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For sport! Like went into Chinese villages, fucked to death the women, killed all the younger men, and stole all the food...
The Japanese actually pretended their "advances" were to liberate Asia from the White colonialists but of course they were vastly worse...
But Hanks had a point, nothing he said was very controversial is it is true we demonized Japanese as simian, subhumans in wartime propaganda with the bucked teeth and coke glasses...
Of course the Imperial Japanese Army did that to everyone else.
As for the A bombs, yes they killed a lot of people and yes there might have been an element of scaring the Soviets in there, but the casualty projections for the expected Invasion of Japan called Operation Downfall varied wildly but certainly would have been in the hundreds of thousands and the Japanese leadership was quite willing to fight to the last school girl. The other problem was the Soviets were making gains and could have landed on at least part of the home islands complicating things and creating a East vs. West Japan, though I think that was unlikely...
The Japanese actually pretended their "advances" were to liberate Asia from the White colonialists but of course they were vastly worse...
But Hanks had a point, nothing he said was very controversial is it is true we demonized Japanese as simian, subhumans in wartime propaganda with the bucked teeth and coke glasses...
Of course the Imperial Japanese Army did that to everyone else.
As for the A bombs, yes they killed a lot of people and yes there might have been an element of scaring the Soviets in there, but the casualty projections for the expected Invasion of Japan called Operation Downfall varied wildly but certainly would have been in the hundreds of thousands and the Japanese leadership was quite willing to fight to the last school girl. The other problem was the Soviets were making gains and could have landed on at least part of the home islands complicating things and creating a East vs. West Japan, though I think that was unlikely...
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