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12 Feb, 10 tweets, 6 min read
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 Do you believe that the US military are angels?

Have you ever read John Dower's "War without mercy"?
But what is written here is also an understatement.
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 Why is it not a "crime against humanity" of the U.S. to indiscriminately bomb residential areas with nuclear bombs and fire retardant bombs, killing a million non-combatants in 66 Japanese cities that had already lost their combat capabilities at the end of the Pacific War?
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 How could the Allies, who vomited so violently at the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews, justify the atomic bombings and indiscriminate bombings of Japan?

Aside from the genocide of the Jews, racism is rarely the subject of World War II accounts.
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 However, the Allied view of the atrocities committed by Germany and Japan discriminated against them racially. The German atrocities were "Nazi crimes" and not rooted in German culture or national identity.
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 In contrast, Japanese atrocities on the battlefields of Asia were "simply reported as 'Japanese' acts.

American racism at that time was evidenced by the fact that only Japanese-Americans were placed in concentration camps.
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 John Dower examined a vast amount of material, from statements by US government officials, military leaders at the time of the Pacific War, to newspaper and magazine commentary, to movies, pop culture, and current cartoons, to uncover the "pure racist essence" that pervaded them.
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 『The Japanese are not Human Beings. They are cruel Monkeys. Therefore, kill every last one of them.』

This mindset pervaded the war-fighting agencies, the media, and the soldiers on the battlefield.
In fact, in many cases, Japanese POWs were killed instead of being kept alive.
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 In Lindbergh's diary, he also wrote that the U.S. military threw out a group of Japanese POWs from a military plane.
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 Since the purpose of the U.S. war was to "exterminate the barbaric Monkeys," it is natural that the atomic bombings and the Pacific War became "relentless wars" with thorough killings.
The narrative of atrocities, says Dower, is the stereotypical view of race.
@Robdekoter @Tamalanumber1 Lindbergh. 
"We have done to the Japanese in the Pacific what the Germans did to the Jews in Europe.
What is barbaric on one side of the globe is still barbaric on the other. This war has brought shame and devastation not only to the Germans and Japanese, but to all of us."

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9 Feb
@ECMcLaughlin His paper is almost identical to the findings of Lee Young-hoon (Former prof of Seoul Univ "Anti-Japanese Tribalism" & Park Yuha (Prof.of Sejong Univ "Comfort Women of the Empire".

You are the one who has not kept up on the comfort women controversy.
asiatimes.com/2019/09/korean…
@ECMcLaughlin Lee Young-hoon: Former professor of Seoul University (South Korea) disputes the “sex slave” narrative, stating that comfort women were contracted sex workers.

– a profession legal in the Japanese Empire. They enjoyed some freedom of movement and were paid.
@ECMcLaughlin “’Sex slave" is very political terminology,” he said.
“We found operational rules and regulations for comfort stations.
These rules were adhered to and many women from Korea and Japan were able to save up for their lives after service.”
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Ramseyer教授は解雇されてしまうかもしれません。
彼の論文も掲載を止められてしまうかもしれません。
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@RWPUSA Did you read Professor Ramseyer's paper before you wrote this tweet?
You haven't read it, have you?
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@RWPUSA Everyone knew that wartime prostitutes in Europe and Asia existed.

In the 1980s, comfort women issue has started by an article in the Asahi Shimbun that said "the Japanese military forcibly taken Korean women and used them as prostitutes.
@RWPUSA The reporter who wrote that article was the son-in-law of a Korean comfort women group leader(Former wartime prostitute)

In 2014, the Asahi Shimbun finally admitted that the article was a fabrication, and its president resigned.
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