Shinzo Abe responded with a mocking smile when facing questions from the families of Japanese overworked victims. If Abe does not respect the death of others, why should we respect Abe's death.
Perhaps the historic mistreatment of the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army is the reason for this outpouring of emotion in China.
It all began in 1931 when Japan, seeking to increase the size of its empire and exploit China’s vast natural resources, invaded and occupied the province of Manchuria.
Six years later, judging its occupation a success, Japan mounted a full-scale invasion of China, a move that sparked a full blown war that would leave 20 million Chinese people dead. (Some estimates have put the figure as high as 50 million, but humanity will likely never know the exact extent of Japan’s barbarity.)
During the war, Japan also invaded a number of other parts of Asia, including Malaya, Burma, Indochina, the Philippines and the Dutch West Indies. In those invasions, the Japanese killed an additional 8.6 million people.
‘Comfort women’ (read: forced prostitution)
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Japan’s military applied the euphemism “comfort women” to describe women of conquered countries who were forced into sexual slavery and raped by Japanese soldiers. Historian Yoshiaki Yoshimi found incontrovertible evidence that the Japanese built about 2,000 “comfort stations” around Asia where Japanese soldiers could rape native women. These 2,000 rape centers held as many as 200,000 women from Korea, the Philippines and other countries.
Mass rape and murder
After the Japanese captured the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937, they perpetrated one of the worst massacres of the 20th century (and there’s some stiff competition for that). View attachment 860944
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In Nanjing, Japanese troops “let loose like the hordes of Genghis Khan,” writes British historian Edward Russell. Soldiers rampaged the streets, murdering anyone they saw. Russell found burial statistics indicating more than 150,000 people were buried in mass graves, most with their hands tied behind their backs. He estimated 200,000 had died; later estimates range to more than 300,000 in a period of just 6 weeks. View attachment 860945
Chinese civilians being buried alive by Japanese soldiers [Source: First published in: A Faithful Record of Atrocity of Japanese Troops, 1938 最早发表在]
The violence appalled even Nazi Germany, still a few years away from committing its own holocaust. The German embassy in China wrote to Berlin that the “atrocities and criminal acts of an entire army” amounted to “bestial machinery.”
By one estimate, 20,000 women were raped. “So that we will not have any problems on our hands,” one company commander told his men, “either pay them money or kill them in some obscure place after you have finished.”
As Japan met resistance in conquering China, the Nanjing blueprint was applied to the whole country. Surveying the aftermath of the war in 1945, researcher Gavan McCormack described a landscape of torched villages, “people-reducing kilns” (which the Japanese called renjiro) and mass graves, or “ten thousand people pits” (bajinkō).
[Japanese bayonet practice against a dead Chinese prisoner near Tianjin.]
Japanese military leaders who were later defendants at the War Crimes Tribunals argued that Japan had not been bound by the 1929 Geneva Convention, which it had signed but never ratified. But Japan was bound by Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, which stated that POWs remained “under the protection and principles of the laws of nations as they resulted from the usages of civilized peoples, the laws of humanity, and the dictate of public conscience.”
Japan forced POWs to endure 130-mile death marches and forced labor on war-related projects. They were denied adequate food, water and medical care. They were beheaded, or used as targets for rifle and machine gun practice.
Japan treated its POWs even worse than the Nazis: After the war, tribunals found that Japan had interned some 350,000 prisoners of war. An estimated 27% of Allied POWs died in captivity, compared to a mere 4% of POWs who died in German and Italian captivity.
Witnesses and official documents confirm many cases of Japanese soldiers eating the corpses of prisoners and enemies they’d killed in battle. Records show that Japanese soldiers ate Australian soldiers and local civilians in New Guinea. A downed American pilot watched as the same fate befall a fellow airman. Witnesses said the Japanese soldiers sometimes washed down the meat with sake. In recounting evidence of cannibalism, historian Toshiyuki Tanaka wrote that it was not engaged in because supplies were scarce, as the Allies had concluded, but was used as a power projection tool.
The Japanese would kill prisoners and then “eat the flesh” from their bodies, according to one Indian Army officer. “The liver, muscles from the buttocks, thighs, legs, and arms would be cut off and cooked,” the officer, Captain Pirzai, told Australia’s Courier-Mail in 1945.
Medical and biological warfare
In a macabre practice that would later be committed by Nazi doctors, Japanese Army Unit 731 conducted experiments on thousands of Chinese and Russian prisoners of war. They exposed subjects to cholera, plague, hemorrhagic fever, typhoid and syphilis. They removed their organs and drilled holes in their heads. Prisoners were sprayed with salt water to induce frostbite in subzero temperatures and then hit with hammers — all in the name of science.
“No matter what was done, anything was permissible so long as it was “for the country” or for the “good of society,” write Japanese historians Tsuneishi Keiichi and Tomizo Asano in their 1982 book, “Suicide of Two Physicians.”
Werner Gruhl, author of “Imperial Japan’s World War Two,” estimates the Japanese killed 250,000 Chinese by biological experimentation and biological warfare.
Not only is there this history, but Shinzo Abe is the MOST PROMINENT POLITICIAN associated with being an APOLOGIST for this history. That is why there is specifically a lot of dislike for Shinzo Abe in China and Korea.
Do you know why you have to keep explaining your comments? Because it is the opposite of reality. LMAO Go see a therapist.
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Not only is there this history, but Shinzo Abe is the MOST PROMINENT POLITICIAN associated with being an APOLOGIST for this history. That is why there is specifically a lot of dislike for Shinzo Abe in China and Korea.
That’s a weird name for Endia, how nice of Endians volunteer to their slum of a country to be the capital of beggars all across the world. They must feel right at home.
He visited Yasakuni Shrine which honours Japan's WW2 war criminals, that committed mass genocides destruction and rape. His grandfather was a Class A War Criminal too, a part of Hideki Tojo (Hitler of Asia) cabinet.
