The Racial Equality Proposal proposed by Japan at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Whatever politic purpose of Japan, persecuted people, like black people in America, Irish, Liberian and so on, thanked to this proposition. sdh-fact.com/essay-article/…
"Japan became one of the world's only countries where Jews could find refuge from the Holocaust. This occurred despite Japan's alliance with Nazi Germany."
Chiune Sugihara
"Hillel Levine's 1996 book, In Search of Sugihara, suggests this remarkable figure, motivated, it seems, solely by kindness and humanity, may have saved as many as 10,000 lives."
Yoshitsugu Tatekawa
"In fact, according to researchers, around the same as Friedmann’s visit to the embassy, Tatekawa received an order from the Foreign Ministry to halt such acts.
Japan was fearful of possible consequences, given that it was allied with Germany.
Nonetheless, even after issuing the visa for Friedmann, Tatekawa continued to issue travel documents for Jews in lieu of visas, enabling them to seek refuge through Japan." japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/1…
Seishiro Itagaki
"On December 6, 1938, Itagaki proposed a national policy in accordance with Hakko Ichiu (Expansion) at the Five Ministers Conference, which was the Japanese highest decision making council, ...
and the council made a decision of prohibiting the expulsion of the Jews in Japan, Manchuria, and China as Japanese national policy."
Yosuke Matsuoka
... on December 31, 1940, Japanese Foreign Minister told a group of Jewish businessmen, "I am the man responsible for the alliance with Hitler, but nowhere have I promised that we would carry out his anti-Semitic policies in Japan. ...
This is not simply my personal opinion, it is the opinion of Japan, and I have no compunction about announcing it to the world."
Norihiro Yasue
"Inuzuka and Yasue, by then colonel and the liaison with the Jewish Far East Council from 1938 to 1940, formulated the Japanese policy permitting the entry of Jewish refugees from Germany into Shanghai."
Setsuzo Kotsuji
"his advocacy to government officials led to extensions on the short term Sugihara visas the Jewish refugees entered Japan on, and he later provided further support to help them resettle where they would be safe from Nazi persecution." la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/Setsuz…
Hideki Tojo
The German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop accused that Higuchi's act thwarted the plan and ideal of Hitler. Tojo spurned this demand by saying, "it's the right thing to do from a humanitarian point of view."
About the Racial Equality Proposal, He said, "I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States."
Shunsaku Kudo and Sir Samuel Falle
In 1942 the Encounter was dodging enemy gunfire while escorting the Exeter through the Java Sea, and no one on board could imagine receiving kind treatment from the Japanese usni.org/magazines/proc…
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Famous for the American film "Letters from Iwo Jima"
Most people blindly believe shocking images without grounds, and equate the Nazis with the Imperial Japanese Army without even examine the Japanese documents. Have you ever read? Why can you conclude?
Read this thread.
The Nazis systematically and intentionally carried out the Holocaust. At the Wannsee Conference in 1942, senior officials of Nazi confirmed to carry out mutually Hitler's command (verbal, not recorded), "the Final Solution". writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holo…
U.S. army operated indiscriminate bombing on Japan to kill civilians, especially by means of two atomic bombs, the most terrible human-guinea-pig and war crime.
General Marshall said, "set the paper cities of Japan on fire. There wont be any hesitation about bombing civilians"
Truth of comfor twomen:
- from history of Korean to Kono statement -
The living standard of people in the Korean Peninsula was extremely low.
"Korea and Her Neighbors" by Isabella Bird
I shrink from describing intra-mural Seoul. I thought it the foulest city on earth till I saw Peking, and its smells the most odious, till I encountered Shao-shing! For a great city and a capital its meanness is indescribable.
There were women called kisaen, who engaged in entertainment, including sexual services.
Kisaeng belonged to a slave class.
"Der Vorschlag zur Rassengleichheit war eine Änderung des Friedensvertrags von Versailles, die auf der Pariser Friedenskonferenz 1919 von Japan vorgeschlagen wurde."
"Japan became one of the world's only countries where Jews could find refuge from the Holocaust. This occurred despite Japan's alliance with Nazi Germany."