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To: RMP who wrote (43232)3/6/2001 4:15:45 PM
From: michael97123  Respond to of 70976
 
Bataan Death March
Rape of Nanking
Forced prostitution for tens of thousand of Korean women
Medical experimentation on live human subjects

List goes on. It is not pleasant and they dont really deal with their history the way Germany has.
It is a potential point of instability in international affairs because if not dealt with, future nationalist appeals may not fall on deaf ears. Just some thoughts. Mike

PS After their defeat much of this was kept secret by MacArthur(to protect the Japanese)--short term it led to the Japanese economic miracle and democracy--long term it might have been a mistake.