Thread 17852515

Just finished reading this book. Still cannot wrap my head around the absurdly evil nature of Japanese soldiers during WWII. Some war crimes I at least understand the military rationale for, but what the Japanese did in Manila was just petulant and didn't serve their military capabilities in any way. Hindered them if anything.

>>17852515 (OP)
Only about 100,000 civilians were killed in total during the Rape of Manila battle from all causes, including the massacre by Japanese troops. No biggie.

It's an interesting observation how Japanese soldiers often resorted to cannibalism, but the Germans soldiers, for example those trapped in Stalingrad and starving, never went that far.
This is even though German soldier and Japanese soldiers brutality is often compared side by side. There were simply some things that was culturally unthinkable despite being in the same conditions.

>>17852515 (OP)

They were just doing Amaterasu's will.

>>17852515 (OP)
Soldiers without discipline do this kind of thing all the time
Most of the world had stamped out that kind of atrocity before the 20th century but if you've ever read about, say, the thirty years war, this kind of stuff seems very normal
Japan's army in WW2 was in a permanent state of semi-mutiny and started the war against China without orders

>>17853976
Quit trying to justify oriental barbarism, you weebshit faggot.

>>17853992
>>17853976
>oriental barbarism
He's right though. They were the most lawful and courteous army of any during the Russo-Japanese war, but the West was like: "Lol nigger."
So they figured they might as well try barbarism and see how that works out.

>>17854032
Not an argument. Japs were allways fucking savages and barbarians. Just read Clavell.

>>17854043
The Japanese tried being nice, but nobody cared, so they chose to be effective instead.

They changed their policy after they found out that the international order and human rights were a whites only club anyway. This is a matter of public record.

So the only sensible target for Clavell's complaints is his own government. They were the ones who made the bunk he had to sleep on.

>>17852515 (OP)
psuedoscience slop with no evidence and even if it was all video recorded in hd it pales in comparison to the psychotic firebombings and nukings the americans did

>>17853921
>It's an interesting observation how Japanese soldiers often resorted to cannibalism, but the Germans soldiers, for example those trapped in Stalingrad and starving, never went that far.
They did.

>>17854093
Its not about being effective you retard, Japs literally bayoneted pregnant women in china and made unit 731. There is no justification for that.

>>17854535
>Japs literally bayoneted pregnant women in china
Barbaric. They should've put them on fire instead.

>>17854547
Ah, you you are just a retarded edgelord

>>17854553
It's my culture, you can not judge.

>>17853992
do you want to understand the past or do you just want to use it as ammo for a nationalist dick-waving contest?
and if the latter, why can't you hang out on /int/ or /bant/ or /pol/ instead?

>>17854601
>do you want to understand the past

What is there to understand, Japanese were fucking animals that made even Germans look like saints

>>17854757
Apparently General Custer was Japanese.

>>17854535
>bayoneted preggos
That's pretty fuckin funny tho

>>17854809
The fuck is even your point, at this point you weebshit?

>>17852515 (OP)
Anyone that's had the misfortune of working with filipinos or (even worse) having filipino subordinates can understand what the japs did what they did 2bh