Vj Day

[allenlondon]

How do older Japanese view the tragedy of the 2nd World War?

A gentle and cultured people, how do they explain the dreadful acts of their parents’ generation?

[allenlondon]

Blimey, mushroom, not much left for me then, pal. More tears, just. Or maybe I’m too easily convinced by the miseries of this world.

Yes, that’ll do - you’re wrong, mushroom. The good will prevail.

[tamborine]

go see t'other vj thread for jap cruelty

[KARL]

mushroom 17.03, So, shall we pre-empt and despise/hate to avoid risking disappointment, not to mention the risk of experiencing a genuinely pleasant discovery at what "they" really are like ? All to honour.....

[ToraToraTora]

PP is learning dis, that's why he gets away with anything here. Let him play like we all do.

[allenlondon]

But tamborine (“ go see t'other vj thread for jap cruelty”) I know LOTS about Japanese cruelty*. It’s the superior aspects of their characters that interests me more.

* Reading history has also taught me a lot about German, American, British, Chinese, etc, etc, cruelty, too.

[Peter Pedant]

// hospital orderlies went among the dying, and the only way they could tell Russian from German was the language in which they cried 'mother!' Some scoff. I cry.//

During the second war the Russian blood transfusion xservice went around the battle fields - and hung up the dead and wrapped wide v.wide bandages (*) around the bodies and squeezed the blood out of them into bottle for use
(*) esmarch bandages but - - technical

scoff or cry - my eyes popped out on stalks

[allenlondon]

From each according to their blood group...

[ynnafymmi]

The Japanese during the 30s and 40s were nationalists,the Germans during the 30s and 40s were nationalists,up here in Scotland we have voters who ignore the past,even though their own ancestors were murdered by nationalists.A crazy world we live in.

[Peter Pedant]

where as the founder and organiser of the American system ( few contenders here) bled to death post war after an accident after they er failed to appreciate he needed - - - blood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew

[KARL]

ynnafymmi 20.49, Both Germans and Japanese ate pork up to and during WW2 and still do. Take along your tar and feathers and watch out for anyone buying pork at the supermarket.

[allenlondon]

ynna “The Japanese during the 30s and 40s were nationalists,the Germans during the 30s and 40s were nationalists...”

Agreed. Unthinking nationalism is a factor in human stupidity - look around THIS site at the moronic English nationalism. ALL such flag-waving and drum-banging gets us nowhere.

[tomus42]

//How do older Japanese view the tragedy of the 2nd World War?//

As others have said, only they can answer that. I genuinely have no idea.

[Peter Pedant]

// “The Japanese were nationalists,the Germans during the 30s and 40s were nationalists...”

and the italians - and there were nationalist movements in England France ( later Vichy supporters) and Netherlands ( Broederbond)

I remember it being discussed even at Primary School (!!)1950s - the fact mainly there were these movements before the war and now there werent. From the DPs we even got what it was like to be occupied by one or other of the fascist 'liberators'. - if you informed on the other townsfolk to the liberators ( Nazis) you were assigned the best house to live in. ( given the house of the person arrested and carted off )