Dan Carlin calls it a supernova and it’s the most apt (aptest? Help me out, guys!) description of what happened with Japan in WW2.
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They turned around and told all their citizens that US soldiers were doing all the awful heinous things that their soldiers were doing. Instead of surrendering to US soldiers during the Battle of Saipan, they chose to jump to their deaths off the cliffs instead
The Pacific was horrifyingly brutal all around
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If only they could nuke the army instead of the civilians
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My grandma was an adult when she survived the Japanese occupation and American liberation of Manila. She gave birth to my Tia during a fire storm and then hid in a foxhole for two days with her. I will never forget her telling me about how she saw Japanese soldiers bayonetting babies in public. She said it so casually as she was cooking.
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Japanese when they remove the polite mask.
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For me, the German WW2 atrocities were more like dystopian ones, something that should only exist in doomsday sci-fi. While the Japanese ones were more barbaric (not meant to be racist, I’m an Asian as well), it’s the kind of horrible shit that our ancestors were doing low-key.
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Daily reminder that the Japanese did unspeakable things to the Chinese people.
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I watched *The World at War* series last year (It’s excellent by the way, well worth checking out) and honestly, the episode about the campaign in the Pacific somehow managed to be more depressing than the one that covered the Holocaust.
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“DID YoU KnOw ThE JaPAnese WeRe WorsE then tHE naZIS!!!!!!!!!!” Comments coming in 3, 2…
Its a little known fact that the primary origin of Japan’s collective “unhinged” behavior in the early 20th century was the national popularity of this woodblock series called “wujaku”. The people began viewing all reality through the lense of these wujaku characters and it eventually drove them insane.
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Quick question, why did Japan just seemingly turn full on super villain on east asia as a whole?. I get China/Japan/Korea history wasn’t exactly ‘friends forever’, but like, damn, Japan went full super villain on them
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Dan Carlin calls it a supernova and it’s the most apt (aptest? Help me out, guys!) description of what happened with Japan in WW2.
They turned around and told all their citizens that US soldiers were doing all the awful heinous things that their soldiers were doing. Instead of surrendering to US soldiers during the Battle of Saipan, they chose to jump to their deaths off the cliffs instead
The Pacific was horrifyingly brutal all around
If only they could nuke the army instead of the civilians
My grandma was an adult when she survived the Japanese occupation and American liberation of Manila. She gave birth to my Tia during a fire storm and then hid in a foxhole for two days with her. I will never forget her telling me about how she saw Japanese soldiers bayonetting babies in public. She said it so casually as she was cooking.
Japanese when they remove the polite mask.
This meme is a repost
For me, the German WW2 atrocities were more like dystopian ones, something that should only exist in doomsday sci-fi. While the Japanese ones were more barbaric (not meant to be racist, I’m an Asian as well), it’s the kind of horrible shit that our ancestors were doing low-key.
Daily reminder that the Japanese did unspeakable things to the Chinese people.
I watched *The World at War* series last year (It’s excellent by the way, well worth checking out) and honestly, the episode about the campaign in the Pacific somehow managed to be more depressing than the one that covered the Holocaust.
“DID YoU KnOw ThE JaPAnese WeRe WorsE then tHE naZIS!!!!!!!!!!” Comments coming in 3, 2…
Meanwhile , [Onoda and his homies ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/metalslug/images/2/22/Samourai_Infantry.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1200?cb=20160704121325)
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Its a little known fact that the primary origin of Japan’s collective “unhinged” behavior in the early 20th century was the national popularity of this woodblock series called “wujaku”. The people began viewing all reality through the lense of these wujaku characters and it eventually drove them insane.
Quick question, why did Japan just seemingly turn full on super villain on east asia as a whole?. I get China/Japan/Korea history wasn’t exactly ‘friends forever’, but like, damn, Japan went full super villain on them
Beautiful Judge Holden reference.
Japan did many of the same things as Nazi Germany