godofthunder9010
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There is far too little attention paid to the Sino-Japanese front of World War II. Here is a response I got from another forum with some good information about things. I'm still working on readin through it all, but I thought I'd share the links. The Japanese were terrible ... ant they have never appologized nor admitting to anything if they could help it.
Some of the highpoints of Comfort Women I find particularly distessing: "While serving as a "comfort woman" Ms. Chong Ok Sun witnessed the Japanese torture a Korean girl who asked why they were forced to service up to forty men a day. A Japanese commander ordered her to be beaten with a sword while the other "comfort women" watched. The soldiers stripped the girl, tied her arms and legs, and rolled her over a board covered in nails "until the nails were covered with blood and pieces of her flesh." She was then decapitated. One Japanese officer told the witnesses that "it's easy to kill you all, easier than killing dogs" and suggested that the flesh of the dead girl would be boiled and the survivors forced to eat it."
I wonder at times why so many are so disinteresting in this particular topic. Is it water under the bridge? Forgiven and forgotten? I know that China and Korea are both quite upset by the long-standing Japanese refusal to acknowledge that they ever committed any crimes against their peoples. Germany probably outdid Japan ... ONLY BARELY ... but they have publicly appologized for what happened. Am I just failing to understand Oriental Culture in thinking there should be reckoning? The most distressing thing is that it seems as though most people don't seem to care at all about any of it. Kinda seems unequal.
Nanjing(Nanking) Massacre
www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/NM.html
www.cnd.org/njmassacre
Battle of Changsha (3 times in different years,mistaken by concluding all happen in 1943)
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Battle-of-Changsha-(1942)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Changsha
Comfort Women project
www.cmht.com/casewatch/cases/cwcomfort2.htm
http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/win97/comfortl.html
China-Japan war 1937-1945
http://www.dalnet.se/~surfcity/sino-japanese.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino_Japanese_War_(1937-1945)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino_Japanese_War_(1937-1945)#Battles (CHECK OUT MAJOR FIGURES PART)
http://www.world-war-2.info/battles/bt_19.php (VERY GOOD SUMMURY)
Japanese deny over their War Crimes act in WW II (MUST PAY FULL ATTENTION!)
http://jbe.la.psu.edu/textbooks/MJ/war_views.htm
Some of the highpoints of Comfort Women I find particularly distessing: "While serving as a "comfort woman" Ms. Chong Ok Sun witnessed the Japanese torture a Korean girl who asked why they were forced to service up to forty men a day. A Japanese commander ordered her to be beaten with a sword while the other "comfort women" watched. The soldiers stripped the girl, tied her arms and legs, and rolled her over a board covered in nails "until the nails were covered with blood and pieces of her flesh." She was then decapitated. One Japanese officer told the witnesses that "it's easy to kill you all, easier than killing dogs" and suggested that the flesh of the dead girl would be boiled and the survivors forced to eat it."
I wonder at times why so many are so disinteresting in this particular topic. Is it water under the bridge? Forgiven and forgotten? I know that China and Korea are both quite upset by the long-standing Japanese refusal to acknowledge that they ever committed any crimes against their peoples. Germany probably outdid Japan ... ONLY BARELY ... but they have publicly appologized for what happened. Am I just failing to understand Oriental Culture in thinking there should be reckoning? The most distressing thing is that it seems as though most people don't seem to care at all about any of it. Kinda seems unequal.