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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (42939)	1/29/2002 8:35:52 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Japan was an outlaw state at the time of Pearl Harbor and had no rights. That is a fair characterization, AJ. In 1941, international trade and tourism were nowhere near on the scale as we know them now. At that time, Japan's "envoys" to the world were her military. In their expedition to China, the Japanese army behaved with extreme beastiality and brutality. They did the same when they came to the Philippines. Their strategy was to terrify civilian populations so as to subjugate them more easily, which they accomplished through wholesale murder and rape. They were not signatories to the existing Geneva Convention on the conduct of war, and they ignored the concept of safe zones for women, children, and non-combatants. The POWs they took in their campaigns were horribly murdered or mistreated as a rule rather than an exception. There is no reason to believe that the general populace of Japan did not support their cruel military conquests, and every reason to believe that they approved of them with enthusiasm. There is no reason to believe that Emperor Hirohito was not aware of the actions of the military or that he opposed them, and every reason to believe that he helped to plan and implement the aggression. The world's view of the Japanese in the war years was that of a sub-human race, a perception that they themselves did everything in their power to create and reinforce.