At the above link is an article regarding an attempted explanation of ‘ritual’ as a means of collective ‘punishment’ – used by the Imperial Japanese before and during WWII. This involved a peculiar distortion of traditional Japanese culture which had become infected by the racist ideology of fascism. Although I mention beatings and fasting in the above article – by the end of the war this also included ‘Death Marches’ – which saw the Imperial Japanese force-march thousands of starving men, women and children through the jungles, across parched landscapes and through flooded rice-paddies in tremendous malarial heat during the day – and freezing temperatures by night! For many of these civilian and military prisoners (both Asian and Western) – they were so ill by the time it came to march that just standing-up and staggering a few paces was enough to end their suffering. If they did not die on the spot – then they would soon succumb to the beatings meted-out by stave-wielding Japanese thugs!
Three films that feature Japanese torture and fascist madness include the ‘Empire of the Sun’, ‘Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence’ and ‘The Last Emperor’! Of course, after the war, the US granted many Japanese War Criminals full US citizenship and immunity from prosecution. At the same time, the US turned an Occupied Japan into a fascist, liberal democratic (capitalist) state that exists to spread race-hate toward North Korea and China! Perhaps the greatest irony involves the fact that the martial-related rituals that facilitated this Imperial Japanese madness, within ten-years of the end of WWII, saw Westerners in their hundreds and thousands voluntarily flocking to done the ‘White’ Gi (not realising that ‘White’ in Japan is the colour of both ‘death’ and ‘mourning’) and participate in the bare-footed practice of the (unfaniliar) very Japanese martial arts that had just been used to kill and maim millions throughout Asia between 1931-1945. The US demanded the spread of Japanese martial arts throughout the West in an effort to ‘hide’ and ‘obscure’ the martial arts of the Chinese people who were our allies during WWII – and who have been our peaceful neighbours for centuries!
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 