FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1945, file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise an American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan. Strategically located only 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest, most famous battles of World War II against Japan.
For many Koreans and Chinese, there’s a dogged perception, long encouraged by their national leaders, that Japan has failed to fully address past atrocities, including the sexual enslavement of Asian women by Japanese troops, the forced labor of Asian men in Japanese factories and mines, and a host of other unresolved insults lingering from Japan’s brutal early 20th century push for regional dominance.
With its millions dead, injured and displaced, with its grand ideological narratives belying some of the worst brutality in the history of warfare, with its cities pounded to rubble and then, almost as shockingly, rebuilt as glittering, high-tech showpieces, the war in Asia has seared itself into the world’s collective consciousness.
Most Koreans and Chinese alive today didn’t experience the war, and memories of what happened are fading with each passing year. The postwar years in Asia, instead, saw a split that killed collaboration and healing, with Japan and South Korea in the U.S. camp and China and North Korea in the Soviet camp. The Korean Peninsula was literally split into a Soviet-backed north and U.S.-backed south.Progressives acknowledge Japan’s responsibility for its crimes.
klug XHNews JapanGov The war crimes and war behavior of the 1930's and 1940's of Japan are no longer significant. Japan only controlled 5o miles of the East coast of China for about 4 miles in. And barely could hold it. The entire concept of Japan being superior was a joke even on
klug Again, why such emphasis on placing guilt on the descendants of the players of past wars? What does this accomplish? Last week we were bashing America and this week Japan. We’re allies now. Give credit where credit is due.
klug This is so tone deaf.
klug You guys going to write an Article on MLK's birthday asking Black people to just get over slavery, next?
klug Well it’s very recognizable. Current PM is the grandson of a “class A” war criminal Nobusuke Kishi.
klug Not sure 'fascist' is an accurate descriptor for imperial Japan.
klug I've has south Korean's tell me they want to reunify with north Korea to war against Japan. Some wounds haven't healed.
klug Japan mended fences with neighbors but some can’t forget history & they should not. Otherwise, Japan is probably the best country after US. Especially Japanese people 👌
klug always has to do fact check by itself. Is AP a propaganda machine of CCP and Koreans already?
klug The USA mass murdered and injured countless japanese civilans by one of the most gruesome methods available at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, so we weren't any better. Fat Man and Little Boy were War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, full stop.
klug So, Japan is different 75 years later? Groundbreaking journalism here!!
klug They still treat Okinawans strangely
klug Germany: “hold my beer...”
klug Well, no, if the Japanese are anything like the left in America. There is no atonement and moving on--only punishment for things done by past generations.
klug I didn't know a far-right and war-nostalgic Japanese in think tank in Hawaii can speak perfect English.
klug In answer to your question yes. Very much so
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