Lester Golden
Jul 29, 2023

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A short list for any Japanese disturbed by Oppenheimer:
Unit 731
Comfort women
Rape of Nanjing
Japanese soldiers' recreational activity: Nanjing beheading contests
Indonesia occupation famine: 2-4m dead.
10 million Chinese dead in what the Japanese government called the "China Incident" ("special military operation" in Japanese).
The Three Alls campaign of 1944.
Bataan death march.
The Saipan forced suicide cliff.
Stalin's Hokkaido invasion and occupation plan, called off only on August 22.
"Maybe they only have one."--said one of the big six war cabinet ministers at August 9 meeting just before a messenger arrived with news of the Nagasaki bombing.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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