Tag: 1945

Western POWs Were Also Victims of Japanese Imperialism!

China: Lurch to Right Paints Japan as “Victim” of WWII! (17.8.2025)

Earlier this month, Hiroshima and Nagasaki held their annual atomic bombing commemorations. From Ishiba to local officials and citizens, speeches focused overwhelmingly on Japan’s suffering under nuclear attack, with little mention of Japan’s wartime aggression abroad. In Nagasaki, residents interviewed stressed the horrors of the bombings but rarely acknowledged Japan’s role as an aggressor.

The emphasis has shifted public perception. An NHK poll found only 35 percent of Japanese now see the war as one of aggression, compared with 52 percent in a 1994 survey.

In contrast, 67 percent of respondents said they “still cannot forgive” the atomic bombings, up 18 percentage points from a decade ago.

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rotests poster featuring the removed “comfort women” memorial statue is displayed during a rally in Manila, the Philippines, Aug. 14, 2025. The statue was installed in December 2017 at the same protest site but was dismantled just four months later under sustained pressure from Japan. (Photo: China News Service/Zhang Xinglong)

Philippines: Women & Girls Remember Crimes of Japanese Fascism! (16.8.2025)

The greater percentage of this crime occurred within China – but involved many other ethnic groups as victims – including the Filipinos. Although a statue was raised in Manilla in 2017 to record their suffering – just four-months later – the Japanese government succeeded in cajoling the Philippines Authorities in removing it! Whether Trump ordered this first time around is open to speculation. For Socialists, WWII was a People’s War against the common enemy of fascism. WWII was not the usual bourgeois excess of one competing nationality against another – although for many – this is exactly how it is remembered. Indeed, many of the victorious nations have taken on a vitriolic attitude of blatant nationalism when it comes to remembering WWII – a nationalism that steers very near to the wind of fascism that was purportedly defeated. A People’s War led to a People’s Victory and not one nationalist group over another. The US and its lackeys often sully the remembrance of this war. It was a victory of the International Working Class over the forces of reaction – against capitalism in decline!

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This photo taken on Aug. 5 shows protesters gathering at Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, Japan to criticize the Japanese government's ongoing military buildup policies. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)

Japan: 80 Years on – Reckoning with War Remains Unfinished! (7.8.2025)

The voices underscored a national memory shaped more by the narrative of victimhood than by a full reckoning with the causes and consequences of war, which offered a glimpse into how Japan remembers and forgets its wartime past.

While the physical scars of nuclear devastation are meticulously documented in museums and memorials, Japan’s aggressive wartime conduct is conspicuously muted in both public discourse and state education.

Outside the official ceremony, anti-militarist demonstrators gathered near the atomic bombing site. Their placards decried Japan’s growing defence budget and the possibility of nuclear “sharing” with the U.S.

They were kept outside the formal event by riot police, while right-wing activists tried to drown them out with loudspeakers.

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One of the Last Photographs of Adolf Hitler - March 1945

UK: My Experience with Gerrard Williams and His Book “Grey Wolf”! (25.6.2025)

The Soviet version was unconvincing because they could not be sure. On top of this, the Cold War mentality of the West declared the USSR and Nazi Germany to be exactly the same – despite the former being our ally and the latter our mortal enemy. This was at a time that Churchill brought 10,000 Ukrainian SS War Criminals to the UK to escape Soviet Justice – and Canada would eventually raise a monument to these Nazi-collaborators in a War Cemetery for Canadians who had died during Dieppe and D-Day! Meanwhile, the Catholic Church assisted thousands of fascist and Nazi War Criminals to flee to “safe” Catholic countries in Central and South America. Many Nazi War Criminals DID escape – and it is well-known that they did. Moreover, the US absolved a number of these individuals and used them to work for NASA and NATO! I found it interesting at the time how angry and adamant many people became when it was suggested Hitler might had survived the war! Oddly, a good proportion did appear to be right-wing! It seemed very important for their contemporary plans that Hitler remains dead and buried in the past! Anyway, the photograph is the only part of my interaction I can find at the moment – so here it is. Should I re-discover my email exchanges with Gerrard and his colleagues – I will add them to this missive!

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Bodies Dissolved and Left Their "Shadows" - Hiroshima!

UK: The 2001 Internet Possossed Genuine Freedom of Speech – Whilst the PLA Prepared to Cut the Head & Tale off the Snake! (20.6.2025)

In the post-911 hysteria (where the US continued with its delusional position that American lives are worth more than any other lives) I was writing on the British Born Chinese Forum – owned and run by the former UK Social Worker – Steve Lam. I had previously posted for a time on  the “Dimsum” Forum run by a Trotskyite named “Sarah Yeh” – (until we had a “disagreement”) – both bourgeois individuals. I posted under my Chinese name of “Heng Yu” (恒豫) – a Caodong gongfu lineage name used by my Chinese relatives on a daily basis (pronounced “Hung Yaw” in Cantonese). Now, at around this time (2001) I was introduced to a very well-respected Hakka-Chinese man in London’s Chinatown – named Jabez Lam. He was left-wing, a Socialist and worked for the rights of ordinary Chinese restaurant-workers (he had even appeared on Channel 4 regarding Mainland Chinese and the perceived discrimination they suffer in the UK). I met him a few times in Gerrard Street (he knew of and respected Master Chan Tin Sang) and talked with him over the telephone many times regarding what he knew about prominent members of the British-born Chinese community – and there was some tasty morsels. So tasty, in fact, that all the problems I was having with one or two ethnic Chinese individuals in the UK (primarily online – as they lacked the bollocks to meet me in my weekly gongfu class) – just melted away when they realised I know about the skeletons in their cupboards.

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Russia: 81th Anniversary of the Liberation of Leningrad from Nazi German & Finnish Tyranny! (27.1.2025)

At the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery of St Petersburg (Leningrad), the President laid a wreath at the Motherland monument to honour the memory of the fallen Leningrad residents and defenders.

At least 420,000 civilians of Leningrad who died from starvation, cold, and disease, or in air-raids, as well as 70,000 soldiers are buried in the cemetery’s 186 communal graves and 6,000 individual military graves.

The memorial wall behind the Motherland monument carries the words by poet Olga Bergholz: “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.”

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