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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Jap war experiments resurface

A Japanese nurse breaks her 6o year silence to reveal she was one of many who were forced to dig mass graves for germ warfare victims and hide the evidence before the Americans arrived to occupy the country. Most American's are unaware that it was Japan, not the Nazis, who conducted brutal experiments on their P.O.W.s The Nazis treated their POW according to convention regulations, but brutalized their native political prisoners. The Japs did not recognize the conventions at all, and tortured, beheaded, and conducted gruesome experiments on prisoners of war, including American soldiers. Most Americans are unaware of this, because Hollywood is obsessed with making movies showing German atrocities. (Some critics say it's a Jewish bias, but it's more likely they fear being called racists if they depict a minority group as a villain.) Historically, it was the Germans who faced the sensational trials and mass executions after the war for war crimes, and the Japanese got off easy. I heard about this double standard in my youth, having been told how my great uncle Dan, a doctor for the Navy, was recaptured after escaping from a Japanese prison ship. He was injected with disease and observed while he died. What does this have to do with religion? The biggest culprit of all, the Japanese emperor, the one man who could have stopped the brutality, was never brought to justice but aloud to continue his life of luxury as the nation's leader and Shinto God on Earth. How's that for turning the other cheek?

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