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2023-01-26

The Diabolical History Of The "Comfort Women" Of WWII

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One of the most tragic stories of WWII is that of the "comfort women", a polite name for the forced kidnapping or coercion of women and girls by the Japanese Army to "comfort" their soldiers. As in many war crimes cases, "comfort" is a euphemism, for this was just a polite term for "sexual slavery" on a mass scale. Though records exist in Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea, they are partial and only tell part of the story that Japan, to this day, is reluctant to talk about openly. However, it should be said that over the last two decades, they have made a greater effort to both admit their armies' guilt, apologize and make some restitution – though many of the surviving comfort women believe it was not enough. Time has gone by, and most of the victims of this atrocity have passed on, but their memory remains in the national identity of countries occupied by Japan during WWII.

It's not just that the children of the comfort women are well into their old age now as well; it's that very few comfort women were able to have children after the years of sexual abuse they endured. Physically, they had been made sterile – not intentionally, but from repeated punishing abuse. Mentally, many victims could not even fathom letting a man touch them again after what they had been through. Among the many things taken from these women was the common dream of having children and grandchildren.

It's estimated that nearly 500,000 women were taken from their homes to "service" Japanese troops during the war. Most of the women taken were poor and uneducated. Some were taken by force, literally right off the street. Some were girls who had not yet had their first period. A surprising number were lured into captivity with promises of a good-paying job elsewhere – maybe in the nearest big city, maybe in Japan.

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Stickman

2 months ago

My wife is from the Philippines and the savagery of the Japanese is still talked about there today. The women of the Philippines suffered a holocaust all their own that most of the world has no idea about. Thank you for making the video.

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Albert Hartl

3 months ago

When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, my father was the senior allied commander in Korea. The senior Japanese commander met with him to work out the details of ceasing hostilities. In the meeting, the Japanese commander asked my father if he wished to take possession of the comfort women. My father said No.

My father was more concerned about liberating allied prisoners of war. He had no idea what he would do with the women. Years later he learned what these women had gone through. It was one of his greatest regrets the rest of his life.

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Keller 13

3 months ago

These atrocities should never be forgotten. Absolutely horrible.

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TheBoredEngineer

2 weeks ago

As a Filipina married to a Japanese man, this was one of the heaviest topics we discussed when we were dating. Thankfully, he studied in AUS for a second degree and his curiosity about ww2 made him aware of the brutalities Imperial Japan has done, including my country. He feels remorseful on what his ancestors and Japanese govt why the truth hasn't been told as it is to the current generation of Japanese. In my family, my great grand aunt was one of those comfort women, she was being lied to having a nice job elsewhere as opportunity to earn more but ended up being a comfort woman. She died due to illness while in the station, sadly.

My marriage with a Japanese man proves that there's forgiveness along the way from the atrocities but I hope the dark past should not be forgotten or diluted so that it won't ever happen again. And, I hope my great grand aunt would rest in peace for what she had endured.

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Taiga Hasado

3 months ago

As a Japanese citizen I hope that my country will one day admit its own atrocities and give its victims what they are owed so that we can finally make progress as a global community…

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Michael van West

3 months ago

My family is Dutch/Indonesian. My Oma's sister was taken as a comfort woman by the Japanese in Bandung Central Java Indonesia during WWII. She survived and showed amazing strength of will and determination. She was never the same afterwards though. 😔

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vkl0253

2 months ago

In school we never learned anything the Japanese did to the other Asian nations, only what Germany did. Thank you for shining a light on this. My mom told me about the human experiments, but not about this.

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Zim Petrichor

3 months ago

I lived in Japan for over 10 years. The vast, vast number of Japanese don’t even know about this issue. Only a few know and most who know deny his ever happened. Denial is part of Japanese culture, they don’t value truth as much as others in the world do. Many people in the world love Japanese culture, but very few actually understand and acknowledge the dark traits in Japanese culture and society. It’s an amazing phenomenon.

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aislinn keilah

3 months ago

War is very cruel and the Japanese took cruelty to an incredibly abysmal level.

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d͡ɱ ʀɐʌəɳ

2 months ago

Some things like this actually has happened in other areas of China all over as well. My grandma (born in 1927) saw some horrible things that happen during the 8 years after the Japanese took Peking (Beijing) in 1937. It was the first city the Japanese took after the war started due to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

My grandma had to have her hair cut and dress as a boy. She explained that the Japanese come in and ended up checking the houses and buildings, they took all the food and many items. Later on they actually even poisoned the local water. With no food and water the people there had to live off gathering rain water and trying to dig up wild potatoes and eating a special type of a part of a tree after boiling it.

Later on she witnessed the Japanese several times taking local women, teenage girls and even female children back to their camp/headquarters. She told me she never remembered seeing them come out atleast alive, but instead their bodies being wheeled out onthe back of a cart...

My grandma also eventually witnessed prisoners being brought in and tortured in the middle of the street. They made them sit down with guns pointed at them and eat rice with shaved peices of bamboo incide of it. It made them scream I'm pain she told me and beg for death. My grandma also saw others forced to drink the dirty poisoned water as much as they could until their belly couldn't take anymore. Then the Japanese would turn them over and stomp on their belly and the water would spray out. There were some other things, but I wouldn't go into that.

It's a bit surprising but even though my grandma went through all of this for over 8 years, and she herself was chased and attacked by a Japanese soldier and almost raped (but thankfuly escaped)... and never did see her real family every again, she told me she held no grudges against the Japanese at all when I talked to her. Infact her favorite electronic TV brand was Sony, and always said the Japanese were smart people. To her the war was over and she was free. She knew some people did things that were obviously horrible, but was not going to let that control how she views individuals.

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Nancy Gregg

3 months ago

These women are possibly the strongest women of a war time generation. I knew a little about them and thank you for teaching more. I hope they are never forgotten.

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Brian Maphar

3 months ago

Being a decendent from Dutch East Indies DEI (now Indonesia), my family had to endure the atrocities that the JAPanese imp army committed. My male family members were all interned in POW camps across E. Asia (Japan and Java/ Celebes/Sumatra/ Birma) and all female and children relatives were interned in camps in DEI.

At least 2 of my great-aunts were victims of being "comfort women". Neither was an adult (16-17 yo) and neither ever spoke of this. I only got to know 1, the other died from mental and physical problems. only now are these being recognized as being related to what she endured during the war, 45 years after her passing.

The JAPanese gov NEVER admitted their atrocities!! And my great-aunts, and all other family members, were always waiting for this apology! Not even the financial part, just an apology!!! Now that entire generation has passed away. Not 1 living family member who can tell the truth.

Thank you for sharing this to the world and to those that didnt know of this, or those that didnt want to know about this.

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Sjeluc Ten

3 months ago

Anybody has ever read "The Nanjing Massacre" ? I have, I was crying and reading. The worst kind of cruelty. Babies were thrown in the air and chopped with Samurai swords.

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Mia Wallace

1 month ago

I visited Auschwitz for the 1st time a few months ago. At one point in the tour, there are 100s of framed photos of prisoners hung in several rows of a long hallway. I began to get more and more curious as I looked at these poor souls and wondered why there were so many young men but, very few young women. I also noticed that although there were several pictures of healthy, nice looking men, most of the women pictured were not particularly healthy looking or traditionally attractive. My fears were confirmed by my tour guide after I asked her “I mean no disrespect but, is there a reason there is such a disparity in numbers between handsome young male victims versus pretty young female victims?”

She answered quietly “Yes. Many of the young ladies were forced into prostitution. Very few of them survived.”

I just can’t imagine how much pain and terror they all had to endure.

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Dana Kraemer

2 months ago

This story should never die, should never be lost to history.

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wu mao

3 months ago

Visited an old folk's home when I noticed some of female residents have a deep scare across their faces. Was told by a senior nurse that worked there that they were teens when the war broke out and to prevent them from being dragged off as comfort women, they sliced up their faces to look ugly.

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David Case

3 months ago

A key point that you skipped at 14:20 is that until the early 1990s JP denied, yes, denied, that comfort women ever existed. They denied it happened. I moved to JP in 1990 and the groundswell was gaining steam, I think around '91 or '92 the govt officially recognized that comfort women existed, but that they were volunteers. I watched a WWII history channel documentary many years later and a US patrol boat intercepted some Filipino fishing boats and they asked about Japanese navy craft, the Filipinos replied yes, they are around and they took all of their women. There was plenty of evidence regarding JP but, as you point, out, the women fought hard for recognition.

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Pam Scott-Fahnestock

3 months ago

Interesting, sad, and unknown history. Thank you. These precious women and what they went through. My heart hurts for them.

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Benjamin Reyes

3 months ago (edited)

May mankind learn from this dark period in history. Thank you for covering this very sensitive topic in this video.May these women find the peace they so deserved.

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Χρήστος Κατσαντώνης

3 months ago

I ve read and heard of brutalities throughout history... But this video shocked me due to the industrial scale of it all , sheer number of victims and the fact that this all happened less than 90 years ago... It makes you fear that with the ''right'' circumstances , these events could be repeated...

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Ma Christina Ofianga

12 days ago

This is often talked here in Philippines if not casually. Comfort Women were taught to us in our Junior High School, and I'm also Half Japanese so I'm really shocked to know that my ancestors or even my my grandpa who fought in the war witnessed this and never talked about it. My mother's side in the family are something of a samurai class so I assumed that my grandpa fought in the war. He was stationed in Philippines and told me that he was in the Bataan Death March and witnessed the atrocities his brethren made. Tho he's not directly involved, I'm still really shocked and depressed on how brutal the Japanese were in my grandpas time. (He was 21 that time as well and he didn't tell me anymore details but he met this one Filipino named Frederico and he said his eyes were full of hatred but he had a duty to fulfill as well as they were both soldiers.)

13daniel1974

2 months ago

It is sad when you can't even retell a truth without worrying you "might" hurt someones feelings. We NEED to hear the truth, sometimes, straight forward and bluntly.

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Jim Giordano

3 months ago

A part of history that was never taught in history class. I am learning this now at 65 years old and this brought a tear to my eye's, to think that a person can do this to another human being on such a large scale, this is right up there with the Holocaust. I hope these woman find peace when the pass on to the other side.

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Jim Alner

3 months ago

Yes I'm married to a Filipina. For the last three years.. She has talked about her grandmother .. Hiding in the jungles of the Philippines to get away from the Japanese. And being forced to be a comfort woman.. Yes they lived out in the countryside away from the cities... Every time they heard a motor of a vehicle... All the women would run and hide in the jungle... with that children.. After the Americans invaded invaded the Philippines.. Is the local residents trusting for some reason... And would come out in the open.

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David Biske

3 months ago

May all those who suffered find lasting peace..... thank you for sharing and teaching the next generation to never forget and learn from this tragedy

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Kaya Kilo

2 months ago

Just unthinkable what horrendous crimes committed against these women. They should never be forgotten

Jimmy Lim

2 weeks ago

As a Filipino who was stationed in Japan in the air force who dated Japanese women upset my grandparents who lived the events of Japanese invasion. My grandfather was a Philippine ARMY veteran whose seen many of his friends shot and beheaded, while my grandmother forced herself and siblings to hide amongst the rice fields eating rats to survive to evade capture of becoming comfort women. I told my grandfather that I'm doing an invasion of a different kind in Japan.

404NotFound

2 months ago

Having a teenage daughter, makes me imagine the voices of those young girls aged as young as 10 crying for days asking for a little mercy while being raped and beaten by several dozens of different guys from early morning to late at night inside my head. Those people are among the worst creature that ever lived..

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The Rick

3 months ago

It's absolutely horrific what one human being is albe to do to another whether during war or not. I'm amazed by all the WW11 veterans I have had the greatest pleasure meeting before passing on and saying thank you! For you and your families service and sacrifice for my freedom. But what got me truthfully is how happy and thankful that they were that they got to meet me.

You sees 95% of us probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the Greatest Generation to have had done absolutely whatever had to be done to, witness to and had happened to themselves the horrors of having to do to another human being they where brought up believing to help thy neighbor, stranger or basically fellow human being. Then never talk about it so they didn't expose that amount of hatred a man can be apon there families till later in their life. My oldest uncle a WW11 veteran always had a smile and a little gleam in his eye telling us kids about the war during the holidays get togethers how they perfected the piano wire across a road just high enough to take the head off the German half track comanders standing up driving by them all hell would break loose.

And now it's looking like it might happen again to another generation around the world. Absolutely terrible to think about let alone experience it. 🦅🇺🇸

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Angela Kimbrell

3 months ago

I saw the documentary about comfort women and it caused me extreme upset. Women from all countries and over the world are often treated as if they are less than a dog not as important as anything else. I have learned a lot about history and I know a lot about WWII. Besides the war I’ve always thought Japan has always been a good country until I watched the documentary about Comfort Women.

I will never again have respect for a government that denies victims that they created and refuse to acknowledge. And that anger includes my own country. I have grown up with unforgiven rage for crimes done against innocent people because of their color, religion, and in general any excuse to downgrade another person.

It will never end until decent people do more than nothing to make a stand against and do not allow evil to grow.

Good people doing nothing are just victims waiting to be made. Find a cause and be a part of stopping it.

Stanley Jenkins

3 months ago

Ladies and gentlemen, this is humanity in its darkest form.

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Dave Monday

2 months ago

This is heartbreaking i actually felt sick. Well done for taking on such a despicable subject. I know it happened in Germany too.

Chubby

2 months ago

Applause to A Day in History and anyone who gave that first step in watching the video, learning and accepting that such cruelty occurred to women on both sides during wars, rather than ignoring it because, to them, it is "too sensitive."

Rick Hoover

2 months ago

How utterly sad! My heart aches for all those women!!!

Bazzer

3 months ago

Even after all this time it must never be forgotten or forgiven! Any of the perpetrators of the crimes, as old as they may be, must be brought to justice!

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David Ofrior

3 months ago

Nothing will ever change if people don't stand up for eachother. And not the people far away from the problem. The people standing right next to the problem.

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LJSky4ist&BigskyMT5720

3 months ago

Thank you for this video. The horrors of war, just never cease to amaze me. These poor women , nothing would be enough to have compensated them after the war ended.

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Alinaswe Selebi

2 months ago

Such a painful story. I really feel for these women. The one who became afraid of men after the ordeal really got to me

Admiral Yi Soonshin

1 month ago

Never, never, never forgive and forget Japan's atrocities and war crimes in 1875~1945. Korea, China and Asian countries and even Western people, over 30 millions were killed, raped, kidnapped and tortured by Japanese imperialism and militarism. We also should remember Unit 731. It's very horrible and scared Japan's war crime, too.

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Di G

3 months ago

That clip from the movie was an Australian women that never gave in to their offer and she got punished because she scoff at them when they said australia was joining forces with them so horrible what people can do to each other but it's always the innocent that suffers

lemmdus

3 months ago

The Pacific Theater of Operation during WWII was absolutely brutal.

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Ray Fuentes

3 months ago

Thank you for this informative video. Our hearts go out to these poor women. All I can think about is the evil depravity of these men that partook of this "service" provided by their government. We all are aware that the world has many crappy people, I'm sure the Japanese army had men of honor and good character, why did they allow it to continue?

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prinzeraaj

2 months ago

This is so Heartbreaking and Terrifying. May this Never happen again in any parts of the world.

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nexus solaris

2 months ago

Thank you for making this public. I think it 's a good think to show some of the harsh aspects of reality so that we can prevent repeating our mistakes from history. Respect!

Anatoli B. Suvarov

3 months ago

Not only should the statuary NOT be removed, but it should also be increased in size and scope. Large plaques in multiple languages should explain the purpose of the statuary, and that Imperial Japan still pretends that it didn't really do this. That it was a few isolated incidents carried out by "mostly foreign conscripts" not actual Japanese soldiers.

Japan still "tries" to deny its crimes in chemical and biological warfare conducted largely in China.

There were many atrocities committed during WWII, but Japan is definitely in the top ranks of barbarity!

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Steven Kaskus

2 months ago

The 1997 show you mentioned that dealt with woman held captive in a camp and the one taken and use as a comfort woman looked very familiar when I saw the actor's and actresses but it wasn't called Paradise Road it was called TENCO.WAS A MULTI PART MINI SERIES. WAS VERY GOOD AND VERY HARD HITTING.

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Ninjahbutter

3 months ago

My Girlfriend is Korean and I didn’t really know of this till it came up one day and I’ve just been learning about it. Wow humans are the worst. My heart goes out to all those poor women.

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Gayle Yeadon

2 months ago

Of all the things I knew about the war, I had never know about this. So unforgivable.

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Afrika Smith

3 months ago

Probably an unpopular opinion: There we're plenty of Samurai that weren't good people, but I think many Samurai would see the atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial soldiers as disgusting and dishonorable.

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Scott Brown

2 weeks ago

As hard as it is to watch this … it’s important that we know history.

Allister Thornley

2 months ago

Too horrible. I can't imagine the pain they got through. Luckily here, in specifically in Sarawak, Borneo. We fight back. My ancestors was a headhunters and some trophy skulls are still present today and being kept at longhouse.

Kristen Thomas

1 month ago

These stories need to be told.

jules oxana

1 month ago

May they rest in peace💔🙏 thank you for teaching all of us about this so we never forget & repeat history.

Tina Collins

3 months ago

Poor women I can’t get my head around this 40 men every day for years absolutely terrible 😢

Dan Linebarger

2 months ago

I was in Korea in 1992 at a market and purchased a souvenir. It rang up less than the posted price. I asked the clerk why less? They said "Oh, that price is for Japanese". In Korea, the hatred towards Japan is obviously still strong.

Fishing Night'n Day

3 months ago

Well put together. Tough topic to address. Well done and informative.

Toasted Bagel

1 month ago (edited)

Don't deny the pain felt by everyone involved in this atrocity be ever forgotten, this is a part of history I wish to never repeat itself

Isabela Guzei

3 months ago

Those are not men! They are disguisting monsters!! May all those women rest in peace🙏

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Jenn Faire

2 weeks ago

This still goes on today, nothing has changed and never will.

Jennifer

3 months ago

There should be monuments throughout all the Asian countries to educate them about this and to apologize

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Jane Rogers

2 months ago

Thank you for bringing this to light. One of the most atrocious acts against women, human beings, are still unknown to most around the world.

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world of words

2 months ago

The more I hear and see of these atrocities, the more I feel that crimes should be payed back in full. And eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life.

michael garner

2 months ago

Tragic is the best word to describe it. So proud to be a decendent of American service men who put a stop to it.

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Thomas Oaxaca

2 months ago

My late father fought in World War II at Guadeloupe and was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor.

Without any explanation or elaboration, my father would openly express his hatred and disgust for the Japanese people.

Phong Quach

2 days ago

Word cannot describe how I feel when learning about what happened to these unfortunately women!

Paul WADE

1 month ago

Thank you for this notation, the deplorable inhuman behaviour of those Japanese earns no forgiveness from any decent person, man or woman. Their officers were most to blame in my opinion, as to prevent such horrible inhumanity could have been stopped with one command. It is beyond sickening to think of those poor suffering women, girls and children.

ColorfulAlchemy

2 months ago

"i wish i could live in japan its so aesthetic"

Het Brahmbhatt...

3 months ago (edited)

To be honest as I hear about world war prisoners I think that Japanese jail prisoners are worst affected one at that time...

Whether it be of food just 1000 Kcal a day or it may be of low morality shown by majority of soldiers...

And also I came to know about ship killing by Japanese it's all seems like a dark dream..

John Lee

2 months ago

I never understood why my Korean mom disliked the Japanese so much

I think this gives a pretty good explanation...

WanderingCat Meow

2 months ago

When world War II broke out in the Philippines my grandmother who have fair skin keep on putting mud and coal on her skin so that she can hide her appearance and stayed more in caves in the mountain's life is so tough just to survive. She is telling us stories about babies thrown out in the air to be catch by bayonet. Most of her friends are gone so painful that even her husband's never came back at was missing bec he has been killed by Japanese .

Sue D'Alessandro

13 hours ago

This is so sad. This happens in all wars. 💔

brandy havers

2 months ago

All those poor women- I hope they find peace - 😭

marcochimio

3 months ago

I knew it was bad. In fact, I knew it was very bad. I didn't know it was this bad. Thank you for making this video.

VICI Med

2 months ago (edited)

Very interesting video! Thank you for sharing. These crimes by the Japanese military are absolutely horrible and should be always remembered.

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Ayano Aishi

2 months ago

It was here in the Philippines the stories of horrors' done in the Red House where such like this atrocities where committed by the Japanese soldiers. The stories up to this day hunts the survivors and some of the people witness the events done within that place. And to avoid from this ever happening, Most of our women take up arms, and for the young ones will dress up like a man to avoid getting the attentions of the Japanese soldiers.

Rick McDonald

2 months ago

Seeing this I am shocked as I only know about The Japan of today and they seem so calm and considerate and polite especially to their elders. It appears they were as ruthless as The Nazis' were and what a horrible History to have to refer to today.

Thanks for the education.

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Txiabneeb Vaj

2 months ago

One of the many reasons why WWII was referred to as the Japanese War in my heritage language.

Sherwin Escuro

3 months ago

With war we lose not just our history(Museums with tons of priceless treasures and historical places getting bombed) and culture but also our humanity*

- Sade Morte

Kuman Lee

3 months ago

Thank you for spreading the knowledge.

7 days ago

I had the opportunity to speak to a Korean man about this topic one day. He made a comment I didn't understand and so I questioned him. He talked for a while and I won't try to paraphrase, suffice it to say that the Japanese better pray that the current paradigm holds for a very long time.

Lesley Anne

3 months ago

The very nerve of the Japanese to ask for the statues of the comfort women be taken away. The country is certainly rich enough to have paid compensation ten times over, in the past thirty or forty years.

GrahamBook

2 months ago

War is a terrible thing I am 65 years old and was part of the peace movement as a young man and all my life ,we are no closer and I fear we will never be .😢

Tom Reedy jr

3 months ago

Now you know why MacArthur had that S.O.B. bow to him at the end. What animals...

Memememe

3 months ago

I have a history degree and have traveled to China, South Korea and Japan and personally have spoken to young and old about these and a multitude of other atrocities that took place during WWII in that part of the world. The victims numbered in the millions and that was just at the hands of the Japanese. Many don't know that even today in 2022, there are decendants of women that were captured and brought back to Japan that live in that country and STILL do not have full rights as citizens there. Remember all of these things the next time someone asks you if you think that atomic bombs were really necessary to stop the wholesale slaughter and abuse of innocent people in multiple nations that was going on over there every day at the time and had been for years before the conflict was over.

寿司食べたい

3 months ago

This is basically crime against humanity, and must be accounted for. Reparation must be made so that the world can move on from this episode.

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skinnydogkew

2 months ago

My heart goes out to these people. But one question I have regarding financial reparations is how is a government who was not responsible for what happened in any way supposed to accept financial responsibility for the actions of a predecessor it had no control over?

BMTV Meditation and Sleep

2 months ago

This is a very sad and low time for humans, such evil of all accounts.

I am going to watch the movie mentioned in this video tonight.

Thank you for the informative video

suvat tavus

3 months ago

Let the statues of comfort women outside Japanese embassies in many places stand for eternity even after all the comfort women had passed on.

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Michael Lengyel

1 month ago

I talked with Japanese women who, while in college, was made to read "The Rape of Nanking". The surprising thing is that it was a Japanese college. She said she cried and was shocked. She asked if it was true. I said that and worse throughout Asia during the war. That was a deep as she would go but even that was a surprise to me. As a teacher, the War years are not taught at all to children. Only the Atomic bombs and how America was a brutal country for using them is taught. But that is for another video.

sagwan

2 months ago

As a korean woman I have personal family that have suffered from this.

Parrot Puppet Studios

3 months ago

Bro I just wanted to learn about Japan in wwii and this is the first thing that came up 😭

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Jermon Green

3 months ago

thank you for putting this together

Cedric Gist

3 months ago

I have avoided watching other videos of this horrid history. Today, I watched yours - and I thank you for not being sensational in your presentation.

I want to be angry with the Japanese - but I know every warring nation throughout history has been guilty of such atrocities - including my own, "Land of the free, and home of the brave."

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Ed Brookshire

3 months ago

This is just a small part of what war really is.

The politicians that cause these wars never pay any price.

In war humans are expendable

XDPro 4000

3 months ago

Things like this make me feel disgusted to be a man. I wouldn’t blame these women if they never wanted to have a man ever touch them again. I feel as if we are sex hunger monsters. It’s just tragic to see that these things happened not to long ago.

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Elinor Jones

2 months ago

My Dad was WW2. Guaranteed he could never forget. Daughter ( nurse).

Amber Forcen

3 months ago

These things never stopped happening- you don’t need a hot war for these atrocities to a thing -

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hillary duff

4 weeks ago

To this day Japanese students are taught practically nothing of Japan's role of brutal conquest during WWII.

Juan Rojo

2 months ago

Thank you for your video. I hope that this can nourrish more dignity into people.

Queen Carmilla

3 months ago

This is the dark reality that history doesn't teach.

Doug Yarnold

3 months ago

I doubt if there are many people out there, who realize how barbaric Japanese were to their enemies during World War II! The rape of Nanking was the worst example of how animalistic, how cruel these Japanese soldiers were!

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Oileen Grace

3 months ago

Some of the footage is from movies, both from HK and Japan and other countries. Good information. Very, very sad. War is so bad. Peace to All.

sy chan

3 months ago

Done it and do not admit it! Inhumanity and cowardice of extreme order.

An international comfort woman day should be established to warn that such event shall never happen again.

GanarfGeorgie

3 months ago

These poor women, they deserve justice! Please, Japan...DO THE RIGHT THING!!!!

Grey Jedi

3 months ago

Great video on a sadly confirm overlooked golf of ww2.

Leunis van de Wege

1 month ago

This makes me think about the easyness many people today talk about making war. It is as if for them it seems to be a kind of video game. It seems as if they are unfit to understand the real horror of war.

Politicians with their lust for power exploit this.

In EVERY war on EVERY side there are these kind of athrocities.

The Yankee

2 months ago

I loved this. I'm quite the ww2 buff. My father was decorated for ww2. Also, if you'd ever like real music to be edited in to your videos for ambience feel free to reach out

I love this series.

Cheers ,

yankeeT

baba1992

3 months ago

If the modern Japanese people are really sorry, and if your government doesn't want to apologize, can you all the Japanese people unite and bow for apology in front of the victims grave and living descendants?

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Donny Shoes

3 months ago (edited)

Sad and heart breaking 💔 ..

FNX450

3 months ago

That was Horrible Nightmare, there is no way to escape for all them.

Justice9879

2 months ago

I have been to multiple war museums in Japan and I couldn’t believe how they left out all the atrocities that occurred pre 1943, they really only focus on how they got nuked

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白衣追鱼郎

7 days ago (edited)

thanks for reviewing the history of WWII, which occurred almost 80 years ago and is being forgotten. Just for your information, JAPAN and GERMANY are increasing their military spending as is urged by US. Both countries are expanding their military force. I am afraid that the human history is again heading down the path of repeating itself.

Cloud Forest

2 months ago

Thanks for bringing this up!

KevInKobe

2 months ago

Im always conflicted about what I hear about South Korea demanding more apologies even after getting what they wanted. And then Japan not being clear about what happened. In the end its hard to know what really happened. Sadly that's exactly what Japan wants.

Nowadays Japan claims to want world peace (I guess that's what you'd say after losing the war), but they are trying to get there by covering up AND claiming they wish for peace at the same time. That doesn't fool anyone.

They will tell you they don't have an army, but they are sending troops overseas to assist in conflicts and expanding involvement.

I live in Japan and I think generally speaking things are moving into the right direction, but it all feels pretentious.

But let's not fool ourselves and think our own countries are not covering up atrocities.

Robert.

3 months ago (edited)

There's a film about this topic called Flowers Of War. It stars Christian Bale. It's worth a watch.

Babbette G.

2 months ago

Thank you so much for sharing this information.

The Biker Bug

3 weeks ago (edited)

Sad brutality of that war and those further in the past and those since. Mankind’s goodness to Man is a blessing, and yet his cruelty is more savage than the most ferocious animal. May God bless those who suffered, and protect those who now endure.

Dangerous Mr V

3 months ago

Hello, my recent comment was deleted and so it should have been. I apologise if it was offensive but after watching this my emotions just took over. What happened here was terrible and may God bless them all.

M. F. Richardson

2 months ago

Very interesting.

Very informative.

Thank you

Peace 💕🇺🇲

spacenut58

3 months ago

Had no idea. Humans can be so cruel.

drvansomeren

3 months ago

Interesting. I wonder, is there such a thing going on in the west as well, today ? Look at the grooming gangs and loverboys in Europe these days and how well the authorities are dealing with the situation.

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Thecheezy bleezy

3 weeks ago

What sickens me isn't the endless stream of atrocities humanity seems to create but rather the fact any and every circumstance could potentially be real and even more so already occurred just unknown to history

Hasken Von Bern

2 months ago

This dark period in japan’s history is horrendous, and seems to have been all throughout its imperialist past. But unlike the Germans it seems Japan still tries to downplay and diminish their horrific crimes

Joyce Baron

3 months ago

What do the mothers ,sisters ,daughters think of their men that have any involvement in this disgusting crime. Let's hope there is a hell.

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Alex Martinez

2 months ago

I've known about "Comfort women" for a while now. What I didn't know was that Japan actually admitted to, apologized & paid money for it. NONE of which will ever be enough.

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Morris Wilburn

2 months ago

A lot of really bad things happened during WWII.

Marilyn Nusbaum

3 months ago

Humans are a strange lot - capable of the deepest compassion and the most gruesome horrifying sadistic acts imaginable…

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Andrew Baker

2 weeks ago

I read the title, and I still was not prepared. No nation is free of sin. We must all do better together.

Cake Gaming56

2 months ago

Only 1 words 1 expressions to describe this 😢

Luyandza Bavukile Dlamini

3 months ago

As much as we pray and hope this atrocities don't happen again

But unfortunately they still are because they're committed by humans

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Dave Wilson

3 months ago

This is a tragedy that has been experienced by Women throughout history. It will never end. as In many cultures today, women are still regarded more as possessions and 2nd Class citizens. Just look at any country's laws and I guarantee that a glaring example is the two tier salary and employment conditions, existing in even the most civilised and enlightened nations of the World.

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Primeval Demon

3 months ago

1:20 Jesus christ I never even thought about something like this so mechanical and streamlined

Ray Blanchard

3 months ago

Unbelievable!! The very thought that this is true history is shameful...

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Sandra Leigh

3 months ago

There is a monument to honor comfort women in a park in a small town next to mine. Yet these same people who put it there with the presumption of supporting women's rights, support the removal of a woman's right to make her own decisions about her body. We don't learn from history at all.

Secret Agent

3 months ago

so very sad, but yes it will happen again. why do groups of men lose their civilized nature when put into war. some form of group mentality falling to the lowest levels of depravity. Yes, soldiers from all nations have done this.. but the staggering #s in WW2 from Japan and Russia probably are the worst. Subscribed

Marion Bowler

3 months ago

So very tragic 😢 🍁🇨🇦

klau88873

1 month ago

@A Day In History

Well presented, especially with the opening, tie’ing to the atrocities being committed in Ukraine.

When history repeats itself, it unfortunately becomes relevant to today.

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ocsrc

3 months ago

In the Philippines many American military men took phillipine wives and we're married and had children, despite being married in America.

When they returned home they completely ignored this other family.

To this day, the US government has arranged with the phillipine government to not allow any contact by the wives or the children.

I do know if two cases where the sons of the service men, who were in the 80s, had their Philippine children show up at their door and the service men, retired, called the Maps and they came and arrested these children who were the sons of these me.

American soldiers are just as bad as every other countries soldiers.

It is disturbing how brutal our people are.

Brian Doyle

3 months ago

Some things just dont change do they!! Happens over and over!!!

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DB COOPER

1 month ago

Don’t ever apologize for something you never took part in!

Osias Nocum

3 months ago

The Past MUST not be forgotten Today, so that Tomorrow will be peaceful..

Roland Leupold

2 months ago

So sad. What the devil 👿 does. I pray for all the girls. The lost souls and their familys.

Nikolai Vista

3 months ago

And the worst part of it all: Emperor Hirohito was the leader who was never held neither accountable nor responsible for the crimes committed against humanity! Sad world we live in!

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Chewbacca

10 days ago

I have a friend doing her master's thesis on this with a comparison with other countries and periods.

Shadower

3 months ago

People don’t change, I’m afraid, your sincere wish at the end, will be in vain…

Cripple Guy

2 months ago

Japan isn't alone in doing this .

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mg888

3 months ago

Unfortunately many attrocities that the world vowed will never happen again after WW2 still repeated as recently as in Sebia/Bosnia war, Cambodian killing fields, and in occupied Ukraine.

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Paul Gathercole

3 months ago

There is no justice only that which you take for yourself 😵🌹

Dennis Challinor

3 months ago

What a pity I couldn't have been around to treat them with the equipment they used during WWI for clap? It would have given a whole new meaning to "quite a stretch"!!! 🤣

Connie Liscio

3 months ago

These events are disgusting and can't believe they happened

CLIFFORD DANG

2 months ago

Now we can see why there is major animosity towards Japanese from Koreans! It’s not something that can be forgotten easily !!!

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just2toonice

2 months ago

Regardless of the past, it can not be changed whether in America or other countries. We can not make innocent people of today pay for the injustices of the past committed by others they are not related to or did not even know.

Sondra Smith

2 months ago

Amazing how MONEY never ends up in the correct hands, isn't it?

SoundRxs

1 month ago (edited)

Sickening! Although, it’s important to only remember these things, its equally important to move on & forgive. The statues should remain.

Kevin Kennedy

3 months ago

My Fater,who fought in WWII in the medditeran against the Nazi's and the Facsits was asked o e time by a group of Doctors and Lawyers at the Elks club In my home town what her thought of the bombings of Nagaski and Hiroshima. His reply, " they should have bombed Japan off the face of the Earth". After seeing the horrific things the Japanese did in WWII, I can see why he felt that way.

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Wolverine X

2 months ago

Well presented

Diane Vernon

2 months ago

Loved history in school but never ever heard of these horrific acts. WHY ?

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Nondescript

2 months ago

Saddened - I always thought of Japan as an honour driven land up until now…

Erhard Spies

2 months ago

I am German, and in my country the Nazi crimes are admitted, and waving Nazi symbols or denying Nazi crimes like the holocaust is punishable by law.

In its own interest, Japan should do the same. The Japan of today cannot be held responsible for the crimes committed during the war, as today's Germany is not responsible for the crimes committed by the Nazis. We must not forget history, in order not to allow these things to happen again.

Feroze Ayub

3 months ago

Thank you for bringing awarenesses

FETTI Tv

3 months ago

Finally, the truth about Japanese Culture.

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Donna puckett

3 months ago

I saw "Paradise Road" and it was an awesome movie!!! Some of the prisoners volunteered to be "comfort women".

David Jones

3 months ago

I'm sad to say that I've seen with my own eyes just what evel man kind is capable of and willing to do its fellow man my dreams are still haunted by things I saw in the 90s in the Balkans and West Africa .

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olie

2 months ago

Most polices forces in the world still operate this way. Unless a crime is highly publicized, police get a slap on the wrist transferred to different regions.

Wooley689

3 months ago

Kamikaze pilots during their training were given the best of everything, food, housing, anything they wanted and that included comfort women at all times.

altymogo

2 months ago

how can humans do this to one another

H K

2 months ago

People should watch Shusenjo - a great documentary that covers this topic and brings a deeper insight into the "new battlefront" Japanese nationals are waging to further hide Imperial Japan's crimes.

No legal apologies have thus been made. Only diplomatic and "moral" ones.

Dash

2 months ago

The horrific history of the state of men in WWII

bernhard schaefer

3 months ago

..happened in Vietnam too, albeit on a much smaller scale.

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Alpha Male

2 weeks ago

I worked at a company years ago that hired in a young lady that was Japanese and I struck up a conversation with her about her life over there. This is not to lambast the people over there I have no axe to grind or anything like that. She loves it over here in the United States, Men over here are more polite than over there and she loved to be treated with dignity and respect. Over there she said Men treated her more like property than a Woman and she said she hoped she would never have to go back. She already had her green card and was proud to be an American Citizen, She had a Boyfriend that was getting ready to be married to and she was looking for a long life in the US. That was 15 plus years ago and I hope she is doing well.

eduardo tomas lagos molina

1 month ago

But ...but...How come could this happen?

The Japanese people is well known for its honesty, dignity and decency!

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Andre Muvand-Mambo

2 months ago

Those who do not know the past cannot understand the present and cannot shape the future- Helmut Kohl

Vee of the Weald

2 months ago

I cannot finish watching this. 😔

Pleasantly Blue

1 month ago

My God these poor woman. What an abomination and how inhumane there treatment. It makes me sick to my stomach to just listen to all of this tragedy that you spoke of. face-orange-frowning

Ximia

3 months ago

When i hear that there have been rumors that Lotta Svärd worked as sex workers also i got so infuriated, i feel bad for the'se women i do not have a woman and i dont plan to have a woman christianity and friendship works fine for me

Joyce Greer

1 month ago

I never heard this before. How awful! Inhuman beasts. Those statues should never be taken down. They should be a constant reminder to all.

Tom Reedy jr

3 months ago

Great Story

Nu Axis

2 months ago

WW2 really left some scars on the world

displacednaija

4 days ago

So much injustice, so much wickedmess. The story of mankind.

Brenda

1 month ago

This is so incredibly sad

Dave Man

3 months ago

Demons are warm-blooded mammals.

Alex slavin

2 months ago

What about the Russians forcibly taking 25,000 Austrian women back into Russia when they left Austria. My mother was one of them. My dad was a high ranking Russian official who defected in 1953 and brought my mother with him. My brother was born at the big base at Wiesbaden and I was the first of their families to be born in America. There are a lot of ugly stories of what Men did to women during the war.

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Rebecca Boudreau

2 months ago

The things men do when they feel free of consequences. When will we evolve as humans 😢

Cristian Martinez

3 months ago

Those poor women

Ninjhetto NLK3

2 months ago

And again: "What has this world come to?" Better. Today, it is objectively better.

D/1/504/82nd

2 weeks ago

"Never happens again?" Unfortunately this is happening, en masse, across the globe!!!!

richard c

3 months ago

This happens in every war by troops

Richard Lew

3 months ago

If it wasn't for those damn anime and Otaku cultures, then I think these issues would have been taken a lot more seriously by the world.

The Taz

2 months ago

Thank you for bringing this to light. It is sad how we look a women, and we forget without them there would be no people. Men are needed also in the process of maintaining the human race, but what these [men]? did was inexcusable.

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Derek Frazier

2 months ago

I love to learn but was heart breaking.

Sharon Eastwood.

2 months ago

BLESSINGS 🙏 TO ALL THE WOMEN WHO SUFFERED THESE EVILLLLLLL UNCIVILIZED SAVAGES DID TO THEM.

Anirban Chowdhury

2 months ago

Japan changed a lot from then. But told this to a victim or her family

Mohan Sivasankaran

3 months ago

So tragic. See how wars can bring out the horrific behavior of men. Karma will catch up with the descendants of these men.

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Henrique Iwabuchi

2 months ago

This is really, really sad and feel very sorry for all these poor women. I lived in Japan for a quite long time and the bizarre thing is that the locals don't even know about these war atrocities. And the government is reluctant to acknowledge. It doesn't seem they teach this ugly side of history at schools. I guess many countries have some dark past, but now living in Australia I can tell that here at least the government and people acknowledge the bad things they did to the aborigines during the British colonisation, and it is opened debated and taught at schools. It is also very common to see here documentaries on TV about the Australia Lost Generation, but in Japan bringing the Comfort Women topic is like a "taboo". I know that they are totally diff things but the analogy I'm making here is that there is a real mindset problem in Japan...

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Fredd Arteaga Valdez

2 months ago

loved the never happens again never happens again outro

LotharLights

2 months ago

Did you mention that Korean men often collected and sold these women? It's always convenient to tell something with an easy enemy.

Michael Anjin

3 months ago

1970 s that’s the way it was in Korea , the Turkey Farms were off limits GIs they were for the ROC Army. I was the VD officer for my unit I gave the monthly VD lectures to the troops. What a zoo.

Colin Bateman

3 months ago

We have had war’s upon wars we have done horrific things to each other . We’ve dehumanized others who didn’t agree with us and those oh a failed to obey the forced rules we continue to see this around the world but we can’t seem to stop by embargoes we live in the fear of nuclear war as we accept the atrocities we become accustomed to what happened to us

melvince J

3 months ago

I like your content. Keep it up brodie❤

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Mark Slater

1 month ago

Nice balanced reporting backed up by plenty of evidence

Enrico The gaming otaku guy

2 months ago

I love ❤️ Japanese 🇯🇵 history

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Dave Anderson

3 months ago

And Truman and MacArthur gave the Japanese a free pass after the war.

Steven H

2 months ago

This vid helps me better understand why my Korean friends have such a strong dislike for Japanese people in general.

Rob Bleeker

3 months ago

A forgotten generation.

Laurie Wise

3 months ago (edited)

Had a Japanese girlfriend who told me she knew little about world war 2 except that America started it. The Japanese should have been made to see what they were responsible for and teach that to their children.

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blxtothis

2 months ago

It’s a wonder to me that the Allies didn’t treat the Japanese more harshly, my parents’ generation never forgave the perpetrators of the barbaric cruelty with which the Japanese military treated civilians and prisoners.

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Magenta McGonigle

3 days ago

Why has there never been a film made about this?

Prince

3 months ago

I love comfort :)

Din Rash

2 months ago

You cannot compare those times and now. Most casualties then was civilians, and nobody was thinking about civilians. maybe the same as in Iraq recently. Now in Ukraine it is completely different. As Elon Mask showed in his twit those areas where currently warzone is Russian populated areas, with proRussia politics. Plus if you read about Ukrainian Insurgent Army and they practices against Polish and Jews you will get idea what was happening in this areas after 2014

Rob Grady

1 month ago

"The japanese government has asked these statues be taken down"

Most of the Countries: N O

StCreed

3 months ago

One of the reasons Japan is still viewed with suspicion to this very day, is the refusal to openly acknowledge what happened. Yes, from time to time they make a speech that is then politely ignored at home. But they never acknowledged the full death toll of the rape of Nanjing, or the OS 327 death count. It's not taught in Japanese schools, it's not debated in public. They still lay wreaths at the shrine where they also honor war criminals.

No, this will never be forgotten as long as Japan fails to acknowledge it openly.

Greg Galan

2 months ago

These memorials will live as long as the use Arizona is a memorial. Japan today is totally diferent, but they should remember the nukes as we remember the hell of war. I'm glad we are at peace!

Master Xiong

3 weeks ago

Japanese adult movies are pretty intense already. You can imagine what else they would do.

Geoffrey Reeks

3 months ago (edited)

The dishonor that Japan caries from this and the many other atrocities committed by Japan cause very many people want to not join any defense pact with Japan. Those people are happy to see Japan suffer at the hands of their previously oppressed nations. Japan has resisted recognizing and compensating those who Japan oppressed. That brings upon Japan even greater dishonor. Reportedly, Japan teaches its children that the USA invaded Japan. That lie brings upon Japan yet more dishonor. When the world realized the destructive power of the first atomic bomb, the world was happy that a second atomic bomb was dropped upon Japan, regretting only that neither bomb was dropped upon the Japanese Emperor. Tell me please what Japan has done to diminish its dishonor?

Regards,

Geoff. Reeks

2Hot2Handle

3 weeks ago

The world was in such a dark place during WW2 it’s just crazy. I wonder if the aliens ever considered stepping in🤔

Michael Lengyel

1 month ago

Have you recorded this in Japanese and put it on Japanese You tube and other social media sites?

Michael Middleton

3 months ago

Human beings are limitless in their brutality towards one another. Raped 30-40 times a day for years Jesus!

Aaron Unite

2 months ago

Now adays especially the new generation, most Japanese don't even know about WW2. The schools don't go into too much details about what they did. The Germans learned to accept and apologize what they did but it's so hard for Japan to take responsibility and admit they did all those things.

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An W

3 months ago

Pretty extraordinary how little Japan paid for it's WWII crimes. Especially what happened across China. I can see why China is the way it is today. Tired of being bullied throughout history I guess.

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Karl Madsen

3 months ago

News flash: humans treat other humans poorly.

AngelusVastator

2 months ago

Asian infighting gotta be the most brutal shit I swear

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The Diabolical History Of The "Comfort Women" Of WWII

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