>>37351840Japan initially conceded wrong doing, but have done everything possible to pretend none of it happened. That's why SE Asia is so pissed about all of it because Japan has done everything possible to try and rewrite this part of history without any form of official apology.
>>37351843Pearl Harbour was their reason for entering the war, it wasn't the sole reason for the nukes. Their were American PoW who died building the burmese Death Railway and you have to remember that a large part of the land/sea attacks on Japan were carried out by Americans in the later part of the war. Stories of the literal savagery were so rife amongst the SE Asian PoW, and they had been so brainwashed by the japs that they literally thought the brits and Americans were planning to eat them when they came to rescue them.
Japan dug in it's heals and refused to surrender, but if they hadn't demonstrated a willingness to do literally anything to win - with no remorse whatsoever - it probably wouldn't have been deemed necessary to do anything possible to stop them.
>>37351866I honestly never meant this as a "shame japan" post. We live in a world of outrage culure, where the voice of the masses has great sway on markets. I'm just trying to highlight what a stupid fucking oversight this was on the parts of the employees. Nanjing, the burmese railway, the comfort women and the decision to memorialise those involved at Yadsukuni is the single biggest sticking point in current day SE Asian politics. They should have stayed the fuck away and saved themselves the hassle.
There timing is also incredibly poor since recently the japanese national press tried to change their definitions of comfort women and POW slaves to downplay japaneese war crimes. They went during a time when this was already fresh in peoples minds.
