You see the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bones on the brink of death by starvation. It was a crime against humanity to keep them under these conditions. Pure sadism.
Japanese combat troops usually did not have enough food to eat. It was not uncommon for Japanese to butcher POWs, comfort women or local civilians for meat if livestock was not available.
Of course the leader of Japan, Hirohito, was severely punished wasn’t he? Oh he wasn’t was he? He was allowed to remain as Emperor!! Imagine allowing Hitler to remain as Fuehrer!! That situation stunk to high heaven. It was all jobs for the boys.
I have seen several stories that the U.S. government thought they needed Japan to be in tact to be a buffer in case the Soviet Union attacked. As a result they only did a token amount of trials and executions to show the troops "They cared". Not sure if this was true or not and then to let China fall to communism has led our world into a dark place.
Not just that. The head of Unit 731, Shiro Ishii was not only excluded from the Tokyo trials, he was granted full immunity and was paid by the US taxpayer to explain his biological weapons research. After being granted immunity, Ishii was hired by the U.S. government to lecture American officers at Fort Detrick on the uses of bioweapons and the findings made by Unit 731. During the Korean War, Ishii reportedly traveled to Korea to take part in the U.S. Army's alleged biological warfare activities. Shameful.
Hirohito should have been also tried for War Crimes. If Hitler would have survived the war and been captured can you imagine the World outcry if the US would have oh let Hitler still remain as ruler over Germany.
I remember watching a documentary about the Bataan death march from years ago. One of the survivors told of a Filipino couple with their infant standing by as the prisoners walked by, and guard walked up to the couple, shot the baby through the head and then walked away. Lot of evil things were done. Many of those soldiers are probably long since been dead or knocking on death’s door if still alive.
My cousin was a ACE Fighter Pilot in the European Theatre, and after VE Day, he flew combat in the South Pacific. His luck finally ran out, and he was shot down and captured, and ended up in one of the worst POW Camps near Tokyo. He was rescued from that camp at the war's end. He was treated brutally and very sick when he was rescued. He finally returned to duty, and retired as a Brigadier General.
Being a Singapore male citizen I have to serve 2.5 years of compulsory military national service after my 2 years of GCE A level education at the age of 18 in 1973. I arrived at Selarang Barracks in December of 1974 as an infantry instructor for the army recruits. On the walls of the officers mess there were pictures of Selarang BARRACKS where the WW2 POW tents littered the whole parade square. There were many haunted stories of the place. I was posted to this camp for almost 1 year and 3 months and everything was fine until one night I experienced something supernatural just three months before my Run Out Date (ROD) in 1976.
I lost an uncle to a Japanese POW camp - my cousin was born without ever seeing her dad. However, it has to be said that modern day Japan cannot be tarred with the same brush as their great-grandparents. Same with Germany.
I have been told that I have a lack of ambition because I dont care want to be a leader or have power over any other person. The truth is that I dont want those things because from an early age I saw that power ruines good people and can turn them into absolute monsters if given the chance. I understand the monster I keep locked up and for 50 years it has been controlled by my "lack of ambition." This is what happens to people like this man. He was probably a good person until power corrupted his thinking and made him believe that it was fine to do those things. Propaganda plays a huge role as well but without someone having power they can do nothing with propaganda aside from either accept it or not.
In the minute or so before the execution of the Japanese general (& during the narration the images were of German soldiers in the firing squads. Grrrrr!
In comparison, POWs in German camps were significantly more likely to survive than those in Japanese camps. Also prisoners in Japanese camps were frequently used as a source of labor. Japanese soldiers were very brutal to both civilian populations and captured Allied soldiers.
The Japanese were brutal and sadistic, not just to their prisoners, but also to their own troops. Towards the end of the war many Japanese troops starved to death, as they had been left on Islands with no means of escape.
Get your facts right. The two Japanese soldiers who had a competition to kill 100 people with a sword was in The Rape Of Naking - China. Not WW2! When you couldn't;t get that right I stopped watching.
World War II in the Pacific did not begin on 7 December, 1941. It began earlier with the invasion of China. I grew up on the Kansas-Missouri border. The Civil War began there in the 1850s and not in 1861 in South Carolina. It is not acknowledged by people like to quibble.
The Rape of Nanjing was part of the second Sino-Japanese war that took place between 1937 and 1945. That war is considered by historians to be part of WW2 and is considered to be the beginning of WW2 in Asia. You have no basis to say Nanjing was not part of WW2. I'd suggest you work on your own facts before you jump on someone with over half a million subscribers about his. By the way, that killing competition is also under question as to whether the story is a fabrication or not.
Hirohito was never taken to face a war court because he gave to US occupation army an important portion of gold stolen by Japanese Army long before and during World War Two. It is the Yamashita Gold, most of which is still buried in caves or in well disguised pits in Philipines Islands, Malaysia forests as well in Indonesia. The only important title that late Emperor Hirohito was the one naming him as a Divine Being. General McCarthur deprived Emperor from such celestial denomination. Gold given to US Army was used to finance Cold War against Soviet Union and its allies. Further information about this almost unknown history can be found in the book written by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, "Gold Warriors". Amazon sells it, just to mention one supplier. After having read this book, perspective of history changes all our views of economic and geopolitical interest that shaped postwar World. Enjoy it and learn a lot avoiding "fairy tales" from official sources.
If you consider that we now know who forced Japan into war can you blame humans for being vindictive, were the Americans not vindictive just with different excuses for being vindictive.
As the Nazis and Japanese did not conform to the Geneva convention ; they had no rights under that system of justice . You can't have your cake and eat it .
am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 4 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 20,000 Yemenis amongs, and now we owe 60,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967717238645 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well..`/--~««♡~............^.^._.._.^_.^^._.^.^.^._............./././-./--/*-/*-*/**-**-.-.-.-.*.*..-.-...،،،،،،-.-.-😢😢😢.....😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢.........
You’re obviously a scam artist. Nice try but that number you provide is just a one way trick to drain the bank accounts of anyone dumb enough to arrange a bank transfer. You probably operate out of Kolkata or Mumbai and do this hundreds of times a day. And if you are based in the Middle East, Yemen or Somalia you have links to the terrorist organisations sponsored by Iran. You’re not even a bot but you are a bot fly laying your larvae in unsuspecting victims until you can nourish yourself and leave a trail of viscerated flesh behind you.
You see the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bones on the brink of death by starvation. It was a crime against humanity to keep them under these conditions. Pure sadism.
Japanese combat troops usually did not have enough food to eat. It was not uncommon for Japanese to butcher POWs, comfort women or local civilians for meat if livestock was not available.
All for Emperor Hirohito? Why wasn't Hirohito placed under house arrest for the remaining of his life?
And now we are allowing the Japs to have a base and train their Army in DARWIN .
Sadly, less than 4%, were punished.
Of course the leader of Japan, Hirohito, was severely punished wasn’t he? Oh he wasn’t was he? He was allowed to remain as Emperor!! Imagine allowing Hitler to remain as Fuehrer!! That situation stunk to high heaven. It was all jobs for the boys.
I have seen several stories that the U.S. government thought they needed Japan to be in tact to be a buffer in case the Soviet Union attacked. As a result they only did a token amount of trials and executions to show the troops "They cared". Not sure if this was true or not and then to let China fall to communism has led our world into a dark place.
Not just that. The head of Unit 731, Shiro Ishii was not only excluded from the Tokyo trials, he was granted full immunity and was paid by the US taxpayer to explain his biological weapons research.
After being granted immunity, Ishii was hired by the U.S. government to lecture American officers at Fort Detrick on the uses of bioweapons and the findings made by Unit 731.
During the Korean War, Ishii reportedly traveled to Korea to take part in the U.S. Army's alleged biological warfare activities.
Shameful.
@ Werner van Braun…..ditto. Instead of the hangman’s noose he developed the Saturn space programme for America. It’s who you know isn’t it?
@@johnmanning5568 True. Good ol' op. paperclip. The images of a goddam Nazi sitting next to a US president defies belief
Hirohito should have been also tried for War Crimes. If Hitler would have survived the war and been captured can you imagine the World outcry if the US would have oh let Hitler still remain as ruler over Germany.
I remember watching a documentary about the Bataan death march from years ago. One of the survivors told of a Filipino couple with their infant standing by as the prisoners walked by, and guard walked up to the couple, shot the baby through the head and then walked away. Lot of evil things were done. Many of those soldiers are probably long since been dead or knocking on death’s door if still alive.
The Japanese could never be described as being 'soldiers', only war criminals in a uniform. They do not deserve the title.
@@percyprune7548I agree but I said it in context of the incident.
There were no tears shed for General Shimpei…
I was just scrolling down. Before I read your comment, I said "There were no tears shed for General Shimpei." Great minds. 👈😉👍
Good afternoon, and again, Thank You for your Important, Excellent, and Informative videos.
when I was a child, our neighbor had been a Japanese POW, and the poor man was scared for life
@@philstanton231 he would be scarred for life too.
Interestingly, the Australian forces had never executed anyone until the guilty Japanese war criminals had to be dealt with after the war.
Honestly they still failed in that. They let go of the guys who made a hotel into a brothel with Australian women.
@@mikloridden8276 Which brothel? What is the Jap’s name? Because it would be really interesting to read his trial.
It was Webb, the Australian Chief Justice , who wanted the Emperor tried as a war criminal., as he knew and approved all of this.
My cousin was a ACE Fighter Pilot in the European Theatre, and after VE Day, he flew combat in the South Pacific. His luck finally ran out, and he was shot down and captured, and ended up in one of the worst POW Camps near Tokyo. He was rescued from that camp at the war's end. He was treated brutally and very sick when he was rescued. He finally returned to duty, and retired as a Brigadier General.
Pure politics. Allies didn’t want to overdo it and lose control of the occupation. Same reason the Emperor was left in place.
Being a Singapore male citizen I have to serve 2.5 years of compulsory military national service after my 2 years of GCE A level education at the age of 18 in 1973. I arrived at Selarang Barracks in December of 1974 as an infantry instructor for the army recruits. On the walls of the officers mess there were pictures of Selarang BARRACKS where the WW2 POW tents littered the whole parade square. There were many haunted stories of the place. I was posted to this camp for almost 1 year and 3 months and everything was fine until one night I experienced something supernatural just three months before my Run Out Date (ROD) in 1976.
Grew up knowing 3 survivor's of the burma railway they hated Japanese till the day they died
I lost an uncle to a Japanese POW camp - my cousin was born without ever seeing her dad. However, it has to be said that modern day Japan cannot be tarred with the same brush as their great-grandparents. Same with Germany.
A Town Like Alice.....please watch.
I have been told that I have a lack of ambition because I dont care want to be a leader or have power over any other person. The truth is that I dont want those things because from an early age I saw that power ruines good people and can turn them into absolute monsters if given the chance. I understand the monster I keep locked up and for 50 years it has been controlled by my "lack of ambition." This is what happens to people like this man. He was probably a good person until power corrupted his thinking and made him believe that it was fine to do those things. Propaganda plays a huge role as well but without someone having power they can do nothing with propaganda aside from either accept it or not.
Megalomania is the term you described.
So much Evil in the World!
In the minute or so before the execution of the Japanese general (& during the narration the images were of German soldiers in the firing squads. Grrrrr!
The Germans were hard on pow,s but at least unlike the Japanese they never ate their prisoners !
In comparison, POWs in German camps were significantly more likely to survive than those in Japanese camps. Also prisoners in Japanese camps were frequently used as a source of labor. Japanese soldiers were very brutal to both civilian populations and captured Allied soldiers.
The Japanese were brutal and sadistic, not just to their prisoners, but also to their own troops.
Towards the end of the war many Japanese troops starved to death, as they had been left on
Islands with no means of escape.
Commentate? The verb is comment.
Lest We Forget, what the Japanese did to prisoners of war.
AI voice sucks
Get your facts right. The two Japanese soldiers who had a competition to kill 100 people with a sword was in The Rape Of Naking - China. Not WW2! When you couldn't;t get that right I stopped watching.
World War II in the Pacific did not begin on 7 December, 1941. It began earlier with the invasion of China. I grew up on the Kansas-Missouri border. The Civil War began there in the 1850s and not in 1861 in South Carolina. It is not acknowledged by people like to quibble.
The Rape of Nanjing was part of the second Sino-Japanese war that took place between 1937 and 1945. That war is considered by historians to be part of WW2 and is considered to be the beginning of WW2 in Asia. You have no basis to say Nanjing was not part of WW2. I'd suggest you work on your own facts before you jump on someone with over half a million subscribers about his. By the way, that killing competition is also under question as to whether the story is a fabrication or not.
Hirohito was never taken to face a war court because he gave to US occupation army an important portion of gold stolen by Japanese Army long before and during World War Two. It is the Yamashita Gold, most of which is still buried in caves or in well disguised pits in Philipines Islands, Malaysia forests as well in Indonesia. The only important title that late Emperor Hirohito was the one naming him as a Divine Being. General McCarthur deprived Emperor from such celestial denomination.
Gold given to US Army was used to finance Cold War against Soviet Union and its allies. Further information about this almost unknown history can be found in the book written by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, "Gold Warriors". Amazon sells it, just to mention one supplier. After having read this book, perspective of history changes all our views of economic and geopolitical interest that shaped postwar World. Enjoy it and learn a lot avoiding "fairy tales" from official sources.
Can't stand your trailing off at the end of every sentence, you're on 'don't recommend'.
If you consider that we now know who forced Japan into war can you blame humans for being vindictive, were the Americans not vindictive just with different excuses for being vindictive.
Say again?
How many American officers we're executed because of warcrimes?
How many would it take to make you happy? JOSE Jose Jose Jose Jose Jose
Jose Jose Jose…..
As the Nazis and Japanese did not conform to the Geneva convention ; they had no rights under that system of justice . You can't have your cake and eat it .
am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 4 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 20,000 Yemenis amongs, and now we owe 60,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967717238645 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well..`/--~««♡~............^.^._.._.^_.^^._.^.^.^._............./././-./--/*-/*-*/**-**-.-.-.-.*.*..-.-...،،،،،،-.-.-😢😢😢.....😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢.........
You’re obviously a scam artist. Nice try but that number you provide is just a one way trick to drain the bank accounts of anyone dumb enough to arrange a bank transfer. You probably operate out of Kolkata or Mumbai and do this hundreds of times a day. And if you are based in the Middle East, Yemen or Somalia you have links to the terrorist organisations sponsored by Iran. You’re not even a bot but you are a bot fly laying your larvae in unsuspecting victims until you can nourish yourself and leave a trail of viscerated flesh behind you.
Your religion is your enemy.
Believe in Jesus Christ and love one another