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William Logan(Councel at International Military Tribunal for Far EAST):
When I first accepted this assignment,frankly speaking ,I regretted it because I
thought there would be no chance of winning.
However,as I examined and researched what happened,the innocence of the defendents was becoming
very obvious.
Right from the begining ,Japan never had any ambition for invasion .I can make this definative
statement that they are all not guilty.
Seni Parma,Prime Minister of Thailand:
Asia gained independence because of Japan.Japan ,who acted as our mother,bore babies of asian countries but destructed her maternal body.
Who made us talk equally with the west today?
It is because of the mother Japan ,who almost killed herself to give the birth.
We should never forget December 8.
Lord Mountbatten (first earl Mountbatten of Burma)
Once the undefeated Japanese army was left with nothing but their spirits,they were defeated in the end.
However,they left something behind,which is the fact that they removed all the westerners from east ASIA.
Owen Lattimore an advisor to Chinag Kai shek:
What Japan has carried through bravely was to completely put an end to the colonial occupation by the west.
Jawhar Lal Nehru (the first prime minister of independent India):
The Japanese did nothing to us that they have to apologize for.This is the reason that we do not attend the san fransisco Peace Conference and refuse to sign
on its Peace Treaty.
Radhabinod pal(UN's International Law Commission):
The West has vested interests in recording Japan as the invading country so that
they can justify their invasion of asia.
Crime against peace & crime against humanity are ex post fact laws,so that in the context of International Law,there is no basis for accusing Japan of crime-
Subhash Chandra Bose( a legendary figure who fought against Britain for Indian freedom):
For the independece of India,our army will fight through with the Japanese friends.Let's go to Delhi!-
Junius Jayawardene,Prime Minister of Srilanka.At the San Francisco Peace Conference (1951)
:
Why does asia want Japan to be free
again? It is because Japan was the only country asia could trust.
We should never forget how the people of asia,who hoped for their independence find sympathy with the japanese ideals.
Ghazalie Shafie,Foreign Minister of Malaysia:
Why does Japan have to make an apology?
In that war,the Japanese got rid of the British,didn they?
We should not forget we welcomed the Japanese army with such a joy.
Ungku Abdul Aziz,vice chancellor
of the University of Malaysia
:
Without the Japanese,there would have been no independence of South East Asia.
If we try to deny the precious sacrifices that the Japanese made,it is like looking only at the back mirror.
When the Japanese army marched into the malay peninsula,we all let out a whoop of joy .And when we saw the retreating the British army,I shivered as if I had never experience before.The japanese removed all the western forces that had been colonizing Asia for such a long time.We had almost given up our hope but the japanese gave us the sensation & confidence.
Ba Maw ,Prime minister of Burma:
There is no country that contributed to Asia than Japan did.And there is no country
more misunderstood than Japan is.
It was the Japanese who freed us from white domination.
The true friend of Independent Burma was General Tojo & Japan-
A country motivated by high ideals and lofty objectives had sacrificed its lives and all its assets.
That country is a Far East island nation of Japan- U Nu,Foreign minister of Burma.
Suharto,President of Indonesia:
The reason that Indonesia was able to win its independence from Netherland is that the same coloured Japanese had fought that much and that gave us confidence that we
could do the same.
Bung Tomo (Minister of Information Indonesia):
That war was really our war.
We should have fought it ourselves.But we put everything on that Japan's
shoulders and that plunged her into almost total destruction.
I'm SORRY.
Raja Dato Nong Chik ( Malaysian senator and the leading advocate of the ASEAN):
We delightfully welcomed the Japanese army.
They brought us many things for our future independence.
Japan massacred civilians in Malaysia? there is no such evidence-
Li Teng -Hui,president of Taiwan:
I'm going to Yasukuni Shrine to prey for my brother who died in war.
It is natural if I am his brother ,right? -
Park Chung hee,president of Korea:
I was born in a family of a very poor farmer and so I could never dreamed of going to school.It was a Japanese offical who persuaded my parents to send me to primary school.
And it was a Japanese teacher who recommended to Japanese Army War college.
The reason I'm here today is because of the compulsory education system they introduced,and because of the clean and honest japanese people . <--- Look korea's most historic figure aclnowledes japanese as honest and clean folk.
F.B Vargas ambassador to japan:
The Japanese proved their lofty spirits & ideals by eventually abolishing its military government
to authorize the establishment of the Republic of the Philippine-
Jamal Abd al Nasir ,President of Egypt:
In Asia,there was Japan.
But in Arabs,there is no Japan(after the defeat in third Middle Eastern War)
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Btw, if japan was so much of an evil and so much detested back then ,almost each and every historical leader of asia from ASEAN,East asia,South Asia to even arab, wouldn't have been so sympathetic toward Japan .
Whole of Asia and Asians were basically in "I CANT BREATHEE!!!" mode under western oppression.
Asia and much of the colonized world saw Japan as the beam of hope against the western supremacist's tyranny.
Asia was proud of Japan and was behind the island nation in all its endeavor,people who aren't invested in real history wouldn't realize how important and inspirational was Japan and its struggle in the 19th century was ,when standing up against western IMPERIALISTS was UNTHINKABLE.
Without Japan,Asia might still have been a colonial region ,the uprising might have never started,Asia broken up into pieces and rendered underdeveloped for the convenience of West to control and manipulate.
But history is written by the victors,the US led mental warfare program changed much of the public perception ,and using their media Japan was painted into a villain,to justify US's war against japan and the dropping of 2 nukes upon Civilians.
And CPC which wanted to paint itself as white knight against Japanese invasion adopted the western notion,to stoke nationalism and unify Chinese under the hatred of Japan.
Similar case happened in Korea,but this time to divert the blame of the gov which stole funds meant for war victims .
Korean gov wanted a villain to divert hatred from the gov's mishandling of aid funds,and various other failure and atrocities committed by the gov ,for eg: The jeju massacre where 20% of civilians were massacred and about 40k fled to japan to save their lives..
Under western propaganda warfare,when japan was handing out money to victims of war ,many communities turned victims to demand money from japan.Those were huge sum back then,close to gdp of many nation,so the victim play paid huge dividends.
They all misused the Japanese sense of ideals and generosity.
Nanjing massacre is bogus, invented with western coalition- it was started from fake accounts ,in short Rabe-Bates and Tembirley reported about thousands of massacre without even seeing a single massacre personally;yeah they acknowledged they never saw it personally.
Korean comfort women? lol
They were highly paid "willing "sex workers.
The photo below is the print of order sent by the Japanese military to comfort station operators. It says, "Do not recruit women against their will. Only recruit willing prostitutes.
And the sad but ironic part of the whole comfort women situation is that, all of the comfort stations in korea were operated by korean themselves,korean themselves hired and conducted the operation.
The following is the list of comfort stations mentioned in the diary. The owners were all Korean although they had Japanese surnames.
And the Koreans not just controlled the comfort stations in korea ,but they even managed the stations in Shanghai.
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So,Koreans need to blame japan to live with themselves and white wash their past.
There's actually no point in attacking japan over forced prostitution issue ,when the japanese themselves banned the hiring of unwilling women ,and all the hiring and operation was done by korean MEN.
There were many incidents where Chinese downright massacred civilians ,their own or the Japanese.
On June 29, in Tongzhou, east of Beijing, Chinese soldiers rose up without warning and massacred the 300 Japanese residents living in the area. When it was all over, the bodies of men with their eyes gouged out and their organs spilled, and the nude bodies of women who had been stabbed to death, were scattered all about. It was a pitiful scene.
What moral superiority does the west to judge japan's so called conquest?Only naive people believe that.
You're planning to starve a whole nation to death and reduce it to rubble,may be USA should have thought before that,other wise it's not so wrong to attack the ships stationed at pearl harbour. Japan didn't bombed american civlians. It's hell of a different!.