Why does
Japan need to pay for its crime after 50 years, most of the criminals are
dead, and what does the new generation have to do with it?
-Ask yourself a few questions: does a murder who was on the run for 10 years still need to face justice? Is it fair for the families of the survived victims and the victim themselves to feel the brunt of the pain and suffering? History need to be remembered as to not happen again. New generations need to educate themselves on their anthesterial past. Most of all, the Japan today is not unlike yesterday in that they are still doing everything they can to cover up history.
If
these gruesome almost unthinkable atrocities happened, why didn't I hear
about them?
Most people in China know about WWII atrocities, and these are not
as some say communist propaganda but well documented. Japan has been
able to elude justice and cover up history because its war time government
was left in tact after the war unlike Germany's. These politicians
immediately went to cover their tracks even so today. Also the Allied
Forces, especially U.S. was willing to over look these crimes to gain an
ally in the East as China was now communist. To put simply.
Hasn't
Japan suffered enough by the atomic bombings, why does there need to be
more retribution?
The dropping of the atomic bombs was made to end the war in the Pacific
in the most efficient way. Before this, Japan was still unwilling
to surrender, and
harmful with its trained kamikaze soldiers. This was not an act
of aggression unlike Japan's invasion of China. Also note the combined
death toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is barely 2/3 that of the Nanking
Massacre. It is also known that 1/4 of the dead in Hiroshima are
actually Koreans captured by Japan in war.
Didn't
Japan pay monetary retribution already?
Only a few dollars to European, Western Allied Nations, not China.
Japan
was not an aggressor in war, they had to fight for their lives because
of economic sanctions.
War, although bad in itself is not the issue. The issue is the
way Japan engaged in war. The inhumane slaughter and grievous torture
of the POWs, the civilians is the war crime. It is perhaps the most
appalling in human history, and needs to be remembered and justice needs
to be served.
Does
Japan posses Atomic bombs today?
Not officially, but there has been speculations. Also 1/3 of
Japan's electricity is run by nuclear power plants.
Does
Japan show aggressive tendencies today?
Japan has been showing aggressive behavior towards the Island of Diaoyutai,
a island that has always been Taiwan's fishing grounds.
