[BillyT]

Originally Posted by Gorotsuki

Its a war...kill the enemy...the enemy is not the mass of the people the enemy is the army of the oposition.

Did the Japanese war crimes effect millions of people for generations?

The Japanese slaughtered waaaaaay more innocent civillians than both a-bombs combined.

The Manila massacre, February 1945, refers to the atrocities conducted against Filipino civilians in Manila, Philippines by retreating Japanese troops during World War II.

To avoid needless violence, Japanese Imperial Army General Tomoyuki Yamashita had ordered a withdrawal of Japanese troops from Manila. However, 19,000 soldiers under Vice Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi were encircled within the city. Various credible Western and Eastern sources[1] agree that the death toll was at least 100,000 people. Conservative estimates have the number of civilian casualties at around 111,000— more than the Nagasaki atomic bomb's death toll and more than other countries lost over the course of the entire war. France, for instance, lost around 108,000 civilians during six years of war. The massacre was at its worst in the Battle of Manila. Japanese troops brutally looted, burned, executed and abused women, men and children alike, including priests, Red Cross personnel, prisoners of war and hospital patients. Manila was called the "Warsaw of Asia", being the most devastated city in Asia during World War II.

The Manila massacre is one of several major war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army from the annexation of Manchuria in 1931 to the end of World War II in 1945. It was a major event in Japanese war crimes, where over 15 million Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Indonesian, Burmese, Indochinese civilians, Pacific Islanders, and Allied POWs were killed.

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The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in and around the then capital of China, Nanjing, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. (At the time, Nanjing was known in English as Nanking). The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938.

During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians. Although the executions began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians, a large number of innocent men were intentionally identified as enemy combatants and executed—or simply killed outright—as the massacre gathered momentum. A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread.

The extent of the atrocities is debated between China and Japan, with numbers[1] ranging from some Japanese claims of several hundred,[2] to the Chinese claim of a non-combatant death toll of 300,000[3]. A number of Japanese researchers consider 100,000 – 200,000 to be an approximate value.[4] Other nations usually believe the death toll to be between 150,000 – 300,000.[5] This number was first promulgated in January of 1938 by Harold Timperly, a journalist in China during the Japanese invasion, based on reports from contemporary eyewitnesses. Other sources, including Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking, also promote 300,000 as the death toll.

Thirty girls were taken from the language school last night, and today I have heard scores of heartbreaking stories of girls who were taken from their homes last night—one of the girls was but 12 years old....Tonight a truck passed in which there were eight or ten girls, and as it passed they called out "Jiu ming! Jiu ming!"—save our lives. (Minnie Vautrin's diary, 16 December 1937)

It is a horrible story to relate; I know not where to begin nor to end. Never have I heard or read of such brutality. Rape: We estimate at least 1,000 cases a night and many by day. In case of resistance or anything that seems like disapproval there is a bayonet stab or a bullet. (James McCallum, letter to his family, 19 December 1937)

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East stated that 20,000 (and perhaps up to 80,000) women were raped—their ages ranging from infants to the elderly (as old as 80). Rapes were often performed in public during the day, sometimes in front of spouses or family members. A large number of them were systematized in a process where soldiers would search door-to-door for young girls, with many women taken captive and gang raped. The women were then killed immediately after the rape, often by mutilation.

Thousands were led away and mass-executed in an excavation known as the "Ten-Thousand-Corpse Ditch", a trench measuring about 300m long and 5m wide. Since records were not kept, estimates regarding the number of victims buried in the ditch range from 4,000 to 20,000. However, most scholars and historians consider the number to be around 12,000 victims.[18]

Women and children were not spared from the horrors of the massacres. Often times, Japanese soldiers cut off the breasts, disemboweled them, or in the case of pregnant women, cut open the uterus and removed the fetus. Witnesses recall Japanese soldiers throwing babies into the air and catching them with their bayonets. Pregnant women were often the target of murder, as they would often be bayoneted in the belly, sometimes after rape.[19] Many women were first brutally raped then killed.


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Originally Posted by Gorotsuki

The usa was not justified in bombing toukyou, nagasaki, or hiroshima...

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
come·up·pance [kuhm-uhp-uhns]
–noun Informal.
Deserved reward or just deserts, usually unpleasant: He finally got his comeuppance for his misbehavior.

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[Origin: 1855–60, Americanism; from phrase come up + -ance]
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.