What justifications did the Japanese use to excuse the atrocities they committed during WWII?

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August Hayek
Answered Dec 23, 2018

(1) What was happening in China

(2) Versus USA

(4) In South East Asia

(5) Korea

(6) Massacre and Rapes by Japanese

(7) Tokyo Trial

(8) Atrocities by American Soldiers

(9) Why these History Issees are Never Solved

(10) Apology by Japan

(11) Yasukuni Shrine

(12) Who Really Fabricated History

(1) What was happening in China

China:

It is the Han Chinese that attacked Japan first.

Japan first got that part of Manchuria from Russia, not from China. The Han Chinese had never ruled Manchuria in their history. Never. Also they hate the Hans. When Qing fell, ROC asked Manchuria, Inner Mongol, Uighur, and Tibet to join. But they all refused.

In case you did not know, even though they boast about their five thousand year history, China was first united only less than three thousand years ago, and it was not by the Han Chinese. Since then, China was united for two of the three thousand years, and the Han Chinese only ruled for a total of six hundred years during the Former Han, the Latter Han and Ming. Other dynasties were established by other races or ethnic groups, so Manchuria, Mongol, Uighur and Tibet were never ruled by the Han Chinese.

Before the 20th century, China was the name of the land, not of a country: there were just different dynasties or country of different races occupying the land called “China."

Even though you may think Pandas are Chinese, they were always Tibetan's and never belonged to the Han Chinese. If anything, Pandas are a symbol of the Han Chinese invasion of Tibet. People in the west are brainwashed and fooled by the Han Chinese.

Manchurian Incident:

Manchuria:

Being good horse riders, the people in the northern part of “China" were historically stronger than the Han Chinese militarily. The Great Wall of China was the answer to this by the southern Chinese for their security and survival, but in fact, Manchuria was never ruled by the Han Chinese in its entire history, and it was a land of Manchurians (Jurchens) or their relatives like Mongols. Though the Han Chinese were allowed into the land towards the end of the Qing Dynasty, this region was one of the least populated area in today’s China.

However, though as simple as it seems, the issue surrounding the region was so complex that even the Lytton’s report said that the complexity is unparalleled in the world, and that nobody is entitle to judge anything unless fully aware of the situation.

The Great Game:

The Great Game came eastward all the way to the Far East. They even fought the Crimean War in Kamchatka Peninsula. So, for the Japanese in the Edo Era, Russians were the biggest threat, appearing in Hokkaido every now and then and at one point taking over Tsushima, only to be returned by the British. Even after the Meiji Restoration, with Nicholai II calling himself the Commodore of the Pacific, they were eager to expand into the Pacific Ocean.

Russia had Vladivostok, but its port freezes during the winter. That is why they had set an eye to the Yellow Sea and Liaodong Peninsula where there are some good ports at which today’s North Sea Fleet of People's Liberation Army Navy is stationed.

Thus Russia led the Triple Intervention so that Japan had to return the Peninsula which they obtained after the first Sino-Japan War. But soon after that, of course Russia bribed their way to buy from Qing the rights to build the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Peninsula. The British and the US were concerned about this a lot since if it connects to the Trans-Siberian Railway as planned to be completed in 1904, the Russia’s advantage in material transportation to the Far East could change the balance of power in the region, handing over to Russia the mastery of sea in the Pacific.

That is why the Russo-Japan War broke out in 1904 with the help of the British and the US. That is why the southern part of the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Liaodong Peninsula was taken by the Japanese in the Treaty of Portsmouth with the mediation by the US.

Development of Manchu:

So Japan took Liaodong Peninsula. But Manchuria at the time was nothing but rugged deserted land just like the western US with poor soil, short in phosphor and it freezes during winter. Even Dalian (Port Arthur) was nothing as the Manchurians were land people. Russian started this city (that is why the name Dalian is a part of Russian name meaning Far East) for a few years but it was Japan that developed the entire city. As you can see some photos in internet, the city was just like Shanghai developed by the Sassoon. In the first year alone, Japan invested an equal amount to its national budget.

Japan then developed a new-type of soybeans, Manchurian soybeans, that could grow on this poor and cold soil, and started running farms in other parts of Manchuria by leasing and buying lands and hiring locals. Japan could have cultivated lands by machines, but instead it hired locals purposely so they could become well off, too. The export of the Manchurian Soybeans to Europe subsequently grew rapidly and Manchuria become the world’s biggest exporter of soybeans; it accounted for over 50% of its total export. Soybean oil was first developed here too. Soybeans were grown throughout the region, and within 20 years, the desert of Manchuria became a prosperous green farm land.

Japan also developed other agricultural products like wheat but they also developed heavy industries like steel, coal, electricity, petroleum, automobile, airplanes, among other things by investing a huge amount of money.

Manchuria became a rich land from nothing.

The Incident:

Then all of sudden, the Han Chinese started saying it is all theirs and Japan has to go home leaving everything behind for free.

On January 1, 1912, ROC established itself following the Xinhan Revolution in 1911. Then Qing Dynasty fell in the following month. But no non-Han Chinese regions, Manchuria, Inner Mongol, Uighur or Tibet wanted to join, and with countless wars and internal conflict among Kuomintang, CCP and warlords, China was in total turmoil like today’s Syria. As all Japan’s contracts were made with the Qing Dynasty and because there was no Manchurian government, Japan formed new contracts with ROC of Yuan Shikai.

However, the Han Chinese started saying this new contract was invalid. Behind this was the Comintern too. Right from the beginning, the Comintern targeted Japan for the following reasons: Japan had monarch; Japan won the Russo-Japan War; Japan intervened Soviet’s revolution in Siberia with the British and others; Soviet wanted Manchuria also. Not only blatant breaches of the agreements such as death penalties on people leasing lands to Japanese were imposed, crimes like destructions of railways, factories, facilities, and mines, and burglaries were being reported more than ten thousand cases a year. In the name of “Revolution,” they did anything to get Japanese out of the place.

Although Japan did not originally have its army in Manchuria as the Soviet Union did, they could not maintain the safety and order, and had to station Kwantung Army there in 1919. Incidentally, Kwantung literally means "the east of a barrier," specifically meaning the east of the barrier where Great Wall touches Bohai Sea (Yellow Sea). So by definition, Kwantung Army was not meant to cross the Great Wall.

However, crimes and harassment kept on increasing, and in the end, the Manchurian Incident broke out. It was not a cause, but it was a result of what happened in the previous 15 years.

Helen Mears, a US historian and an author of “Mirrors of America: Japan” says in her book that Japan can sue ROC with the information collected in the Lytton’s report; the armed force that Japan used in the Incident was no more than other country used for retaliations against China’s crimes and threats. A US diplomat in China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, says in his book “How the Peace was Lost” that Japan kept all international treaties and it was ROC that broke them, and because US did not treat Japan equally on this matter, it became unbearable for the Japanese. Also another US diplomat Ralph Townsend wrote in his book, “Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China,” that Japan did what we had been thinking we should do; every foreigners in the Far East was on the Japan’s side; everyone scornfully laughed at Stimson who criticized Japan on this; but because newspaper did not report the truth, anti-Japan sentiment grew in the US.

Behind all this in Manchuria was Zhang Xueliang who was later found to be a member of Kuomintang, and Timperley was already in China, so of course all the lies were being spread out. But the Incident was not even against the International Law.

(above: The front coverpage of the pamphlet distributed in 1939 in Washington D.C. and New York by the Comintern through the Communist Party of the USA with war propaganda describing how brutally Japan was invading China. 60,000 copies were distributed.)

Manchukuo:

One day Puyi, China’s last emperor, escaped into the Japanese Embassy from the Forbidden City, where he was confined after being dethroned. He asked for help. The Han Chinese was keeping him to make it look as if Manchuria belong to ROC. But with all his ancestor graves being destroyed and all the treasures stolen, Puyi really became sick of the Han Chinese and demanded to go back to Manchuria as an emperor. Since then some 700 representatives of Manchurians, Mongols, Koreans, youth, and other groups living in Manchuria got together in Fengtian and decided to found Manchukuo.

So the Machukuo was established with the help of the Japanese government but all of its ministers and politicians were Manchurians. And with the return of the emperor, all the robbers, bulgars and the like got together under him, and soon the order was restored in Manchuria.

Some people call it a puppet state. But if this was a puppet state, what about all the Latin American and Caribbean countries of the time supported by US? What about Hawaii? What about India supported by the British? The truth is that it was a country all Manchurian wanted and welcomed.

After the War in Tokyo Trial, Puyi testified that he did not want to be an emperor and the whole thing was forced by the Japanese. But at the time he was kept in Soviet concentration camp; escorted by Soviet soldiers; and was taken back to the camp. He later wrote in his memoir that he hid the truth in the Tokyo Trial. Also in “Twilight in the Forbidden City” written by Reginald F. Johnston, a Puyi’s personal teacher, Johnston says that Puyi wanted to found his own country. This is a first class primary source evidence.

Lytton’s report:

Right or left, and Great Powers or Japanese, they more or less all agree that the report written by the Lytton Commission was thorough and good, but except for its conclusion. The report literally says that just about everything Japan said is right, and respects all its rights in Manchuria. But in its conclusions, it suggests the Manchukuo to be under the control of the League of Nations.

Of course, the League of Nations was heavily controlled by the Great Powers and the members of Lytton Commission were all commanders of European countries, so in a way, this conclusion was understandable. But for the Japanese it was not acceptable. At the time, the Japanese politicians were pacifists and the Kwantung Army was aggressive. But it was really the media that fueled the whole thing everyday.

One of the communists and a Soviet spy arrested in the Sorge Incident was a Japanese journalist, Hotsumi Ozaki, at the leading newspaper company, Asahi Shinbun, who was executed in jail. He was also a brain to the Prime Minister Konoe, but previously he stationed in China as an analyst of Asahi for the Manchurian Railway.

Marco-Polo Bridge Incident:

If the name of your game is truth rather than propaganda, you should look into what the Comintern and CCP were doing behind all this.

On July 25, 1935, at the 7th Comintern meeting, they decided to target Japan in Asia, especially the Japanese troops in China. In the following month, CCP announced "August 1 Declaration” and started acting against Japan. Their objective was to pit Japan against Kuomintang so both gets exhausted for a later communist revolution, and this is why they released Chang-kai Shek in December 1936, whom they captured in the Xi'an Incident.

Upon release by CCP after talking with Zhou Enlai, Chang-kai Shek returned to Nanking, and soon changed Kuomintang’s fundamental policies as follows: one, abandoning the unification policy of China; two, concluding a cease-fire with CCP; three, replacing pro-Japan high-rank officers in Kuomintang (Chang-kai Shek himself was first pro-Japan as he studied abroad in Japan for several years); four, preparing for a war against Japan by raising funds from overseas including millions of dollars from Stalin.

Then the Marco-Polo Bridge Incident happened in July 7, 1937. Chinese blame Japan shot first while Japanese blamed the Chinese. But as decided before, it was the top priority for CCP to make Japan fight against Kuomintang while there was no incentive for Japan for this, and actually Japan did have a command not to aggress into China.

However, a cease-fire agreement was soon reached between Kuomintang and Japan. But immediately after that, a series of many provocative incidents by Chinese happened again in succession including Dahongmen Incident on July 13, whereby four Japanese soldiers were killed; Tungchow mutiny on July 29, whereby 223 Japanese civilians were tortured and massacred in the most cruelest way; Oyama Incident on August 9, whereby a Japanese first lieutenant Oyama was assassinated.

If you google some photos of Tungchow mutiny, you will see most cruel Chinese traditional methods of killing people, and they are the same methods as the ones used in what they call “Nanking Massacre.”

But Japan did not still retaliate.

Then finally on August 13, Chang-kai Shek attacked the Japanese Settlement in Shanghai with 50,000 Kuomintang soldiers, and this triggered Japan to fight back.

Nanking Massacre:

All the evidences for the Nanking Massacre were fabricated by the Kuomintang’s Publicity Section for raising funds in US; used after the War by GHQ and US for Tokyo Trial and WGIP to record Japan as the aggressor and to lessen the guilt for the dropping of atomic bombs; and today exploited in CCP’s propaganda as a weapon to break up the ties among US, Japan, Taiwan and other US allies for their military expansion into the Pacific and Indian Ocean. China is spending 10 billion dollars for these issues in UN, US, Japan and other US allies annually since the modern history is a source of government legitimacy, territorial rights, national security, military advantage, economical profits.

If you are confident, show your primary source evidence that convinced you that this fabrication is in fact a true story. So far all I saw from the people like yourself are: photos of so-called "Japanese soldiers" wearing look alike outfits made in China, which were fabricated by the Publicity Section of Kuomintang to raise funds in US through Chang-kai Shek's wife, Mei-soon Lin; hearsay from Kuomintang like the diary of Rabe who admitted that he did not see any civilian massacre, and thus did not testify at Tokyo Trial nor his diary was used in it; news distributed to the world mainly through an Australian journalist, Harold John Timperley, who was revealed by Kuomintang's documents in Taiwan in 2015 to be one of their five chief agents, and was responsible as the head of the London Brunch of Kuomintang’s Publicity Section regularly receiving money. Timperley wrote the famoust book "What War Means: The Japanese Terror in China,” which first spread this fabrication to the Western world but he later refused to testify at the Tokyo Trial.

Below are some fabricated photos by Kuomintang.

(below: Typical fabricated photo. This is not a Japanese military outfit. There is no Japanese wearing this outfit)

(below: Typical fabricated photo. This is not a Japanese military outfit. There is no Japanese wearing this outfit)

(below: This is a Chinese soldier. No Japanese cut anything with his left foot in front. This is a cutting method of Chinese sword, 青竜刀.)

(below: Firstly, the Japanese putees were darker green while the guy in the middle is wearing a white putee, which is a Kuomintang’s putee. Secondly, burying alive is a Chinese traditional killing method, but not Japanese. Thirdly, the Nanking Massacre was supposed to be in winter while some are wearing summer clothes.)

(below: This photo appeared in a newspaper for the Tungchow mutiy in which over 200 Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, were tortured and killed in the most cruel way by the Kuomintang. Now the CCP uses it for the Nanking Masacre.)

(below: This photo is often used as an evidece for Nanking Massacre. But these are all Chinese soldiers with weapons who died in a battle near Yangtze River.)

(below: This is not a photo of Japanese soldiers but Chinese soldiers burying Chinese civilians. The idea of burying civilians alive was not Japanese but Chinese. )

(below: The Japanese soldiers were wearing stand up collar before 1938. Also this collar does not have badge as in the Japanese outfits.)

(below: This is a staged photo taken after the Kuomintang’s air raid in Shanghai.)

(below: this guy is setting up for the photo above.)

(below: This photo is used as purported evidence of infant victims of the Nanking Massacre and is displayed at the Nanking Massacre Memorial Museum in China. However, this photo was not taken in Nanking, for the photo is from a postcard sold in China in war days as the one taken at Tiyelien in Manchuria.
 There was no custom of slaughtering infants even of the enemy throughout Japanese history, although this custom frequently appears in Chinese chronicles.)

(below: this is a Kuomintang’s helmet.)

The head of the International Publicity Section of Kuomintang, Zeng Xubai, later admitted in his autobiography that they paid Tmeperley and Smythe to write two

books to propagate Nanking Massacre to overseas and the books achieved their goals.

Also, all the confessions from Japanese veterans, which were presented by CCP and registered in UNESCO as evidences for the massacre in China, were made by members of a communist group called Chukiren. All of them, without an exception. They were brainwashed by CCP during their captivities. The CCP's objective was to use them as activists in order to emotionally separate Japanese citizens from the government by brainwashing the Japanese how bad Japan behaved during the War, for a later communist revolution in Japan that the CCP was planning.

GHQ cooperated with this CCP's plan through the Japan’s Communist Party for their War Guilt Information Program, and the document for the operation was declassified in 2014 by The National Archives United Kingdom, TNA, in England under the name, Norman File KV2/3261, after a Canadian diplomat in charge, Egerton Herbert Norman, who committed suicide when he was suspected as a communist spy.

Before the Japanese Army marched into Nanking, the International Committee for Nanking Safety Zone, for which Rabe was the leader, notified them where the Safety Zone was, and subsequently sent a latter of appreciation to the Army for not bombing it. The population of the city as counted by the Committee before the Japanese entry was about 200,000, much less than the CCP’s claim for a massacre of 300,000, and the number increased to about 250,000 in the following months because the Chinese civilians who escaped to outside of the city returned once they found that it was safe. It was the CCP and Kuomintang who were killing the civilians, and they were the ones that civilians were scared of.

That is why tens of western media journalists who were in Nanking or along the way to the city from Shanghai at the time never reported any civilian massacre by the Japanese Army.

Unit 731:

There is no primary source evidence to indicate that Japan conducted human experiments even in the declassified documents by US. It is all communist fabrications.

But look at what is happening in China today. CCP is selling organs taken out of political prisoners in Uighur and Tibet, or believers of Falun Gong.

If you are not a HYPOCRITE and are really interested in human rights issues, you should protest at your nearby Chinese Embassy. These are real, and are happening right at this moment.

You should know that CCP is spending billions of dollars to spread these fabrications to hide what they are doing right at this moment.

The Han Chinese:

The Han Chinese are the only people in the world who kept on invading after the War.

In their entire history, they had never conquered or ruled Tibet, Uighur, Inner Mongol and Manchuria. But after the WWII, they invaded all of the above, as well as Korea and Vietnam.

Look at Manchuria and Inner Mongol. The people who were against the Han Chinese were all butchered and the land is almost entirely occupied by the Han Chinese.

Look at Tibet. There was no Han Chinese in the region after the WWII but now the Han Chinese account for more than 30%. They killed, forced women to marry with Han Chinese men, forced sterilization to Tibetan married couples. All the temples have been destructed except for a few with a big photo of Mao before Buddha.

Look at Uighur. I am sure you heard a news that more than one million people are in concentration camps. Not only that, the Han Chinese sent Uighur men to other parts of China so they cannot marry to Uighur women. They ban their language, destroy their cultures, religions, you name it. And they are happening right at this moment.

Soon, there will be no more Tibetans or Uighur.

All this is happening because the Great Powers made Lytton report to write that Manchuria is a part of ROC for their benefit. Because of this big lie, nobody can deny the claim by the Han Chinese on Tibet, Uighur and Inner Mongol; Nixon and Kissinger were made to swallow One China Policy by Mao; their issues became internal issues of “China”; and any local opposing activists become terrorists.

(2) Versus USA

US's 100 Year Secret Policy:

Towards the end of the 19th century, while the British Empire was losing its power, Alfred Mahan proposed to T. Roosevelt that US should fill this vacuum. To do that, he also proposed to secure the mastery of sea first in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, and then in the entire Atlantic Ocean; and then using this as a leverage, expand the mastery into the Pacific Ocean.

However, for this to be successful, Mahan stressed that US should never allow the rise of two countries which could potentially be the dominant powers in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, namely Germany and Japan.

More than a hundred years ago, this policy was secretly adopted by the US Government, and it is still intact today: the policy was confirmed with Mao when Nixon went to China in 1972; it was incorporated in the 1991 Defense Planning Guidelines, which was created as the US’s grand strategy for the new world order without Soviet, as exposed by Washington Post.

Even today, Japan does not have full sovereignty or diplomatic right as its national security is controlled by the US. The same is true for Germany also.

Pearl Harbor:

Why Americans were in Hawaii in the first place? The King and Queen of Hawaii asked Japan to help the Kingdom against US invasion in 1880-90s, and this was the true beginning. Also from the Japanese point of view, it was the Whites who were enslaving Asia for hundreds of years, and Japan was the last independent country in Asia.

Cutting life lines like oil is an act of war. Enforcing the ABCD Encirclement together with sending the Hull Note can also be regarded as an act of declaring a war by the International Law. Because of the oil embargo by US, Japan’s oil was running out in January 1942. Then any country could have invaded Japan without too much effort.

The Pearl Harbor attack was two months before that.

On top of these, even though the US was a neutral country, it was supplying weapons to ROC and helping by way of the Flying Tigers, which is a blatant violation of the International Law.

After the War, when everything became clear, Douglas MacArthur testified on May 3, 1951 at the US Senate Committee on Armed Services which is the highest rank committee in which US military officers can testify, that Japan fought for its security (not for invasion), while Charles Willoughby, a major general in the U.S. Army, said to Justice Henri Bernard of the Tokyo Trial that the Trial was the worst hypocrisy in the history of mankind and that any country would go to a war like Japan did if they were treated the same way.

Hamilton Fish III, the Republican Leader at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack wrote after the WWII that nobody in the Congress knew such a provocative note (Hull Note) was delivered to Japan; even though he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, he was not informed; because of the Note, Japan was left with no choice but to fight back or starve to death.

The former President Hoover told MacArthur on May 4, 1946 that Pearl Harbor was a mad man’s (FDR) plot to get a way into the War to help Britain, to which MacAruthur agreed. Hoover also told that FDR's contemptuous refusal of the Japanese Prime Minister's peace proposal in September were the crucial precursors to Pearl Harbor; the full-scale embargo against Japan, even though no bullet was shot, was in effect a war against Japan; if the US did not provoke Japan, they would not have attacked us.

From the standpoint of the Japanese national security, the US’s demand in the Hull Note for Japan’s withdrawal from Manchuria was unrealistic though Japan was willing to withdraw from other parts of China. Because, as MacArthur found during the Korean War, the Korean Peninsula to Japan is just like Cuba to the US, a knife pointing to its neck, and the eastern part of Manchuria, which Japan took from Russia at a massive cost in the Russo-Japanese War, is geopolitically a key location to protect the Peninsula against possible invasions by Soviet or China.

Soviet at the time was especially eager to come down into Manchuria.

VENONA Project declassified in 1995 revealed that there were more than 300 Soviet agents in the FDR’s administration. Also, after the collapse of Soviet, a former KGB’s spy, Vitali Pavlov, admitted in front of a TV camera that he was working with Harry Dexter White, who wrote the Hull Note, about the contents of the Note to lure Japan southwards. The name of operation was "Operation Snow," from the name, Harry Dexter “White.” Harry White committed suicide in 1948 after being susupected of being a Soviet spy.

Legally, there was no definition of aggression in the International Law. Plus, in the Pact of Paris, countries were assured of self-interpretation rights. Kellogg and Briand send an official letter confirming this to all countries including Japan, and this letter still exists.

The truth is that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was neither an illegal invasion nor cowardly action.

References:

“Freedom Betrayed” by George Nash

“Tragic Deception” by Hamilton Fish III

“Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government” by M. Stanton Evens

"The Tokyo Trial and Beyond” by Judge Bernard Roling at Tokyo Trial

VENONA files

(3) In South East Asia

Asia:

Japan fought against the Western countries who were enslaving Asia for hundreds of years, not against the natives. What do you think the Western countries were doing in Asia?

Charity?

There were only about 60 countries in the world at the time, of which only 10 non-white countries were not yet colonized, but this figure was decreasing. Japan was the last country in Asia remaining totally independent. Within several years of the War, all the Asian and Pacific countries that Japan occupied were freed, followed by Middle East and African countries. The Asian countries that Japan did not occupy, such as Hawaii, could not regain independence even after the WWII.

Who do you think formed and trained their armies in Asian countries, which fought against the West who came back to recolonize after the WWII? Who do you think supplied their weapons?

You think the Asians were holding US guns or Japanese guns?

Or, do the guns grow on trees?

For example, today, some 3,000 Japanese lay buried with decorations in Kalibata Heroes Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia. Everybody in Indonesia including those in the first subsequent independent Government and Army like the first President Sukarno, Hatta, Bun Tomo, Aramasa, Sanpas, etc. were holding Japanese guns and fighting with the Japanese.

Greater East Asia Conference:

On November 5th and 6th, 1943, the first Greater East Asia Conference was held in Tokyo, Japan in which seven Asian countries participated: Japan (Prime Minister Tojo); Republic of China (Wang Jingwei); Manchuko (Prime Minister Zhang Jinghui); Republic of Philippine (President José Paciano Laurel); Burma (Ba Maw, Prime Minister of Independent Burma); Thailand (Wan Waithayakon, the Prince of Thailand); India (Chandra Bose, the military legend for the independence of India, and representing the Provisional Government of Free India).

Note that Japan participated as Japan, not as the Empire of Japan, because after the War when order is restored, Japan was going to disband the empire.

This is the first international meeting held by non-white nations and the Greater East Asian Joint Declaration was unanimously adopted:

1. The countries of Greater East Asia through mutual co-operation will ensure the stability of their region and construct an order of common prosperity and well-being based upon justice.

2. The countries of Greater East Asia will ensure the fraternity of nations in their region, by respecting one another’s sovereignty and independence and practicing mutual assistance and amity.

3. The countries of Greater East Asia by respecting one another’s traditions and developing the creative faculties of each race, will enhance the culture and civilization of Greater East Asia.

4. The countries of Greater East Asia will endeavour to accelerate their economic development through close co-operation upon a basis of reciprocity and to promote thereby the general prosperity of their region.

5. The countries of Greater East Asia will cultivate friendly relations with all the countries of the world, and work for the abolition of racial discrimination, the promotion of cultural intercourse and the opening of resources throughout the world, and contribute thereby to the progress of mankind.

The significance of this declaration was that for the first time in the human history, the equality of countries as well as the abolition of racial discrimination were adopted.

After the French Revolution in the 18th century France, the human rights were declared for the first time in the human history, challenging the order ruled by royal families. But against this new order, Coalition Wars were waged by military alliances of old order countries. Even though France lost the wars in the end, the spirits of human rights prevailed, and all European countries subsequently adopted democracy.

Likewise, it was Japan that proposed for the first time in human history the abolition of all racial discrimination to the League of Nations in 1919 in an attempt to end the white colonization and enslavement that lasted for hundreds of years. This proposal gained supports from the majority but rejected by the chair country, the US, and soon anti-Japan encircling net was formed. Even though Japan lost the War in the end, the spirits prevailed, and within several years of the War, all the Asian countries gained independence, followed by African countries. The truth is that it was virtually the last country Japan that only by itself destructed the order forced by the Great Powers by beating Russia, British and Dutch.

An acclaimed British historian, Arnold Toynbee, said in “Observer” on October 28, 1965 that in the WWII, the Japan had left a great history for the beneficiary countries rather than for itself. These countries are the ones included in the short-lived ideal, the Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, which the Japanese once upheld.

To erase this fact from written history, and to record Japan as an aggressor, the US banned Japan to use this word, the Greater East Asia War, in academies, education and media; burned more books than Hitler did; and rewrote the history as Churchill proudly said “History is written by the victor."

This censorship is still continuing today.

Comments by Leaders of South East Asian Countries:

Malaysia

"If Japan was to be blamed, what about the responsibilities of the West which continued that inhumane domination and exploitation of us?”

- Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia

"When the Japanese army marched into the Malay Peninsula, we all let out a whoop of joy. And when we saw the retreating British army, I shivered as if I had never experienced before. The Japanese removed all the Western forces that had been colonizing Asia for such a long time. We had almost given up our hope but the Japanese gave us the sensation and confidence.”

- Ungku Abdul Aziz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in Malaysia

India

"The Japanese did nothing to us that they have to apologize for. This is the reason that we will not attend the San Francisco Pease Conference, and refuse to sign on its Peace Treaty.”

- Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, in his speech addressed to the Indian National Diet in 1951

"For the independence of India, our army will fight through with the Japanese friends.”

- Subhas Chandra Bose, a legendary figure in India’s independence who fought against the British

Burma

"There is no country that contributed more to Asia than Japan did. And there is no country that is more misunderstood than Japan is. It was the Japanese who freed us from the white domination. The true friend of Independent Burma was General Tojo and Japan.”

- Ba Maw, Prime Minister of Burma (an activist for independence)

"The training in the Imperial Japanese Army was so harsh that I almost committed suicide. However, when we saw the fall of Rangoon, we became convinced that what we had been doing was right.”

- Aung San (father of Aung San SuuKyi), the legendary figure of Burma independence who fled to Japan with 30 other soulmates to train in the Imperial Japanese Army to gain independence of Burma from the British

Indonesia

"The reason that Indonesia was able to win its independence from Netherland was that the same colored Asian nation of Japan had fought that much, and that gave us the confidence that we could do the same.”

- Sukarno, 1st Prime Minister of Indonesia

"That war was really our war. We should have fought it ourselves. But we put everything on the Japan’s shoulders, and that plunged her into an almost total destruction. I’m sorry.”

- Bung Tomo, Minister of Information of Indonesia and an Indonesian military leader against Netherland

Philippine

"The Japanese proved their lofty spirits and ideals by eventually abolishing its military government to authorize the establishment of the Republic of Philippine. The Japanese sincerely honored all of its pledges and manifestos by providing us the opportunity to establish a country of our own cultures and traditions, and with constitutions set up by our citizens.”

- F. B. Vargas, Philippine Ambassador to Japan

Sri Lanka

"Why does Asia want Japan to be free again? It is because Japan was the only country that Asia could trust. We should never forget how the people of Asia, who hoped for their independence, find sympathy with the Japanese ideal.”

- Junius Jayewardene, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, at the San FranciscoPeace Conference (1951)

Thailand

"Asia gained independence because of Japan. Japan, who acted as our mother, bore babies of Asian countries but destructed her maternal body. Who made us talk equally with the West today? It is because of the mother, Japan, who almost killed herself to give the birth. We should never forget December 8, 1945.”

- Seni Pramo, Prime Minister of Thailand

Chinese in South East Asia:

Chinese were the only people in Asia, who wanted to keep the white colonization.

There were some Chinese who fought against Japan when it was fighting against the whites colonizing the Asian countries. This is because these Chinese were beneficiaries of the colonization exploiting the natives: they were working in between the whites and the natives, doing all the dirty works. So some of the Chinese fought against Japan to maintain the system and were killed in battles.

To hide this fact, the Chinese are spreading lies that the Japanese massacred civilians. But in fact, they were fighting, many in civilian clothes, to maintain the white colonization to continue exploiting the natives.

Bataan Death March:

The march was only for 80 kilometers in two days with a sleep at night, meaning they only walked 40 kilometers a day. All Japanese soldiers also walked the same distance carrying a sac and gun while the POWs were only carrying a canteen. They were all short in food.

But before this, it was the US that made a mistake in their strategy, War Plan Orange, by holding a fort in Corregidor with a minimum supply of foods. That is why there was big shortage in food as nobody can create food for 80,000 POWs all of sudden out of blue.

In “the Trail of Tears,” the white Americans forced 15,000 Cherokee Indians walk for two thousand kilometers from Georgia to Oklahoma during cold winter and 8,000 of them died.

POWs:

I am sure that torturing of POWs happens to draw out secrets in every country with varying degrees.

This was the time when the whites were treating colored as subhumans both officially and unofficially. After all, Gena Haspel was a specialist in torturing at CIA. So you are still doing it in the 21st century.

Why don't you read diaries of US soldiers? It was US that secretly had a non POW policy, and shot surrendering Japanese soldiers and non combatant sailors thrown out in oceans. They also fired farmers and children in field.

After the War, the Allied called the surrendered Japanese soldiers JSP instead of POW to evade Geneva Convention, and tens of thousands were enslaved to death.

(3) Korea

Japan did NOT invade Korea. Korea was so poor, miserable and hopeless that they asked Japan to annex and modernize.

The country had poor soil, unproductive population and no resources that there was no appeal for its neighbouring countries to colonize apart from national security, geopolitical or transportational reasons. If fact, in every single year during the annexation, Japan spent so much money on the Peninsula except in the year of the Great Depression. It was a huge burden of net negative cash flows.

Plus, for the annexation, there was no war, and it was a sign deal, which the internationally community accepted.

Prior to this, Korea’s biggest political party at the time, Iljinhoe (一進会 or 일진회), whose official number of its members totaled 800,000 to one million, said that Korea could not deveop capitalism on its own, and issued a proclamation on Dec. 4, 1909 demanding a merger with the Japanese Empire.

Koreans changed their minds AFTER the War, and tried to illegalize the deal. However, their claims have been declined in an international academic conference held in Harvard University in December 2008.

Professor J. Crawford of Cambridge University who specializes in the Inernational Law stated at the conference that in view of the international order of the time, it was not rare for a neighboring country to annex a nation that could not sustain by itself, and that the Japanese annexation of Korea was not illegal.

It was also revealed at the conference that the Korean Emperor, Gojong, was actually in favor of becoming a protectorate of Japan in 1905 and dismissed opposing opinions expressed by some ministers, according to his diary and other Korean official documents such as 日省録 and 承政院日記.

It was also confirmed that even though the agreement for the annexation was not signed by the Korean Emperor, it was signed by Korea's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and this suffices the requirements of the International Law.

Historically, since the time of Yuan Dynasty in China, Korea was a tributary state of China for almost one thousand years. However, as the Qing Dynasty got weaker, Russia was attempting to get control over them to have access to Korea’s unfreezing ports for their expansion into the Pacific Ocean.

Korea to Japan is just like Cuba to the US geologically, a knife pointing to its neck. Thus, in order to stabilize the security of the region, Japan made Korea independent after the first Sino-Japan War with the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and supported the country. Incidently, this is when the Korea’s King became an Emperor, since being a kng in Asia meant that his country is a tributary state of China.

However, having been a dependency of China for such a long time, Korea could not stand up by themselves, leading into a hopeless state where they had to be annexed to get modernized.

If you want to know how Koreans used to live BEFORE the annexation, you can read books written by westerners who visited there. There are at least a half dozen of them with the most famous one being "Korea and Her Neighbors" by an English travelor, Isabella Bird. She says that Seoul was the dirtiest and smelliest place on Earth, and even in the main streets there were not cultural things like restaurants, tea houses, theaters, or even shops.

A US historian, Helen Mears says in her book “Mirror for Americans: Japan” that as far as I can see from these official records, I don’t see why Japan has to be accused of enslaving Korea. If this was enslaving, the Britain would be guilty of accomplice and the US be guilty of accessory. All that Japan did to Korea was legally conducted as an ally of the UK. They were in accordance with the international rules and the highest code of conducts of that time. Not only that, these rules and codes were not set up by the Japanese, but were set up by the West, especially the British.

Seven Deprivation:

Koreans claim that Japan deprive seven things from Korea during the annexation. But they are all lies.

1) Royal Family

It was Koreans themselves who terminated their royal family.

After the annexation, Korean royal family was also merged with the Japanese imperial family. But they were protected with great care. For instance, every year, 1.8 million yen was budgeted for the royal family, an equivalent to about 20 billion yen, or about 170 million dollars, far more than the Japanese houses of Imperial prince.

After the War, the Korean prince, Yi Un (李垠), tried to go back to Korea. But it was the South Korea’s president, Syngman Rhee (李承晩), who refused his return and chose republicanism.

2) Sovereignty

Korea before the annexation was a tributary state of the Qing (China). In fact, since the time of Yuan Dynasty (China), Korea had been a tributary state of China for almost one thousand years. It was Japan that gave Korea its independence after the first Sino-Japan War by the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

Helen Mears who wrote “Mirror of America: Japan” says in her book that Japan annexed Korea because Korea’s Emperor asked for it. It was not done by declaration but by a proper treaty.

3) Land

Korea claims that Japan took over 40% of their total farm land. However, this is another big lie.

During the era of the Joseon Dynasty, the concept of property rights was very vague so that conflicts over land ownership was more than a commonplace.

Thus, Governer-General of Korea spent eight years in investigating the entire land using the modern measurement methods to clear the ownerships for fair tax collection and easy transactions, in order to improve their use and productivity. The investigation revealed that 45% of the farm land were secretly owned by the ruling class of Yangban.

The land the Governer-General of Korea had was 3%. But this was carried on from the Joseon Dynasty. The total land that Japanese corporation and individual had was 6%, and they were all purchased by normal transactions.

There is no way Japan took over 45% of their land.

4) Hangul

Koreans also lie that Japan took away their writing system, Hangul. Hangul was first invented by a Joseon King Sejon in the 15th century, but nobody used it since it was created for peasants. All Yangbans and educated used Chinese characters. That is why there is NO document written in Hangul before the Japanese annexation.

It was a Japanese, Yukichi Fukuzawa, who refound and promoted Hangul.

Governer-General of Korea built 5,500 schoools (there were only 100 before), adopted Hangul in their text books, and started teaching it. This was when Hangul was established in Korea for the first time in their history. The first newspaper in Hangul was also printed by Japanese.

5) Names

In 1939, Governer-General of Korea changed the Family Registration Law, and allowed Koreans to hava Japanese family names. This was in response to Koreans strong demand so they do not get discriminated by Chinese in Manchuria. They also demanded to change their first names to Japanese names so their origins are not revealed. The Governor issued a notice three times to ban forcing change of names.

If anything, the Japanese Government did NOT want Koreans to use Japanese names as was first banned. There is NO way or need for the Japanese to change Korean names to Japanese names.

6) Lives

Korea claimes Japan massacred hundreds of thousands of Koreans during the 50 year war since Japan forced annexation. However, the truth is that there was NO war; their biggest political party demanded it with its member’s signatures; the annexation was a singed deal, not even by a declaration; and was an internationally accepted one.

There was no nationwide protest against the annexation except for one case of “March 1st Movement” in which some 3900 Koreans were found guilty. Even though there were eight Japanese killed, there was NO death sentence. And for this fairness of the court, the main leaders of the movement like 崔麟, 李光洙, 崔南善, 朴煕道 became big fans of Japan, and as a result, they became opinion leaders supporting Japan.

The annexation increased Korea’s agricultural productivity dramatically by introduction of modern agricultural methods. From 1910 to 1930, the production of rice double in volume, and from 1933 to 1938 alone, the income of Korean farmers also doubled.

During the Joseon Dynasty, every so often epidemics prevailed because of their unhyginic environment, killing more than a hundred thousand people. But because Japan introduced modern medicine to Korea during the annexation, the average life expectency increased sharply from 25 years old to 45, and the population also increased dramatically from 7.3 million to 25.5 million.

The truth is that Japan saved Korean's lives, not killed their lives.

7) Resources

Korea claims that Japan stole their natural resources such as gold, silver, tungsten, coals, etc., but the realty is that the Korean Peninsula has very small amount of resources. All the mining companies were making losses and they had to import resources from South East Asia in the end.

Instead of depriving resources, Japan had to spend so much money for the development of one of the poorest country in Asia. From construction of railways, power plants, dams, schools, hospitals, etc., Japan paid for just about all of Korea’s modernization expenses. It spent over two billion yen. If we assume one yen in those days to be about 30,000 yen today, the amount Japan spent on Korea amounts to 60 trillion yen, or roughly 520 billion dollars.

It is regarded as a fabrication.

Korean comfort women:

Though the majority of the comfort women were Japanese prostitutes recruited by Japanese dealers, there were some Korean comfort women. They were also highly paid prostitutes but were recruited by KOREAN dealers called Zegen (女衒).

Seiji Yoshida is a Japanese communist who first wrote a book in 1980s on “comfort women.” He revealed his experience of kidnapping girls in Korea. However, he later admitted before he died that it was all fabrication, and that he wrote the book as “a novel.”

(below: Seiji Yoshida, who wrote the first book to reveal “sex slaves” but later admitted it was a novel.)

Soon after the release of Yoshida’s book, a Korean newspaper, Jeju Newspaper (済州新聞), conducted a research in the village on the Jeju Island (済州島), in which Yoshida in his book claimed to have conducted kidnapping of girls for sex slavery with the Imperial Japanese Army by their order. However, all villagers said there were never such an incident. The village has only 250 houses, and if such thing happened, everyone in the village would not it immediately. The Jeju Newspaper soon reported this on August 14, 1989, condemning Japan for releasing such a book with total fabrications as below.

(below: Jeju Newspaper (済州新聞) article on August 14, 1989, condemening the Yoshida’s book as a total fabrication.)

The Asahi Newspaper who led the distribution of this hoax throughout the world withdrew the articles on Japanese soldiers kidnapping Korean girls and then apologized AFTER 30 odd years.

(below: Takashi Uemura, who had been the leading writer of false and misleading articles at Asahi Shimbun. His wife is Korean and a leader of the political group, 한국정신대문제대책협의회, 艇対協, which has been acting behind this issue. He sued some journalists who claimed his articles were fabricatins. But his appeal was dismissed by Sapporo District Court on November 9, 2018.)

But it was too late. Already the UN’s "Coomaraswamy Report” was out with its central contents BASED ON the Yoshida’s book, which he himself admitted was "a novel," accusing most horrendeous rapes, kidnapping, torturing and killing committed by Japanese soldiers.

But there is really NO primary source evidence whatsoever to indicate that there was coercion except for the dodgy statements made by some comfort women who only appears in places where no questions are allowed.

The reason for no questions is that in the past they made stupid mistakes that exposed their lies like they were kidnapped by Jeep (Jeep was used by US during Korean War and Japan does not have a single Jeep); the soldier opened his fastener (Japanese was using buttons); and some even mentioned base where only American bases were located during the Korean War.

(Above: Korea’s comfort women house for US soldiers during the Korean War)

Instead, there are many evidences to show that they were nothing but prostitutes such as recruitment ads, comfort women’s bank account recordings, diaries, police records and news articles of arresting bad KOREAN dealers who kidnapped girls, a US official report on a station in Burma by the United States Office of War Information that concluded that “A ‘comfort girl’ is nothing more than a prostitute or ‘professional camp follower.’"

(Ads for recruiting comfort women)

(Pay slip of a comfort woman)

(Newspaper article for arresting Korean kidnapper of girls)

(US’s report concluding that the Korean comfort women were nothing but “camp followers”)

The biggest investigation conducted by a Korean professor at Seoul Uni, Prof. An, for which both Korean and Japanese government cooperated and in which he interviewed all the comfort women who claimed they were coerced, concluded that they are either making mistake or deliberately lying and that there is NO primary source evidence that indicate there was coercion in Korea or Japan. He also said that the objective of the Korean political group behind all this move is not the truth or justice, but it is to bash Japan. This is an investigation conducted by Koreans using Korean money.

(In Korea, everyone who said comfort women were nothing but “prostitutes” were violently silenced. The photos are Prof. An and Prof. Li of Seoul Uni.)

Also, subsequently, US government conducted a huge investigation in its official archive during and after the war upon request from South Korean and China. But there found NO evidence whatsoever, and all they found were evidences to indicate that they were professional prostitutes.

(Michael Yon, a Pulitzer award journalist, who first believe the sex slavery but soon realize that it was a fabrication, and has been claiming that it is China that is behind this issue to break up the ties among the US allies for their expansion into Pacific and Indian Ocean. See his Facebook pages.)

So there is absolutely no nothing in Korea, Japan or US.

If you try to find an evidence, you will realize that there are many Korean who say there are plenty of evidences. But when you ask them to show or point to one, nobody can. Not only that, nobody knows what it is, where it is, or even who saw it.

This is what Koreans talk about themselves: according to the main editorial by the Chief Editor of Choson Ilbo, the biggest newspaper in South Korea, on Mar 6, 2012, Feb. 2, 2010 and Feb. 13, 2003, "Koreans lie as if they breathe” and “Koreans are the world’s biggest liar of all." Korea has the highest fraud rate and is the only country whose fraud rate exceeds that of robbery in OECD. Also, all of perjury, calumny and fraud rates in S Korea are some 160-670 times higher than those of Japan.

Sex surrounding wars:

Sex issues of soldiers have been big issues of all times and places. From the time of the Crusaders, they had a similar system like the Japanse “comfort women” of the WWII. Or even in Kosovo, they had brothels for soldiers.

Basically, armies around the world have had three types of approaches on this: 1) do nothing, 2) procure prostitutes at the sites, 3) provide and bring your own prostitutes, or any combination of the three.

1) is the Soviet’s approach, in which rapes are most likely to happen as witnessed in Germany and Manchuria when they invaded towards the end of WWII. 2) is the US approach, as happened after the WWII when they occupied Japan and made the Japanese Government provide three types of brothels for officers, white soldiers and black soldiers using the Japanese tax payer money. 3) is the Japanese approach, where the Army provides “recreation centers” to private business owners to run their gambling house, movie theaters or brothels, somewhat similar to today’s big offices lenting spaces for shops like Starbucks.

(The Recreation and Amusement Association, or brothel, set up by the Japanese government using Japan’s tax payer’s money by a US order)

Incidently, Korea themselves had the same system as Japan did during the Vietnam War. In addition, they had a similar system run DIRECTLY by the South Korean government during the Korean War for US soldiers for earning the US dollars. The operation was signed by the former President Park Geun-hye’s father, former President Park Chung-hee.

(Comfort women house authorized and signed by President Park Chung-hee)

Kidnapping by Japanese Soldiers:

All Japanese comfort women were recruited by Japanese dealers while all Korean comfort women were recruited by Korean dealers. But there was one case in which Japanese soldiers were involved in forcing a woman to work as a prostitute in Indonesia. However, as this case was reported, the Japanese Army immediately freed the woman, closed the brothel and punished the soldiers.

If a police officer of the NY Police committed a rape, and as soon as the Police found it by itself and borught him to justice, would you say that the NY Police committed a crime? Or, would you say that it was an individual crime, and the order is maintained?

Human Traficking in Korean Society:

Prostitution in Korea was only banned in 2004, but still there was huge protests against the banning.

(Appeal by Korean prostitutes for legalizing prostitution in South Korea)

Since then, Koreans became the biggest exporter of prostitutes in the world, and according to a Korean politician, Kim Ogi, there are 100,000 Korean prostitutes in the world today: some 30,000 in the US, and 50,000 in Japan, in both cases, the highest by the country. Also, according to the LA Police statistics, out of 70 to 80 prostitutes arrested every month in LA, 90% are Korean, while Seattle Times reported on July 26, 2017 that Korean dealers are exploiting girls in great poverty, forcing them to service 5 to 10 men a day. Some girls arrested said that they were not paid because they were working for their parent’s debts. So, in the 21st century, the Koreans are still doing what they were doing during the WWII, while blaming the Japanese for what they did for themselves.

The reason for this developed human traficking system in Korea is that since the time of the Qing Dynasty in China, Korea had to send 3,000 girls every year, according some researchers.

What the Japanese Government Admitted and Apologized For:

There is no question or denying that the Imperial Japanese Army had a comfort women system in which they rent spaces where privately owned brothels were run, and that Japanese prostitutes recruited by Japanese dealers and Korean prostitutes recruited by Korean dealers were working for substantial money.

However, as revealed in cases in the US in which Korean prostitutes were working without payments for their parent’s debt, there could well have been some cases where girls were forced to work for their parant’s debt.

If a Chinese company was found to commit child abuses in its factory that sells parts to Apple, would Apple be DIRECTLY responsible for the child abuse?

Sure, they would apologize for their lack of CONTROL or GOVERNANCE, and take necessary steps to avoid the same or similar thing to happen again.

1) What Japanese Government admitted

It admitted that they had the comfort women system.

They could have been human trafficking by dealers.

2) What Japanese Governemtn denies

Systematic coercion by the Imperial Japanese Army such as kidnapping, raping, torturing and killing.

3) What Japanese Government did for those who claim coerced:

Made formal apology for the misery that the Japanese system caused as a result.

Offered compensation to the former comfort women around the world and to the South Korean Government.

Led the private compensations to the former Korean comfort women in the form of Japanese private funds.

Why Japanese Are Suspicious:

There are many reasons to believe that the whole thing is hoax.

1) The issue arose all of sudden out of blue in 1980s by a communist, Seiji Yoshida, who later admitted before he died that his book was a novel.

2) Asahi Newspaper who spreaded the issue withdrew artcles for coercion, after 30 odd years.

3) There is NO primary source evidence in Korea, Japan or US.

4) Thus, the UN’s “Coomaraswamy Report” lost all the evidences for its central theme, systematic coercion by the IJA. (But it is not changed yet.)

5) The comfort women only appears in places where no questions are allowed after making obvious mistakes.

6) There are many evidences to suggest they were highy paid professional prostitutes.

7) Prof. An of Seoul Uni. said that the political party behaind is doing this to bash Japan. He also said that the comfort women were either making mistakes or deliberately lying.

8) Korea’s developed human traficking as revealed in newspaper during the annexation and in the 21st century.

9) Every time the issue is solved finally, the South Korean Government keeps on moving the Goal Post and start all over again, as is happening right now after "the final and irreversible” agreement was signed by the both governments as led by the former President Obama.

10) Hiding behind all this issue is China which is funding the whole movements in countries of US allies to break up the tie for their expansion into the Pacific and Indian Ocean.

11) South Korea has done the same thing during the Vietnam War and Korean War. Especially for the Vietnam War, South Korea has a big issue of Lai Dai Han. But they always avoid to talk about them.

The sex issue during wars is a big human rights issue and the Japanese comfort women issue shold be talked about in that context as ONE of the cases that are happening right at THIS MOMENT. Without that, this issue would never be solved properly.

However, they ALWAYS talk about the Japanese case ONLY, and stops at that. This alone makes the Japanese think that there are other political adenda behind all this.

“The Sex History of the World War” by Magnus Hirschfeld

(6) Other Massacre and Rapes by Japanese

Massacre by Japanese:

Japan was allied with Germany but it also passed a cabinet resolution on December 6, 1938, not to assist any killing of Jews, and to treat all Jews equally to others in all aspects. In fact, two Japanese officers in Manchuria, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi and Colonel Norihiro Yasue, are now in the Golden Book in Jerusalem for saving tens of thousand lives of Jewish refugees under a command of Tojo. They also had a plan called Fugu Plan to save up to a million European Jew refugees.

The refugees who escaped from Europe into Manchuria via Trans-Siberian Rail were then moved to the Japanese Shanghai Settlement where they were able to live under the protection of the Japanese government because that was the only place in the whole world at the time where the Jews could enter without a visa. Of course, the whole process was condemned by Hitler.

Rabi M. Tokayer, the author of a book “Fugu Plan," says in his book that to be in the Golden Book, you have to know at least one Jewish person. If Tojo knew one, he would also have been in the Golden Book.

In the world's longest history of tens of thousand years, much longer than that of China, there was NO civilian massacre in Japan. All the arrowheads found are small for killing little animals for foods; no broken bones killed in massacre are found; and there is no record for massacre despite the fact that Japan always had the one of the world’s highest literacy rates since a thousand years ago. None.

Civilian massacre and slavery did not happen in Japan.

The biggest body count in a war was the 16th century Battle of Sekigahara in which 5,000 to 10,000 were killed. But all were samurai. There were many records like diaries, memo, letters, pictures, etc. showing farmers were eating bento while watching the battle; selling foods and goods to the samurai. After all, unlike in the West, samurai needed farmers for cultivating rice paddies after wars.

That is why crime rates have always been one of the lowest in the world. That is why unlike many other countries, plunders or burglaries are very rare even in times of disasters, and people instead help each other. Trusts within the society are rooted deeply in its long history of tens of thousands of years. It is not something you can copy.

Also, all the killing and torturing methods described in the massacre of Chinese by the Japanese are Chinese traditional methods repeatedly appearing in their history books, but never in the Japanese history books. Killing, torturing and suicide methods are rooted in traditions and cultures: the most popular suicide method, for instance, in US is by guns; in UK, gas; and in Japan, by hanging. They are not something you can imagine out of blue, out of nowhere.

On the contrary, China is the exact opposite. Massive civilian massacres like the Cultural Revolution were commonplace every time their dynasties changed to the extent that the country's entire population dropped very severely. Civilian massacre is a part of their history, tradition and culture.

Earlier in the 20th century too, during the civil war between CCP and Kuomintang, i.e. at the time of the war between Japan and China, both were heavily involved in massacring civilians. In Yellow River Flood Incident alone, Kuomintang killed up to one million civilians. The CCP was butchering civilians for a different reason. Everywhere they went, they killed landowners, business owners, wealthies and their relatives to steal and distribute their wealth among themselves in the name of “revolution.”

Bodies were everywhere at the time.

One thing is that many Chinese soldiers were fighting in ordinary clothes, which is against the International Law. They are regarded as spies and can be executed by the Law.

But what is the reason for the Japanese to kill Chinese civilians? To annihilate the entire one billion Chinese? They were always short in supply of aminition, and were strict on their use.

So the Japanese, who had never committed civilian massacre in their tens of thousands years of history, massacred tens of millions of Chinese civilians using killing methods described repeatedly in the Chinese history books while on humanitarian grounds saving tens of thousand lives of jews by allowing them into their Shanghai Settlement through Manchuria, and for which there is no legit primary source evidence or witnesses?

Does that make sense?

There is NO reason to kill Chinese civilians apart from Kuomintang and CCP soldiers wearing civilian clothes.

Rapes:

Japan always had the world’s lowest crime rates in its history, especially rapes. You can read Spanish and Portuguese missionary letters of old times or compare today’s police statistics among OECD countries.

If rapes happen, there will be babies born at a certain percentage.

When US occupied Japan, the very first thing they did was to force the Japanese government to provide three types of brothels for officers, white soldiers and black soldiers using Japanese tax payers money (this order in writing by MacArthur still exists). Japan did so, but still, there were over 20,000 rapes (reported only) in the first six months, for which some 6,000 amerasian were born. GHQ found this and forced the Japanese Police to stop collecting the data, but subsequently the US’s 80 Amerasian Act was enacted for one million amerasians around the world: God know how many you have to rape for that.

Koreans also raped and massacred so many civilians during the Vietnam War, and now there is a big issue of Lai Dai Han.

But where are the Japanese babies? Has anybody seen any?

If you say they killed the women, has anybody found any bodies yet?

If you say they burnt the women, has anybody found the ashes yet?

Where are they?

Or, they keep silent about rapes because of the shame factor?

But wait, they only talk about Koreans and Americans but not about Japanese? ....That makes sense.

The Japanese were the defeated and supposed to be the "bad guys.” So shouldn't they talk about the Japanese babies and keep silent about Koreans and Americans? After the War, US was frantically looking for Japanese war crimes for Tokyo Trial and WGIP, so the Japanese rapes are the ones that should be most talked about…...

In any wars, rapes and assaults are always used to bash the defeated.

(7) Tokyo Trial

Nobody in the field of International Law treats the Tokyo Tribunal seriously. Not only that, just about everyone including the judges of the trial, MacArthur, law philosopher, academics around the world say it was a failure. The only people who take it seriously are the people in media to control the mass. The following are some of the reasons:

There was no defined jurisdiction for the trial, and it was military trial, only disguised as a judicial one by the International Law: all the judges were from victor countries and there was none from neutral countries; out of the 11 judges, there was only one judge of the International Law, Judge Radhabinod Pal, a member of Inernational Law Commettee of United Nations, who handed down not guilty verdicts to all the defendants at the Tokyo Trial; ex-post laws were applied; wars as a sovereign right of a nation (belligerent rights) were incriminated; individuals were brought to trial by acts of a country though the International Law assumes the state authority theory; all the witness from the accusers were given immunity from perjury; more than 90% of evidences from the defendants were automatically rejected; interpretation for the defendants during the court proceedings was stopped and ignored when it got difficult for the Allies; Manchurian Incident amongst others were included in the judgement as invasion despite the fact that they were not included in the condition of Potsdam Declaration and that Litton's Report in effect said that the Manchurian Incident was not an invasion; there was no charge against anybody from the victors, the Allied countries ...... and this goes on and on.

Justice Henri Bernard confessed after the Tokyo Trial that although they went to Tokyo to enforce the International Law, it was really the Allies that completely breached it. It was ugly but he could not say so as they had a gag rule. He also said that it was not possible for the victor to judge fairly the defeated.

To sum it all up, it was a revenge military trial by the victors against the defeated, which was even held BEFORE Japan regained its sovereignty. In all fairness, it is a huge dark stain in the history of International Law.

(8) Atrocities by American Soldiers

You can read confessions by US soldiers for their atrocities they committed during the War in books like "Summer, 1945: Germany, Japan and the Harvest of Hate” by Thomas Goodrich.

"We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is right and wrong in the world.

What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought, anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers....

We mutilated the bodies of enemy dead, cutting off their ears and kicking out their gold teeth for souvenirs, and buried them with their testicles in their mouths....

We topped off our saturation bombing and burning of enemy civilians by dropping atomic bombs on two nearly defenseless cities, thereby setting an all-time record for instantaneous mass slaughter.

As victors we are privileged to try our defeated opponents for their crimes against humanity; but we should be realistic enough to appreciate that if we were on trial for breaking international laws, we should be found guilty on a dozen counts. We fought a dishonorable war, because morality had a low priority in battle.

The tougher the fighting, the less room for decency, and in Pacific contests we saw mankind reach the blackest depths of bestiality." ---- Edgar Jones, WWII Veteran

Atomic Bombs:

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which people were made to believe that the US used to end the WWII with much less casualities for both the US and Japan, not only failed to do so, but in fact it was a big lie and they were intended for human experiments.

Truman knew ABombs would never be needed to end the War. But FDR believed in eugenics and had a strong prejudice against the Japanese while Truman was looking down on Japanese as beasts. This racism played a big role in Truman's decision as shown in the timeline below:

(1) On September 18, 1944, FDR met Churchill in Hyde Park, New York to make the Hyde Park Agreement for collaboration, control and use of atomic bombs. In FDR’s second house, they secretly agreed that the ABombs "should be used against Japan," and not against Germany. (PREM3/139/9)

Prior to this, in the summer of 1942, FDR told a view of his favorite eugenic anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička of the Smithsonian Institution that “the skulls of these people (Japanese) were some 2,000 years less developed than ours” to the British Minister Sir Ronald Campbell (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington, D.C.). He then explained his own opinion that crossbreeding with Europeans might improve certain Asian people, such as the Chinese, but definitely not “the Japanese-European mixture, which was, he (Aleš Hrdlička) agreed, THOROUGHLY BAD."

(2) Following the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 7, 1945, Churchill kept on urging Truman to hold the Potsdam meeting to end the WWII as soon as possible. However, Truman kept on postponing it until the first ABomb test day on July 16, 1945. The Potsdam meeting was scheduled to be held on the following day, July 17.

(3) On May 8, 1945, US summoned Japan to accept “unconditional surrender.” (The idea of unconditional surrender was FDR’s idea, and was first mentioned at Casablanca Conference on January 24, 1943.)

(4) However, the “unconditional surrender” is a term used for an army but not for a country. It has no definition in International Law, and under the Law of War, “unconditional surrender” in the sense used before the modern period could never be established legally in the 20th century. Thus the term bewildered not only Japan but everyone else including US law philosophers, US generals like Eisenhower, or even Churchill. (After the War, a world’s leading philosopher of law and International Law, Hans Kelsen, who taught at University of Harvard and California, Berkeley said with a big laugh that there is NO WAY Japan as a COUNTRY had accepted “unconditional surrender.”)

(5) Joseph Grew, the former ambassador to Japan suggested from his experiences to Truman on May 28, 1945 that if the US agrees to keep the Emperor, Japan would surrender immediately.

(6) Pursuant to the Quebec Agreement (August 19, 1943), which imposed restrictions on US’s use of atomic bombs without prior consent by Britain, Truman requested Churchill at the beginning of June 1945 to sign in consent to use of ABombs on Japan. Churchill signed this agreement “Operational Use of Tube Alloys” on July 1. Note that neither FDR nor Truman had ever asked Britain for the same consent for Germany.

(7) Stimson, then Secretary of War, agreed to Grew's idea and proposed it to the President on June 16, 1945. MacArthur also wrote that the Japanese would fight till the last person if the US would not promise to preserve the Emperor. Later, only Byrnes, who newly came to the office as Secretary of State on July 3, 1945 disagreed and opposed.

(8) The Imperial Council of Military Leaders (最高戦争指導会議) in Japan passed a resolution to negotiate terms of surrender through the Soviets on June 22, 1945, without any knowledge of the US ABombs. The US found Japan started this negotiation in the same month of July 1945, and Omar Bradley, the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the US Army, reported to Truman after the Battle of Okinawa that Japan was in effect defeated and that it was trying to negotiate the terms of surrender. MacArthur also said to the General Staff Office that the War is over.

(9) Six out of all seven Five Star Generals and Admirals were against the use of ABombs with a view that Japan would surrender without them.

(against: MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshal, Arnold, Nimitz, Leahy)

(10) Preservation of the Emperor was included in the US official proposal for the condition of Japan's surrender.

(11) However, on the way to Potsdam on Augusta, Byrnes succeeded in persuading Truman to remove the clause on the Emperor. Grew, Stimson and others were not on the ship.

(12) On July 16, 1945, in Potsdam, Truman received a message “Babies satisfactorily born," meaning that the first ABomb test “Trinity” as a part of the Manhattan Project was successfully carried out by the Los Alamos Laboratory and the US Army in a desert of New Mexico.

(13) Stimson arrived at Potsdam after the ABomb test, and asked Truman to re-include the clause of preserving the Emperor. But Truman very strongly refused by saying you can go home if you do not like it.

(14) During the first meeting in Potsdam on July 17, Truman asked Stalin, when the Soviets would invade Japan. Stalin replied August 15. (Japan had a non-aggression pact with the Soviets. But in the Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, FDR secretly agreed with Stalin to give the Soviets some parts of Japan in return for breaking the pact and invading Japan.) Truman wrote on this day's dairy that "He'll be in the Jap War on August 15th. Fini Japs when that comes about.” This means that if Truman uses ABombs BEFORE August 15, the purpose for their use must be something OTHER THAN ending the War.

(15) On July 25, 1945, Truman told Stimson to use the atomic bombs on Japan, and wrote on this day's diary that he is SURE that the Japs will NOT accept the Potsdam Declaration. Note that this was still before the issuance of the Potsdam Declaration.

(16) On the following day, July 26, the Potsdam Declaration was issued without a clause to preserve the Emperor, and was not signed by the Soviets confusing the Japanese. It was Truman that refused signing by Stalin. Even though the Soviets were not directly involved in the War against Japan at that time, it had already informed Japan in April 1945 that it would not extend the Non-Aggression Pact. Thus from the Japanese perspective, the Soviets were in a position that could attack Japan as part of the Allied Forces at anytime.

(17) On the SAME day, July 26, the commands were given to General Carl Spaatz to drop the ABombs on the earliest “clear" day after August 3, exactly one week after the Potsdam Declaration. The commands included detailed instructions to accompany with observation aircraft to record the effects of the ABombs. Note that BOTH commands for the two atomic bombs, the first Uranium one dropped in Hiroshima and the second Plutonium one dropped in Nagasaki, were given on the SAME day. Neither MacArthur nor Nimitz knew about the commands.

(18) Just before the planned Soviet's invasion date, the US dropped the ABombs on August 6 and 9, 1945. The B-29s were accompanied by an observation aircraft and another to film and photograph the bombings. The observation aircraft dropped several devices in various parts of the cities to register changes in temperature, atmospheric pressure, etc., during the explosions. Three of the devices were later collected and are displayed in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum today. Los Alamos National Laboratory registered in its official record about the dropping of ABombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the two "experiments” were successful.

(19) Upon hearing the news, the Soviets commenced the invasion of Manchuria on August 9, sooner than the previously planned date of August 15.

(20) On the following day, August 10, the Emperor issued an Imperial decree to accept the Potsdam Declaration. The reason for surrender, according to the Emperor as recorded in the “Imperial Record of Showa (昭和天皇実録)” declassified in 2015, was the Soviet’s invasion because Japan no longer had an ability to hold a two-front war. (Already 66 civilian cities were completely destroyed by the US’s indiscriminate bombing that the destruction of two more cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, could not trigger capitulation.) Subsequently, Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration on August 15.

(21) Truman said in a TV announcement that the US dropped ABombs that they "invested” two billion dollars in.

(22) As early as September 1945, "The Armed Forces Joint Commission for Investigating Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan,” lead by Col. Ashley W. Oughterson who arrived in Japan on the very first day of occupation by the GHQ, September 1, 1945, was formed and commenced large scale investigations. Some 1,300 Japanese doctors and scientists were pulled into the investigation examining more than 20,000 adult patients and 17,000 children. A wide range of experiments on patients were conducted disguised as treatments, examining reactions by victims to injections of various chemicals such as adrenaline. The policy, according to the doctors involved, was “What can be tested, should be tested." The results of these research and experiments were summarized in a 181 volume report consisting of more than 10,000 pages. But the results were never made public, and the reports were directly sent to the US Army while their existence was kept secret. The reports are now kept at the National Archives and Records Administration, NARA.

(Front cover page of one of the actual reports kept at the National Archives and Records Administration, NARA)

(Diagram in one of the reports showing where in this school building, children were dead, injured or alive)

(A clip taken from a video kept at NARA, showing a victim being dissected )

(Actual report on a child victim)

(Photo of cells from a 11 year old female victim in the report)

(Actual table of figures from adrenaline tests in the report)

Also, intestines of 200 bodies were secretly sent to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., for further study without notifying their families. These intestines are now kept in formalin in universities in Hiroshima and Okayama.

(The actual intestines in formaline bottles now kept at Uni. of Hiroshima)

Note that this was all done while Japan was still under the sway of GHQ before it regained its sovereignty.

(23) Based on the investigations, research and experiments, Col. Ashley W. Oughterson published in 1953 a six thick volume report "Medical effects of the atomic bomb in Japan,” of which one whole book is dedicated to studies on the effects on children. Then, from this, a graph of mortality and total casualty rates by atomic bombs vs distance from the hypocenter was created.

(The actual graph of mortality and total casualty rates by atomic bombs vs distance from hypocenter, created by the US Army)

This became the basis for the US nuclear strategy as it gave the crucial figures to calculate the number of atomic bombs required to attack each enemy city. Some numbers of Hiroshima-type atomic bombs required to annihilate cities as calculated by the US Air Force from the graph are as follows: Moscow 6, Stalingrad 5, Vladivostok 3, Kirov 2, Tallin 4, Chelyabinak 3, etc.

(The actual paper showing the number of atomic bombs to annihilate Soviet cities)

As such, through these experiments, the US now became the only country in the world with Big Data for the effects of atomic bombs on target cities as well as on human bodies.

(24) On July 1, 1946, a confidential report, "UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY: JAPAN'S STRUGGLE TO END THE WAR,” prepared by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was reported to Truman concluding that "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”

(25) The Emperor Hirohito was not prosecuted in the Tokyo Tribunal, and he stayed as the Emperor. The position of the emperor was also kept under the new constitution which was illegally (by International Law) forced by the US. So the whole hustle about the preservation of the Emperor did not mean anything at all in the end.

(26) In his memoirs, Truman wrote "Japanese are beast. So are treated as."

(27) An acclaimed book "Just and Unjust Wars," written by a prominent US political philosopher at Harvard, Michael Walzer, condemns the use of atomic bombs as crimes. Walzer also accuses the US Government of not even trying to negotiate with the Japanese to surrender before the dropping of the bombs. He says it was a double crime in the sense that the US did not try to avoid, and that the bombs were dropped on civilian cities (more than 90% of the victims were civilians). This book is used as a text book at West Point today.

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(“Way to Symbolic Tennoism — US Ambassador Grew and others .” Iwanami Shoten.)

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Great Tokyo Air Raid:

One of the worst war crime in the history of mankind, a true holocaust, was the Great Tokyo Air Raid on March 10, 1945, that incinerated more than 100,000 civilians in one day.

344 B-29s first dropped incendiary bombs on the circumference of a 40 km2 area so that the 100,000 people get trapped inside and could not escape. Then they dropped oil bombs, yellow-phosphorus incendiary bombs, and elektron incendiary bombs (totaling about 400,000 bombs) as if painting out the entire area. They also conducted a low-level strafing run at the people who were running around.

Times magazine (June 26, 2009) revealed that the Allied also considered chemical attack on Tokyo using mustard gas.

Curtis LeMay, then the major general, who planned the Great Tokyo Air Raid said after the War that if they lost the War, he would have been a war criminal.

Robert McNamara, then lieutenant colonel, who was also involved in the planning of the air raid confessed in a movie “The Fog of War” that “If we lose the war, we’ll be tried as war criminals.”

(9) Why these History Issees are Never Solved

You should know that the only countries that Japan has history issues with are CCP China and Korea. But Japan fought against neither of them during the WWII. The army Japan fought against in China was Kuomintang, and they all fled to Taiwan. Taiwanese today have one of the highest favourable feeling towards Japan in the world, not to mention that Japan’s biggest enemy at the time, the US, and Japan are the strongest allies to each other today.

Actually, until the late 1980s, CCP China and Chinese had very favorable feeling towards Japan and the Japanese. You can check this in any polls conducted and released regularly by CCP. They all said more than 90% of Chinese had favorable feeling towards Japan and Japanese. Likewise, Japanese had similar figures in any polls towards China and Chinese.

But this number changes all of sudden. Why?

In the late 1980s, CCP changed its policy and started anti-Japan policy to deflect the tensions among civilians arising from the contradiction of their communist and free market system. Anti-Japan war propanda movies and TV dramas were shown every day during the golden hours. In schools also, anti-Japan education was adopted to “ENGRAVE GRUDGE AND HATRED” against the Japanese, according to the CCP's guideline for education. These were further intensified after the Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989.

By the mid 1990s, the figure for the Chinese favorable feeling towards Japan plummeted to around 10%, followed by the Japanese figures.

In the 21st century, CCP has been propagating this anti-Japan propaganda more in the US, US allies and UN. This is because unfortunately, the modern history is a source of government legitimacy, territorial rights, national security, military advantage, economical profits, among other things. So, CCP is ANNUALLY spending 10 billion US dollars to spread these war propaganda to use as a weapon to break up the ties amongst the US allies for their expansions into the Pacific and Indian Ocean.

This is why this history issue would never get solved. The issue is to remain until either CCP gives up its hope for expansion, or CCP China gets disintegrated.

(10) Apology by Japan

Legally, Japan did not invade. Massacre and rapes are fabrications for which you cannot show any legit primary source evidence.

However, crimes do happen in any wars.

Japan formally apologized to China over 40 times. Both Mao Zedong and Zhou En-lai accepted the Japanese apology in 1973 in "The Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China,” and this was the basis upon which all the subsequent economic and technological assistances that Japan provided to China were made.

However, CCP keeps secret about this to its people and overseas. Even today, after 70 years of the War, almost no Chinese know about this, and Japan is still paying over 150 millions dollars every year. This is also secret.

Has any Western country governments done this to other countries that they enslaved?

Or even apologized?

(11) Yasukuni Shrine

In case you did not know, there is an Amnesty clause in the International Law: when a country sign a peace treaty like the Treaty of San Francisco and that comes into effect, then all the prisoners of war are to be freed.

The officers and soldiers in Yasukuni are not even alive.

If one daly, all of sudden, some African countries demanded US President not to go to Arlington because there buried many who died for the Confederate States of America, do you agree with the Africans?

China started complaining about Yasukuni first in the late 1980s when they also started anti-Japan eduction to hide their contradiction in their system and to raise the nationalism. South Korea started in the 1990s.

There are many official delegates from many countries that paid respects at Yasukuni. The list of countries includes USA, Turkey, Burma, Argentina, Thailand, West Germany, Vietnam, Peru, Australia, Tonga, Tibet, Egypt, Pakistan, Soviet, Sri Lanka, Finland, UK, Iran, Slovenia, India, Malaysia, Israel, Brasil, Poland, Switzerland, Taiwan, South Korea, South Africa, etc.

(12) Who Really Fabricated the History

Unfortunately the modern history is a source of government legitimacy, territorial rights, national security, military advantage, economical profits, among other thing, so that lies and fabrications are more than a common place.

After the War, the US sacked 200,000 Japanese academics and public servants; burnt more books than Hitler did; and imposed pressure on media to rewrite the history as Churchill proudly said "History is written by the victors.” The pressure is being imposed even today.

Plus, China is ANNUALLY spending 10 billion US dollars to spread fabrications in US, Japan, UN and other US allies to use as a weapon to break up their ties for their expansions into the Pacific and Indian Ocean.

Several years ago, in response to China's and Korean's claims on Japan's history education, Stanford Uni. conducted research on the history education of five countries: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and USA. They concluded that the history taught in Japan was the fairest; in China, propaganda; in Korea, fantasy.