“Property of the Japanese”
You have to be kidding me right.
Legend even has it that Stalin personally handed out viagra to his soldiers in order to make them more rape-capable
Stalin was there /s
For years I had been giving like $2 a month to Wikipedia. I’ve known better for a while and had been meaning to cancel, but never got around to it. After reading the entries for The Barbara Pit and Nicolás Maduro, I immediately cancelled.
Not surprised, there seems to be a lot of the incredibly weird Manchukuo simps on the internet. Of all flavours of fascism they just had to choose the most pathetic fash puppet state in entire history.
Fr tho; who the fuck actually simps for Manchukuo? The most bizarre and horrifying atrocities in history and they got curb stomped in like a week
Fascist westerners probably with a simple brain process like this
“Japan honorary aryans good, Chinese bad, therefore Chinese enslaved and being genocided is based!!”
No one in the States genuinely learns anything about the Second Sino-Japanese war, their only knowledge of the Pacific Theater is just “They did Pearl Harbor so we nuked them haha mushroom cloud funny”
Say what you want, but American Propoganda is terrifyingly good. Made Americans think that nuking innocent people was good and didnt even have to show the true evils of the regime to them. Americans just think “Nukes Good, dont know why, just good.”
It’s only terrifyingly good because American children are deliberately trained to be class-unconscious and as stupid as possible while not damaging the economy, only that this worked so well on the older generations that by this point it’s instinctive and unconscious
Also, no one in the States can genuinely think of why Japan was bad other than Pearl Harbor. 5% of the time, you run into a relative “intellectual” who knows about the Nanking Massacre but that’s about it
Genuinely only HOI4 players who simp over a “mini Imperial Japan”. Literally no one else outside that niche knows what Manchuko is, and if they do, they are 9 times out of 10 they are just straight up a Nazi
source: my cock and balls
More specifically, Wikipedia cites Mayumi Itoh’s Japanese War Orphans in Manchuria, which in turn cites Endō Mitsuo’s Chūgoku zanryū-koji no kiseki (Tracks of Orphans Left Behind in China), Tokyo: San’ichi-shobō, 1992, pp. 203–217. As if the language barrier weren’t enough of a pain in the ass, finding information (in English) about the latter author is difficult, but I did find it interesting how so few people—aside from Mayumi Itoh herself—reference him at all. As for Mayumi Itoh, from what I can tell she’s an assistant professor of political science associated with the Foreign Policy Research Institute. In its own words, this institute describes itself as—and try not to laugh out loud—‘a nonpartisan Philadelphia-based think tank dedicated to strengthening U.S. national security and improving American foreign policy.’
The next citation is a piece by Mark Ealey, ‘a New Zealand-based freelance translator specialising in Japanese foreign relations.’ (I am willing to assume good faith in his instance.) He cites ‘Japanese Ministry of Health and Social Welfare records suggest that Japanese 26,000 soldiers and support personnel were killed in Manchuria during August 1945. In addition, more than 30,000 civilians perished and another 30,000 were never accounted for. Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, “Zokuzoku – Hikiage-Engo no Kiroku” 1963, p. 187. See: http://home.s01.itscom.net/i-ioriya/sangeki.html for details of other Japanese works that refer to Gegenmiao and other similar incidents.’
What do you think? Does that correspond to your guess?
My cock and balls are a more legitimate citation, I think. A “non-partisan” think tank dedicated to strengthening U.S. foreign policy, funniest shit I’ve heard in a while. Even giving Mark Ealey the benefit of the doubt, statistics about dead soldiers and missing persons certainly don’t meaningfully extrapolate into stories of rape and torture. I appreciate you diving into the sources.
I guess it’s technically nonpartisan because both major parties in burgerland both support the merciless exploitation of the imperial periphery.
In all Wikipedia articles that I have seen about conflicts involving Russia, there is necessarily a section on war crimes and rapes committed by Russians.
Funny how you never see those for the USA