The shame Japan can't dodge

MS Shelton,
While my sympathies are with your position, I believe the Japanese are exempt from paying the piper due to treaties signed at the end of the war. For reasons that seemed good to us, not the least being ending the bloodshed now, we gave Nippon a free pass we didn't give the Germans. Please note that American and Allied POWs were turned down by courts in their effort to get compensation. It would be nice if the Japps would do the right thing, but they can not be compelled to do so.

It is a national/cultural trail of Japanese to lie about their misdeeds....As do Japsanese in America continually lying about the WW II exclusion/relocation of west coast Japs."TRUTH" to them is a thin g far different than what TRUTH is to all else of mankind.

Our POW's suffered unspeakable atrocities at the hands of the Japanese in WWII. In December the president signed yet another $38 million dollar give away to rebuild old relocation centers for the martyrs, yet our POWs have never been compensated for the slave labor and atrocities they endured at the hands of their fiendish captures. The Japanese recieved compensation in 1948, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1972, 1978, 1988, 1992 and 2006! Now I ask you, who deserves an apology and reparations?

Our POW's suffered unspeakable atrocities at the hands of the Japanese in WWII. In December the president signed yet another $38 million dollar give away to rebuild old relocation centers for the martyrs, yet our POWs have never been compensated for the slave labor and atrocities they endured at the hands of their fiendish captures. The Japanese recieved compensation in 1948, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1972, 1978, 1988, 1992 and 2006! Now I ask you, who deserves an apology and reparations?

I agree 100% with June Thresher-----The "truth will out"..........rw

"I know where the racist edge is inside of your heart."

I realize you guys are intellectually challenged, but you ought to realize that the Japanese Americans who received compensation were AMERICAN CITIZENS who had their property and liberty taken away from them without due process. Red blooded Americans that you are, you ought to understand that.

Putting Japanese Americans in some kind of comparable category with Japanese nationals is like accusing German Americans for Hitler.

Jeez. You people give us Americans a horrible name.

That's pretty harsh.

June Thresher wrote:

Now I ask you, who deserves an apology and reparations?

Unfortunately, due to the US being so politically correct, our rave soldiers will never receive an apology from the Japanese. They hated us then, they hate us now.

matty wrote:

"I know where the racist edge is inside of your heart."
I realize you guys are intellectually challenged, but you ought to realize that the Japanese Americans who received compensation were AMERICAN CITIZENS who had their property and liberty taken away from them without due process. Red blooded Americans that you are, you ought to understand that.
Putting Japanese Americans in some kind of comparable category with Japanese nationals is like accusing German Americans for Hitler.
Jeez. You people give us Americans a horrible name.

We should blame Japan for alot of atrocities.

Japan had a past, and that past is history. History is important to remind us of the action taken in the past. The future is most important, and we desire to make the best because we know how to make the best. Japan is a friend of all nations. The USA is Japan's best friend. Whatever happens to USA, the country of Japan with all its power and might will be on USA's side, while Japanese Americans pledge allegiance to the flag of the USA. God bless America.

the japs got away with alot coz they gave chemical weapon secrets to the americans.

IDIOT ONES wrote:

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We should blame Japan for alot of atrocities.

At the end of WW2, we executed 2oo Germans for crimes against humanity. We executed over a thousand Japs. Apparently, someone did blame them.

Told U So wrote:

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Then why did I see signs in Sasebo on restaurant and bar doors that said "Nippon Only"?

You probably saw that sign because the navy had class
'a' establishments where the navy was authorized to go to, and the restaurant probably did not have that
class 'a' approval from the navy.
beside's there were enough bars and establishments that would cope with drunken sailors like myself looking for sex for two hundred yen at that time.
don't tell me you were not one of those drunks too.

Not exactly. I was there as a merchant seaman, last visit 2002. While I may have been one of those drunks as a young Navy sailor in the '60's, the "new" Navy doesn't have much tolerance for drunken sailors, so there is no reason for the signs other than racism.

I think it's most important to focus on Iraq. I'm a 3RD Generation American"Japp" now living in Japan, and I can't blame anyone that is now food for worms. But, I blame myself and others for letting the Iraq police action continue-on until this VERY day, and not do anything about it. Today, Bush indicated that policy hasn't changed. Obama said he was against the war from the start. Yeah, I remember reading the headlines somewhere... or ...was there...? I want to see at least one of our leaders jumping up and down on their desks while in congress, screaming at the top of their lungs..."End The War, Now!" "End the War, Now!" "End, the War, Now!" "The war is over, if you want it."

Missingpoint Man wrote:

I think it's most important to focus on Iraq. I'm a 3RD Generation American"Japp" now living in Japan,

Somehow the situation in Iraq gets tied into the cultural denial of Japanese War Crimes?
"You're a looney!" - Monty Python

As if America should be proud of using the atom bomb on hundreds of thousands of women and children in Japan! And for locking up Japanese Americans during WWII? Sometimes I'm ashamed to call myself an American these days with all the utter stupidity,ungodliness and lack of honor shown by many Americans today. Such Hpyocrites!

American wrote:

As if America should be proud of using the atom bomb on hundreds of thousands of women and children in Japan! And for locking up Japanese Americans during WWII? Sometimes I'm ashamed to call myself an American these days with all the utter stupidity,ungodliness and lack of honor shown by many Americans today. Such Hpyocrites!

You may not be proud, but my soldier father and sailor uncle were grateful that they were spared the final invasion of the Japanese homeland. I am grateful because if dad had been killed then, I wouldn't be here.

...Sounds like some Japanese are doing the same thing which some Americans are doing:

They are denying their barbaric Past. We are denying our destructive Present...
...And that's why MissingPointMan's connection was correctly and aptly made...

...This Old Jarhead remembers the Japanese of Kyoto with fondness, for the love and courtesy, and even kindness which they showed us weary bastids on R&R from the war just across the Korea Strait...

Missingpoint Man wrote:

I want to see at least one of our leaders jumping up and down on their desks while in congress, screaming at the top of their lungs..."End The War, Now!" "End the War, Now!" "End, the War, Now!" "The war is over, if you want it."

You actually want to end the war? American soldiers dont,they want to win,and kill the terrorists who killed they're friends that barely know how to drive.It is they're duty as not only Americans but American soldiers to bring justice.If we leave we'll hear from them again.It would be a waste to pull out,all of the Allie soldiers who have died there would have died for nothing.No one has the fighting spirit anymore.