disturbing Japanese anime' (hiroshima 1945)

[Trebor]

I've never seen anything like this before. this video terrified me to my very soul.

YouTube - Hiroshima 1945

[comiso90]

Certainly a dramatic moment in human history. Now lets see an anime about the rape of Nanking.


"Altitude 3600 feet"?
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[Matt308]

Mistranslation. Probably meant Angels 360 (flight level 360)

[Trebor]

I just finished a little research.

this is only one small scene from a movie called Barefoot Gen. this movie was released in 1983. I just finished watching the whoel thing on YT. it made me just absolutely horrified to see what heppened.

This movie was based on a manga comic and the real life experiences of Keiji Nazakawa

[ToughOmbre]

Originally Posted by comiso90

Certainly a dramatic moment in human history. Now lets see an anime about the rape of Nanking.

And after that, a video showing......

The Japanese slaughter of 250,000 Chinese civilians to punish the Chinese people for daring to aid the Doolittle Raiders.

The Bataan Death March, and the treatment of Allied POWs captured by the Japanese.

War is a dirty business but the Axis nations were killing tens of thousands of civilians long before the US ever heard of Hiroshima.

One more thing, the atomic raids saved millions of lives.

TO

[CharlesBronson]

All the japanese cartoons/anime are disturbing....

[freebird]

Originally Posted by ToughOmbre

And after that, a video showing......

The Japanese slaughter of 250,000 Chinese civilians to punish the Chinese people for daring to aid the Doolittle Raiders.

The Bataan Death March, and the treatment of Allied POWs captured by the Japanese.

TO

And some anime of the Allied POW's in the Philippines being fed excrement.

Or the Canadian nurses in Hong Kong being gang-raped and then bayoneted.

For a nation that blatently violated the Geneva Convention, they sure like to whine about it...

[Vassili Zaitzev]

The clip was graphic, yes, but a lot of you guys are on the right track. I've never seen or heard of any anime or manga that depicts the atrocities the Japanese committed. Probably will never happen either.

[freebird]

Originally Posted by Vassili Zaitzev

I've never seen or heard of any anime or manga that depicts the atrocities the Japanese committed.

Because they never made any?

Japanese textbooks make no mention of atrocities or Japanese aggression & responsibility for the war. Only about how the brutal Americans dropped a bomb on them

[Vassili Zaitzev]

Originally Posted by freebird

Because they never made any?

Japanese textbooks make no mention of atrocities or Japanese aggression & responsibility for the war. Only about how the brutal Americans dropped a bomb on them

Ah revisionism, there's no better way making yourself look like the victim.

[Arsenal VG-33]

Originally Posted by Vassili Zaitzev

Ah revisionism, there's no better way making yourself look like the victim.

Technically, I don't think one could call it revisionism, since that requires presenting a blatant falsehood to dimiss and replace a truth, like Holocaust denial. Rather, I'd call it selective memory, and I've even heard the phrase "historical deflection". It's the deliberate turning of the blind eye to avoid discussion of the cause which led to the consequence. Apparently the Chinese are very good at this as well.

As a footnote, on my last business trip to Japan, a companion and I were perusing through 4 or 5 Japanese textbooks, ranging from elementary through high school level, which he was translating for me. I do not recall that Pearl Harbour was ever mentioned in any of them. As a result, one gets the impression that Japan suddenly and inexplicably found itself at war with the US for reasons that were hazy and vague to explain, then all of a sudden the A-bomb. Truely bizarre.

[Sweb]

Atrocity or Salvation? Nothing hurting in my soul.

[GrauGeist]

There's a small chance that they (the Japanese) would touch on the biological or chemical tests conducted on local civilians in Korea or Manchuria, either...

[Bill G.]

It is sad to think that we are in an elite group in knowing the factual history of WWII.

And that 68+ years after the end of WWII, the great majority have little idea of a war in which 10s of millions died. They don't understand how it started or who started it. They only know that we dropped two atom bombs on Japan.

I have even heard (any comments from the UK most welcome) that British school children are not even being taught about PM Sir Winston Churchill.

Our own history text books are drifting away from what happened. What a huge disservice to the 10+ million Americans that served, and the 400,000 that died in this war.

Never forget .... It seems that the world is forgetting!

Bill G.

[Shinpachi]

Please don't worry, everyone.

Chinese film productions made a lot of war movies which introduce cruel Japanese soldiers. Victim side watched everything very well. We don't deny anything as long as it is a fact.

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Also, even if the Japanese Goverment do not want to teach the dark side of the history, we can know it at any book store or internet. There is no fool at least who doesn't know the Pearl Harbour and we are not liked by the Chinese and the Koreans and ........