Chinese, Korean Victims on Obama in Hiroshima: Japan 'Is Not The Victim'

[Free Vulcan]

“The world thinks Japan is the atomic bomb victim. That is wrong,” Shim Jin-Tae, a Korean national who survived the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II, told reporters at a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Seoul.

Korean and Chinese victims of Japanese aggression during the war are demanding their voices be heard after President Obama laid a wreath at a memorial in Hiroshima, Japan Friday.

Korean victims of the Japanese empire congregated in Seoul, noting that they and their ancestors, in the case of those protesting on behalf of their late parents and grandparents, were brought to Hiroshima as slaves of the Japanese empire, the victims of a bombing on their enemies. The protest was organized by the Association of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims and assembled on Thursday. They are demanding an apology from both President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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[TomSea]

Absolutely so; Nanking; that thing was horrible but the Japanese did that all over the lands they conquered though some places were worse than the others, Korea, Philippines, had it very bad as well as well as Allied Soldiers.  I don't mean to sound callous but there is that old saw; "they were asking for it".

[geronl]

Absolutely so; Nanking; that thing was horrible but the Japanese did that all over the lands they conquered though some places were worse than the others, Korea, Philippines, had it very bad as well as well as Allied Soldiers.  I don't mean to sound callous but there is that old saw; "they were asking for it".

 

[skeeter]

Absolutely so; Nanking; that thing was horrible but the Japanese did that all over the lands they conquered though some places were worse than the others, Korea, Philippines, had it very bad as well as well as Allied Soldiers.  I don't mean to sound callous but there is that old saw; "they were asking for it".

Atrocities were the norm among members of the Japanese military. On one occasion Japanese soldiers machine gunned British nurses who had been marooned on Sumatra when the ship they were on was torpedoed while trying to escape Singapore.

[Free Vulcan]

Atrocities were the norm among members of the Japanese military. On one occasion Japanese soldiers machine gunned British nurses who had been marooned on Sumatra when the ship they were on was torpedoed while trying to escape Singapore.

It's not talked about, and I don't know why, but the Japanese made the Germans look like choir boys, even considering the Holocaust. They were across the board indiscriminately genocidal, cruel and brutal, right down to the lowest general army infantry soldier. The German Vermacht was not like that, it was mostly confined to the various Nazi SS groups.

Knew and met a fair number of WWII vets over the years. The European theater vets pretty much let bygones be bygones as far as the Germans were concerned. The Pacific theater vets by and large hated the Japs to their deathbed to the point of wishing we'd nuked Tokyo. No love lost there.