Este livro descreve como os americanos perdoaram os crimes de guerra japoneses em troca de seu apoio na guerra contra o comunismo.
1. Eles torturaram e estupraram milhões de civis chineses e também em outros países invadidos.
2. Eles espancavam e deixavam sem comida os prisioneiros de guerra. Na visão deles, quem se rendia não tinha honra.
3. Assim como os nazistas, eles usavam seres humanos como cobaias em pesquisas de armas químicas e bacteriológicas.
4. Usaram essas armas contra cidades chinesas e mataram pelo menos 500 mil pessoas. Mas os pesquisadores capturados pelos americanos, que queriam as pesquisas, não foram punidos, só os capturados pelos russos.
5. Eles escravizaram em torno de 200 mil mulheres para satisfazer sexualmente seus soldados. A maioria vinha da China, Coreia e Filipinas, mas também algumas holandesas e australianas das regiões invadidas.
6. A ideia era reduzir os estupros cometidos pelos soldados e melhorar a imagem do Japão nos países invadidos, mas não funcionou porque, no fim das contas, só organizaram os estupros.
7. Só nos anos 90 é que a existência desses "bordéis" se tornou pública. Na verdade, não eram bordéis, já que as mulheres eram escravizadas. E continuaram funcionando por um ano após o fim da guerra, inclusive frequentados pelas dezenas de milhares de soldados americanos das forças de ocupação. A maioria dos americanos estava se lixando para as mulheres asiáticas e queria mais era vingança por Pearl Harbour.
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“On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down” https://jamesfell.com/=================================
“On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down” James Fell I’ve been to Japan a couple of times. Nice place. Nice people. Except when they weren’t. In World War II, Japan was a dick. As bad as the fucking Nazis. But after Japan signed the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, the Americans said we need you to be our allies in the fight against communism so we’re gonna forgive a lot of that nasty shit you did.
--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: September 2, 1945--
The Japanese Army tortured and raped and murdered millions of Chinese civilians, and wasn’t too nice to the other nations it conquered during the war. The army saw those who surrendered as without honor and beat and starved their prisoners. The Japanese also had this horrible thing called Unit 731.
Unit 731 was a chemical and biological warfare research program that was one giant fucking war crime. Well-funded by the Japanese government, the program used live human subjects for testing in horrific experiments and deployed biological weapons against Chinese cities and towns. It’s estimated the program was responsible for killing half a million people. And what happened to those sick fucks who ran Unit 731? Immunity. That’s what happened. Because the U.S. wanted the research. The Soviets put the Unit 731 researchers they captured on trial, but ‘murica did not.
There was also the matter of “comfort women,” which is a sanitized term for women forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army to be raped by its soldiers. Close to 200,000 women were forced into such slavery, most of them from China, Korea, and the Philippines, but they also enslaved Japanese women. Some also came from the Netherlands and Australia, being captured in regions Japan invaded.
The idea of the comfort women was to provide brothels for the Japanese soldiers to reduce all the raping those soldiers were doing because it was making them look bad to the lands they’d just conquered. Except then they enslaved women into working in those “brothels” and their soldiers kept on raping anyway, so not such a good idea after all.
Few even knew about the existence of comfort women until the 1990s, because the Tokyo War Crimes Trials hushed it up. Supreme Allied Commander of the occupation of Japan, General Douglas MacArthur, saw to it that the issue of comfort women was swept under the rug during the trials. Americans mostly cared about revenge for Pearl Harbor, and didn’t give a shit about Asian women forced into sexual slavery. With the Cold War just beginning, the course of the trials was shaped by MacArthur and trial prosecutor Joseph Keenan to ensure that Japan became an acceptable ally to America in the global fight against communism. As a result, much of the war atrocities committed by Japan were hidden from the historical record for decades.
The brothels, which is a shit term because they were houses of sexual enslavement, were still in use for a year after the war. Tens of thousands of occupying American soldiers also used them.
Those who cannot remember the past … need a history teacher who says “fuck” a lot. Get both volumes of “On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down” at JamesFell.com/books.