Sex Slaves - Japanese Military Mistreatment of Dutch Women Prisoners
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The Japanese military routinely abused civilian women across the Occupied Territories of Asia. Hundreds of thousands of local women were also forced to become 'Comfort Women', or forced prostitutes. Among this number were several hundred white Dutch women and girls interned by the Japanese in the Netherlands East Indies. This is their appalling story.
For more information about the experiences of women under Japanese military control, see my 2009 book 'The Real Tenko', available at Amazon.
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The irony is that the Imperial Japanese were screaming and shouting about honour but yet were the most dishonourable, they had no honour
The Japanese at the time believed in death before the disgrace of capture, if you surrender then you lose all honor, as such they believed you were no longer entitled to be treated as a human as you had no honor
Japan has zero honor.
"Honour" is a nebulous thing, it's not necessarily a good word, especially when you deal with codes of honor adhered to with strict fanaticism. Better to have a code of ethics and morals than any code of honor.
@@scockery true honor is subjective, but at the time the Imperial Japanese Army was installed with the spirit of Bushido and the way of the Samurai, honor in battle was everything and to loose or surrender was shameful and a man cannot live with shame therefore prisoners by default were no longer considered worthy of life as they should have died in battle therefore what happens to them as prisoners does not matter they should be dead anyway. I'm not saying this is right I'm playing the devil's advocate
Tojo. They honor him now with yearly visits.
I am Dutch living in Canada and am surprised that nobody knows anything about this. We learned all of this in school. Thank you
Bnyk wanita Belanda yg menjadi korban
The only thing you learn in Canada is natives natives natives.... then white people bad. Nothing less nothing more. No real history taught.
In Canadá?
Did you learn about the 100- 150,000 Indonesian deaths caused by the dutch after ww2?
Nobody knows?? Come on.
This was a rough one. But these things needs to be known.
-insert customary apologetic five-second bow- and not much else
Its known here in the Netherlands. But other should know too
@@robinisi3354
Ok but im in canada
The more I've learned about Japanese war crimes during the war the less I feel any regret for the fire bombings and the 2 nukes that were dropped on them. When ur country is led by an evil cadre of racist militarists u should expect destruction!
@@danielheaviside2150 That'd be like saying Londoners should have been bombed indiscriminately by Indians, Pakistanis, etc.
My mother and grandmother were in such a camp and survived. They weren’t raped but were tortured. My grandfather died along the Burmese railway.
So sorry for their needless suffering.
God bless you and yours!
@@nrw64 Umm, sure you want to post this throwing stones in comparison to Germany in WW2, may want to rethink that. The Einsatzgruppen and SS weren't alone in committing atrocities, which aside from the obvious included the deliberate murder of 3.8M Soviet POW's.
I have friends with parents who lived in these camps as a child. Numerous mental issues followed throughout their lives.
My nans uncle committed suicide shortly after he was liberated, he survived the Burma railway but didn't survive the mental effect it had on him
@@nrw64 read about the experiments the japanese performed on captured allied soldiers... unfathomable cruelty.
The fact this isn't taught in schools boils my blood. Great video as always Dr. Felton.
It's even been suggested WW2 not be taught in schools at all, as it might "upset" people 😑
@@mtthwpnn doesn't surprise me with how popular culture is going, once people forget what atrocities have happened they can happened again.
In Japan, they will tell you, sincerely they believe, that this didn't happen. Then they will complain about what victims they were at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Why? Do you need everything spoon fed to you?
The whole of the Far East campaign is often overlooked because the war in Europe. If is mentioned at all the war against Japan concentrates more on the Pacific theatre.
As a kid here in Kentuckiana I had WW2 vets tell me how inhuman the Japanese military was and I had a hard time believing the stories. They told me straight.
And yet once the fighting was over most atrocities were hushed up by the US government because they wanted the Japanese on-side against the Soviets
And like most people in your state, you believe it primarily because it's about little yellow men.
@@penultimateh766
He believes it because it's most likely the truth
Did you watch any of the Mark Felton vids concerning your beloved "little yellow men"??
@@penultimateh766 okay clown
@@penultimateh766 where did he say anything about race dude?
My great grandfather served in Burma as a soldier in the British Indian army he said their worst fear was never death
It was being captured alive by the Japanese
Same with my paternal grandfather who fought in Burma.
My granddad was a marine in the pacific and he hated the Japanese till the day he died
2 of my great uncles also served in Burma and my grandmother said they both came back very different men.
Looking at the inside of our houses and the cars on the roads in the UK we obviously have small memories..
My great grandfather served in Burma too , he was a Field Surgeon. I’m not sure of the regiment though.
One of my patients, Mr. K, was a POW and was in the Bataan Death March. I made the awful mistake of asking about his service the first day of work after seeing his medals in a case on the wall. Mr. K immediately burst into tears and started bawling, and that is probably one of the top 3 times in my adult life that I've felt like a horrible person. His sitter apologized for not telling me not to bring up his service, and during a smoke break, she filled me in on what Mr. K went through.
I think I hugged him for twenty minutes while he was crying while I kept apologizing; I felt like such a piece of shit for making a man in his 80s cry like a terrified little kid. That was the only lesson I ever needed about mentioning someone's service, especially a patient -- I don't bring it up unless they do first.
I'm glad you tackle the atrocities on this side of the Pacific without feeling the need to sugarcoat it, doc. There seems to be less and less discussion happening about the Pacific theater, and as someone who lives in one of the countries most devastated by Japanese occupation, it's great to have a channel that tells the untold stories from this front as well.
To this day, the Japanese government is not at all slow about denouncing as "racist" anyone who criticizes or even mentions what Japan did during World War II. They're every bit as bad as the Turkish government in its denial of the Armenian Genocide.
Japan, unlike Germany was never made to atone for the horrid atrocities they committed during the war.
@@johnh.tuomala4379 You don't need to tell me that. I'm on the same side of the ocean as they are. I know what goes on. What makes me more positive about Japan these days is seeing how a lot of normal people over there, especially younger people, are willing to educate themselves on what their country did during the war on their own time. That's despite the government's control of educational material before it reaches both private and public schools to make sure that it only either glosses over or ignores the darker aspects of their history. And just to be fair, there was some effort at reparation a few times throughout the decades after WWII. But it's not nearly enough. And some of the denialism by people in their government is utterly inexcusable.
@@johnh.tuomala4379 -- Well, in relatively recent times, Japan made some payments to Korean "Comfort Women." I don't remember anything about the European women that were interned.
@@GilmerJohn I believe it was only Filippino and Korean women who got paid any compensation. I don't know about European women.
@@johnh.tuomala4379 They can thank the Cold War for saving their asses from communist occupation
All Japanese high schools should be watching this documentary.
No way. They deny that any of this happened - but THEY are the victims because of what happened in Aug ‘45.
This "THEY" you are talking about it the government. They are denying the truth.
Japanese high schoolers literally don't know any better so maybe it would be better for them to watch this.
@@mikann9441 It’s the entire Japanese population who deny it. Not just the government.
Actually they won’t, i’ve read about atrocities of Japan in WW2, and came across a few videos here in youtube about atrocities by nazis and japanese, what i see in comments japan did not acknowledge the war crimes, and japanese always point out about Chinese and Americans crimes instead.
i learnt that the USA gave immunity to Japanese emperor/ empire in war trial due politics.
And my mother was on trip in South Korea with her Korean friends, older Koreans still have hatred towards japan.
I don’t know why japan has a privilege in ww2 trial, and don’t understand why they refuse to acknowledge the war crimes. Germany did.
I know War has no human faces, and even the allied liberation troops of americans, soviet and ets did rape women.
I do.
This may be uncomfortable facts but it’s still facts !
I had to pause the video and go out for some fresh air. The level of inhumanity and sadism is just unbelievable. These bastards make the na.zi looks compassionate in comparison because at least their goal was the brief termination of their victims, not the intentional prolonging of suffering and humiliation like these monsters. Nothing short of admiration for the women who survived this hell and all the trauma that followed them for the rest of their lives.
Just a shame Mark Felton wont investigate the mass rape of French women by british soldiers during WW2 as serialised by Max Hastings
That just makes it even more important to tell these stories.
@@Dexusaz Yes you are totally correct !
Just think some of these Bastards are still living today, never to be punished for what they did.
Holy moly, no punches pulled man. BRAVO
Thank you, Dr. Felton. The scope of Japan's militarized sociopathy is difficult to fully comprehend. This story needs to be told as it is a part of WWII history that few authors could (or would choose to) write about. I appreciate the well-done, objective research that is evident in all your stories as well as your willingness to not shy away from any part of WWII history, regardless of the country of focus.
Agreed. Dr. Felton is unequalled in his knowledge of every aspect of WWII and presentation thereof. Hopefully he is not going to be accused of “victor’s history” or worse, racism, for presenting these facts. After publishing his historical novel “Shokuzai” (Atonement), William Myers received suggestions by readers that he had strayed into bigotry in his narrative, which was in fact based upon actual historical occurrences. Although Myers, who lived in Japan for two decades had attempted to state his actual perspective in a lengthy afterword, woke westerners and Japanese historical revisionists were not interested in facts.
The brutality of many Japanese NCOs and some officers towards their own men has been well documented. I believe it was endemic in their rigid class society during this time period. Within the military the ancient honor code of Bushido had been corrupted into blind obedience, which served the government's goal of regional domination. In this sense they had much in common with the German, Soviet, and Italian militaries. One partial explanation for how the Japanese soldiers were conditioned to behave so badly toward others was related to me by a late friend of mine. His grandfather had been inducted into the Japanese Army in the 1930s. He said the brutality of the Army began in basic training where beatings and insults were standard operating procedure. NCOs treated the recruits like scum. It didn't get any better after completing basic training. He hated it with a passion and, unlike most Japanese, he had an independent rebellious streak which landed him in plenty of hot water. After he completed his term of service he immigrated to the USA and never looked back. Following Pearl Harbor he wound up in a detention center, but it was a cakewalk when compared to his military service in Japan. I believe he represented the exception, rather than the rule.
@@Paladin1873 I think you have put your finger on it. In his afterward to “Shokuzai”, Myers speaks of a true incident which occurred in 1946 at the Military Tribunal for the Far East in Guam which illustrates your point. There were real people who refused to buy into the military narrative, but as you accurately point out, they were the exception rather than the rule.
This is a VERY sad situation and speaks volumes about the Japanese culture.
War is HELL on earth 🌎.
@@moriscoley5328 This does NOT speak about "Japanese culture"! It DOES speak about FASCIST culture!! I FULLY AGREE with the comment by Colonel K above: "In this sense they had much in common with the German, Soviet, and Italian militaries". To impute that this behavior says ANYTHING about post-WW2 Japanese culture is naive and not surprisingly rascist (or at least very emotional - excusable perhaps but still inappropriate).
Dr. Felton - this took great courage for you to tell. When I took history courses at my university, the professors and staff would only talk about atrocities or crimes (real, or simply manufactured) by Europeans, Americans, or the Anglosphere. The only villians of history were white, Christian, "cis" men - everyone else in all of human history was a "victim." Thank you for telling this story. It was hard not to cry while listening to this.
Cis is made up word.
@@pattygravs6354 all words are made up
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These things aren't talked about because the world is too busy demonizing black folks. If Africans did these things addressed in the video during WW2 I think the entire race would have been exterminated.
eh this post is bullshit, they teach the Japanese atrocities of world war 2 in high school, and i know if they teach it in high school, they teach it in college. white, cisgendered, men or women, are not victims. quit making yourself out to be one.
Horrific, without a doubt. Poor girls and ladies...
My heart goes out to them.
@UCNPMfserShbkAVPjJq8rRZQ l do, l think about all slavery.
Thanks
@@simonbertioli4696 lets br honest "hearts (and prayers)" is minimal effort.
Save that tapping and typing for putting effort into enlightening the ignorant and arrogant on why as.a society we can't let this happen, should you encounter them.
@@pyroromancer funny, "Netherland hindie"
It is Indonesia, fu*** western narrative
@@eavyeavy2864 Lmao what
RIP the german and japanese girls aged 6-80 mercilessly molested by Soviets and Americans.
Thank you for this video. I am well informed about the Japanese brutality from the Chinese perspective, but I did not know that Dutch civilians were also subject to such horrifying crimes. My heart aches to hear that the Dutch were also victims of such vicious, unforgivable acts of horror. The Japanese government thinks that staying silent on this topic will somehow make it disappear from everybody's mind, but they are absolutely wrong.
My maternal grandfather refuses to eat Japanese cuisine. Any discussion about the Japanese gets him fired up. By contrast, he absolutely loves Thai cuisine, especially green curry. The Thai people helped him hide from the Japanese as a youngster fleeing Henan province, and grandfather never forgot their kindness, their hospitality.
Not civilians, colonizers that mistreated the local populations for centuries.
There was a statue erected in a park in Sydney Australia honouring comfort women. The local Japanese community tried to have it taken down stating that they felt intimidated by it being there, and that the statue has nothing to do with the local community.
...and yet, they broadcast in all the gory details those who were at Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
There 1 here in Glendale, Ca. No statues or thanks for the liberation or keeping other countries FREE while criticism of & voting against THE USA?
There's a Comfort Women memorial in San Francisco that was erected in 2017. A year later, the mayor of Osaka threatened to end their 'sister city' relationship with SF, unless the memorial was "promptly removed" from its downtown location and taken out of the city. The memorial still stands.
The Japanese community members can bloody leave if they're so uncomfortable.
@@e.a.corral4713 Why? When the USA inprisoned Japanese AMERICANS in concentration camps.
I met a Dutch woman on Bali who spent part of her formative years in a Japanese POW camp in what was then the Dutch East Indies. Her father was also in a camp and died a couple of years after the war due to injuries from which he never fully recovered. But the Dutch weren’t the only ones mistreated by the Japanese in the Dutch East Indies, there were outright massacres on the overseas Chinese population in Borneo as well.
I think video focusing on specified object and specified group of people,
Refer also the atrocities of the Dutch colonizers, who oppressed Indonesia and other colonies in the area for 300 years. One cruelty does not justify the other, but both need to be acknowledged.
@@mariadaluzalexandrino7570 Yeah, Dutch were one of the most brutal Europeans colonizers, but due to political correctness nobody should talk about it.
@@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث no, through political correctness, it should be talked about. Political correctness means giving everyone an equal opportunity, no matter nationality, wealth or social status.
@@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث more brutal than japanese ? the british in India? the french in indochina ??
and what to tell about the muslim butchers of indonesia acting in the bersiap period ? javanese wars? aceh war ? and recruited in ISIS the last 10 years ?? cutting off the penis and stuff in the mouth of their victim s??
War is repugnant. These atrocities are horrific.
War is repugnant ? War is a Major General Racket -Smedley D Butler !
@@bobcosmic War will make corpses of us all.
Doing the oldest sins in the newest ways
@DJL There are no war atrocities. War is an atrocity
@@LazyLifeIFreak god makes corpses of us all. Wars just ramp it up. War is insanity. And profitable.
Thank you Mr. Felton! This should not be forgiven or forgotten!
Japan is rearmed by the USA .
A correction, almost all “comfort women” in Nanking (read that better than 95%) were not prostitutes. My in-laws were in Nanking during that time. My mother in law one time (and only once) told me all the things she had to do to keep from being captured by Japanese soldiers. All of her friends that were captured were beaten and tortured as well as raped for hours on end for years. Death was their only escape. The Japanese were so brutal that my in-laws to their dying day would never buy or own anything Japanese. I can’t say that I blame them after what they went through. The thing that angered me recently was when prime minister Abe started trying to rewrite history about the atrocities committed by Japanese troops.
My girlfriend is from Nanjing (Nanking) and her grandparents also harbor strong resentment for anything Japanese. I heard of a story where one time some people speaking Cantonese in a western store were mistakenly yelled at for being and speaking Japanese. The anti-Japanese sentiment is still very much alive.
Glad they got nuked. Shame the bomb was not ready a few years before.
@Magnus I visited his house, where he and lots of other foreigners saved many lives in NJ. The irony is that he would wave his swastika insginia to ward away japanese soldiers trying to rape and murder.
@@gladiammgtow4092 Funny you say that. There is an article of a teacher in Japan who said something similar in class and was fired for it. The gist of the story is that the teacher was from Mainland China and in her class they were lecturing about the end of WWII. She said that in China, they were jumping up and down when they heard about Hiroshima & Nagasaki because of the brutality they endured at the hands of the Japanese soldiers. Well the Japanese parents freaked out and the teacher was fired for it.
@@fredfoshizzle4891 I would say that the western store thing was more racism/bigotry than sentiment. I hate to say it, but racism exists everywhere and in every culture. In some places it is more of a minority that act that way. But it is there no matter what. When I was younger, I was in a western store and these Japanese tourists came in. They were buying more Levi’s and shirts than I had ever seen anyone get. The store workers loved them and spoke highly of them even after they left the store.
Thanks to Dr. Felton for keeping history alive. Even the deplorable and horrific history they keep out of the textbooks.
I heard the japanese don't teach WW2 History?
@@davedavies8002 I can see why...
Look up the Rape of Nanjiing.
@@davedavies8002 they teach a very sanitized version of it which disputes the various atrocities they committed and tries to label the proof as "inconclusive" or disputed. They also sometimes try to portray themselves as victims forced into the war or liberators of other countries from the evil western powers.
@@xKinjax damn
In my observation the "japan just pretends this didn't happen" claim is a myth, or at least an exaggeration.
The Japanese view - as I've observed it anyway - of the Kempetai for instance, is of a brutal organization, hated as much by Japanese civilians and servicemen as by the non-Japanese the Kempetai capriciously lorded over.
Also should go without saying that most school textbooks the world over don't give a comprehensive and balanced account of historical events; let alone one where there's vast disparity in statistics claimed by each side, and politically motivated narratives of all shades.
(thus hardly a yardstick to hold Japan to, nor other countries, without delving into hypocrisy)
The more I learn of my Father's years from 1939-1945 the more I am proud of him and his mates who stood up to fight this evil. Every generation must stand or be slaves.
Hearing how horrificly depraved and inhuman those japanese soldiers were, I was genualy surprised a few camp commandants opposed the military police when they came to take female prisonners
I can’t remember much of what I learned in my history classes, but watch Mark’s videos and look forward to learning as much as I can.
R G If only Mark taught hisory the world would be a better place.
You likely can't remember because what they "teach" in schools is pure fiction.
@@SierraNovemberKilo it usually doesn't cover the dark side of the country
The man really knows how to engage his audience
Be nice if students could vote on their subjects.The interest would be at their peak.
Thank you for telling this history. Years ago, I had a Filipina girlfriend, who had been raised by her grandmother. She told me that when she was a teenager, she would go out, as normal for a teenage girl. One day as she put her face on in the bathroom, her grandmother said, "When I was your age, I avoided going out unless I absolutely had to, and then I made sure to look like an ugly ragamuffin" - and left it at that.
"Wherever Japanese soldiers went, rape went with them." One of my favorite things about Mark's commentary is how when it comes to these evil axis armies and individuals he isn't afraid to just bluntly tell it how it is.
I have to wonder if German and other Axis troops didn't rape the Polish, Russian & Serbian woman and that Russian troops did same enroute to Berlin ?
@@azurecliff8709 1:41 minute film
@Train 2noplace I agree with that but it's pretty well known that the Japanese were one of the worst offenders in WW2 when it came to that type of behavior. Definitely not as prolific in the US military, you would've been severely punished for it.
It is known throughout the world that Soviet and Allied soldiers raped large numbers of German women after Germany's defeat in World War II. 😄😄😄 Read "Rape during the occupation of Germany" on Wikipedia.
@@emeraldbreeze5204 Probably not nearly to the extent of the Japanese though, or else you wouldn't have Mark Felton saying things like "wherever the Japanese want rape went with them"
As being Dutch I thank you for this item .
As bot my wife and my family were active in Dutch resistance I always follow your channel .
Twenty years ago I went into a bank and a soft spoken lady came to my assistance. Business conversation led to social exchanges. Before long I asked her if she minded to share with me her accent. Dutch, she said. Our eyes locked. She wanted to tell me something but restrained to not shock me; I knew what she was about to confide in me. She didn't need my permission. I listened. Tears began to swell in our eyes with indignation and, on my part, rage as well. She ended by telling me to this day her brother still couldn't bring himself to let out his griefs. This, is Japanese. No more and no less.
Cool story chairman mao. What kind of psycopathic mentally deranged syphillitic could kill 40 million of his own people? And dhat kjnd of extreme trauma did he unleash on over a billion brainwashed enough to keep his bisexual portrait inbthe capital?
Well that sounds exactly what the Japanese said to the people of Iwo Jima and Okinawa of the Americans but we have the intellectual capacity to differentiate between fact and propaganda. Guam was barely occupied at the time- the native people who WORK only on Guam now are Marshall Islanders who lived on Marshall Island before the Americans vapourized Marshall atoll in one of its thousands of Pacific A&H bomb tests. Marshall Islanders like Vietnamese suffer disproportionately diseases and stillbirths and birth deformations non existent prior to US presence.
Marshall Islanders are suimg USA NOT JAPAN for their terrible predicament- in fact due to US atomic weapons Japanese were able to prove Marshall Islander sicknesses as only possible from irradiation. What kind of sick mind uses humans as atomic guinea pigs?
@@markiobooker218 Don't know. Sounds like an LGBTQ curiosity chaser like yerself can share more on this homosapien note.
@@markiobooker218nobody cares weirdo go cry somewhere else with your lies
A story which must be remembered.
The large number of these unfortunate, brutalized women and the sadistic behavior visited upon them by their Japanese captors is truly shocking. And it’s incredibly sad that even today Japan has not fully acknowledged this aspect of their supposed culture nor have they offered fair restitution. Unfortunately the same is true for the British and their behavior in India and elsewhere. Mark, you have guts, thank you.
Being Dutch myself, I can assure you that some of our colonial forebears from the past have been indistinguishable from the other/Japanese imperialists. It's terrible for those women (I'm old enough to have heard their stories first hand), but why be there (not as an individual woman, but as a people)
in the first place?
no, no it's not, the british never touched india with nearly as harsh a hand as the japanese did anywhere
@@dolomitusbalanced take 👍
@@dolomitus Asians raping Western women...People like you: "That's an abomination..."
Westerners raping Asian women....Also people like you: "Nah.... It happens during war.. just get over it..."
@@i_hate_stupid_username_rules Lmao bengal famine,jaliwla bagh and many more
Very hard, but vital, to listen to this terrible story to all those women regardless of their race.
Indeed. I know from my travel and studies that some countries are not very aware that Japan carried out rapes as indiscriminately as they indeed did. For example, some of my Korean friends were surprised to hear that Japan had carried out rapes and massacres to perhaps an even greater degree in China, and to varying degrees in countless other countries. These atrocities are well understood in some countries, and more forgotten about in others.
@@jamesauble8091 ..... It is impossible for Koreans to not know what the Japanese did, there have been trials, inadequate reparations and exchanges at government level.
@@Eric-ye5yz my meaning is that they're well aware of what happened in Korea but not as much what the Japanese committed to other countries. I don't mean to single out Korea, that was just an example. One that I'm most familiar with as I lived their and studied these atrocities at University there. It is perfectly understandable to feel atrocities committed against ones home country most deeply.
Past is Past//Japan has been suffered by 2 A bombs already.. Forget it..Look at Tibet. Xinliang at Present time ...
@@chuongvu7059 Maybe your butt should see some uninvited comfort to understand what these woman went through.....
I don't think I have ever heard a more horrific story in my life. Although it made me feel ill and tears to my eyes I felt I owed it to those poor women and girls listen to the whole of their story. How any of them were able to resume any sort of normal life after the war shows that the term weaker sex is pretty hollow. A horrible story but one that had to be told. I hope there are Japanese subscribers to your channel who are sharing the link to this story with their friends. Thank you Doctor Felton.
I think you'll find that these facts are not mentioned ever in Japanese schools. This is so different to the teaching of Nazi atrocities in modern Germany.
Hear hear never a true words spoken well said
Are you seriously incapable of distinguishing the metaphorical usage of a word from it's proper meaning?
Pointless. They're just think this is fake news.
During the WW２, the barbaric US soldiers cut off the heads of dead Japanese soldiers, and boiled them into skulls, and brought back the skulls as booty. These are horrible war crimes ❢❢❢ Read the description titled "American mutilation of Japanese war dead" on Wikipedia. You will vomit in shock ❢❢❢
My grandfather fought in the pacific and to his dying day had nothing good to say about the Japanese. I'm beginning to understand why thanks to you Mark
I am a retired Officer of Indian Army. My father in law had participated in World War 2 in far East. He told me stories, after liberation ,of finding ladies from Netherlands , who were wearing bare minimum clothes and had survived by eating rats. He had tears in his eyes when he narrated the stories of the ladies .
Best regards for the success of your book Professor. It took my mother 20 years and many counseling sessions to write of her experiences at the hands of the Kempei Tai and an Imperial Army Major while at the time being a mother of three married to a US Army Tech Sergeant who was organizing guerrilla units but mostly hiding from Imperial patrols in the mountains of the central Philippines. She personally told me what she disliked the most were those who collaborated with the Japanese by pointing out fellow neighbors, herself included, for social credit. This resulted multiple interrogations by counter intelligence personnel and eventually months of confinement for the whims of the Major only to be released and returning to witness the burning of Manila.
Many prayers and deepest respect for your mother.
@@jmmck2361 Heard it said that God places here so that we may realize the extent of our broken nature. May the Father of Mercy instruct His faithful angels to carefully watch over you forever
During the WW２, the barbaric US soldiers cut off the heads of dead Japanese soldiers, and boiled them into skulls, and brought back the skulls as booty. These are horrible war crimes ❢❢❢ Read the description titled "American mutilation of Japanese war dead" on Wikipedia. You will vomit in shock ❢❢❢
This video does not explain centuries of Dutch brutality against Indonesians at all ❢❢❢
Thanks for the upload. I was taught this part of history in HS. But it was so deplorable, that i couldn't get through it. So we all appreciate you going through this material to help us understand what happened there .
Incredibly sad. I watched a documentary some years ago of 'comfort women' being interviewed. Can you imagine hearing these stories of being gang raped day and night coming from the mouth of someone's grand mother? A very important video Dr Felton and just one more issue that the Japanese government today will still not address. The title of this video should be changed to Rape Slaves not Sex Slaves because this is not sex. This is something so barbaric that it warrants a Nuremberg trial. Thanks for sharing!
This video does not explain centuries of Dutch brutality at all ❢❢❢
Good thing its all whores regret then
@@azurecliff8709 - and I suppose your own country has an angelic past?
@@johanderuiter9842 he's Japanese, they were not punished enough (yet) for their crimes...
@@johanderuiter9842 Then why are crying for such crime?U were doing same from 300 years.
My daughter served in Guam and my Grandfather was one of those that helped liberate Guam. My daughter told me that every female from new born infants to the elderly were raped by the Japanese before they left Guam.
Sickening. Just sickening.
@Fred Astaire And the Japanese were paid back in kind when US forces landed in Japan after the A bombs ended the war.
@dkieth45 you have proof of this of course
@@williamanderson6006 Only hearsay I'm afraid. When I was a teen, I often hung out with a neighbor who was a WW2 vet, and had fought in the Pacific. He was one of the soldiers who fought all the way through like the soldiers portrayed in the HBO series 'The Pacific'. He was an honest old fellow, not a braggart, didn't tell tall tales, just a normal dude. He never talked about actual combat, except to say how miserable the conditions were on the islands. The heat, humidity, damp, rot. The horrible thunderstorms and being soaked to the skin. What he did talk about a little was what happened after the A-bomb was dropped and the Allied forces disembarked onto Japans main island. They became the forces of occupation. I don't know how long they were there, but while they were there they extracted a measure of vengeance against the population. He eventually returned home, married and started a family here in Indiana. I remember he had a Japanese officers saber, like a samurai sword, and an Arisaka bolt action rifle he'd brought back from the war. The stories he told me of his time in Japan he could tell no one else. Not his family, not his son. He was ashamed of what he'd done there, but needed to get it off his chest as so often happens. The stories seemed plausible, but then I was only a teen and they were just his stories. I'm 61 now and he's long RIP. I didn't fully understand what he, and one of my uncles who was also one of the troops fighting island to island, on their way to Japan, suffered through, until I saw the HBO mini series 'The Pacific'.
What utter nonsense..
@@dkeith45 not even close
Thank you dr mark for telling the truth i never heard such kind of facts in my school text books 🙏🏻
Neither did I. Now I understand why the Japanese are hated by many to this very day.
It won't be in today's textbooks. Nor much of it on Wikipedia, either. You have to go to original sources, like Dr. Felton does.
I never knew this also but heard stories from people who experience this crazy and in humane acts by the Japanese
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This was a difficult episode to watch. This is one of Mark’s longer episodes but I’m glad that he went to the effort to disseminate this level of detail of such reprehensible behaviour.
He does a hour long video on the greater causes of the Japanese war crimes
During the WW２, the barbaric US soldiers cut off the heads of dead Japanese soldiers, and boiled them into skulls, and brought back the skulls as booty. These are horrible war crimes ❢❢❢ Read the description titled "American mutilation of Japanese war dead" on Wikipedia. You will vomit in shock ❢❢❢
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what was hard to watch, the map? they don't show anything
This just makes you sick. Sick to know that people can inflict so much hatred and disregard for another's life. This is probably one of the saddest videos I have seen.
When you were reading out the words of the woman, including the voice breaks, I had to stop and have a short cry. Thank you Mark for sharing.
Thanks for discussing this. Love from Indonesia, the former Dutch Indies. x
My uncle once said “We civilized the Japanese”. I thought it rather brutal at the time but years later I realized that is exactly what we did.
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@@azurecliff8709 What video did you watch?
@@edwardelliott5756 Watch the video on RUclips titled “Dutch troops used “extreme violence” against Indonesians”.
@@azurecliff8709 : I’m not Dutch so I don’t have to answer for them. There is NO civilization on earth who has not been brutal at some point.
My Dutch Grandparents were in Sumatra when the war broke out- Fortunately, for my Mom and her older brother, they were sent to Sweden and Holland in 1939, but the 3 other children and my Grandmother were put in an internment camp after they killed my civilian Grandfather... My Oma and two Uncles and an Aunt were in a Japanese Camp for the duration of the war- My Grandmother was raped and abused until they were liberated and her and my Aunt and Uncles were near starved.... NOTHING - NO APOLOGIES from the Japanese government, NO reparations after STEALING EVERYTHING they had and executing my Grandfather... The Japanese war atrocities went UNANSWERED, unlike the Germans.
That was a hard story to hear. Armies that act like that are not human anymore.
This really was a very unpleasant watch, thank you for getting the truth out there
Thanks for your hard work, Dr Felton. This one brought tears.
Mass rape is repugnant, regardless of the side which commits it. It should be taught in schools.
A difficult subject presented extremely well. Thank you Mark
The Japanese we're particularly ruthless, I'll never forget the Nurses they machine gunned on Banka Island, 1942. Rip Aunty Rose (R.J. Whight) and the other 21 Sisters who we're murdered that day, Sister Bullwinkle survived...
Please cover Guadalcanal, check out the Japanese war memorial there. The Japanese we're being slaughtered before the allies got there. A very strange place.
The Rape of Nanjiing.
Horrific.
@@jerryjeromehawkins1712
Yes the Japanese used to have races seeing who could decapitate the most Chinese in the quickest time with their swords...
I just looked that up. As if my anger wasn't hot enough after Mr. Felton's video. Just think, there is a shrine in Japan that honor their dead soldiers. "Honor" indeed!
@@blank557 The Japanese prime ministers now go and "honor" Tojo each year at that shrine. Despicable.
I always enjoy listening to Mark's stories. He always tells the truth, whether good or bad. I know that the Japanese soldiers were ruthless and cruel so it doesn't surprise me that they treated women like they did.
Do you think the Americans, Germans and Russians were less ruthless. Look up William Calley and Mỹ Lai massacre. He went in and killed 200-400 unarmed South Vietnams civilians just because he wanted to. He was pardoned by President Nixon purely as a political move.
@@mtl111mtl I know that the Russians and Germans were ruthless too. It was war and you got to do what you got to win sometimes. It doesn't mean that it's right though. You just don't hear as much on the Japanese and American brutality like you do the Russians and Germans.
@@michaeldeangelo4818 read the book Marine Corps Sniper.
@@mtl111mtl
Yes, they were better. The Russians never had organized sex slavery. The Americans are actively trying to avoid cruelty against civilians, while for the Japanese that was part of the motivation to attack.
@@MrCmon113 I suspect we will never know what crimes individual soldiers committed on all sides. Google up Lt. William Calley /
Mỹ Lai massacre he was one that got caught.
It's simply disgusting that modern Japan essentialy still hasn't acknowledged these crimes.
My mother was involved in the rehabilitation of POWs and Japanese-interned civilians in Malaya and the Dutch East Indies at the end of WW2 in Malaya and told me many such stories. The wife of one of my uncles, who was a rubber planter, barely survived her ordeal and died shortly after being liberated. Both my uncle and godfather were prisoners on the Burmese death railway. I also heard of the treatment of the Dutch women but you added details I had never heard of and broadened the scope. Excellent work. This story needs to be told.
Wasn't the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a war crime?
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It is known throughout the world that Soviet and Allied soldiers raped large numbers of German women after Germany's defeat in World War II. 😄😄😄 Read "Rape during the occupation of Germany" on Wikipedia.
So glad the Dutch slave master got his just desserts. Dutch were far worse than Japanese. You can visit the Dutch palace of Justice in Old Town Jakarta and read through Dutch handwritten records of crimes and punishments one of which was quartering and leaving in gibbets another was beheading with head on a pike. Then there is the "horse".
I’ve always suspected the reason why so many Japanese soldiers refused to surrender was due to expected retribution. Less about bushido and more about guilt, shame, and fear.
There was also a lot of propaganda fed to Japanese soldiers, even accusing American GI's of being cannibals who would eat them if they were captured.
@Race Card Some isolated tribes in Borneo and Dutch New Guinea were still practicing cannibalism into the 1970's.
@@johnkidd1226 Funny enough the Japanese military took part in cannibalism when supplies were low.
@@baneofbanes Yes, I read a couple of instances where GI's found evidence of that. Refuse to surrender for fear of being eaten, then they eat their own instead.
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And this is why we don't forgive, and we don't forget. All the hello kitty in the world just isn't gonna wash this away.
Ahaha
A modern Japanese has nothing do to with these crimes
@@peterlustig6888 True. But they need to be educated concerning it, becasue their own nation hardly covers it in their school, only mentioning it was "regrettable'.
@@peterlustig6888 but the government has a duty to make these atrocities public
@@peterlustig6888 No? The current Japanese prime ministers all now visit the Yasukune Shrine and pay honors to Tojo, a convicted war criminal.
Dr. Felton you are an incredible historian and I thank you for bringing this to light and letting people know what the Imperial Japanese did. I can tell it was very hard for you to talk about it since there’s a few times you actually stuttered but me being historian myself it’s not easy reading and watching about stuff like this. God bless you sir.
Thanks for having the courage to bring this ww2 cover-up into the light.This story needed t.o be told
The crimes in the Pacific theatre are often overlooked, thank you Mr Felton for casting light on these events.
Thank you Dr. Felton for speaking about this. Surprisingly, as a Dutchman, I have never heard about this. Probably because it are stories that include the Dutch-Indies. Which is considered a bit of a taboo, since it was a former colony. Either way, these stories need to be told, even how horrible they may be. And I thank you for putting a light on it Dr. Felton
You never heard this? In what parallel world are you living? Comfort women is very well known.Not only in Dutch Indies but also Singapore and Philippines. But also Taiwan and Korea.
@@misterbacon4933 Obviously, I already knew about a lot of the atrocities that the Japanese did during world war 2. Including certain stories about comfort women. I guess I picked the wrong words to express what I meant, so let me rephrase:
In The Netherlands, when people talk or get taught about WWII throughout school, memorials, museums etc. - the emphasis is often on the actions of the Nazis in our country. Stories about those times are often told in great detail. However, stories about the atrocities in the Dutch-Indies are often not talked about in detail. People know what generally happend there, but not in very much detail and a lot of stories from Dutch-Indies remain unknown to a lot of people. In remembering WWII the Dutch-Indies get left out a bit, probably since it is considered a taboo like is said in my previous comment. So in other words: I know in a broad sense what happend there, but not that much in detail. I'm glad that Dr. Felton speaks about this subject, which I think more Dutch people need to know about
If you want to hear some really horrible stuff you should look up History with Hilbert’s “Why did the netherlands send soldiers to the east indies in 1945”. Lots of awful and sad stories about the indos torturing and raping dutch people.
ju7be..at first my reaction is"sukkel"....but he is right about what he means to say; up to 20 years ago even these fates of dutch women in DEI was given in school history classes..briefly.
Since then, I notice in the DUTCH history school books of my 3 children at different ages, there is perhaps only ONE PARAGRAPH dealing with DEI in the WW2.
Of course NO MENTION of any of the atrocities...only "there were camps"..with "hunger" and boredom perhaps the WORST fate of the dutch in DEI.
This is by no means a "mistake", PC lefties in the dutch political control systems worked HARD to make dutch people feel GUILTY over all and everything in the past..and not the ancient governors who deserve revisioned critique...NO, YOU living dutch persons of TODAY are to feel constant guilty by association...
This is indeed surprising because along the years there are quite a few documentaires on dutch tv and other media about those " troostmeisjes".
Your ability to maintain a steady and authorial tone throughout this narration is admirable. I imagine it was very difficult, but this needs to be made as plain as possible.
Jan Ruff OHearn was my first grade teacher in about 75-76. She had married a British soldier and they lived about 5min from where I live now. When we made lego guns and played war games she would break them up immediately. She was very religious and a wonderful woman.
Strange how dr Felton has done two videos in about two days that I have a personal connection with (the other being the resistance of the Czech garrison at Frydek-Mistek).
Jan Ruff OHearn wrote a book about her experience. I recommend it. Thank you Mark for covering this subject.
it must've been strange being married to someone in the real military yet being offended by a toy which vaguely resembles a gun.
What a fool. You don't need guns to sadistically torment women and children. But you do need guns to put an end to it.
*In Berlin Germany, the Russian's once had a monument they called, " The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ". The German Women called it, " The Tomb of the Unknown Russian Rapist ".*
We need to really shed light on American and Soviet rapes.
The Germans weren't much better
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Thank you Mark for posting this documentary about one of the most forgotten chapters of world war two... In contrast to the German policy of penance and compensation and self reflection after the war. And the ability to rebuilt a good relationship with its neighbouring countries in Europe and Israel in particular.
The Japanese have never apologised or even properly compensated the victims of the atrocities committed by the imperial Japanese army.
To give an example, when Hirohito visited the Netherland on a state visit in 1970 he never mentioned the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese army and to make matters worse the Japanese government found it suitable to grant a one- of payment of 50 guilders (+/- 23 euros) per person to all the men and women that had been held as prisoner or forced labourer... A typical example of making apologies the Japanese way...
Needless to say, that most of the victims were disgusted and would never talk about their experiences...
Let alone except the money!
Even Japanese companies that profited directly from P.O.W. slave labor, such as Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, have never apologized nor compensated the families.
Japan is responsible for communism taking over China. Kawasaki lets the good times roll. Bill
A horrible story. During the telling I could hear catches in Dr. Felton's throat at certain points. For those who question why at times we need to fight just listen to this true story.
Same. It sent chills down my spine.
Wasn't the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a war crime?
@@emeraldbreeze5204 Actually, it was an act of mercy. The allies were going to invade the Japanese home islands to end the war. If that happened it's been estimated 1.5 to 4 million ally casualties and 5 to 10 million Japanese casualties. So as cruel as this sounds the better choice of two lousy choices was made.
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As a 3rd generation Dutch-American this makes me even more grateful my ancestors immigrated to the US instead of the Dutch colonies in the east. I can’t imagine the sheer brutality these poor women and girls had to suffer at the hands of these savage barbaric scum
There is a really good interview with a woman who was used as a Japanese "comfort woman", her name is Kim Bok-Dong, I recommend it to anyone interested.
It's a story you can't really forget and I think none of us should forget. All she wanted was for Japan to acknowledge what they did but she died before they did, I'm not even sure if they have to this day.
i dont think they have : (
No they haven't
Good. Imagine making your entire life's work to shaming a nation just to die in vain.
@@scutumfidelis1436 shut up
@@scutumfidelis1436 It wasn't about shame it was about apologizing. Even if it was, which it wasn't, with the dirtiest and most spiteful intentions I would say being brutally raped by lines and lines of men every day, as a 15 (I believe) year old girl no less, to the point you aren't able to conceive children is a very good reason for being spiteful.
My late mother was born in 1937 and they moved to the Indies from the Netherlands because my grandfather was a Naval officer. During the Japanese invasion they were imprissoned ( my grandfather was at sea) in camps with her babysister and brother of 10 (who had to go to a camp for men). My grandmother was beaten and almost died of dysentery. Luckily the other women took care of the small children. They all survived and what I always admired in my grandmother ( who passed away in the 90’s) that she never had a hate towards the Japanese and forgave her former perpetrators.
My grandmother ran away from southern China, she passed away when i was too young to ask her anything. All i know is she ran away because Japanese troops were approaching her village, so she escaped to the boat didn’t know where it will take her. So did my grandfathers, they too passed away when i was too young, one of them was KMT solider deserter and that’s all i know about them
That whole story from 26:16 brought me to tears I don’t know what it is but there’s something truly horrible about men mistreating woman in such a way.
And Japan still complains about those nukes, they were lucky that the USA had actual morals and dignity and did not drop them on Tokyo and Kyoto.
These weren’t men, they were animals.
The Japanese "samurai" beheaders were sadists, not "men."
my dad sometimes has people in his practice that had family members that were in these internment camps.
the horrors still affect families generations later
And Mitsubishi and Sumitomo have never paid a single yen for the slave labor they profited from.
For people born in the 1930's Japan gave them bad memories.
I remember way back in the seventies, whether it is for family or business use, my parents not buy Japanese if there are American brands available.
One of your most impressive videos, I'm dutch and knew the stories, but not into detail you're showing us ,but then again that is as usual, thank you very much. Mark Felton
Excellent work, your channel is a gem!
The problem was the Dutch and British not being prepared for the Japanese onslaught. Hubris and arrogance and laziness. British officers infected with incompetence from the upper classes.
Thanks for this episode Mark. I enjoy the videos you do on WW2 technical subjects, but very much appreciate that you also cover the war crimes in both Europe and the Pacific war.
I find it funny that YT has not already locked the video for age and what not,.... thanks for this good content Mark!!
I have Japanese friends-we never talk about these horrors. It must however be hard to digest such a history of one’s nation. This is just so disgusting. And it still goes on today elsewhere.😢😢😢
Majority of Japanese people are unaware of the crimes their country committed before and during ww2. It’s not in their curriculum and parts that it does cover mentions there was a big war with America. The shrines they still have erected and statues of war criminals and murderers of those specific times speaks volumes.
My family lived in the Netherlands East Indies for several generations before the war, one of my Aunts lived her life entirely indoors & never..... ever went outside for any reason, I never understood why until my Dad told me about the story Mark is reciting here. He said the Japanese Soldiers would often grab the women by the hair and drag them outside either to beat them senseless, or to rape them. She was only 14 in 1942 and lived with PTSD so badly she could never face the outdoors for the rest of her life.
I’m deeply sorry as Japanese to what your aunt had to go through…
Wasn't the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a war crime?
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@@emeraldbreeze5204 no. nukes on japan was an art of war japan deserved.
Nice anecdote. If it were true it would be 1/3500000 of what Netherlands did to Indonesia. Japanese were welcomed as liberators and all former elite be it Soekarno, Soeharto, Sarwo Edhie, Nasution, Sudirman, Subianto etc were willing Japanese and Japanese trained guerrillas. Only the retarded Dutch could delude them selves 120,000 Dutch could control something 150 times bigger than Netherlands.
The delusion underlines the stupidity and infantilism of Dutch minds.
My father grew up in the Dutch East Indies. He's still alive and able to remember his experiences. My grandmother, now deceased, knew about what could happen and there are stories in my family about the lengths she was willing to go to avoid it, including shooting herself and her children (all boys) to avoid the fate described in this video. My father joined a group of survivors later in life, called the Kumpulan. I went to a fair number of their meetings. Most of the members I met are now dead, but I heard a lot a very interesting stories of the war and their life in the camps. But I never heard these stories and I would not have expected to given what I know of them. Rest in peace.
I hope their lives were fullnof the ssme pain and misery they inflicted on the hapless Indonesians. They doubtlessly followed the same "Honden et Inlander Verboten" (No dogs or natives) as the hated Dutch.
I recall seeing a photo of a Caucasian woman in the obvious state of late term pregnancy that was part of Unit 431 documentation. She had been dissected - almost certainly without anesthetic as was apparently standard procedure in Unit 431 (they did not want anesthetic to muddy their research). The photo(s) were profoundly disturbing. I did at the time wonder if the woman was Dutch or American. In any case, if there was anything worse than the actual atrocities it might be that few Unit 431 perpetrators saw justice for their crimes.
I did a search and I think I found the image you were talking about. Poor girl was sliced up from wishbone to pelvis and had all her organs (and the fetus) pulled out. God fucking yikes.
no soul will go unpunished
"The Bird" (see the book "Devil At My Heels") got away scot free after the war, never punished.
The researchers from Unit 731 were given amnesty and American citizenship.
I recall the image - it was a vivisection (dissected while alive) of the pregnant woman at Unit 731. The woman had bee raped, became pregnant and was infected with syphilis to study the efficiency of the new Japanese antibiotic terramycin on the infected fetus.
Read the book 'The Rape of Nanking' by Iris Chang. It tells of the brutality the Japanese showed the Chinese civilians in general, and Chinese women and very young girls in particular, (some of the girls were preteen). To this day the Japanese government refuses to admit it ever happened, much less apologize for it.
Apropos, read the book "Scarlet memorial - tales of Cannibalism in modern China".
In the 1970s, a friend of my grandmother returned to Germany from Kobe, Japan. They had lost contact ever since before the war, as she, my grandma's friend, had married a Dutchman and had lived in Batavia since. It turned out then she married again after the war, a Japanese man, and had returned to Germany only after his death. Being a kid, I remember wondering what happened to her husband in Batavia and asking my mother about it. They were being separated, and they were treated well altogether, I was told. It still was odd to me, but my granny's friend was a very vibrant woman with a lot of stories to tell, so I never bothered. I never really thought about her story again until now.
I don't suppose that she's alive so you can ask her again?
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@@azurecliff8709comparing traumas is actually demented. This video is on the maltreatment of many races of people under the Japanese Imperialist army. Please be respectful of that as you are aware Indonesia also suffered much from this malevolent force
I've always said- The Japanese atrocities made the Nazis look like a band of boy scouts.
They also looted three times as much. But no Hollywood "Monument Men" movie about the Japanese.
Sadly most Japanese military personnel got off easily.
That almost sounds like a cruel pun.
Not a lot of prisoners taken in the field.
They still got nuked twice. I think that vengeance is served.
@@Hongobogologomo innocent paid the price. Pretty much cost of all wars in modern times.
Most of them died few survived.
It is hard for me to believe that there is such a vicious historian like him, who makes money by blaming, demeaning, and insulting other countries.
Thank you for covering this Mark. Heartbreaking but it is important that we bare witness to these peoples experiences.
Sickening behavior.
The attrocoties of South East Asia during the second world war are so often forgotten and not talked about nearly as much as they should be so thank you for covering it.
So disgusting. Now its happening in Urkraine. So heart breaking
If you want to have trouble sleeping then read 'The Knights of Bushido', an in-depth look into Japanese war crimes of WWll. Not for the faint hearted
Will it help me sleep?
American woman in USA during the WW2 was gifted a Japanese soldier's sculp from her American boyfriend soldier who were fighting against Japan's Imperial Army in the Pacific Ocean. American soldiers killed many Japanese soldiers and boiled their sculps in hot water to remove their hairs from sculps and sent them to their girlfriends in USA.
And also many American and Australian soldiers took off Japanese soldiers' gold teeth , notebooks, flags, Japanese swards etc. from dead bodies of Japanese soldiers and sold them after returning back to USA and Australia.
But no any Japanese soldiers did such shameful and brutal actions in any battle fields.
The fact that modern Japan turn its blind eye to this and many other war crimes is an utter disgrace
They apologized and paid compensation.
Here’s summary of what happened after the war.
Dutch government abandoned the claim right at San Francisco treaty in1951 because they’ve already received compensation from Red Cross that Japanese government financed.
In 1956,JPN government pay extra 10 million dollars (about 100 million worth now)to Dutch government as additional compensation for civilian victims.
Then from 1998 to 2001 they paid $20,000 to each of 78 victims and medical support and letters with sincere apologies .
Japanese government’s statement
In order to convey atonement from the Japanese people, the Government of Japan and the AWF, in consultation with the Dutch people concerned, explored what appropriate project could be implemented in the Netherlands, where no authorities could identify former comfort women. As a result, on July 16, 1998, the AWF concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Project Implementation Committee in the Netherlands (PICN) on a project aimed at helping to enhance the living conditions of those who suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds during World War II.
In accordance with the MOU, the AWF, making use of a fund disbursed by the Government of Japan, decided to provide the PICN with financial support totaling up to 255 million yen (final disbursement: 245 million yen) over 3 years and the PICN implemented the project for 79 recipients. This project was successfully completed on July 14, 2001.
So that leftist is can create a manifestation of "white guilt" in this specific case "yellow guilt" I presume
@@496yoshiAnd their politicians are still discussing retracting that apology because they aren't actually sorry at all
Near Brunei I scuba dived on "Australian Wreck". This was a Japanese transport ship bringing "comfort women" from Philippines and Sabah.
It hit a mine and 320 women chained up below decks drowned. Apparently some of the bodies are still there, although I didn't see any.
Locals say it is haunted and fellow divers said they heard noises. I did not. You can see where the mine hit at front of ship.
A very well-documented and detailed account of a very sensitive issue! Great work!
I didn’t know you had this channel, even more amazing video’s
I saw Korean survivors, now quite elderly, recently make the trip to Japan to plead their case through official channels.
I also saw relatively young Japanese protesters yell and hurl insults at them, which is evidence of Japan's appalling education where their own history is concerned.
They are liars. They were paid.
mate I can't imagine living through it.
Thank you for bringing true history, it needs to be told for the victims.
This will be painful listening to the Japanese who have consistently refused to accept their inhuman behaviour during the war. Many young Japanese know nothing about it as they are simply not taught, history has been sanitised.
Why do they need to know about it are they supposed to feel guilty for something they had nothing to do with.
@@thebrigadier1496 Mate they all ready apologise in 2015, infact they has done this a few times in the past.
I do not know what people want, they have moved on.
@@thebrigadier1496 Those people who are responsible have, long since dead so it is moved on.
your asking people to apologise for crimes, before they was born.