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I think you should go back to the earlier posts and read about the difference between incompetence and deliberate genocide.
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I think you should go back to the earlier posts and read about the difference between incompetence and deliberate genocide.
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Historians condemn Japan’s whitewashing of war crimes
By Ben McGrath
11 May 2015
Historians condemn Japan’s whitewashing of war crimes - World Socialist Web Site
Last Tuesday, 187 prominent historians from universities in the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries published an open letter criticizing the Japanese government of Shinzo Abe for continuing to whitewash past war crimes.
The statement entitled, “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan,” takes aim at the Abe government’s stance on “comfort women,”—a euphemism for women coerced into becoming sex slaves for the Japanese army during the 1930s and 1940s. It calls for the defense of the “freedom of historical inquiry” in Japan and all countries against nationalistic distortions.
Among the signatories were notable historians such as Herbert Bix, professor emeritus at Binghamton University/State University of New York (SUNY), Ezra Vogel, professor emeritus at Harvard University, and Bruce Cumings from the University of Chicago. An earlier letter, released by 19 American historians in February, criticized Abe’s efforts to have references on comfort women altered in American university text books.
The comfort women system was established in the early 1930s. While the first women to be involved were Japanese, as the war spread throughout the Pacific, the military turned to its colonies, coercing poor women with phony promises of good jobs in factories. An estimated 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines, and other Asian nations were then taken to brothels and prevented from leaving. Many committed suicide to escape their barbaric treatment.
The open letter stated: “The undersigned scholars of Japanese studies express our unity with the many courageous historians in Japan seeking an accurate and just history of World War II in Asia.” Historians, as well as journalists in Japan, who have published information on war crimes, have been criticized and in some cases threatened with violence by right-wing nationalists, who claim that comfort women were willing prostitutes and that stating otherwise is an affront to Japanese honor.
Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a leading Japanese historian on comfort women, received phone calls and letters threatening his life after he began publishing his research on comfort women in the 1990s. One such note read, “You must die.” In 1992, Yoshimi discovered extensive documents from the 1930s in the Japanese Ministry of Defense’s library (then called the Defense Agency), showing the military’s role in establishing “comfort stations” (military brothels) throughout Asia.
In January of this year, former Asahi Shimbun journalist Takashi Uemura filed a defamation lawsuit against Bungei Shunju, a publisher, and Tsutomu Nishioka, a right-wing professor at Tokyo Christian University and denier of the crimes against comfort women. Nishioka has accused Uemura of faking the information in his articles.
Uemura stated when he filed his lawsuit: “There is a movement in Japan to stop people who want to shine a light on the dark side of history, on the parts of the war that people don’t want to mention.”
Uemura first became the target of Japanese nationalists in 1991, following two articles he wrote on Kim Hak-sun, who is considered to be the first comfort woman to come forward. Uemura was accused of faking his stories and was attacked as the journalist who “fabricated the comfort woman issue.”
Condemnation of Uemura increased last August, following the Asahi Shimbun’s retraction of a series of articles on comfort women published in the 1980s and 1990s that referenced the accounts of Seiji Yoshida, a former soldier who claimed he had rounded up women during World War II in Korea. Historians had dismissed Yoshida’s story by the early 1990s, while emphasizing the clear evidence of the military’s role in establishing comfort stations.
Neither of Uemura’s articles relied on Yoshida’s story, but the retractions further opened the door for attacks on journalists and academics by right-wing nationalists like Nishioka. Not only was Uemura’s life threatened, but Hokusei University, where he is now employed, received bomb threats. Photos of Uemura’s teenage daughter also appeared online with calls to force the girl to commit suicide.
The Abe government strengthened the nationalists’ claims by calling into doubt the 1993 Kono Statement, a formal yet limited apology for the abuse of comfort women during the war in the Pacific, released by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono. In June 2014, Abe’s government released a report by five “experts” questioning whether women and young girls were coerced or forced into the military brothels.
Tuesday’s letter goes on to say, “[…] historians have unearthed numerous documents demonstrating the military’s involvement in the transfer of women and oversight of brothels. Important evidence also comes from the testimony of victims. Although their stories are diverse and affected by the inconsistencies of memory, the aggregate record they offer is compelling and supported by the official documents as well as by the accounts of soldiers and others.”
The letter also makes clear the fundamental difference between the comfort women system and justifications by Japanese nationalists that prostitution was common in other theaters of war: “Among the many instances of wartime sexual violence and military prostitution in the twentieth century, the ‘comfort women’ system was distinguished by its large scale and systematic management under the military, and by its exploitation of young, poor, and vulnerable women in areas colonized or occupied by Japan.” [emphasis added]
The open letter comes less than a week after Abe, the most right-wing Japanese prime minister in the postwar period, was warmly welcomed by Obama on a trip to the United States where the prime minister also made a speech to a joint session of Congress, the first Japanese premier to do so. The two sides agreed to new security guidelines to allow Japan to take part in the United States’ imperialist wars.
All of this is bound up with the United States’ “pivot to Asia,” designed to economically subordinate and militarily surround China. Japan has been encouraged by Washington to remilitarize and discard its postwar pacifist constitution, as well as to enflame territorial conflicts in the region. During Abe’s recent trip to the US, Obama once again promised to back Japan in a war with China over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.
While the historians’ letter fails to directly tie historical revisionism to preparations for war, that is the purpose of Abe’s campaign: to whip up Japanese nationalism to condition public opinion, particularly young people, for future conflicts.
Some books on :Unit 731" Horror
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Now the books hereunder
By Ben McGrath
11 May 2015
Historians condemn Japan’s whitewashing of war crimes - World Socialist Web Site
Last Tuesday, 187 prominent historians from universities in the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries published an open letter criticizing the Japanese government of Shinzo Abe for continuing to whitewash past war crimes.
The statement entitled, “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan,” takes aim at the Abe government’s stance on “comfort women,”—a euphemism for women coerced into becoming sex slaves for the Japanese army during the 1930s and 1940s. It calls for the defense of the “freedom of historical inquiry” in Japan and all countries against nationalistic distortions.
Among the signatories were notable historians such as Herbert Bix, professor emeritus at Binghamton University/State University of New York (SUNY), Ezra Vogel, professor emeritus at Harvard University, and Bruce Cumings from the University of Chicago. An earlier letter, released by 19 American historians in February, criticized Abe’s efforts to have references on comfort women altered in American university text books.
The comfort women system was established in the early 1930s. While the first women to be involved were Japanese, as the war spread throughout the Pacific, the military turned to its colonies, coercing poor women with phony promises of good jobs in factories. An estimated 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines, and other Asian nations were then taken to brothels and prevented from leaving. Many committed suicide to escape their barbaric treatment.
The open letter stated: “The undersigned scholars of Japanese studies express our unity with the many courageous historians in Japan seeking an accurate and just history of World War II in Asia.” Historians, as well as journalists in Japan, who have published information on war crimes, have been criticized and in some cases threatened with violence by right-wing nationalists, who claim that comfort women were willing prostitutes and that stating otherwise is an affront to Japanese honor.
Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a leading Japanese historian on comfort women, received phone calls and letters threatening his life after he began publishing his research on comfort women in the 1990s. One such note read, “You must die.” In 1992, Yoshimi discovered extensive documents from the 1930s in the Japanese Ministry of Defense’s library (then called the Defense Agency), showing the military’s role in establishing “comfort stations” (military brothels) throughout Asia.
In January of this year, former Asahi Shimbun journalist Takashi Uemura filed a defamation lawsuit against Bungei Shunju, a publisher, and Tsutomu Nishioka, a right-wing professor at Tokyo Christian University and denier of the crimes against comfort women. Nishioka has accused Uemura of faking the information in his articles.
Uemura stated when he filed his lawsuit: “There is a movement in Japan to stop people who want to shine a light on the dark side of history, on the parts of the war that people don’t want to mention.”
Uemura first became the target of Japanese nationalists in 1991, following two articles he wrote on Kim Hak-sun, who is considered to be the first comfort woman to come forward. Uemura was accused of faking his stories and was attacked as the journalist who “fabricated the comfort woman issue.”
Condemnation of Uemura increased last August, following the Asahi Shimbun’s retraction of a series of articles on comfort women published in the 1980s and 1990s that referenced the accounts of Seiji Yoshida, a former soldier who claimed he had rounded up women during World War II in Korea. Historians had dismissed Yoshida’s story by the early 1990s, while emphasizing the clear evidence of the military’s role in establishing comfort stations.
Neither of Uemura’s articles relied on Yoshida’s story, but the retractions further opened the door for attacks on journalists and academics by right-wing nationalists like Nishioka. Not only was Uemura’s life threatened, but Hokusei University, where he is now employed, received bomb threats. Photos of Uemura’s teenage daughter also appeared online with calls to force the girl to commit suicide.
The Abe government strengthened the nationalists’ claims by calling into doubt the 1993 Kono Statement, a formal yet limited apology for the abuse of comfort women during the war in the Pacific, released by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono. In June 2014, Abe’s government released a report by five “experts” questioning whether women and young girls were coerced or forced into the military brothels.
Tuesday’s letter goes on to say, “[…] historians have unearthed numerous documents demonstrating the military’s involvement in the transfer of women and oversight of brothels. Important evidence also comes from the testimony of victims. Although their stories are diverse and affected by the inconsistencies of memory, the aggregate record they offer is compelling and supported by the official documents as well as by the accounts of soldiers and others.”
The letter also makes clear the fundamental difference between the comfort women system and justifications by Japanese nationalists that prostitution was common in other theaters of war: “Among the many instances of wartime sexual violence and military prostitution in the twentieth century, the ‘comfort women’ system was distinguished by its large scale and systematic management under the military, and by its exploitation of young, poor, and vulnerable women in areas colonized or occupied by Japan.” [emphasis added]
The open letter comes less than a week after Abe, the most right-wing Japanese prime minister in the postwar period, was warmly welcomed by Obama on a trip to the United States where the prime minister also made a speech to a joint session of Congress, the first Japanese premier to do so. The two sides agreed to new security guidelines to allow Japan to take part in the United States’ imperialist wars.
All of this is bound up with the United States’ “pivot to Asia,” designed to economically subordinate and militarily surround China. Japan has been encouraged by Washington to remilitarize and discard its postwar pacifist constitution, as well as to enflame territorial conflicts in the region. During Abe’s recent trip to the US, Obama once again promised to back Japan in a war with China over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.
While the historians’ letter fails to directly tie historical revisionism to preparations for war, that is the purpose of Abe’s campaign: to whip up Japanese nationalism to condition public opinion, particularly young people, for future conflicts.
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How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs
Aug 6th 2015,18:30CCTVNEWS
With China set to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of World War II, we take a look back at the battlefield in Asia and the contributions of the Chinese forces in the fight against fascism, in a special four-part series.
Today, we focus on how the long and intense fighting in China since 1937 played a crucial role in limiting the expansionist designs of the imperial Japan.
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
Throughout the war, on a number of occasions, Japan had hoped to expand its reach against the Soviet Union in the Far East, while using territory captured in China as a supply base. However, the resistance from Chinese forces meant that those plans had to be shelved.
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
For instance, in June 1941, when Nazi Germany launched an attack on the Soviet Union, the Japanese government also considered joining the onslaught. However, given the intensity of the fighting in China, the military rejected the proposal to open a front against the Soviet Red Army.
Then, in December 1942, when the German forces reached the outskirts of Stalingrad, they called on Japan to assist in their offensive in the west with an attack against the Soviet Union at the east. But Japan declined to do so.
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
RESTRICTED IN THE PACIFIC
China's resistance didn't just limit Japan's ability to move westward. Even in Asia, the fighting in China restricted the Japanese army's ability to extend its dominance over parts of Southeast Asia and the western Pacific.
For many countries in the region, Japanese military designs were clear from 1937 onwards, as its forces launched the offensive in China.
However, the campaign in China took as long as four years for Japan to establish some measure of control. Thereafter, in December 1941, it began to move its troops toward Southeast Asia and the Pacific, even launching the audacious Pearl Harbor attack.
But by 1943, the Japanese began to find themselves on the defensive in the Pacific, urgently in need of troops to combat the American counteroffensive. Given the scenario in China, however, Japan found itself trapped, unable to shift the troops it needed, enabling the US to make swift gains.
Meanwhile, another key strategic goal of the Japanese government during the war was to ensure that Japan became the dominant power in the West Indian Ocean.
It sought to exploit the route to join up with German and Italian forces, which had swept North Africa in the spring of 1942 under the command of Erwin Rommel, in the Middle East.
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
On July 11th, the command of the Japanese navy sought the emperor's permission to shift focus towards the Indian Ocean.
However, the request fell by the wayside with the army refusing, arguing that they needed troops to remain in China.
China's efforts ensured that Japan and its fascist allies had to fight battles independently of each other and could not cooperate strategically, giving the Allies an advantage over their enemies. (Story compiled with the information from Guangming Daily; Edited by Wang Mingyan)
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
Aug 6th 2015,18:30CCTVNEWS
With China set to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of World War II, we take a look back at the battlefield in Asia and the contributions of the Chinese forces in the fight against fascism, in a special four-part series.
Today, we focus on how the long and intense fighting in China since 1937 played a crucial role in limiting the expansionist designs of the imperial Japan.
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
Throughout the war, on a number of occasions, Japan had hoped to expand its reach against the Soviet Union in the Far East, while using territory captured in China as a supply base. However, the resistance from Chinese forces meant that those plans had to be shelved.
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
For instance, in June 1941, when Nazi Germany launched an attack on the Soviet Union, the Japanese government also considered joining the onslaught. However, given the intensity of the fighting in China, the military rejected the proposal to open a front against the Soviet Red Army.
Then, in December 1942, when the German forces reached the outskirts of Stalingrad, they called on Japan to assist in their offensive in the west with an attack against the Soviet Union at the east. But Japan declined to do so.
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
RESTRICTED IN THE PACIFIC
China's resistance didn't just limit Japan's ability to move westward. Even in Asia, the fighting in China restricted the Japanese army's ability to extend its dominance over parts of Southeast Asia and the western Pacific.
For many countries in the region, Japanese military designs were clear from 1937 onwards, as its forces launched the offensive in China.
However, the campaign in China took as long as four years for Japan to establish some measure of control. Thereafter, in December 1941, it began to move its troops toward Southeast Asia and the Pacific, even launching the audacious Pearl Harbor attack.
But by 1943, the Japanese began to find themselves on the defensive in the Pacific, urgently in need of troops to combat the American counteroffensive. Given the scenario in China, however, Japan found itself trapped, unable to shift the troops it needed, enabling the US to make swift gains.
Meanwhile, another key strategic goal of the Japanese government during the war was to ensure that Japan became the dominant power in the West Indian Ocean.
It sought to exploit the route to join up with German and Italian forces, which had swept North Africa in the spring of 1942 under the command of Erwin Rommel, in the Middle East.
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
On July 11th, the command of the Japanese navy sought the emperor's permission to shift focus towards the Indian Ocean.
However, the request fell by the wayside with the army refusing, arguing that they needed troops to remain in China.
China's efforts ensured that Japan and its fascist allies had to fight battles independently of each other and could not cooperate strategically, giving the Allies an advantage over their enemies. (Story compiled with the information from Guangming Daily; Edited by Wang Mingyan)
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
How the war in China limited Japan’s WWII designs/File photo
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Several good links to enrich the content of this excellent thread:
Japan must face up to verdict of history
Reflections on Germany and Japan after WWII: A Comparison
70th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
The following is to give the readers another gruesome, savagely and inhuman report of the imperial japanese
"But the most spine-chilling of all Japanese atrocities was their practice of cannibalism. One of the first to level charges of cannibalism against the Japanese was Jemadar Abdul Latif of 4/9 Jat Regiment of the Indian Army, a VCO who was rescued by the Australians at Sepik Bay in 1945. He alleged that not just Indian PoWs but even locals in New Guinea were killed and eaten by the Japanese. "At the village of Suaid, a Japanese medical officer periodically visited the Indian compound and selected each time the healthiest men. These men were taken away ostensibly for carrying out duties, but they never reappeared," the Melbourne correspondent of The Times, London, cabled this version of Jemadar Latif on November 5, 1946."
Thank you @+4vsgorillas-Apebane for the above information @post 16 of the ensuing PDF link:
India invited to China's wartime parade | Page 2
Japanese ate Indian PoWs, used them as live targets in WWII - The Times of India
Japan’s prickly revisionists
https://defence.pk/threads/japan’s-prickly-revisionists.391426/
Japan's prickly revisionists | The Japan Times
Japan must face up to verdict of history
Reflections on Germany and Japan after WWII: A Comparison
70th Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
The following is to give the readers another gruesome, savagely and inhuman report of the imperial japanese
"But the most spine-chilling of all Japanese atrocities was their practice of cannibalism. One of the first to level charges of cannibalism against the Japanese was Jemadar Abdul Latif of 4/9 Jat Regiment of the Indian Army, a VCO who was rescued by the Australians at Sepik Bay in 1945. He alleged that not just Indian PoWs but even locals in New Guinea were killed and eaten by the Japanese. "At the village of Suaid, a Japanese medical officer periodically visited the Indian compound and selected each time the healthiest men. These men were taken away ostensibly for carrying out duties, but they never reappeared," the Melbourne correspondent of The Times, London, cabled this version of Jemadar Latif on November 5, 1946."
Thank you @+4vsgorillas-Apebane for the above information @post 16 of the ensuing PDF link:
India invited to China's wartime parade | Page 2
Japanese ate Indian PoWs, used them as live targets in WWII - The Times of India
Japan’s prickly revisionists
https://defence.pk/threads/japan’s-prickly-revisionists.391426/
Japan's prickly revisionists | The Japan Times
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On August 28, 1937, Japanese planes bombed the southern railway station of Shanghai, killing more than 200 people on the spot and wounding countless others. Picture shows a famous photo of a wounded baby crying at the scene.
At noon on December 12, 1937, Japanese troops pushed into Nanjing after using explosives
A Japanese soldier about to bring his saber down on a Nanjing youth.
Japanese soldiers used Chinese people as live targets. Shown is one example of their atrocities. According to the stamp on this photo taken by one of the butchers, it was forbidden to show this picture by Japanese authority
During the massacre, Japanese troops competed in killing people. Shown are two slaughterers Noda Iwao (right), who killed 105 people, and Toshiaki Mukai who killed 106.
The inhuman Japanese soldiers buried alive many innocent residents.
One of many Nanjing women gang-raped by Japanese soldiers (photo from a captured Japanese soldier
Two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda competing to see who could kill (with a sword) one hundred people first. The bold headline reads, "'Incredible Record' (in the Contest To Cut Down 100 People—Mukai 106 – 105 Noda—Both 2nd Lieutenants Go Into Extra Innings".
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Two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda competing to see who could kill (with a sword) one hundred people first. The bold headline reads, "'Incredible Record' (in the Contest To Cut Down 100 People—Mukai 106 – 105 Noda—Both 2nd Lieutenants Go Into Extra Innings".
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As many as 200,000 Korean women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two.
Thousands in Seoul demand Japan's apology for sex slavery
ENGLISH.CNTV.CN|BY ZHANG JINGYA
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Historical documentary marks China's war victory
An Academia Historica documentary is enabling the world to better understand the ROC’s sacrifices during the Second-Sino Japanese War (1937-1945) and invaluable contribution to securing an Allied victory in World War II. (Courtesy of AH)
The four-part film features historical artifacts, documents and photographs, including footage never shown before, as well as interviews with scholars and veterans of the eight-year conflict that played a key role in ending World War II.
“This Academic Historica co-produced film underscores the undeniable fact that the ROC government led the way in defending the nation against Japan while making an invaluable contribution to the Allied victory in WWII,” AH Director Lu Fang-shang said.
According to Lu, the presentation of wartime documents will help the world better understand the contribution and efforts of the ROC government in fighting for peace, especially scholars and the people in mainland China.
The first part of the film focuses on the Japanese surrender to the Allies Sept. 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay and to the ROC Sept. 9 in Nanjing, as well as the return of Taiwan to the ROC by the Japanese government in a ceremony Oct. 25 in Taipei. This momentous event is celebrated as Retrocession Day nationwide.
The other three screenings, scheduled for Aug. 22, 29 and Sept. 5, will spotlight wartime efforts and operations involving the ROC armed forces 1931-1938, 1938-1942 and 1942-1946, respectively.
A raft of government-organized activities marking the ROC’s victory over Japan is underway this year in Taiwan.
On July 8, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released five videos via its Trending Taiwan YouTube channel presenting many lesser-known facts about the ROC’s contributions and sacrifices during the conflict. The productions have proven popular, attracting combined 123,500-plus views since uploading.
And later this month, the Ministry of National Defense will organize several concerts and drama performances in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung cities. (SFC-JSM)
Thousands in Seoul demand Japan's apology for sex slavery
ENGLISH.CNTV.CN|BY ZHANG JINGYA
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Historical documentary marks China's war victory
An Academia Historica documentary is enabling the world to better understand the ROC’s sacrifices during the Second-Sino Japanese War (1937-1945) and invaluable contribution to securing an Allied victory in World War II. (Courtesy of AH)
- Publication Date：08/12/2015
The four-part film features historical artifacts, documents and photographs, including footage never shown before, as well as interviews with scholars and veterans of the eight-year conflict that played a key role in ending World War II.
“This Academic Historica co-produced film underscores the undeniable fact that the ROC government led the way in defending the nation against Japan while making an invaluable contribution to the Allied victory in WWII,” AH Director Lu Fang-shang said.
According to Lu, the presentation of wartime documents will help the world better understand the contribution and efforts of the ROC government in fighting for peace, especially scholars and the people in mainland China.
The first part of the film focuses on the Japanese surrender to the Allies Sept. 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay and to the ROC Sept. 9 in Nanjing, as well as the return of Taiwan to the ROC by the Japanese government in a ceremony Oct. 25 in Taipei. This momentous event is celebrated as Retrocession Day nationwide.
The other three screenings, scheduled for Aug. 22, 29 and Sept. 5, will spotlight wartime efforts and operations involving the ROC armed forces 1931-1938, 1938-1942 and 1942-1946, respectively.
A raft of government-organized activities marking the ROC’s victory over Japan is underway this year in Taiwan.
On July 8, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released five videos via its Trending Taiwan YouTube channel presenting many lesser-known facts about the ROC’s contributions and sacrifices during the conflict. The productions have proven popular, attracting combined 123,500-plus views since uploading.
And later this month, the Ministry of National Defense will organize several concerts and drama performances in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung cities. (SFC-JSM)
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Beijing's museum chronicles the pain before WWII victory
Visitors watch a multimedia show about the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937. [Photo/China Daily]
The museum at Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge chronicles an era of anguish－before the final victory against Japanese invasion.
The world marks the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender to the Allies on Aug 15, but a Chinese museum has already attracted a daily stream of visitors who relive the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) through thousands of exhibits that arouse a country's collective memory.
For the occasion, a new permanent exhibition was launched in July in the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression located by Lugouqiao (also known as Marco Polo Bridge) in the southwest outskirts of Beijing, where the war broke out.
Gunshots ring out. Flares roar with smoke. A two-and-a-half-minute multimedia show, which combines oil painting and various types of technical effects, vividly takes visitors back to Lugouqiao on July 7, 1937, when Chinese troops' persistent and courageous fight against Japanese invasion began in earnest.
The 6,700-square-meter show displays 1,170 pictures and 2,834 pieces of wartime cultural relics, compared with around 900 pieces in previous exhibitions.
The show Great Victory, Historical Contributions is the museum's biggest expansion since its opening in 1987. About 100,000 people have seen it so far, according to museum statistics.
A juxtaposition of seized Japanese guns seen through transparent panels under visitors' feet. [Photo/China Daily]
Eight sections highlight the united struggle against the invasion initiated by the Communist Party of China and supported by different social strata in the country and overseas Chinese communities. The timeline starts with regional warfare in Northeast China dating back to 1931, to the ultimate victory in 1945.
"For a long time, the West has generally considered World War II to have begun in 1939 in Poland," says Li Zongyuan, deputy curator of the museum. "We expect the exhibition to tell the world that it actually began in this land two years earlier, which has been gradually recognized by academia overseas."
One of the new displays is a juxtaposition of seized Japanese guns in a transparent showcase under visitors' feet, a way for people to step down on the vicious machines of war－for good.
Li says the details of many touching individual stories in the displays resonate among visitors. For example, farewell letters left by Chinese soldiers to their families before setting off for battlefields are shown to the public.
Also highlighted: the international cooperation to fight against the Axis during WWII. For example, the Kuomintang-led Chinese Expeditionary Forces to Burma (today's Myanmar) and the efforts of a Chinese diplomat, He Fengshan, in Vienna, to save Jewish people from Hitler's gas chambers.
Tools used by people in Sichuan province to construct an airport were also collected by the museum to put on show. Stone rollers, for example, were used to pave the runaways.
Some equipment of chemical warfare the Japanese army used in China during World War II. [Photo/China Daily]
During the war, the Allies' air forces once launched most of their raids on Japanese targets from Chinese bases. Some US bombers that ran out of oil also landed on China, like those in James Doolittle's famous raid on Tokyo in 1942. Bulletins guiding Chinese people to save US pilots are also among the exhibits.
Some previously lesser-known perspectives of the war for the Chinese public are also revealed, like a Chinese journalist's reports from the Eastern Front, and Chinese engineers' contribution to the success of the Normandy landings.
"When we put Chinese people's resistance in the backdrop of the world's fights against fascism, it shows how many contributions we made to the final result."
According to official Chinese statistics, the Japanese side had 1.5 million casualties. Before the Pacific War broke out, about 70 percent of Japan's troops were stuck in Chinese battlefields. However, the Japanese invasion also led China to lose about 35 million soldiers and civilians.
An online platform memorializing that war was also launched on the museum's official website. Web users are also able to provide their old pictures and file records of the war at this virtual memorial hall.
"We stick to the facts and history talk," Li says. "Only the abundant files can vividly show Chinese people's persistent struggle and glorious victory."
Visitors watch a multimedia show about the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937. [Photo/China Daily]
The museum at Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge chronicles an era of anguish－before the final victory against Japanese invasion.
The world marks the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender to the Allies on Aug 15, but a Chinese museum has already attracted a daily stream of visitors who relive the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) through thousands of exhibits that arouse a country's collective memory.
For the occasion, a new permanent exhibition was launched in July in the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression located by Lugouqiao (also known as Marco Polo Bridge) in the southwest outskirts of Beijing, where the war broke out.
Gunshots ring out. Flares roar with smoke. A two-and-a-half-minute multimedia show, which combines oil painting and various types of technical effects, vividly takes visitors back to Lugouqiao on July 7, 1937, when Chinese troops' persistent and courageous fight against Japanese invasion began in earnest.
The 6,700-square-meter show displays 1,170 pictures and 2,834 pieces of wartime cultural relics, compared with around 900 pieces in previous exhibitions.
The show Great Victory, Historical Contributions is the museum's biggest expansion since its opening in 1987. About 100,000 people have seen it so far, according to museum statistics.
A juxtaposition of seized Japanese guns seen through transparent panels under visitors' feet. [Photo/China Daily]
Eight sections highlight the united struggle against the invasion initiated by the Communist Party of China and supported by different social strata in the country and overseas Chinese communities. The timeline starts with regional warfare in Northeast China dating back to 1931, to the ultimate victory in 1945.
"For a long time, the West has generally considered World War II to have begun in 1939 in Poland," says Li Zongyuan, deputy curator of the museum. "We expect the exhibition to tell the world that it actually began in this land two years earlier, which has been gradually recognized by academia overseas."
One of the new displays is a juxtaposition of seized Japanese guns in a transparent showcase under visitors' feet, a way for people to step down on the vicious machines of war－for good.
Li says the details of many touching individual stories in the displays resonate among visitors. For example, farewell letters left by Chinese soldiers to their families before setting off for battlefields are shown to the public.
Also highlighted: the international cooperation to fight against the Axis during WWII. For example, the Kuomintang-led Chinese Expeditionary Forces to Burma (today's Myanmar) and the efforts of a Chinese diplomat, He Fengshan, in Vienna, to save Jewish people from Hitler's gas chambers.
Tools used by people in Sichuan province to construct an airport were also collected by the museum to put on show. Stone rollers, for example, were used to pave the runaways.
Some equipment of chemical warfare the Japanese army used in China during World War II. [Photo/China Daily]
During the war, the Allies' air forces once launched most of their raids on Japanese targets from Chinese bases. Some US bombers that ran out of oil also landed on China, like those in James Doolittle's famous raid on Tokyo in 1942. Bulletins guiding Chinese people to save US pilots are also among the exhibits.
Some previously lesser-known perspectives of the war for the Chinese public are also revealed, like a Chinese journalist's reports from the Eastern Front, and Chinese engineers' contribution to the success of the Normandy landings.
"When we put Chinese people's resistance in the backdrop of the world's fights against fascism, it shows how many contributions we made to the final result."
According to official Chinese statistics, the Japanese side had 1.5 million casualties. Before the Pacific War broke out, about 70 percent of Japan's troops were stuck in Chinese battlefields. However, the Japanese invasion also led China to lose about 35 million soldiers and civilians.
An online platform memorializing that war was also launched on the museum's official website. Web users are also able to provide their old pictures and file records of the war at this virtual memorial hall.
"We stick to the facts and history talk," Li says. "Only the abundant files can vividly show Chinese people's persistent struggle and glorious victory."
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Official stresses CPC, KMT roles in anti-Japanese war
August 13, 2015
China has stressed the key role of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in winning the war against Japanese aggression, while also recognizing the Kuomintang Party's role.
"Victory in the war was a result of the efforts of the whole nation, and it can't be enjoyed alone by any single political force," said Gao Yongzhong, deputy head of the Party history research office under the CPC Central Committee, at a press conference organized by the State Council on Thursday.
The CPC played a "mainstay role" in the war, while the Kuomintang played an "important role," Gao said.
The CPC was the first of the two parties to fight the invading Japanese, organizing and guiding a national resistance. But the Kuomintang also launched a series of frontline battles and a large number of senior Kuomintang soldiers lost their lives, he said.
August 13, 2015
China has stressed the key role of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in winning the war against Japanese aggression, while also recognizing the Kuomintang Party's role.
"Victory in the war was a result of the efforts of the whole nation, and it can't be enjoyed alone by any single political force," said Gao Yongzhong, deputy head of the Party history research office under the CPC Central Committee, at a press conference organized by the State Council on Thursday.
The CPC played a "mainstay role" in the war, while the Kuomintang played an "important role," Gao said.
The CPC was the first of the two parties to fight the invading Japanese, organizing and guiding a national resistance. But the Kuomintang also launched a series of frontline battles and a large number of senior Kuomintang soldiers lost their lives, he said.
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There goes another historic opportunity.
Abe offers no fresh apology for Japan's wartime atrocities
August 14, 2015
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a news conference for delivering a statement marking the 70th anniversary of World War II's end, at his official residence in Tokyo August 14, 2015. Abe acknowledged Japan had inflicted "immeasurable damage and suffering" on innocent people but said generations not involved in the conflict should not be burdened with continued apologies. [Photo:China Daily]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday mentioned previous governments' apology for Japan's wartime past, but refrained from offering his own apology in a statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II at his official residence in Tokyo.
"Japan has repeatedly expressed the feelings of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for its actions during the war," the prime minister said. "Such position articulated by the previous cabinets will remain unshakable into the future."
But the prime minister also said that Japan must not let its future generations "be predestined to apologize."
Abe said that aggression and war should never be the means to resolve international disputes and Japan will abandon colonial rule forever, but he stopped short of mentioning directly Japan's past aggression and colonial rule before and during WWII.
In the 1995 landmark Murayama Statement, then prime minister Tomiichi Murayama directly stated that "following a mistaken national policy," Japan, "through its colonial rule and aggression, caused tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries, particularly to those of Asian nations."
Meanwhile, Abe also failed to directly refer to the "comfort women," a Japanese euphemism for about 200,000 women who were forcibly recruited as sex slaves in Japanese military-run brothels.
"We will engrave in our hearts the past, when the dignity and honor of many women were severely injured during wars in the 20th century," said the prime minister.
On the reason why Japan launched the wars in the past, the prime minister laid bare his historical revisionism by blaming the Western countries' colonial economic blocs that delivered a blow to Japan's economy and Japan therefore used force to "overcome its diplomatic and economic deadlock."
Abe also said that Japan's modernization came from a sense of crisis of Western powers' overwhelming supremacy in technology and waves of colonial rule toward Asia.
On Japan's future, Abe claimed that his country will uphold " proactive pacifism" and cooperate with countries sharing common values to contribute to world peace and prosperity.
"Japan has repeatedly expressed the feelings of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for its actions during the war," the prime minister said. "Such position articulated by the previous cabinets will remain unshakable into the future."
But the prime minister also said that Japan must not let its future generations "be predestined to apologize."
Abe said that aggression and war should never be the means to resolve international disputes and Japan will abandon colonial rule forever, but he stopped short of mentioning directly Japan's past aggression and colonial rule before and during WWII.
In the 1995 landmark Murayama Statement, then prime minister Tomiichi Murayama directly stated that "following a mistaken national policy," Japan, "through its colonial rule and aggression, caused tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries, particularly to those of Asian nations."
Abe offers no fresh apology for Japan's wartime atrocities
August 14, 2015
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a news conference for delivering a statement marking the 70th anniversary of World War II's end, at his official residence in Tokyo August 14, 2015. Abe acknowledged Japan had inflicted "immeasurable damage and suffering" on innocent people but said generations not involved in the conflict should not be burdened with continued apologies. [Photo:China Daily]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday mentioned previous governments' apology for Japan's wartime past, but refrained from offering his own apology in a statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II at his official residence in Tokyo.
"Japan has repeatedly expressed the feelings of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for its actions during the war," the prime minister said. "Such position articulated by the previous cabinets will remain unshakable into the future."
But the prime minister also said that Japan must not let its future generations "be predestined to apologize."
Abe said that aggression and war should never be the means to resolve international disputes and Japan will abandon colonial rule forever, but he stopped short of mentioning directly Japan's past aggression and colonial rule before and during WWII.
In the 1995 landmark Murayama Statement, then prime minister Tomiichi Murayama directly stated that "following a mistaken national policy," Japan, "through its colonial rule and aggression, caused tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries, particularly to those of Asian nations."
Meanwhile, Abe also failed to directly refer to the "comfort women," a Japanese euphemism for about 200,000 women who were forcibly recruited as sex slaves in Japanese military-run brothels.
"We will engrave in our hearts the past, when the dignity and honor of many women were severely injured during wars in the 20th century," said the prime minister.
On the reason why Japan launched the wars in the past, the prime minister laid bare his historical revisionism by blaming the Western countries' colonial economic blocs that delivered a blow to Japan's economy and Japan therefore used force to "overcome its diplomatic and economic deadlock."
Abe also said that Japan's modernization came from a sense of crisis of Western powers' overwhelming supremacy in technology and waves of colonial rule toward Asia.
On Japan's future, Abe claimed that his country will uphold " proactive pacifism" and cooperate with countries sharing common values to contribute to world peace and prosperity.
"Japan has repeatedly expressed the feelings of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for its actions during the war," the prime minister said. "Such position articulated by the previous cabinets will remain unshakable into the future."
But the prime minister also said that Japan must not let its future generations "be predestined to apologize."
Abe said that aggression and war should never be the means to resolve international disputes and Japan will abandon colonial rule forever, but he stopped short of mentioning directly Japan's past aggression and colonial rule before and during WWII.
In the 1995 landmark Murayama Statement, then prime minister Tomiichi Murayama directly stated that "following a mistaken national policy," Japan, "through its colonial rule and aggression, caused tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries, particularly to those of Asian nations."
however u spin it the common people suffered.
many chinese people hold CF & GLF were on par with the japanese genocide if not more...
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nonsense.
it is crazy to even compare the magnitude, intent, and sufferings of the events that happened in China internally with the japanese invasion
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@+4vsgorillas-Apebane , @Keel please do not engage the above person on this thread, my friends.
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Japanese soldier harvested brains for cannibalism: confession
August 14, 2015
A Japanese World War II war criminal helped harvest brains from live Chinese captives for a sergeant who believed eating them would treat his venereal disease, according to a confession published by the State Archives Administration on Friday.
The shocking admission from Corporal Takashi Mikami, who served in east China's Shandong Province from 1942 until his capture in August 1945, comes in the fourth of a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals being released online by the archives as China marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.
In the confession signed on August 1, 1954, Mikami also detailed how he slaughtered civilians and raped scores of women.
He explained that while stationed in Linqing County, Sergeant Getsuji "often ordered platoon members to collect living people's brains." In June 1942, Mikami asked Lance Corporal Yokokura to "get some brains during mopping up."
According to Mikami, Yokokura brought him the brain of a Chinese peasant. "I cooked it, kept it in a kettle and gave it to Sergeant Getsuji as medicine for his venereal disease," he wrote.
In Guantao County in August 1942, Mikami interrogated two Chinese peasants using torture. As one of the captives refused to talk, Second Lieutenant Oyagi said, "'Let the new recruits test their courage,' so along with five others, I bayoneted the peasant in the chest, killing him, and then buried him in a pit," according to the confession.
Mikami then told how he participated in a February 1943 attack on a village in Linqing in which the Japanese fired shells and tear gas and strafed those fleeing the village with machine gun fire.
"As a result, 370 Chinese soldiers and civilians were slaughtered. I entered the village and saw the situation in person. Dead soldiers and residents piled up. Most of them were holding towels over their mouths, with water coming out of their noses and their faces turning purplish."
Around August 27, 1943 in Tangyi County, Mikami "threw five grenades" at the walls of a village, "killing 15 civilians."
The war criminal also confessed to raping at least eight young Korean women in Shandong, many of them multiple times.
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Japanese soldier harvested brains for cannibalism: confession
August 14, 2015
A Japanese World War II war criminal helped harvest brains from live Chinese captives for a sergeant who believed eating them would treat his venereal disease, according to a confession published by the State Archives Administration on Friday.
The shocking admission from Corporal Takashi Mikami, who served in east China's Shandong Province from 1942 until his capture in August 1945, comes in the fourth of a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals being released online by the archives as China marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.
In the confession signed on August 1, 1954, Mikami also detailed how he slaughtered civilians and raped scores of women.
He explained that while stationed in Linqing County, Sergeant Getsuji "often ordered platoon members to collect living people's brains." In June 1942, Mikami asked Lance Corporal Yokokura to "get some brains during mopping up."
According to Mikami, Yokokura brought him the brain of a Chinese peasant. "I cooked it, kept it in a kettle and gave it to Sergeant Getsuji as medicine for his venereal disease," he wrote.
In Guantao County in August 1942, Mikami interrogated two Chinese peasants using torture. As one of the captives refused to talk, Second Lieutenant Oyagi said, "'Let the new recruits test their courage,' so along with five others, I bayoneted the peasant in the chest, killing him, and then buried him in a pit," according to the confession.
Mikami then told how he participated in a February 1943 attack on a village in Linqing in which the Japanese fired shells and tear gas and strafed those fleeing the village with machine gun fire.
"As a result, 370 Chinese soldiers and civilians were slaughtered. I entered the village and saw the situation in person. Dead soldiers and residents piled up. Most of them were holding towels over their mouths, with water coming out of their noses and their faces turning purplish."
Around August 27, 1943 in Tangyi County, Mikami "threw five grenades" at the walls of a village, "killing 15 civilians."
The war criminal also confessed to raping at least eight young Korean women in Shandong, many of them multiple times.
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