Japan Military
Japan Military
What’s your take on japan building it’s military might?
Japan, following WWII, has retained a strictly self-defense force… but in light of North Korea’s increased belligerence and China’s steady rise as a regional power, Japan is doing something that haven’t since their days as an imperial might and started to strengthen their military.
Do you think this is a good or bad road to go down and why?
“I do not have a problem with Japan rebuilding their military. We cannot hold them responsible for their previous mistakes forever.”
I do.
The Japanese don’t even admit that WW2 was a mistake. They see themselves as the injured party ground down by superior force and the victim of a “war crime” (the A-bombs). Germany at least was Denazified, worked out its probation, and was judged fit to rejoin the human race.
The Japanese were never “denazified” to the same extent. The British and Commonwealth War Crimes Commission was only just getting into its stride in 1947, when that arrogant fool and prize idiot McArthur ordered America’s ALLIES to cease and desist from pursuing Japanese War criminals. Were it not for that, a lot more Japanese war criminals would have been brought to justice and swung for their crimes against humanity. Too many of them got away. Even today, Japan will not apologise nor pay compensation to those Allied service personnel who were worked to death in its concentration camps. When you look into modern Japan, the schoolbooks their children learn from do not tell the story of murder and ill-treatment that was systematically carried out by Japanese troops against civilians and captured allied troops. If the Germans sawthemselves as the Master Race in Europe, the Japanese certainly saw themselves as a higher form of creation in Asia, Samurai Nazis.
This is still apparent today in the way Koreans in Japan are still treated as second-class citizens – both Korean states have good reason to mistrust their former colonial overlord.
In allowing this country to re-arm, are we setting up a rod to beat ourselves with, another forty or fifty years down the line?
Don’t forget – they have NEVER APOLOGISED for the suffering they inflicted in WW2. Are they capable of doing it again? It took two world wars to disabuse the Germans of the notion they were meant to rule the world. The peace with Japan in 1945 has all the unsatisfactory compromise qualities of the Versailles Treaty in 1919, which made it absolutely certain the Germans would come back for another go…
I speak as a grandson/great-nephew of Britain’s Fourteenth Army – of both those who fought and those who died in Japan’s death camps.
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