#Japanese War Crimes

[frida-kahl-of-the-rocky-horror]

History repeats itself

#the rape of nanjing #ww2 #Japanese war crimes #israel #palestine #gaza strip #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza #gaza genocide #gazaunderattack #news on gaza #save gaza #free gaza

[dirjoh-blog]

The experiments of Unit 731

The experiments of Unit 731

++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++ We have all heard about the experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War 2, but relatively little is know of the experiments by the Japanese Imperial Army. More specifically Unit 731. The unit also known as ,’Detachment 731′ and the ‘Kamo Detachment’:was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese…

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#China #Experiments #History #Japan #Japanese Imperial Army #Japanese War Crimes #Unit 731 #War in the Pacific #World War 2

[idknanmollaanything]

I read the webtoon escape room and thought that maybe this kind of violence can never be replicated irl until I read about actual Japanese War crimes.

#Webtoon #Escape room #Japanese War crimes

[hellyeahheroes]

Why Did Japan Join the Nazis? (Give, You Know, the Nazis Explicitily Hated Non-Aryans) by Today I Found Out

#thought provoking #thought provoking summer bummer #fascism #nazism #holocaust #Asian holocaust #Japanese war crimes #realpolitics #world war II #fritillaria imperialis #isolationism #Adolf Hitler was a fucking idiot #you know on top of being a monster

[intersectionalpraxis]

Akiko Ooishi is a member of the House of Representatives. She is a politician in Reiwa Shinsengumi and is both a co-representative and policy council chairperson in this political party. Here, she shows solidarity with Palestine and calls out the mass genocide being committed by Israel.

I also just learned Reiwa Shinsengumi is a progressive, left-wing party founded in 2019. They are anti-establishment, anti-nuclear, and support minority rights. They also want to raise the minimum wage, implement laws protecting free education, disability rights, LGBTQ rights, to name a few. I just did a little research, and by no means is this encompassing but I hope to learn more.

Also, when she told someone to be quiet, I love her for that ✊🏻❤️

#feminist #feminism #israel is an apartheid state #palestine #social justice #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free gaza #free palestine #israel is committing genocide #intersectionality #japan #israel is a terrorist state #israeli apartheid #israeli war crimes #reiwashinsengumi #japanese politics #current events

[thewingedwolf]

a lot of my free time is spent listening to a podcast run and researched by a professor of genocide studies who went into those studies specifically bc in an attempt to escape the violence of his angry, alcoholic father he signed up to go off to war in afghanistan only to realize that the whole war and war in general is a) stupid & boring and b) a series of horrific war crimes that had made the civilian population deeply suspicious of him even tho His Morals Were In The Right Place (tm). when he got home and threw himself into being anti violence, joining anarchist orgs & studying theory & trying to understand why he was sent to the other side of the world to be traumatized for no good reason while traumatizing the local population with his very presence, his shithead father died & he found out that his father was Like That bc their family was chased out of armenia because of genocide and it kicked off a cycle of violence & anger in the men of his family. he absolutely lost his shit, got his degree in genocide studies, and moved to armenia (do not ask me how he convinced his wife to do this with him. he’s really open about every other aspect of his life except his wife and kids which is imo very valid).

all that to say, he has this interesting perspective of war in that he has this cultural trauma of being the victim of a horrific crime while also himself being the perpetrator of imperialism & serving in an area that had recently been the site of several horrific war crimes (really similar to tim o’brien, who served in my lai several months after the massacre but didn’t know the massacre had happened & pieced together what happened from the horrified whispers of the civilians & brags from soldiers). it makes him both hyper critical of soldiers who do terrible things & empathetic to soldiers who are forced from home to do terrible things & angry on behalf of civilians who are victims of war crimes. i have ragged on him for being Very Midwestern about certain things but his research is interesting & sad & well done, & it’s really made me think about my own place in The Greater World & every time the internet loses its mind over some aspect of history i am violently reminded that most people just look at history and go “but MY SIDE was justified actually” when that’s such a BABY IDEA OF HOW HISTORY AND WAR WORKS.

#‘the allies were justified’ i do not think most people criticizing oppenheimer are japanese nationalists actually i think they just think #that the fire bombing of tokyo & dresden were war crimes which they objectively were. #i think it’s interesting how most people can acknowledge that some german soldiers were pressed in by force & mostly innocent #but can’t keep that same energy for japan. and default to ‘all asians hold the same opinions’ when faced with criticism #rani makes text posts no one will read #anyways the podcast is lions led by donkeys and if u find dark humor tacky don’t listen to it bc he cracks a lot of jokes to cope #but it’s also funny bc he has a specific hate for rhodesia bc he got death threats from some white nationalists when he criticized them so #now every time rhodesia comes up he blows an air horn aksjdjdjd

[carbone14]

Des soldats japonais massacrent à la baïonnette des prisonniers chinois – Massacre de Nankin – Nankin – Chine – Janvier 1938

©United States Library of Congress

#WWII #guerre sino-japonaise #sino-japanese war #seconde guerre sino-japonaise #second sino-japanese war #bataille de nankin #battle of nanjing #massacre de nankin #nanjing massacre #crimes de guerre #war crimes #nankin #nanjing #chine #china #01/1938 #1938

[alpaca-clouds]

Japanese history is complicated

Something that often gets lost in western discourse about Japanese history is, that it is kinda complicated. Like, really complicated. Like, fuck, German history is easy compared to Japanese history. And it is kinda lost.

When western folks look at Japan, many will just see it as this "mysterious oriental nation, where futuristic technology and mystic rituals mix". And that will be about it.

If the people looking at it are American, they might also go: "BUT PEARL HARBOR!" or maybe, just maybe, they will also go: "Japan did a lot of horrible things during World War II." Which is something that gets often not acknowledged enough. Because, yes, Japan did horrible things during World War II. Horrible, horrible things. Massacres. Rape. Concentration camps. Enslavement. You name it. Japan did a lot of bad, that some self-proclaimed Japan fans tend to either forget or idealize.

If you look at it from an anti-colonialist perspective, you might also find that Japan's actions leading up to the second world war, leading up to other things that had happened before, were very much informed in reaction to western colonialism in the Pacific. Japan very much tried to play the western colonial game - because the only alternative would've been to be colonialized themselves. Which is no excuse for all the horrible things commited during WWII, but it is an explaination.

But if you go even further back - much further - you will find it even more complicated. Because a long, long time ago Japan itself was colonialized. I spoke about that in the Princess Mononoke post yesterday, but it is something that is lost on many people: Japan was colonialized by Korea around 600 AD. And while historical records of the time are rare, you will find a lot of the same things happening during this time, that had happened later during western colonialization of other nations as well.

Japan before this point in time was an island chain with several indigenous cultures living there. These cultures were mostly distinct, but shared some common believes, mainly that they all had different kinds of spiritualist religions. Which means, that there are spirits living in nature.

Quite a few of these people also believed in one or multiple mountain gods, that were often reveared as the highest deities of their cultures.

And here comes the thing that western people often do not think about. How Buddhism, like Christianity in the west, was spread around Asia not always in a peaceful way. Because Buddhist people from China and Korea came to Japan and they wanted to spread Buddhism - and also lay claim to the Japanese land. And so they did.

In hindsight the Japanese propaganda talks about the Taika reform of the 7th century as "uniting Japan", but technically it was more in terms of conquering Japan and enforcing a unity on it, trying to eradicate the indigenous cultures and religions and forcing Buddhism on them.

What we now know as Shinto is, what remaines of the Indigenous believes. Mostly that of the Yamato people.

From this came an upper class, that consisted of those early people to convert to Buddhism and some of the Koreans settling in Japan then. And if you have watched any samurai movie, you know how the conflicts between that upper class and everyone else shaped Japanese history.

Now you might say: "But that happened more than 1000 years ago! What has this to do with the now?" And the answer is simply, that history is - as I have said before - nothing that can be neatly divided into eras. Rather it is a continuous thing, where things influence the future, even for more than a thousand years.

And because of this... It is complicated.

No. Nothing about this was inevitable. History is no line of dominos destined to fall. But if you look at it, you will come to understand each and every step of the way. People made decisions. They made bad decisions. But those decisions were influenced by the past.

#history #japanese history #colonialism #anti colonialism #world war 2 #war crimes #samurai #buddhism #shinto

[captain-price-unofficially]

A Japanese soldier uses what I hope is a corpse of a Chinese man's for bayonet practice. Tianjin, China, September 1937.

#tw dead body #war crimes #interwar period #Second Sino-Japanese War

[yesloulou]

took them a whole day but AT updated the poster

#a win is a win i guess :) #* #also saw in the comments ''I feel sad that a traditional Japanese symbol was changed'' then don't commit war crimes under it oh my god

[dirjoh-blog]

My interview with Bryan Mark Rigg-Author and Historian.

This is my interview with Bryan Mark Rigg, Military historian and author.Bryan Mark Rigg is the author of several highly regarded books on World War II history, including Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military and The Rabbi Saved by Hitler’s Soldiers: Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue. In addition to…

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#History #Holocaust #Japanese War Crimes #Jewish Wehrmacht soldiers #World War 2

[seoafin]

truly concerned for the ppl who watched oppenheimer and liked it

#i just fought with my friend's bf about the movie #they watched Oppenheimer I watched Barbie #white people just shouldn't have opinions on this movie lmao #Nolan wouldn't make a pro bomb mo- #as if half these multi million blockbuster movies aren't directly financed by the military 😭 #goddddd insufferable absolutely insufferable #you are a WHITE CITIZEN OF AMERICA talking about the atrocity of Japanese war crimes im LITERALLY KOREAN #also lmfao to believe that citizens should be held accountable for the atrocities of their government....pot meet kettle #://///// #mt

[sociallyanxiousdragon]

Hey

How come I just learned about Unit 731 from an Outlast Lore video

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Holy shit

#jax yacks #not that im often in circles talking about japanese war crimes #but with the way human experimentation is a hot macabre topic #youd think i would have heard it come up more??? #maybe i did and i just forgot about it #surely behind the bastards has at least mentioned it off hand by now

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Never forgetting the girl that openly criticized me for studying German when she learned japanese because of the Nazism thing, it's been more than 6 years but I can't forget how confused I felt for a couple minutes

#if only she hadn't known japanese.... like any other language would have worked but it was exactly the language of the country #committing horrors and war crimes during ww2 #i ended up not even replying because my brain was filled with the shit Japan did that was as bad as what the nazist were doing and when #i got over that the message was already gone because others kept talking in the channel #when someone starts studying Japanese for weabo reasons they should be forced to do a crash course ln Japan's history #it's too embarrassing otherwise

[hellyeahheroes]

Attack on Titan and the Road to Fascism by Lost Futures.

#thought provoking #fascism #japanese imperialism #imperialism #war crimes #mass murder #genocide #Youtube

[carbone14]

Civils chinois préparés pour être enterrés vivants par des soldats japonais – Massacre de Nankin – Guerre sino-japonaise – Nankin – Chine – 1937-1938

#WWII #guerre sino-japonaise #sino-japanese war #seconde guerre sino-japonaise #second sino-japanese war #bataille de nankin #battle of nanjing #massacre de nankin #nanjing massacre #crimes de guerre #war crimes #nankin #nanjing #chine #china #1937 #1938