@ghosthunter2183]

@@anonymous-mi8su what war crimes?

[@kitn2507]

@@anonymous-mi8su tf man stfu

[@genericguy_]

Britain should apologize to india and half of the world

[@hayek218]

No, all non white country should thnak Japan.

[@raizanskywalker6969]

And Netherlands must apologize to Indonesia, Suriname and South Africa

[@owen1686]

lmao yeet

[@stxfdt1240]

@@Albert-Mag... Lmao they killed 4 million bengalis in the bengal famine alone.

[@slavvingsquats2146]

India would not have even been half as successful as it is now without the British

[@dadoody]

When I was a teen, I remember a Japanese student being surprised by some of the atrocities Japanese soldiers committed. She thought Japanese soldiers during WW2 were "nice." The image Americans get of Kamikazes, underhanded ambushes, and massacres against POWs and civilians by Japanese troops isn't taught in Japan at all, which is sad, because they don't understand why a lot of their neighbors still sometimes hold grudges.

[@Shiro_116]

No, most of them are learned in school. Rather, my school teacher said that Japan deserves to be scolded by South Korea.

[@Eskayzeee]

@@Shiro_116only recently, as the internet helps uncover the truth. The older generations, some of them died by now, mostly are puzzled why literally s.koreans, filipinos, south east asians, china hates them so much. They thought because they were winning the economic race, so other countries got ‘jealous’ lmao. Man the headache I have to face that time 🫠🫠🫠

[@carlmalone8472]

@@HorswrangBasumataryexplain??

[@global1007]

@@HorswrangBasumatary Why so? If people don't know what has happen, they stay ignorant. They should learn what has happened in history, in all its brutality.

[@yasashii89]

History is written by the victors

[@Tabby3456]

You know its bad when the US President is giving both sides the silent treatment, not because he spites their grudges but because he knows that saying anything or taking any side would just make the situation worse

[@Dibbz_TV]

True. The US is infamous for disaster capitalism but stayed clear of this.

[@Wagnerrok]

Instead of apologizing they should teach proper history

[@Wagnerrok]

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki Yeah but in my opinion there is nothing worse than not teaching the truth in like 60 years noone in japan will know what their ancestors did

[@Wagnerrok]

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki yeah

[@christina-gw1rx]

I think Japan apology is right buttt that's too late...for them...

[@jamesmr.3301]

@@Wagnerrok That is not true. We learn the history very objectively. We know we did a bad thing to them. Korean government is the one that teaches their history in emotional ways. Did you know that Japanese government and Korean government made an agreement to not dig back about the war held in WW2? but Korean government betrayed Japan and suing the Japanese company and making statue of a sex slave etc. and right now they decided to discard GSOMIA. Also, You have to know Korean government lies all the time.

[@aksna5285]

Polish Hero Witold Pilecki they are not in a temple but SHRINE. and if they are war criminals, then all soldiers from all other countries in the WW2 are criminals too.

[@SpyFromMarsZeus]

Japan: Sorry for the invasion. China, Korea: What about the massacre? Japan: What massacre?

[@SpyFromMarsZeus]

@yoshi muras By saying the World you mean America and his puppets, that includes Japan of course hahaha

[@Skyostin]

@yoshi muras isn't South Korea an ally

[@Rxconfigure]

@yoshi muras South Korea is literally one of america's strongest allies LOL

[@SpyFromMarsZeus]

@yoshi muras OK right wiener, sorry, right winger.

[@taknaknak4957]

@yoshi muras I see, untill today japan keeps that culture *proud intensifies* on ... Shame on you, japanese ! -Me as indonesian

[@khs93n6d2]

pringlesfanta100 Douglas MacArthur (GHQ Commander-in-Chief) " Their(Japan/Japanese) purpose, therefore in going to war was largely dictated by security. In the past 100 years, the biggest political mistake U.S. had committed was that by the defeat of Japan, we made the communist most powerful in China. " at the USA Congress in 1951. MacArthur noticed it at last just during the Korean War in 1950, but it was already too late !

[@Dibbz_TV]

Wow. Never looked at it that way. MacArthur might be right, even to this day imo. Were there any early advocates during WWII or is it all hindsight?

[@hunterkiller1440]

Japan: We're sorry for invading Rest of the world: Well, I guess we can accept－ Japan: But we were only invading the rest of Asia because its self defense. Rest of the world: You just ruined your apology.

[@711jastin]

It's actually scary to see japan expanding their modern army, flying the exact same flag used in WW2. They are literally the strongest Navy in Asia region.

[@aleembaksh1880]

@David whittington He seems to know about those atrocities

[@mobch8490]

@David whittington nerd

[@mobch8490]

@David whittington nerd

[@mobch8490]

@David whittington nerd

[@lazzu1878]

Korea : we need to put japan flag up side down Also korea: wait it still the same

[@overlycautiousstrategist3647]

Always has been

[@ice_wallow_come7174]

*gunshots*

[@brown_man_]

I dont think it fun

[@cmlyn77]

This comment didnt age well (philippines cancelkorea issue)

[@user-sr9bp6ry7y]

@@cmlyn77 lmao colony to japan vs colony to Spain & USA

[@allergictoshrimps]

"Sins can be forgiven but can't be forgotten"

[@rogueascendant6611]

Tsk, people nowadays are very sensitive than compared to our ancestors that are hardened by their daily livelihood when there's no modern convenience to softened them as chickens. I mean seriously, its already passed 80+ years since WW2 and nation like China and Korea still being jerk about the past action Japan did unto theirs. Literally wars happened all the time and its not being having a grudge but to remember and honor the dead. What China and Korea doing is holding a grudge like pestering kids. Seriously grow up already you frantic morons. The world we lived is unfair. Don't be in delusion that your'e the center of the Universe that wanted fairness in all the time.

[@kriegsjager]

The sins of our father

[@allergictoshrimps]

@@rogueascendant6611 i like your great point of view,my country invaded by the -subject- once and tbh without them maybe my country divided by a lot and a lots of part.

[@tacoenandreas_is_tacoen]

China after hear Japan apologize : "sin can't unforgivable but sin can't forgotten

[@Dwagonier_XAceX101]

no they really cant be depending on what it is for ex murder nah i wouldn’t ever fucking forgive that shit

[@k-studio8112]

"Forgive your enemy but never forget them"

[@calebkim2275]

@@k-studio8112 the world should observe Koreas coronavirus solution including ur broke ass country

[@calebkim2275]

@@k-studio8112 sorry that was toxic lol

[@k-studio8112]

@@calebkim2275 what's the connection of coronavirus in this issue?

[@calebkim2275]

@@k-studio8112 none just dont think that the korean people should observe a third world country that's suffering from the pandemic. Instead the world should observe korea.

[@calebkim2275]

@@k-studio8112 plus they haven't given koreans and Chinese formal apologies lol

[@khs93n6d2]

pringlesfanta100 More than 10,000 Japanese women were raped only in 1945 by mainly soldiers of Australia, USA etc. in Japan after the end of WW2 . And the GHQ of Allied Forces requested the Occupied Japan's Government to set up many brothels recruiting many Japanese women in many places of Japan for 7 years till Allied Forces left from Japan. Japanese women most feared Australian soldiers with strange hats for the reason of their brutality and inhumanity. Old Japanese women still remember it well in Japan.

[@loonowolf2160]

Well still the Japanese population didn't know nothing of the war crimes commited by the army. And Australia was obe the strongest nayion that fought Japan for lo g times be4 USA artived in numbers to support em on Guadalcanal campaign.

[@yuanpucasn4955]

Karma

[@khs93n6d2]

@@loonowolf2160 Why are you so non-educated, lowest intellectual like Koreans and Han in Communist China or dupes in the world ? Do you still live in 20th century with no internet ? It's one of horrible shame not knowing the world historic facts and evidences !! What's your final education ? Douglas MacArthur (GHQ Commander-in-Chief) " Their purpose, therefore in going to war was laragely dictated by security. In the past 100 years, the biggest political mistake U.S. had committed was that by the defeat of Japan, we made the communist most powerful in China. " MacArthur noticed it at last just during the Korean War in 1950, but it was already too late ! Many non highly educated people in the world don't know its reason.

[@koreanprostituteswithusagi2379]

lazy703 2 million Japanese soldiers , Japanese civilians, Japanese women in Machuria were forcibly taken to Siverian Starlin's concentration camps after the end of the WW2 in August 1945 and 200 thousands were killed or died for no foods and forced labors by Soviet

[@temojin]

Germany and Japan: We're sorry UK who invaded 80% of the world: "Smug face with tea"

[@barbarossavr]

Colonization was a way to grow power, there was something at that time which can be compared to the cold war where every major country is trying to spread their influence. But it's always UK who gets the blame for this just because they won. I never see anyone throwing hate at the spanish or french

[@samwilkinson2534]

@@therewasnoattempt8373 actually the Benghal famine was another atrocity of the japanese, as they starved Bengal from supplies from Burma, Benghals biggest trade partner

[@lyndonbjohnson2865]

Britain kinda does apologize. I am aware they have tried to apologize to Maori and Kenyans and japan doesn't really apologize tbh.

[@Aryescent]

@@zachduffy343 right! That was a whole different government!! At the time democracy had no power in Japan

[@zachduffy343]

@no you I agree don’t deny it but don’t apologise for something you had not involvement in

[@TrydeoVideo]

Only Canada says sorry

[@aura7117]

lmao

[@JeanLucCaptain]

wrong, when Canada apologizes we MEAN it.

[@jareddudley5791]

yeah

[@Brionatic]

Canada to japan: "UR NOT MY BUDDY GUY!!"

[@JeanLucCaptain]

***** you kiddin me? that happens in hamilton all the time.

[@TyskyW-jw7yj]

lecherhao86 = lecherhao86 2 million Japanese soldiers , Japanese civilians, Japanese women in Machuria were forcibly taken to Siverian Starlin's concentration camps after the end of the WW2 in August 1945 and 200 thousands were killed or died for no foods and forced labors by Soviet

[@fargr5926]

where did you get this data? as long as I know, 600K soldiers were taken by USSR, but the civilians were sent back to Japan.

[@loonowolf2160]

Ok ok well is not like the allies were in a pisition to win a ground battle eith the soviets so that how it went

[@TyskyW-jw7yj]

@@fargr5926 The horrible Gegenm Massacre and rapes of many Japanese women and civilians by Soviet Union's soldiers and Chinese in Manchuria in the WW2. The Gegenmiao massacre, also known as the Gegenmiao incident,was a massacre and rapes conducted by the Soviet Army(one of Allied Forces members in the WW2) and a part of the local Chinese population against over half of a group of 1,800 Japanese women and children who had taken refuge in the lamasery Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (葛根廟) on August 14, 1945, during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The massacre occurred in Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (present day: Gegenmiao zhen; 葛根廟鎭), a town in the Horqin Right Front Banner of the Hinggan League of Inner Mongolia. Refugees were shot, run over by tanks or trucks, and bayoneted by the red army after they raised a white flag. After two hours, well over one thousand Japanese refugees, mostly women and children, had been killed. Angry Chinese chased a group of Japanese refugees into a river, where many drowned. Some women were stripped and raped by soldiers. A woman was stripped and killed by Chinese after her child was killed by Soviet Red Army soldiers. One family tried to hide in the trenches, but were pursued and gunned down by Soviets. They also beat mothers into submission in order to steal children. In the market a Japanese boy could sell for 300 yen, a girl for 500 yen. By the end of the killings over 1000 people had died.

[@TyskyW-jw7yj]

@@fargr5926 One of Allied Forces of Communist Soviet soldiers massacred and raped 200-400 thousands Japanese citizens , women and children in Manchuria even after the end of the WW2 from the midnight of 9th August 1945 till Dec. 1946.

[@HistoricLiesandPropagana-oe3oj]

THe case of a KOREAN camp follower " Kim Gun-ja" in the WW2 or the Korean War In 1993 a former Korean camp follower in the WW2 or in the Korean War " Kim Gun-ja " told Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, "I was sold by my foster father." Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abducted by the Japanese military. Kim Gun-ja also testified before United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2007 and said she was abducted by the Japanese military.

[@crolegend8768]

Will we ever see UK apologies to like almost every country in the world?

[@iamlegend637]

@@roro-mm7cc The History of the British Empire is real bloody and dark. The shit they've done through History is much much much worse than what the Nazis and Japan Army ever done. Slavery and torture? Is that all? The British Empire colonized countries after countries, killing off almost the whole natives than claim the land as theirs. Don't try to compare any other nations to the British because they're at the top of the list for genocide, rape stealing etc through out history.

[@rosspatterson1233]

I am Legend yeah, no other European nation tried that

[@iamlegend637]

@@roro-mm7cc You sound so biased rn. You're not opening your view to the other countries that were slaves to the empire for fking years. How would you know all communist country are bad?? I've been to China and it's just normal like every other countries travelled to. The only reason why most of the countries decided to move away from the empire was because after WW2 Britain didn't look all big and strong after what the US pulled (Nukes) and started claiming lands just like Russia. Most countries are better off under US and Russia than Brits.

[@awesomebroke]

Idk maybe after William become king. 😁

[@curiousteletabi2696]

Roman 213 ??? Britain allowed women's suffrage in 1918, after her economy took a huge hit from WW1 and losing her imperieal quota. I wouldn't say it was a good time for the Empire. By the way colonial administriation is not same as the home administriation; obviously living in an India under the British administration doesn't give you the same rights as a British citizen. Britian has great achivements; but if some complains about Japan for her dark past, then one should do to same for British Empire for subjugating wealth of the half of the world, for inventing consentriation camps and racial theories that insipered Nazis, for the Bengali famine etc.

[@kenjikunuwu3644]

Japan: I'm sorry bro USA: no Japan: I'll give you hentai USA: we have a deal

[@nataliatheassassin350]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Rekkenze]

Best.... deal... ever! Minus the weeaboos

[@e-keithen7784]

😂😂

[@abisanh312]

Naise boi 😂

[@ahappynigerian]

Weeaboos don’t deserve rights

[@relevantusername192]

The US should also appologise for a few things...

[@JP-rf8rr]

well if we are playing that game everyone should apologize to everyone since everybody's ancestor did something mean to someone else. that's humanity for you, besides apologizes are supposed to be personal between individuals this national apology is worthless.

[@MikhaelAhava]

How about the UK's faults? How about the Soviet Unions's fault?

[@JP-rf8rr]

or the one who can write writes the history, like when the Vikings invaded Europe it was the church that did most of the writing

[@pw1277]

Civilians are caustaultys of war and are feaquently used to get ones country to surrender, japan killed many us and alied citizens liveing on pacific islands so i think the bombs droped on heroshima and nagisaki where justified also it saved est 1 mill troops and truman would possibly be assinated if he didnt use it.

[@Mottimoti]

+Joshua Plyman USA killed civilian of 100,000 people in Manila. They knew civilian to exist in a town, but U.S. forces went on intense Naval gunfire and bombing. This was also same in Okinawa. Japan was killing as many Chinese> It's a war, so it's natural to kill military personnel. Or Japanese army was genocide of Chinese civilian?

[@floridaarmyvet3613]

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

[@lildaniel35247]

There is a difference between remembering history and continually pampering and using history as an excuse to ask for things. Japan has apologized enough.

[@ibrahimhassan6566]

japan worship ww2 soilders

[@dingo4079]

Little Bear There is a difference. The emperor called the shots not Tojo and he was pardoned by the US. AND Tojo is worshiped in a fucking shrine. Do you see Hitler in a fucking Church?! :(

[@sarasasasa1894]

naah, the former comfort women don't want money dude, they just want acknowledgement

[@hayek218]

Glen Jacobs acknowledgement of what?

[@ksn-rq7jl]

The case of a KOREAN camp follower " Kim Sun-ok"b in the WW2 or the Korean War In an interview with Professor Chunghee Sarah Soh of San Francisco State University , one of former Korean camp follower women in the WW2 or in the Korean War Kim Sun-ok said that she was sold by her parents four times. Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abducted by the Japanese army. Even UN Special Rapprteur Radhika Coomarswamy doesn't deny that lie even now in the world. This's one of notorious hypocrisies of the United Nations !!!!!!!!!!

[@Brandon-bo2td]

Japan: "Sorry we invaded yall" china and korea: "now apologize about the massacre" Japan: sweats nervously

[@moron2677]

Which massacre?

[@moron2677]

@Stephen Kim thank u These guys are fighting as if they were victims

[@wfwf9917]

@@moron2677 the rape of Nanking 300,000 civ being slaughter

[@MM-fo5hh]

@Stephen Kim Don't tell a lie It's nothing evidences

[@MM-fo5hh]

@@wfwf9917 It's 20,000

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

Japan: Sorry fam Asia: No Japan: *Would you do it for a Scooby snack?*

[@sodsurendunkhorol1576]

It’s already been 90 days join us

[@ivaln]

*Hentai

[@anshbhardwaj5208]

Come on its been over 90 days join us.

[@DarkmarioLP]

It's more like Asia: Wtf at least apologize for what you did. Japan: No. Asia: Come on you killed so many people. Japan: I killed no one. What are you talking about?

[@zayzafy6969]

@@anshbhardwaj5208 oh yeah yeah

[@ksn-rq7jl]

More than 10,000 Japanese women were raped only in 1945 by mainly soldiers of Australia, USA etc. in Japan after the end of WW2 . And the GHQ of Allied Forces requested the Occupied Japan's Government to set up many brothels recruiting many Japanese women in many places of Japan for 7 years till Allied Forces left from Japan. Japanese women most feared Australian soldiers with strange hats for the reason of their brutality and inhumanity. Old Japanese women still remember it well in Japan.

[@roywhitaker007]

The Japanese did worse to everyone else and always pretend like they’ve never done anything wrong. They carried out various mass rapes and genocides. They were the ones doing the raping and mass killing and not the other way around. They were the ones ripping out babies out of pregnant women, not the other way around! Japanese are the demons, not the other way around. You see what they did to women and children in Asia?

[@kiyopon_holgae_spammer7398]

More than 80,000 Chinese women were raped in Nanking alone so what's your fucking point?

[@cashflownpv]

The rape of Chinese women in Nanjing was much worse

[@jeanrane662]

When I studied in Japan, I was elementary back then. I told my teacher about how the Japanese soldiers killed Filipinos. They executed more than 54,000 Filipinos, including children. Pregnant Filipino women were killed by having their bellies ripped open. And my Japanese teacher was shocked because I knew the history they wouldn’t want their country to know.

[@amitgurung163]

Yeah south east asia suffered the most by japanese colonization

[@youko9350]

Where is the evidence of Japnese soldiers executed more than 54000 in fillipinos .I can't imagine.Tell me more . Is this official?

[@cjk568]

@@youko9350 it’s just so sad that your country won’t let you new generations to know about the true history

[@youko9350]

I think the Allied side is worse than Japan. The atomic bombings, the air raids on Tokyo, , the horrible colonial administration, the Siberian internment, and the rapes committed by Allied soldiers. I can't understand why axis countries are always criticized.

[@nieljohnsantillan448]

True

[@willialoka]

Should ones child be guilty of crimes his grandfathers committed?

[@hayek218]

Child should not apologize for fabrications

[@bobertsinghja6745]

William Ly the father should stop saying nothing happened with a big check

[@mad_max21]

If they deny the atrocities happening in the first place, yes.

[@578943233]

Should one have the rights to inherit his father's fortunes?

[@willialoka]

This really put our thinking to the test, sometimes, people forget things, shadowed by their own pride and glory too ignorant to accept defeat and apologize for their own peoples atrocities. But if we place ourselves in the shoes of the Japanese people right now, their modern history must be a shame to even broach but it is a fact they can't run away from. I'm sure the common Japanese people feel regret and disgust by their own peoples action but Japanese people are not represented by the people sadly, as they are after all "Westernised".

[@hamiugrd3328]

TY C What's this ? Don't you know who Douglas MacArthur is ? Douglas MacArthur (GHQ Commander-in-Chief) " Their(Japan/Japanese) purpose, therefore in going to war was largely dictated by security. In the past 100 years, the biggest political mistake U.S. had committed was that by the defeat of Japan, we made the communist most powerful in China. " at the USA Congress in 1951. MacArthur noticed it at last just during the Korean War in 1950, but it was already too late !

[@HistoricLiesandPropagana-oe3oj]

A case of a KOREAN camp follower " Mun Oku-chu" in the WW2. A former Korean camp follower woman in the WW2 Mun Oku-chu said in her memoir: "I was recruited by a Korean camp follower's owner. I saved a considerable amount of money from tips, so I opened a saving account. I could not believe that I could have so much money in my saving account. One of my friends collected many jewels, so I went and bought a diamond. I often went to see Japanese movies and Kabuki plays in which players came from the mainland Japan. I became a popular woman in Rangoon. There were a lot more officers in Rangoon than near the frontlines, so I was invited to many parties. I sang songs at parties and received lots of tips. I put on a pair of high heels, a green coat and carried an alligator leather handbag. I swaggered about in a fashionable dress. No one in town could guess that I was a camp follower woman. I felt very happy and proud. I received permission to return home, but I didn't want to go back to Korea. I wanted to stay in Rangoon." According to Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, Mun Oku-chu continued to work as a prostitute in Korea after the war. Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abducted by the Japanese military.

[@realhistoricalevidencesand7515]

黑暗奈米雞 What's this ??? Do you know who Douglas MacArthur is ? Douglas MacArthur (GHQ Commander-in-Chief) " Their(Japan/Japanese) purpose, therefore in going to war was largely dictated by security. In the past 100 years, the biggest political mistake U.S. had committed was that by the defeat of Japan, we made the communist most powerful in China. " at the USA Congress in 1951. MacArthur noticed it at last just during the Korean War in 1950, but it was already too late !

[@DepressionOfMyCat]

Japan never really accepted its crimes like Germany did in a lot of ways. The country still has a lot of work to do.

[@jamesanglesey1545]

word

[@50z25]

Ryan Zad Don’t say such a terrible thing 😥

[@bucketsaremyfriend]

Aren't you edgy... Fucking piece of garbage.

[@50z25]

Ryan Zad Please calm down Sur😞I apologize you as a one of Japanese 🙏

[@yua7469]

Ryan Zad calm down China boi

[@adywijaya95]

"What is war? It is young men dying and old men talking".

[@alvin2464]

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

[@sreetalks618]

😀😀

[@N_Joel_Meitei]

Odysseus, in Troy

[@MCZaphelon]

"In times of peace, sons bury their fathers. In times of war, fathers bury their sons."

[@edmund8954]

"I like burritos" - Kevin Hart

[@tarantulaxii7399]

Are KOREANS respected ,loved or hated, depisied so much in the world ?

[@cdhkhbft4768]

pringlesfanta100 What's this world real historic fact and evidence to all of us here ? Tee case of a KOREAN camp follower " Kim Gun-ja" in the WW2 or the Korean War In 1993 a former Korean camp follower in the WW2 or in the Korean War " Kim Gun-ja " told Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, "I was sold by my foster father." Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abducted by the Japanese military. Kim Gun-ja also testified before United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2007 and said she was abducted by the Japanese military.

[@user-yh3is4qy7r]

Japan "Japan fought for peace. All claims of genocide are fake, and the bad guys are the Americans." good job japan

[@titovanhokie]

Man you know what, when Japan invaded Indonesia for only 3.5 years, my granpa said it was more brutal than Netherland colonial that last almost 300 years.

[@niamh7180]

This short article may be of interest to you : www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/what-gods-kingdom-will-do/.

[@rogueascendant6611]

Tsk, people nowadays are very sensitive than compared to our ancestors that are hardened by their daily livelihood when there's no modern convenience to softened them as chickens. I mean seriously, its already passed 80+ years since WW2 and nation like China and Korea still being jerk about the past action Japan did unto theirs. Literally wars happened all the time and its not being having a grudge but to remember and honor the dead. What China and Korea doing is holding a grudge like pestering kids. Seriously grow up already you frantic morons. The world we lived is unfair. Don't be in delusion that your'e the center of the Universe that wanted fairness in all the time.

[@Indokita]

Japan & the Dutch were all the same.

[@Indokita]

@yoshi muras Yes correct. War is just war, we know how it is supposed be but the attrocities of Japanese soldiers regarding comfort women or what they did to prisoners are unacceptable.

[@Indokita]

@@rogueascendant6611 Why are you so insensitive like that? Indonesia as a nation has moved on and be friend with Japan & the Dutch. But in Indonesia the most cruel thing about Japanese soldiers is the comfort women. These women could not continue with their life. Many of them don't get married because of their past. No job and live with support from community. Don't you think Japanese gov should pay punitive damage to those individuals? Because really the damage is done.

[@eduardocamilo2801]

I remember my grandmother (96yrs old and turning 97 this year) told me before that Japanese soldiers pick girls to be their comfort women so my grandmother had to put some animal blood in her undies for the soldiers to see that she has her monthly period.

[@kucimiao]

Bless your grandma. My late grandaunt was a comfort woman too. She died before I was born but I was told she got raped so much she went crazy. Several years after the war, she ran out in front of a car and got hit (and died). My own grandmother, 91 this year, had her hair chopped off by her mother so she would look like a boy. Fortunately, she wasn't harmed.

[@AdlBnymn]

@@kucimiao Damn That is really Hard to hear.

[@jeromesuarez5293]

No wonder japan can't still be forgiven

[@joselucas9398]

Caralho conta mais ae man

[@Angelica-cj5wf]

Animal blood or if none, they would let their menstruation flow. They would even slather themselves with mud and hide under their houses with their father only be the one going out for food or water to drink. It's horrible....

[@ngushdry6650]

KZbinr " Stories" = so called one of world historic sciolits !!!

[@whiteeagle8709]

3) That could leave the South without enough soldiers needed to ward off an invasion, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper warned. It also expressed doubt that innovations in artificial intelligence can go far enough to mitigate the need for human recruits. "The extremely low birthrate deals a catastrophic blow to not only national defense but also to health care and welfare," the Chosun article stated. The worsening situation has many in the country grasping for solutions. The South Korean government has brought forth measures including free universal day care and guaranteed maternity leave, but those moves have not succeeded in inducing families to have more children. Midterm projections for economic growth are meager, and the current government has pledged to cut spending, which could leave policymakers with fewer options. While South Korea has no history of large-scale immigration, the current government has expanded the use of migrant labor to address labor shortages. Inha University professor Lee Jae-woo suggested that the government should take more aggressive steps, such as providing inexpensive rental housing units to new parents and developing artificial intelligence-based tools to provide alternatives to expensive private tutoring. "The government and society must make all efforts for our country to be reborn as a place that is good for raising children," Lee told Nikkei Asia. "If we don't solve the problem of the low birthrate, South Korea will disappear."

[@damcross2308]

Keeps apologising, but also keeps denying the massacres they committed. How sincere can it be if they don’t even acknowledge past events, that are backed up by plenty of evidences.

[@KyleGD]

They just need to acknowledge it and we're all good now, but oh well still denying it lmao

[@user-tw5xw1rp5u]

Huh? How can they kill 300,000 people when the population of Nanking at the time was 200,000? Moreover, 300,000 people is an unrealistic number, the equivalent of two atomic bombs. Moreover, these things were said 25 years after the war. If there really was such a big event, they would have said it right away, and considering the ethnicity of the Chinese people, they would have aimed to destroy Japan right after the war. Totally, how long are you people going to be fooled by CCP's propaganda? It's pathetic. The photos of Nanjing at the time kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJaXdpiDj5aAZtU

[@cyanfloy2473]

Japan:apologies about war crimes but at the same time denying it World:did you just apologies for nothing? Japan:no?(actually yes)

[@carolstarnes5048]

Japan will never know the horrible damage they did when they bombed pearl harbor that started well mu family can't forget what they did I lost family members in that war. And the family's that lost all those sailors on the arizona.japan had no reason to do the awful thing they did no america won't forget ever!

[@blackpink6478]

Exactly

[@sacred-chan157]

The BEST apology from all of the world would be to NEVER start a war again.

[@kinglouie5]

Not gonna happen

[@shaikhziad5250]

everybody gangsta till kim jong un cracks his knuckles and turns into a tank and unravel starts playing

[@Nightdreaux22647]

The best apology would be the World VS Japan

[@omgean]

@@Nightdreaux22647 how

[@KANGMinCherry]

Yeah. And make proper history textbooks explaining what happened during the war and what was wrong, so the citizens born after the war will know what happened in the past. - and I believe this is a huge conflict among many countries...

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

Moepowerplant = Moepowerplant 4) 1985:Prime Minister Nakasone visitted "officially" at the Yasukuni Shrine in July ,on 4th/August and 7th/August. The Asahi Shinbin(newspaper) which is a leader of Anti-Japan activists and movements in Japan suddenly ran a big campaign to condemn that "The visitting of Japan's prime minister at the Yasukuni Shrine means the revival of Japanese militarism" in Japan. But of course there was no condemnation from Communist China at all !!! Communist China at last started to condemn Japan regarding the Yaskuni Shrine matter after Japan's Social Party visitted Communist China and suggested and instigated Communist Chinese leaders to condemn Japan rgarding the Yashuni Shrine from one of political tools. Since 1985 till now Communist China keep condemning Japan regarding the Yasukuni Shrine matter from above absord and meaningless reason and propagandas.. Communist Chinese may be servants or slaves of Anti-Japan Japanese activists, Communist and Socialist Japanese Parties and the Japan's Left massmedias. NHK(Nihon Housou Kyoukai public TV Inc.), The Mainichi Shinbun(Newspaper), The Tokyo Shinbun, The Cyuunichi Shinbun The Okinawa Times and The Ryuukyuu Shinpou,The Hokkaidou Shinbun etc. of Japan are other leaders of Anti-Japan activity movements in Japan.Only The Sankei Shinbun is a neutral newspaper in Japan. The Mainichi Shinbun is given much money to propagandise in Japan by Communist China as The Guardian(UK) has recently exposed.

[@whiteeagle8709]

2) The authors say that increasing government spending on family benefits from the current 1.4% of GDP to the OECD average of 2.2% could modestly boost the fertility rate. Adding fuel to the fevered conversation was a New York Times column published over the weekend. The headline asks, "Is South Korea disappearing?" The column then attempts to answer that question, citing figures stating that the current birthrate and the pace of its decline suggest that South Korea's population could contract from the current 51 million to 35 million by the late 2060s. Columnist Ross Douthat follows that with doom-laden descriptions of where South Korea finds itself, how it got there and why the state of affairs is likely to keep deteriorating. He posits that if the current birthrate continues, the country will experience "a depopulation exceeding what the Black Death delivered to Europe in the 14th century." Though Douthat is not known for writing on East Asian demographics, the stark language in the column, coming from a prestigious U.S. media outlet, led to front-page stories and prime-time news coverage. Responses to the column in conservative media highlighted Douthat's mention of North Korea's birthrate, which at 1.8 is below the replacement level of 2.1, but still more than double that of South Korea.

[@miztiks3419]

Japan: I’m Sorry America: Ight Imma Head Out To Watch Hentai

[@yashaa6913]

Philippines:OHO WE ARE NOW INDEPENDENT, THANKS AMERICA! JAPAN: IM ABOUT TO END THIS MAN WHOLE CAREER

[@iamaloafofbread8926]

@Luke Skywalker America: D-Don't worry about it

[@rishavgogoi1176]

Fuck you weebs

[@rishavgogoi1176]

@Jack Helrein see? Weebos gets offended too easily XD

[@xavoc4973]

@@rishavgogoi1176 "XD"

[@realhistoricalevidencesand7515]

黑暗奈米雞 What's this ??? SHANGHAI, Jan. 3. - American professors remaining at Ginling College in Nanking as foreign members of the Refugee Welfare Committee were seriously embarrassed to discover that they had been harboring a deserted Chinese Army colonel and six of his subordinate officers. The professors had, in fact, made the colonel second in authority at the refugee camp. The officers, who had doffed their uniforms during the Chinese retreat from Nanking, were discovered living in one of the college buildings. They confessed their identity after Japanese Army searchers found they had hidden six rifles, five revolvers, a dismounted machine gun and ammunition in the building. The ex-Chinese officers in the presence of Americans and other foreigners confessed looting in Nanking and also that one night they dragged girls from the refugee camp into the darkness and the next day blamed Japanese soldiers for the attacks. The ex-officers were arrested and will be punished under martial law and probably executed. The New York Times Published: January 4, 1938 Copyright © The New York Times =============================== SHANGHAI, Jan. 3. - American professors remaining at Ginling College in Nanking as foreign members of the Refugee Welfare Committee were seriously embarrassed to discover that they had been harboring a deserted Chinese Army colonel and six of his subordinate officers. The professors had, in fact, made the colonel second in authority at the refugee camp. The officers, who had doffed their uniforms during the Chinese retreat from Nanking, were discovered living in one of the college buildings. They confessed their identity after Japanese Army searchers found they had hidden six rifles, five revolvers, a dismounted machine gun and ammunition in the building. The ex-Chinese officers in the presence of Americans and other foreigners confessed looting in Nanking and also that one night they dragged girls from the refugee camp into the darkness and the next day blamed Japanese soldiers for the attacks. The ex-officers were arrested and will be punished under martial law and probably executed. The New York Times Published: January 4, 1938 Copyright © The New York Times

[@buster117]

The rape of Nanking however is a forgotten event for the Japanese.

[@chat3087]

Just like how the US forgets the Korean War.

[@Nyx_2142]

@@chat3087 What? The Korean War (or Conflict, whichever you prefer) is mentioned in history books and have several memorials. Me and you have have very different definitions of "forgotten."

[@DA-xk6ex]

Tungchow mutiny however is a forgotten event for the Chinese.

[@chat3087]

@@Nyx_2142 . Oh I thought the Korean War was forgotten. Sorry about the false information.

[@chat3087]

@@DA-xk6ex . I am going to agree with you for that one. I never heard about it. Like, NEVER.

[@yzpvrboc4805]

jenny 50,000 Vietnamese Women raped by South Korean soldiers during the Vietnam war and 20,000 mixed children with South Korean soldiers are still awaiting apology from South Korean's government and South Korean people. Campaign group urges recognition for women affected by sexual violence of South Korean troops and the children born as a result Totally 320,000 South Korean soldiers were deployed to Vietnam to fight alongside the US between 1964 and 1973, but the story of the country’s involvement in the conflict is largely untold. South Korea has never acknowledged claims of sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by its troops against thousands of women and girls, some as young as 12 - or the children born as a result.

[@gracianatenriquez1831]

DrAsian_Jesus 2) The above number shows how population grew after Japanese troops entered the Nanjing City on 1937 December 13. Those who blame Japan (like author of "The Rape of Nanking" Iris Chiang and Communist China etc.) claim that Japan's Imperila Army massacred "300,000 innocent Hans". But there were 200,000 Hans in the safety zone in Nanking being strictly guarded by Japanese soldiers at that time. So, the simple arithmetic destroys the claim and propagandas of Communist Hans that Japan's Imperila Army massacred 300,000 Hans in Nanking. How could the population growths have happened when Japanese soldiers were allegedly committing "horrendous and criminal" massacre, killing untold number of innocent women and children? Answer: Impossible.

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

Moepowerplant = Moepowerplant 3) 1959:Socalled "B & C"class criminals at the Tokyo Revenge Tribunal were enshrined.Everyone must know Class A, B and C shows merely the category of a socalled crime by Allied Forces only.Class "A" means the war crime for the peace,but there was no such international law at all in the WW2 and was the " ex post facto law at that time .Therefore ONLY a specialist of the International Law ,Radhabinod Pal (International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Indian Judge JD)criticized the judgement of the Tokyo Revenge Tribunal from the side of specialits of the International Law. 1978:Socalled war criminal "A" class were enshrined at the Yasukuni Shrine and was publicly announced by the Yasukuni Shrine. 1979:On 19th April The Asahi Shinbun informed the enshrienment of socalled "A" class criminals.But Communist China were not interested at all in that article and didn't take any action at all to Japan !!! Japanese Prime Minister Oohira worshipped at Yasukuni Shrine in Oct.Of course there was no condemnation all from Commuist China.The Asahi Shinbun failed in propagada to instigate Communist China.The Ashai Shinbun(Newspaper) Inc. is one of very notorious Anti-Japan activist organizations in Japan collabortating with Japanese Communists/Socialits Parties and and Communist China/ ex-Soviet Union after the WW2. 1980:From 1980 till July of 1985 Japan's Prime Minister Masayoshi Oohira, Zenkou Suzuki and Yasuhiro Nakasone visitted "officially" at the Yasukuni Shrine 21 times, but of course there were no condemnations at all from Communist China till July 1985 !!! From 1945 till 1985 All Japan's Prime Minister visited Yasukuni Shrine about 60 times. Why did Communist China never claimed at all till 1985 ??? Why did Communist China suddenly start to claim it to Japan ? 1981:There was no condemnation at all from Communist China at all !!! 1982:same as above!!! 1983:same as above!!! 1984:same as above!!!

[@aniketsharma5189]

Japan : "We are sorry for our past colonizations". European Colonizers :🙄 We don't remember anything before WW2.

[@m33a]

Good one😂

[@Onio_]

The Japanese didn't colonise.

[@5kaye137]

@@Onio_ yes they did colonize

[@Onio_]

@@5kaye137 They massacred and conquered already colonised lands for the most part.

[@5kaye137]

@@Onio_ im talking about korea and other stuff yeah

[@fraggrenade7498]

Japan: I fear nothing, *A photo of Fat Man appears* Japan: but that thing, I fear

[@Anonymous-mf8le]

It scares the world

[@sofia-wb9rp]

Especially scares those of Nagasaki 👀

[@madingwang7778]

ironic that most people in japan are very thin

[@jonas-su5st]

*Therapist to Japan: fat man baby doesn't exist, he can't hurt you.* *Fat man baby:*

[@mgrscope1fan445]

Logan paul Should have appeared

[@khs93n6d2]

pringlesfanta100 A well-known and famous best seller book published in USA ,Korea and Japan titled " So Far from the Bamboo Grove" written by Ms. Yoko Kawashima Watkins in 1986 proved so many refugees of Japanese women from the northern part of the Korean peninsula and Manchuria to Japan were raped by northern Korean men after the end of WW2 . The Soviet Union's soldiers raped many Japanese women too, but the worst cases were by Korean men in the northern part of the Korean peninsula being supported by the Communist Soviet Union.

[@squidkill9077]

Both sides in the war rapes each other, including japanese soldier to the non japanese civilians in occupied territory during ww2

[@ahmedxhjiwan5734]

@@squidkill9077 First of all you non-educated, low-intelligent Indonesian or Korean--Indonesian must answer and disprove for all above real world historic evidences and facts of " Kamikaze Zero Fighter " in front of us more well and highly educated viewers in the world than you silly Indonesian or KOREAN--Indonesian !!!!!!!!!! We are waiting for your new silly comments without any real world historic evidence and fact to humiliate you more in the world on internet !!!

[@ahmedxhjiwan5734]

@@squidkill9077 Are you a non-educated, low-intelligent KOREAN, KOREAN--INDONESIAN or pure Indonesian from your silly and low-intellectual comments ??????

[@cdhkhbft4768]

pringlesfanta100 The head of the International Propaganda Division of KMT( Chiang Kai-shek's Army) Zeng Xubai confessed by himself in his diary as below. Zeng Xubai (曽虚白), head of the International Propaganda Division (国際宣伝処処長), wrote autobiography “Zeng Xubai Zichuan (曽虚白自伝)” which says as follows: “Conveniently, Timperley was one of the three important persons who attended the ‘resistance committee’ in Shanghai when we were engaging in anti-Japan international propaganda there… "We decided that, in the present international propaganda operations, Chinese must not come forefront, and that we must find international friends who understand our thinking as well as strategy in the war, and who would become our spokesmen. "Timperley was an ideal candidate. As a start, we decided to pay money and ask Timperley and Smythe, via Timperley, to write two books as record of witness on Nanking Massacre by the Japanese army, and to publish them… Afterwards, Timperley acted accordingly… two books were fast-selling items and achieved the objective of propaganda.

[@squidkill9077]

Well at least japanese warcrimes in other country was real (Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia)

[@kamikazezerofighter984]

@@squidkill9077 Are you one of non-educated, lo-intelligent eternal, unreasonable , groundless , RACIST, silly KOREAN historic liars, propagandists and agitators ??? You silly KOREAN must study English at first to know the real world history !!! Haven't you shameful non-educated, low-intelligent unreasonable , baseless eternal Anti-Japan/Japanese RACIST KOREAN historic lira, propagandist and agitator yet read the so famous USA Government's official and final report " THE IWG REPORT " about Imperial Japan's Army in the WW2 till now in your whole life ???????!!!!!!!! Can you surely read and understand USA Government's official documents written in English ? The so famous ,world-widely well-known USA Government's final and official report about IJA( Imperial Japan's Army) in the WW2 named " THE IWG REPORT " that was publicly issued in USA in 2007 wasting so huge amount of USA Tax money(30 million US Dollars) and 8 years and 7 million historic documents due to strong requests from the Communist Hans and the Korean living in USA finally concluded USA Government could not find any war crimes of IJA in the WW2 in spite of many propagandas by Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and and the Korean descendants not only in USA/Canada but also in Australia/Germany/France/Communist China 2 Koreas ( South & North),Japan and other nations in the world with no real and concrete historic evidences and proofs.

[@kamikazezerofighter984]

@@squidkill9077 Douglas MacArthur (GHQ Commander-in-Chief) " Their(Japan/Japanese) purpose, therefore in going to war was largely dictated by security. In the past 100 years, the biggest political mistake U.S. had committed was that by the defeat of Japan, we made the communist most powerful in China. " at the USA Congress in 1951. MacArthur noticed it at last just during the Korean War in 1950, but it was already too late !

[@tpark4234]

@@squidkill9077 50,000 Vietnamese Women raped by South Korean soldiers during the Vietnam war and 20,000 mixed children with South Korean soldiers are still awaiting apology from South Korean's government and South Korean people. Campaign group urges recognition for women affected by sexual violence of South Korean troops and the children born as a result Totally 320,000 South Korean soldiers were deployed to Vietnam to fight alongside the US between 1964 and 1973, but the story of the country’s involvement in the conflict is largely untold. South Korea has never acknowledged claims of sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by its troops against thousands of women and girls, some as young as 12 - or the children born as a result.

[@tpark4234]

@@squidkill9077 THe case of a KOREAN camp follower " Kim Gun-ja" in the WW2 or the Korean War In 1993 a former Korean camp follower in the WW2 or in the Korean War " Kim Gun-ja " told Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, "I was sold by my foster father." Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abducted by the Japanese military. Kim Gun-ja also testified before United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2007 and said she was abducted by the Japanese military.

[@cseeto]

Japan apologizes this.. Japan apologizes that.. and then there's "Canada accepts Japanese apologies". aaaaah, god bless canada.

[@brandonin4218]

A professional shut-in wow sure god bless Canada. It’s not like Japan totally annexed and invaded neighboring Asian countries and forced men to become POWs and women to be sex slaves.

[@AFlyingCookieLOL]

@i i Western propganda

[@deftdva9210]

A professional shut-in true, true.

[@bockscar1]

@i i your a dumb ass ! Communist Chinese atrocity is Japan's fault ! The Japanese ww2 invasion is what helped communist Mao over turn it's government even Mao openly thanked Japan ! He stated if it wasn't for Japan's timely invasion communist revolution wouldn't of succeeded ! Japanese is responsible for communist Chinese atrocity !

[@bockscar1]

@i i Here's Mao Zedong telling the Prime Minister of Japan to take back his apology "(Japan) doesn't have to say sorry, you had contributed towards China, why? Because had Imperial Japan did not start the war of invasion, how could we communist became mighty powerful? How could we stage the coup d'état? How could we defeat Chiang Kai Shek? How are we going to pay back you guys? No, we do not want your war reparations!" -Mao Zedong greeting Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei in Nanjing, 1972 Here's Mao praising Japan's contribution to his war effort "Those Japanese were real good. Without Japanese's help, China's [Communist] revolution would not have suceeded. I said the same thing to a Japanese, a capitalist, by the name of nanxiang sanlang(?).He kept on saying: 'Sorry, we did invade China' I said to him: 'Don't say that, on the contrary, Japanese helped us (Communist) in a big way', especially Japanese warlords and the Japanese Emperor." -Mao Zedong's conversation with American journalist Edgar Snow, 1970 Mao Zedong's communists were on the retreat across China from the Republic of China until Japan's timely intervention saved him. The Republic of China's military suffered over 3 million casualties from their best trained and equipped units fighting Japan, as well as over 20 million civilian deaths. The Republic of China was obligated (even though Chiang Kai Shek stalled as long as he could as he considered other Chinese greater threats than Japan) to defend her civilians against invaders which meant pitched battles in urban environments against the brunt of Japanese mechanized forces, while Mao Zedong could afford to retreat into the countryside and fight a guerrilla war ambushing small groups of Japanese soldiers. By the time the Japanese Empire was defeated, Mao had regained his strength (thousands of Japanese who surrendered were even recruited to Mao's forces) and finished off the weakened Republic.

[@koreanprostituteswithusagi2379]

lazy703 More than 10,000 Japanese women were raped only in 1945 by mainly soldiers of Australia, USA etc. in Japan after the end of WW2 . And the GHQ of Allied Forces requested the Occupied Japan's Government to set up many brothels recruiting many Japanese women in many places of Japan for 7 years till Allied Forces left from Japan. Japanese women most feared Australian soldiers with strange hats for the reason of their brutality and inhumanity. Old Japanese women still remember it well in Japan

[@celiasisii3617]

Lmao so?? They dont have the rught to commit rape in nanking (china)and in Philippines

[@soccerlovin1]

They refused to apologize OFFICIALLY for many decades and still refuse to apologize for Unit 731. Where they cut alive people open and had horrific medical experiments. Plus they routinely deny and don't teach students what they did. At least the U.S teaches its students about Japanese internment and treatment of Native Americans.

[@televikkuntdaowuxing]

They didn't "done that". History is full of horrific things, and if we relie on the past every single country should apologize thousands of times. For example, the US has never apologized for the two nukes, just because they (maybe you too) thing was necessary to prevent even more deaths. War is war, during one of them the world doesn't work with moral, and "war criminals" is the most hypocrital word ever to exist.

[@AMadar-kj5hb]

Frank Underwood children should not be punished for the acts of their grandparents.

[@rmc9873]

But not a single "wounded knee" in American textbooks. Seriously, you people are so gullible to still believe in that Thanksgiving crap. Reality was harsher than that, and cannibalism is just the tip of the iceberg about the many horrific events that happened during that period.

[@EnergyKnife]

+malik caymaz The hell sort of textbooks were you reading. Wounded Knee and the rest of the Indian Wars were definitely given their due.

[@heebiejeebies4625]

+Malik Caymaz in the U.S. we learned that the colonist slaughtered he Indians after thanksgiving day, and took more land from them. We killed more Indians afterwards for more land. Also that was the British, not the Americans. :)

[@realhistoricalevidencesand7515]

黑暗奈米雞 What's this ??? The horrible Gegenm Massacre and rapesof many Japanese women and civilians by Soviet Union in Manchuria in the WW2. The Gegenmiao massacre, also known as the Gegenmiao incident,was a massacre conducted by the Soviet Army(one of Allied Forces members in the WW2) and a part of the local Chinese population against over half of a group of 1,800 Japanese women and children who had taken refuge in the lamasery Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (葛根廟) on August 14, 1945, during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The massacre occurred in Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (present day: Gegenmiao zhen; 葛根廟鎭), a town in the Horqin Right Front Banner of the Hinggan League of Inner Mongolia. Refugees were shot, run over by tanks or trucks, and bayoneted by the red army after they raised a white flag. After two hours, well over one thousand Japanese refugees, mostly women and children, had been killed. Angry Chinese chased a group of Japanese refugees into a river, where many drowned. Some women were stripped and raped by soldiers. A woman was stripped and killed by Chinese after her child was killed by Soviet Red Army soldiers. One family tried to hide in the trenches, but were pursued and gunned down by Soviets. They also beat mothers into submission in order to steal children. In the market a Japanese boy could sell for 300 yen, a girl for 500 yen. By the end of the killings over 1000 people had died.

[@realworldhistoricevidences7117]

2023.10.26 South Korea S. Korea's Top Court Reverses Ruling against Comfort Women Book Author South Korea's top court on Thursday overturned a lower court ruling that found the author of a book on so-called comfort women guilty of defamation. The Supreme Court sent the case back to the Seoul High Court, while indicating its intention to acquit the author, Park Yu-ha, honorary professor at Sejong University in South Korea. In June 2014, former comfort women and others filed a criminal complaint against Park, saying that some statements in her book "Comfort Women of the Empire" had harmed their reputations. In the book, first published in August 2013, Park said that comfort women, or those who worked as prostitutes for Japanese troops before and during World War II, had a comrade-like relationship with the Japanese side. In November 2015, prosecutors indicted Park, arguing that she had severely damaged the public reputation of former comfort women and deviated from academic freedom. Meanwhile, some intellectuals in Japan and South Korea criticized the indictment as a violation of academic freedom.

[@yostugotz5619]

I think by now the whole world should be apologizing for every war committed throughout history.

[@xr-nm4nb]

Do you think the French should apologize for defending themselves against Germany in ww2

[@zhanbolatmurzashov4001]

@@xr-nm4nb He means like bombing the homes of citizens who cant go against the military dictator

[@aprilsaron6940]

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[@aprilsaron6940]

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[@aprilsaron6940]

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[@Columbia1867]

Here in Canada we always apologize for ww2 even though we didn't do anything wrong!

[@SensitiveHomie310]

That's why the world loves you guys lol Good ole Canada

[@TreyG-vd4ni]

Andrew gimme your wallet

[@deathdoomdarkness6124]

To be fair, we did practice some internment of Japanese civilians here, just as in the US.

[@TheBikeOnTheMoon]

The thing is the Allied did commit war crimes too, it's just they are well hidden away from the general public

[@ThatGuy-bd4py]

Andrew your prisoners should be thanking you lol

[@realhistoricalevidencesand7515]

黑暗奈米雞 What's this ??? Japanese civilians in Tokyo were attacked by many napalm bombs of American air bombers B-29 106 times from Nov.1944 till 15th August 1945.There were very heavy air bombing especially on 10th March, 13th April,15th April,24th May, 35th May and 2th May in 1945. The most horrible and inhuman air bombing of napalm bomb was on 10th March killing more than 100,000 Japanese civilians and seriously injuring more than 1 million civilians in one night.

[@kiyopon_holgae_spammer7398]

Then how many Chinese, Filipino,Korea etc died to Japanese Bombing and massacre fucking asshole don't try to defend Japanese because you love anime

[@stevejung6470]

Than is a small fraction to the damage the imperial japanese soldiers caused to korea china filipinos etc etc etc. Not only bombed but rape inhumane murder etc etc. They are much worse than the nazi to the jews

[@ksn-rq7jl]

50,000 Vietnamese Women raped by South Korean soldiers during the Vietnam war and 20,000 mixed children with South Korean soldiers are still awaiting apology from South Korean's government and South Korean people. Campaign group urges recognition for women affected by sexual violence of South Korean troops and the children born as a result Totally 320,000 South Korean soldiers were deployed to Vietnam to fight alongside the US between 1964 and 1973, but the story of the country’s involvement in the conflict is largely untold. South Korea has never acknowledged claims of sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by its troops against thousands of women and girls, some as young as 12 - or the children born as a result.

[@gracianatenriquez1831]

DrAsian_Jesus 1) Although the author(a Han woman propagandist)of " The Rape of Nanking " IRIS CHANG and the socalled Nanking massacre museum in Nanking show 300,000 Chinese were massacred by Japan's Imperial Army in Dec. 1937 of the WW2, how can they prove the contradiction of the number of the population of Nanking at that time ? The following is the population of Nanking. 200,000 1937 December 250,000 1938 January 270,000 1938 March 277,000 1938 May

[@yodef6828]

Welcome to the comments section, where everyone is either a comedian or a wiseman.

[@hurb3222]

Or an angy boi

[@TopHatFox]

Or a communist

[@secuporia]

Or an asshole

[@clashofclansbasedefender164]

Or just about anyone with their opinions

[@reiihino6046]

Or wants some other countries to apologise

[@REEEPROGRAM]

"Your forefather's sin is not yours to carry" -former Filipino president Elpido Quirino, the same guy who's family were killed by the Japanese soldiers

[@mogu8026]

It's not about carrying the sin, it's about making sure something like that'll never happen again and the victims of the crimes don't have to live the rest of their lives ruined by illegal actions of a government which aren't even acknowledged properly.

[@jacktherapper1129]

@@mogu8026 I 100% percent agree with you

[@SillyUwUBilly]

*Poland has entered the chat*

[@user-cb1ug3dk1c]

Wise words

[@jerry-lb7cy]

“…I should be the last one to pardon them as the Japanese killed my wife and three children, and five other members of my family. I am doing this because I do not want my children and my people to inherit from me the hate for people who might yet be our friends for the permanent interest of our country.” -2nd Republic of the Philippines President Quirino

[@gracianatenriquez1831]

Asian Jesus = DrAsian_Jesus 2) Yuhuatai(雨花台)Martyr's Cemetery(雨花台烈士陵园) ,Nanjing was founded by Mao Zedong in 1950 at Nanjing. During 1927-1949(the republican era) the area was used for the execution of traitors. It is thought that over 100,000 communists were killed here by Chiang Kai-shek by 1949 it became a memorial for the revolutionary martyrs. Mao Zedong wrote on the monument "more than 300 thousands Communist Chinese were massacred by Ching Kai-shek " as below in Chinese laguage-国民党政府在雨花台曽経屠殺了三十万共産党烈士 - The number of victims was 300 thousand is quite the same of the present so called fake and fabricated "Nanking Massacre Museum"in Nanking. It's very unreasonable, sneaking,coward, shameless ,astonishing and disgusting for Communist China to accuse Japan now with so called fake and Fabricated historic propaganda and fanciful fiction.

[@DankMemeTeacher]

"Apologizing", more like denying what they did in WWII

[@donotlookatmyname2008]

Mr. Brown Wouldn't apologizing mean that they know what they did?

[@tr8r72]

It doesn't make any sense

[@joshuakusuma5953]

Do Not Look At My Name I think what he means is that the Japanese know what they did, but they downplay it.

[@jaymendoza1364]

Oh, they straight up deny what they did...fuck japan, with their god damn pity partying over hiroshima...

[@tr8r72]

Da fuk its wrong with you guys If they are denying thier war crimes they they would it be apologizing

[@shitstirrer]

1:24 these images do NOT show people apologizing, instead they paying tribute to the emperor or soldiers fought in WW2 in shrine, so these images are regarded as a contrary to remorse.

[@mikayelalikhanyan1587]

Yes this channel is full of cucks calling apologies blanket apologies

[@epicdotpngnotfound8857]

K but a lot of people lost their lives in ww2 so if your country was one of the main fighters in this war and LOST, then you probably lost a lot of people, and even though many of them did bad, we still mourn over our soldiers, even the ones who committed crimes still fought for the country, and died doing so. You may just be acknowledging the pictures but the tone makes you sound like someone who just wants to point out flaws in things or people, or just seek attention. The Japanese apologize for the war crimes and atrocities they committed, and just want to move on and forget that dark time in their history. Just like us liberty lovin Americans just want go move on from racial segregation, the civil war, 9/11, vietnam. We all have had dark times in history and just want to recover.

[@mikayelalikhanyan1587]

@@epicdotpngnotfound8857 true, that's rely good insight

[@9yearoldepicgamersoldier129]

@@epicdotpngnotfound8857 Exactly! Finally someone with a brain

[@devinodriscoll]

Web the Great Yes, and no. You are absolutely right, there’s nothing with honoring the dead and veterans. In the same way that we (should, at least) honour the men who served in Vietnam even though we shouldn’t have been there, committed many atrocities, AND lost. However, unlike Japan, we don’t omit our own atrocities from history classes. We acknowledge that we’ve done wrong, and that’s not a bad thing. You can’t bury the past when it comes to war crimes. It’s not that easy.

[@vacuumdecay4686]

Ezekiel basa What are your concrete historic reasons for your comment " their leaders before are bad " ?

[@ksn-rq7jl]

What's this real world historic eviddence to all KOREANS here ? The case of a KOREAN camp follower " Kim Gun-ja" in the WW2 or the Korean War In 1993 a former Korean camp follower in the WW2 or in the Korean War " Kim Gun-ja " told Professor Ahn Byong Jik of Seoul University, "I was sold by my foster father." Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abducted by the Japanese military. Kim Gun-ja also testified before United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs in 2007 and said she was abducted by the Japanese military.

[@cherrabenoussama3509]

Historical evidence is covered up like black tom explosion

[@ahmadsyauki9346]

My grandma once said "Yes, live under Dutch were hard, but after Japan came, I wished Dutch never leave us" I'm Indonesian btw Edit : After reading through the replies, I have to make clarification. I don't hate Japanese nor Dutch. There are good and bad things about both Japanese and Dutch, but, let past grudge be past, no need to debate it in today's world. Japanese and Dutch are now good trade partner with Indonesia, so yeah, let's just have party celebrating our togetherness 😁😁

[@motchiman5423]

May god be with you

[@meingoobby8231]

What part of Indonesia was your grandmother from?..My great grandmother is from Sulawesi in a place called "Toraja" and she still can recall the days when Japan came to Indonesia and how the things became even worse...I Feel sorry for your Grandmothers and those who have suffered during the Japanese Occupation.

[@ahmadsyauki9346]

@@meingoobby8231 First of all, deep condolences for your great grandmother too. My grandma was born & raised in Kebumen, but then moved to Bengkulu, because it was so chaos in Kebumen, She told me many womans were taken and being "used", so she & her sisters had to hid inside a granary almost everyday. But then, she lived her life happily and raised succesful childrens

[@letssmile3564]

I'm sorry about your grandma, but thank you for telling your grandma's story too.

[@reiihino6046]

dutch never left you even when japanese came

[@quickzilver333]

If you think Japan committed the worst atrocities then you haven't read about the US History.

[@Sopro9852]

Smh, have you heard of the war crimes committed by Antarctica? Monsters!

[@discernment101]

unit 731 makes the native american genocide look humane

[@chervon5773]

quickzilver333 at least Americans don't eat POWS and perform such evil experiments on them

[@discernment101]

mate you're not a peace activist if you think killing and injuring over 200,000 innocent civilians can be justified in any way shape or form. Regardless if you think doing fuck all in the name of peace will change anything you're stupid, revolutions change things that's what we need, a soldier won't hesitate to shoot a peaceful protester if given the order so why make yourself an easy target? honestly

[@jomaridelapaz3404]

Teufel und 6 I like anime just as much as the next guy but Japan still has a ways to go to atone for their sins

[@HistoricLiesandPropagana-oe3oj]

The head of the International Propaganda Division of KMT( Chiang Kai-shek's Army) Zeng Xubai confessed by himself in his diary as below. Zeng Xubai (曽虚白), head of the International Propaganda Division (国際宣伝処処長), wrote autobiography “Zeng Xubai Zichuan (曽虚白自伝)” which says as follows: “Conveniently, Timperley was one of the three important persons who attended the ‘resistance committee’ in Shanghai when we were engaging in anti-Japan international propaganda there… "We decided that, in the present international propaganda operations, Chinese must not come forefront, and that we must find international friends who understand our thinking as well as strategy in the war, and who would become our spokesmen. "Timperley was an ideal candidate. As a start, we decided to pay money and ask Timperley and Smythe, via Timperley, to write two books as record of witness on Nanking Massacre by the Japanese army, and to publish them… Afterwards, Timperley acted accordingly… two books were fast-selling items and achieved the objective of propaganda.

[@realhistoricalevidencesand7515]

黑暗奈米雞 What's this ??? The head of the International Propaganda Division of KMT( Chiang Kai-shek's Army) Zeng Xubai confessed by himself in his diary as below. Zeng Xubai (曽虚白), head of the International Propaganda Division (国際宣伝処処長), wrote autobiography “Zeng Xubai Zichuan (曽虚白自伝)” which says as follows: “Conveniently, Timperley was one of the three important persons who attended the ‘resistance committee’ in Shanghai when we were engaging in anti-Japan international propaganda there… "We decided that, in the present international propaganda operations, Chinese must not come forefront, and that we must find international friends who understand our thinking as well as strategy in the war, and who would become our spokesmen. "Timperley was an ideal candidate. As a start, we decided to pay money and ask Timperley and Smythe, via Timperley, to write two books as record of witness on Nanking Massacre by the Japanese army, and to publish them… Afterwards, Timperley acted accordingly… two books were fast-selling items and achieved the objective of propaganda.

[@baltasarmelchor935]

everything is propaganda except what I tell you, state your points, provide your evidence and kiss me, dear

[@tnbx4735]

@@baltasarmelchor935 Here's Mao Zedong telling the Prime Minister of Japan to take back his apology Which Communist Han does tell a historic lie and propagandize a fake and fabricated historic propaganda in the world now ,Mao Zedong or Xi-Jinping ? Xi-Jinping must not ignore and distort official statement of Mao Zedong in the world !!!!!!! "(Japan) doesn't have to say sorry, you had contributed towards China, why? Because had Imperial Japan did not start the war of invasion, how could we communist became mighty powerful? How could we stage the coup d'état? How could we defeat Chiang Kai Shek? How are we going to pay back you guys? No, we do not want your war reparations!" -Mao Zedong greeting Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei in Nanjing, in !!!!!!!! 1972 !!!!!! Here's Mao praising Japan's contribution to his war effort "Those Japanese were real good. Without Japanese's help, China's [Communist] revolution would not have suceeded. I said the same thing to a Japanese, a capitalist, by the name of nanxiang sanlang(?).He kept on saying: 'Sorry, we did invade China' I said to him: 'Don't say that, on the contrary, Japanese helped us (Communist) in a big way', especially Japanese warlords and the Japanese Emperor."

[@tnbx4735]

@@baltasarmelchor935 -Mao Zedong's conversation with American journalist Edgar Snow,in !!!!!! 1970 !!!!!! Which Communist Han does tell a historic lie and propagandize a fake and fabricated historic propaganda in the world now ,Mao Zedong or Xi-Jinping ? Xi-Jinping must not ignore and distort official statement of Mao Zedong in the world !!!!!!! Mao Zedong's communists were on the retreat across China from the Republic of China until Japan's timely intervention saved him. The Republic of China's military suffered over 3 million casualties from their best trained and equipped units fighting Japan, as well as over 20 million civilian deaths. The Republic of China was obligated (even though Chiang Kai Shek stalled as long as he could as he considered other Chinese greater threats than Japan) to defend her civilians against invaders which meant pitched battles in urban environments against the brunt of Japanese mechanized forces, while Mao Zedong could afford to retreat into the countryside and fight a guerrilla war ambushing small groups of Japanese soldiers. By the time the Japanese Empire was defeated, Mao had regained his strength (thousands of Japanese who surrendered were even recruited to Mao's forces) and finished off the weakened Republic.

[@dad2909]

*"i'll never forgive the japanese!"* -joseph joestar

[@isshishiroorderofgoldenkit3550]

Isshi Shiro: you don't say love the comment I did that to I got Very negative comments

[@Purringcat851]

Ah yes a jojo reference

[@ricksshadow7115]

But why

[@isshishiroorderofgoldenkit3550]

@@ricksshadow7115 what do you mean

[@ricksshadow7115]

@@isshishiroorderofgoldenkit3550 idk just typing random

[@SubscriberswithDankPlaylists]

Keeps apologizing but none of their current citizens know what their ancestors had done.

[@swizzchoc3474]

It was said in the video that Japan wants to erase their past. I even saw one comment here on youtube that a Filipino guy became bestfriends with some Japanese people. And when they heard about stories of the Filipino guy's grandparents during WWII, they immediately apologized for the actions of their ancestors. Probably because they don't even know that Japan was a big threat during those wars.

[@swizzchoc3474]

Or to put it simple, there's a high probability that the Japanese don't teach their children history during WWII.

[@swizzchoc3474]

@Shubham Kanojia that's just sad

[@beandiesel974]

@@swizzchoc3474 What happened to his grandparents?

[@trollinape2697]

@Shubham Kanojia wdym especially England? Everyone knows the british empire its genocides and the slave. We literally learn and like 12/13 bruv

[@realhistoricalevidencesand7515]

黑暗奈米雞 Don't you know the following statement in USA at all till now in your so miserable life from PRC ? Douglas MacArthur (GHQ Commander-in-Chief) " Their(Japan/Japanese) purpose, therefore in going to war was largely dictated by security. In the past 100 years, the biggest political mistake U.S. had committed was that by the defeat of Japan, we made the communist most powerful in China. " at the USA Congress in 1951. MacArthur noticed it at last just during the Korean War in 1950, but it was already too late !

[@TyskyW-jw7yj]

lecherhao86 = lecherhao86 One of Allied Forces of Communist Soviet soldiers massacred and raped 200-400 thousands Japanese citizens , women and children in Manchuria even after the end of the WW2 from the midnight of 9th August 1945 till Dec. 1946.

[@shauryarawat8553]

LoL , then British should apologise every day Edit: Ah shiet, there is a war in comment section.

[@ANONYMOUS-it1ku]

😂

[@hamzaaboulfotoh1623]

Lol

[@armahpruski5877]

For things they've already apologized for?

[@armahpruski5877]

@@RanjitKumar-pr2eq Thank you man, Ima buy his book and learn a bit of English colonialism. I wish it was talk more about today

[@trollinape2697]

I mean they did, also it was like years ago

[@josephstalin2774]

1939-1945 Japan: TENNOHEIKA BANZAI !!!!!!!! 2019 Japan: *SUGOIIIIII ONII CHANN !!!*

[@f_herms]

WHY IS A GHOST IN THE COMMENT SECTION!?

[@codenameaki6614]

*omai wa no shinderu* some 1 is knocking at the door sier

[@dedeer2512]

1917-1991 Russia: Rossiya , svyaschennaya nasha derzhava Rossiya , lyubimaya nasha strana !!! 1991-2019 Russia: Hardbass tusovki w adidas krasovky !!

[@flawless_Cowboy]

Joseph Stalin ah. The good old times.

[@byronius7012]

Thank you, Joseph Stalin

[@tarantulaxii7399]

めかぶ Your world historic knowledge is not enough with your comment "Certainly Japan may have done cruel things to other countries". Douglas MacArthur (GHQ Commander-in-Chief) " Their(Japan/Japanese) purpose, therefore in going to war was largely dictated by security. In the past 100 years, the biggest political mistake U.S. had committed was that by the defeat of Japan, we made the communist most powerful in China. " at the USA Congress in 1951. MacArthur noticed it at last just during the Korean War in 1950, but it was already too late !

[@lucystephanieproperties]

Hmmm do you have content about the US atrocities during the wars?

[@yzpvrboc4805]

jenny A well-known and famous best seller book published in USA ,Korea and Japan titled " So Far from the Bamboo Grove" written by Ms. Yoko Kawashima Watkins in 1986 proved so many refugees of Japanese women from the northern part of the Korean peninsula and Manchuria to Japan were raped by northern Korean men after the end of WW2 . The Soviet Union's soldiers raped many Japanese women too, but the worst cases were by Korean men in the northern part of the Korean peninsula being supported by the Communist Soviet Union.

[@mutsuhanma7807]

At least they said sorry, not like america

[@coolspot18]

A worthless sorry but not sorry... what good is that?

[@SuperDidact]

In war there is no winner but war it self

[@Hyperfoxeye]

MQualey if america did not drop the nukes and forced japan to surrender that way, the japanese homeland would have been devastated by the soviets who were planning to invade, along with the alternative of americans invading too.while there were a lot of bombings, japans infrastructure was not totally devastated and divided like what happened to germany. if the soviets had time to invade, they would have held onto the land like what happened to germany, poland, and the many other nations they swallowed

[@mcgargoyle3093]

But the bombs did save more lives. Japan was all about honor and would go to the last man. Even after the first bomb they continued. So the nukes did save more lives.

[@beastmr919]

AND SORRY ABOUT WHAT AMERICA NEVER STARTED A WAR

[@user-vu7ls1vm9h]

As a Japanese person, I understand that the Japanese government was wrong. And we should do all we can to apologize for the military's action. However that being said, Both Chinese and Korean Government must ask themselves what specifically they want. I realize that apologies and donation will not be enough, but its not like we can go back in time and stop it from happening. Furthermore, in my view, it is extremely archaic to pin the fault of Imperial Japan to our current generation. The current generation is not at fault for Imperial Japan's actions. Do I think that Japanese Government is wrong for hiding historical events, and sometimes denying Japanese war crimes in the past? Definitely. But once again, our current generation is not, nor should we be responsible for what Japan did in the past.

[@mathew633man]

Maybe you should watch the video again. The victims want the Japanese government to admit its war crimes. That's it. Imagine the German government denying the holocaust. The world, especially Jews, would be furious. Why can't you understand the frustration that these victims feel? Forget about your nationality for once, and try to think like a human being.

[@user-vu7ls1vm9h]

+Matt I did watch the video and I can tell you overwhelming majority of Japanese leaders actually admit that this had occurred. As for those who deny these claims, they often do not get elected. It isn't about nationality at all. I understand Chinese people and Koreans feel frustrated, but scapegoating the current Japanese people is not the right answer.

[@user-vu7ls1vm9h]

+Matt Don't get me wrong, I do not support the ultranationalists in our country. I don't even support LDP (the right leaning party) and I never did. My parents were immigrants even though I was born and raised in Japan. I won't pretend to understand the struggles that these comfort women felt, but what else do you expect the Japanese government to do? The Japanese government is paying China and Korea, apologized and will continue to apologize. put many people in jail and even invoked the death penalty (which is extremely rare for Japan) I understand that no matter how much the Japanese government pays, it will never be enough, but at the same time, do you understand that despite our massive debt, Japan has never stopped paying for the atrocities? Despite being an occurance that happened few generations ago, are we supposed to feel guilt for something that we did not do? You used the example of Germany so I'll use that example as well. Do you think it's right for current generation of Germans to feel guilt simply because of their past? No.

[@TheJerbear101]

+武道館 i agree with you. There has to be a point when this stops. i am a german-canadian and i had family on both sides of ww1 and ww2. yes japan should make sure not to deny part of their history and yes their should financially help those that were raped or tortured if are suffering because of it but they don't need to apologize any more. its like telling a kid they should apologize for their parents killing someone.

[@SamuelJamez17]

+武道館 fair enough. I get your point since the Imperial Japan does not exist anymore and Japan seemed to have repaid for their mistakes by giving us a very good advancement in technology for decades which is very beneficial and welcoming for all countries in the world, at least to me, i find that a big advantage. Even the current Japanese goverment have their own flaws like very strict justice systems and the death penalty is very unfair (though that is another story), i do wish if they can at least show a bit more that apologizing to the people who were left sufferring and traumatised because of the war, like a specific monument to signify their peace together, a memorial, or a special home or treatment centre for women who have been traumatised for sex trafficking or rape or any kind of abuse as a means of apology. But then again, the Japanese cannot do all of that to everyone. They have their own nation to deal with because Japan is slowly rising in numbers, to the point of over-population, treatment to the older generation is decreassing and not as beneficial, it is an glimpse of economic breakdown, or also medical issues since plenty of japenese wear face masks in public because of disease and also the problems because of the latest nuclear disaster. So, they have a lot of problems and cannot deal with all of them at the same time. While true, one cannot hide away from the past forever and nobody can escape their history, but i do wish that someday, maybe in the future, they will eventually repay for their war crimes during WWII

[@ksn-rq7jl]

CHINESE DESERTERS FOND WITH REFFUGEES IN U.S. NANKING CAMP [ 1938 : By the New York Times.] SHANGHAI, Jan. 3.- American professors remaining at foreign members of the refugee welfare committee were seriously embarrassed to discover that they had been harboring a deserting Chinese army colonel and six of his subordinate officers. The Chinese officers, who had doffed their uniforms during the Chinese retreat from Nanking, were discovered living in one of the college buildings. They confessed their identity after Japanese army searchers found they had hidden six rifles, five revolvers and a dismounted machine gun and ammunition in the building. The deserters confessed looting in Nanking and also that one night they dragged girls from the refugee camp into the darkness and the next day blamed Japanese soldiers for the attacks. The ex-officers were arrested under martial law and probably will be executed.

[@bl5tard]

Japan: apologizes Weebs: *understandable have a nice day*

[@anti-loganpaul7827]

*Also weebs, uneducated fucks*

[@clarkstrange2142]

Anti-Logan Paul Thats not very kind. I’m not a big anime fan but saying that is uncalled for

[@anti-loganpaul7827]

@@clarkstrange2142 *Facts don't care about your feelings* 😎

[@clarkstrange2142]

Anti-Logan Paul Hey Ben Shapiro’s cool and all, but it’s still not epic to just randomly be rude bruh

[@anti-loganpaul7827]

@@clarkstrange2142 I was being genuine about that statement btw

[@LNasterio]

Japan needs to admit their horrible past. However, Chinese needs to stop bullying Japanese kids in other countries cause those kids had no part in those wars.

[@zelongxiong5078]

Asterio hell no man, gotta do it.

[@ryana-6762]

CCP and KMT needs to combine and go on a Japanese killing spree!

[@alexandery8508]

Then I think westerns and Japanese can stop calling bad words against Chinese people. They haven’t done anything. Can’t do anything against ccp. Still u can’t see the difference between the people and ccp. Stop yelling at the peolke

[@bestrafung2754]

Zelong Xiong So you support bullying children? You're almost as bad as India, which you hate for some reason.

[@bestrafung2754]

Ryan Zad 1. Killing random innocent people makes them just as bad. 2. The Communist Party wouldn't do that. They're Communists, not Fascists.

[@dogefyedstudios5774]

They are playing the waiting game, waiting for all the survivors to pass.

[@koreanprostituteswithusagi2379]

lazy703 The average salary of a Korean War Prostitute in the WW2 is Yen 750 per month. The salary of Army General of Japan's Imperial Army was Yen 550 per month . The salary of a Petty officer of Japan's Imperial Army was Yen 15 per month. Everyone will notice how big money Korean War Prostitutes could earn in the WW2. Some of them bought three houses in the Korean peninsula working for only two years. Their bank notes that are still left in Japan and South Korea prove it. All Korean camp followersin the WW2 were much rich than you now in your nation. Ridicukous to worship and respect such Korean mere camp followers with so many lies in the WW2.

[@user-ue8pt8of1v]

good jp robot

[@koreanprostituteswithusagi2379]

@@user-ue8pt8of1v Could you Japanese Libtrad study the real world history with mine ? If not so, solicit me more !

[@dylanbrownie]

Japan is only apologising because it needs allies. If South Korea wasn't a strategic ally, Japan would probably not have apologised.

[@cinnireseisri]

+Dylan's World And they barely did that.

[@mbyesanneh619]

They have some of the most powerful countries in the world on their side.

[@cinnireseisri]

D Rose Yea, but that's not the whole explanation. If it was the Germany would still be like Japan, and it's not.

[@chenching168]

+Dylan's World Like mainland China

[@hayek218]

+Dylan's World Well it should not apologize for fabrications.

[@njostories5035]

I remember one time where me and my friends met this Japanese guy who was really friendly together with his little brother, they were both still new to the environment here in Philippines, Cebu city(Where I lived) they moved here 3 years ago, so we became friends and one time when he asked about our history with Japan, I kinda told him all about the cruel things his ancestors did............. And he ended up crying and did like a traditional Japanese thing where they kneel down and apologize👁️👄👁️

[@princessbungee]

awe he was actually sorry he must be so sweet :((

[@princessbungee]

@God but it’s still something a lot of japanese deny and i’m guessing he feels the shame just by being that ethnicity. i’m not japanese but i feel like if someone of the former “enemy” ethnicity were to ask what happened between us decades ago i would definitely feel shame for what my ancestors did and apologize

[@princessbungee]

@God when did i ever say it made the people bad o_O i’m just saying i would feel shame for something my ancestors did which is probably what the guy felt and why he apologized

[@meimeikim4019]

Lmao. He mustn't feel sorry about it now. It was all in the past. In fact, it was not his fault. May you guys will be friends til the end 😊

[@hinklefamily1831]

@God this is exactly what I'm saying! So many people blame people now for things in the past. I am a white American who loves to travel and learn about the world and the amount of times I've been told "its your fault for what happened!" Is ridiculous! People need to learn that just because you are the same ethnicity as someone does not tie you to there crimes. That man was most likely genuinely heartbroken

[@koreanprostituteswithusagi2379]

lazy703 The case of a KOREAN camp follower " Kim Sun-ok"b in the WW2 or the Korean War In an interview with Professor Chunghee Sarah Soh of San Francisco State University , one of former Korean camp follower women in the WW2 or in the Korean War Kim Sun-ok said that she was sold by her parents four times. Yet she testified before UN Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy that she was abducted by the Japanese army. Even UN Special Rapprteur Radhika Coomarswamy doesn't deny that lie even now in the world. This's one of notorious hypocrisies of the United Nations !!!!!!!!!!

[@Magnus8618]

I remember my Grandpa told me when he was still a toddler, he saw with his own eyes his Aunty being raped on the road side by a Japanese soldier, and his uncle tried to save her, but another Japanese soldier intercepted him and cut his head. On the other hand my grandmother she was walking with her mother on the roadside in Hong Kong, 2 Japanese soldiers happened to walk by, and they smiled, and gave her free candy.

[@thetinyfishygaming5720]

This is a year late but whatever. The Japanese would give out candy infected with deadly pathogens to spread plagues across asia

[@ROCKSTAR3291]

We all have done terrible things to each other.

[@Kenji1685]

+Thang Nguyen Yes.. that's why arguing about it does not lead any where. In fact it's only going to lead to resentment then likely more problems.

[@JorDay0828]

+Ken Hnyla why does youtube have this bug where the apostrophe makes these weird symbols

[@hayek218]

+Thang Nguyen But his Korean sex slavery issue is a total fabrication.

[@Kenji1685]

I wasn't intending to curse if that's what you mean. it's more than 4 letters....?

[@sbellaharris]

+Thang Nguyen We all have done terrible things to our own family thinking they are "others" if not enemies, and we are still doing it today, thanks nationalism. *nationalism is an infantile disease. it is the measles of mankind - Albert Einstein*

[@xavierlucky397]

2 words. Comfort. Women. And yet they keep saying "sorry" to the world but say "we are the victim" to their own people. They think the entire world is too stupid to notice.

[@vertie2090]

that comfort women stuff has been blown out or proportions for domestic political gains everywhere

[@xavierlucky397]

@@vertie2090 Since you are not explaining anything at all. All I will say is you are wrong and should educate yourself more.

[@vertie2090]

@@xavierlucky397 Stalin murdered tens of millions of people. The Soviet Union occupied half of Europe for a generation, conducting multiple genocides. Mao Zedong killed 20-45 million people. For comparison, the amount of comfort women ranges from 20,000 - 90,000 depending on researcher's findings and conclusions. Yet nobody is demanding any apologies from the Russians, instead we keep politicizing a statistically marginalized issue . I don't know where you're from but your morals are quite messed up with you think the comfort women issue was the most significant atrocity of the past.

[@xavierlucky397]

@@vertie2090 Ok? How does that comparison make Comfort women any better at all? If someone killed 30 vs another killing 100 does that really make the person who killed 30 any better? Wow, you need to realign your own morals before you judge other peoples. Seek help.

[@DemonicMonkey88]

I'm surprised you didn't use something that was actually, you know horrific... Like what they did in china?

[@HistoricLiesandPropagana-oe3oj]

Lee Ok-seon (Former Korean camp follower in the WW2),92 years old in 2019, who worked at several brothels during the WW2 at the age of 16 after being abducted by two KOREAN MEN not by Japanese soldiers and the Japanese, testified that at age 12 she received a sound beating from her own father for asking to be sent to a Kisaeng (prostitute)school. Such narratives do not exonerate Korea and its patriarchal system of oppressing their own women and girls long before the Japanese drafted them into the women's volunteer labor corps to "support efforts in aircraft manufacturing and other essential industries. The former Korean camp follwer women told the truth as much as their memories allowed, especially only in their early published testimonies, indicting mostly Japan, but also Korea. Whatever may have been the motives of some Korean shameless activists organization (The Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan)who are supported by Communist China and North Korea to demonize and blame Japan with a fabricated fiction and "coach" the former camp followers,they don't notice at all they were and still are manipulated for a maliciuos and mere political tool to blame and defame Japan with lies and fabricated fiction.

[@frozensmile6563]

⬛ KOREAN FICTION !!!!!! ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

[@luminmc2078]

Japan: We're so sorry. Philippines: k. Edit: bruh stop fighting in a comment joke

[@Purringcat851]

Yep it's accurate alright

[@direclush4698]

Japanese: *Releasing Hentai* Philippine:ara ara

[@juunataku]

k for kimochi

[@nemomukerji]

@@direclush4698 lol

[@lovernneanmontales5902]

@@Angelica-cj5wf touche

[@colagesicht]

Japan: Keeps Apologizing for World War II. Germany: Hold my Bier!

[@LostJomper]

@Yusuke Shimomura We Germans are not banning free speech, or academic discussions. What in the world are you talking about?

[@LostJomper]

@Yusuke Shimomura Of course they have to blame facism. And of course is the Holocaust an extreme product of facism. Nobody in Germany says that the Autobahn is a bad construction, but you can't relative the Autobahn to the cruel things the nazi-regime did.

[@ariefachmadi5027]

we need italian and hungarian in here

[@joelquinn5347]

@Yusuke Shimomura you don't know much, but felt inclined to phrase such a strong statement about "germany banning free speech and academic discussion". Don't you see the fault in that? Nothing wrong in talking about stuff you know little about, but than you should favor questions above statements. World is full enough of real idiots propogating stupid stuff no matter what, no need to join them just because one don't have knowledge about some topic.

[@LostJomper]

@Yusuke Shimomura The Republic of Germany never banned facism. You can't ban facism. In fact facism is slowly rising again in Germany. If you refer to non facist countries as the former Soviet Union, do I have to disappoint you, those countries have been facist too.

[@yzpvrboc4805]

jenny Kim Bok-Don's testimony in Korean language in South Korea is as below. 김복동 할머니는 14세 때 위안부로 끌려가 일본군 15사단에 귀속, 대만, 홍콩, 중국 광동, 인도네시아, 싱가포르 등지에서 일본의 2차대전 패전 때까지 8년 동안 성노예로 고통 받았다. Kim Bok-Dong lied or propagandized she was in 15th Division of IJA( Imperial Japan's Army) in the Sino-Japan War and the WW2 and went to Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Singapore for 8 years with 15th Division of IJA during the WW2. But the 15th Division of IJA was not in Taiwan, Hong Kong ,Singapte at all during the WW2. The 15th Divisoon of IJA ended in Thailand at the end of the WW2 in 1945. And furthermore the WW2 continued for 6 years, not 8 years. Did Kim Bok-Dong work as war prostitute in the Korean War too after the WW2 ????!!!! All eternal Anti-Japan/Japanese racist Korean war prostitutes ,Korean populace and 2 Korean governments( South & North) with no reasonable and justifiable reasons/sources can never deceive Japan/Japanese and former IJA with Korean empty lies, fake and fabricated historic/political propagandas forever in this world!!!