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Nearly 800 Chinese residents and more than 6,000 Korean residents in Japan fell victim to the Kanto Massacre orchestrated by Japanese military, law enforcement and nationalist extremists, according to research data.
Also on Saturday, civic groups rallied in front of the National Diet Building in Tokyo. Guest speakers said justice must be served and urged the Japanese government to recognize this historical event, compensate the victims’ families and learn from past mistakes.
WHO IS HIDING WAR CRIMES?
Ignoring the overwhelming evidence, the Iida City Board of Education still holds its ban on exhibiting Unit 731 panels at the peace memorial museum.
Yoshizawa told Xinhua that the board had presented a 2003 “National Diet response record” and referred to it as the so-called “national standpoint, ” which stated that “although the Japanese government acknowledges the existence of Unit 731, it does not acknowledge the fact that the unit engaged in bacteriological warfare.”
This so-called “national standpoint” has been refuted by Japanese experts, including Fumio Hara, former president of the Research Society for 15 years War and Japanese Medical Science and Service.
Well-versed in the Unit 731 crimes, Hara wrote a letter to the board, criticizing their so-called “national standpoint” as fundamentally untenable.
“In a judgment in August 2002, the Tokyo District Court recognized that Unit 731 had used bacteriological weapons on the Chinese battlefield. While the judgment rejected the plaintiff’s demands for an apology and compensation, it unequivocally recognized the fact that the Japanese military had engaged in bacteriological warfare. This is an official judgment of the Japanese government,” said Hara.
“This is concealing and hiding history, depriving citizens of the opportunity to understand historical truths!” said Nobuharu Goi, a representative of Japan’s civic group 731 Alliance, condemning in a letter sent to the board its decision to ban the exhibition of Unit 731 crimes.
In another letter sent to the board, another citizens group questioned: “The testimonies and evidence of Unit 731 witnesses are extremely valuable. Isn’t it our generation’s responsibility to display the testimony of the perpetrators and prevent the horrors of war from happening again?”
After several dialogues with the board failed, the Iida City Peace Material Collection Committee in January 2023 established a committee for reflecting on the Iida City Peace Memorial Museum.
During its inaugural meeting, Kubota took the stage, wearing a hearing aid, and stated, “The memorial museum must display panels related to Unit 731. We must fight for this! The core issue here is how we address the war, both as perpetrators and victims.”
“The current Japanese government no longer allows any mention of war atrocities,” lamented 93-year-old Hideo, who reiterated his personal experiences within Unit 731 at the gathering.
Under huge pressure, the Iida City Board of Education in February 2023 organized a meeting to discuss the Unit 731 panels. However, the conclusion was that “the content on the exhibition panels is too cruel and goes beyond the scope of Japanese school textbooks.”
When asked to comment on the issue, Hara noted that Japan’s school curriculum scarcely addresses the negative aspects of its wartime aggression, making it exceedingly difficult to present the historical truth of Japan’s wartime atrocities in society and educational institutions.
Incidents similar to the suppression of historical truths through exhibition panels are not confined to Iida City, he said, noting that the practice of concealing Japan’s wartime crimes has gradually spread throughout the country.
The expert, citing the “Peace Osaka” event for example, told Xinhua that due to pressure from right-wing forces, its panels related to crimes like the Nanjing Massacre and Unit 731 were removed. Similarly, the Statue of a Girl of Peace symbolizing “comfort women” victims was removed from an international art exhibition in Aichi Prefecture in 2019.
At the above link I have added a blog post to our family martial arts website regarding this medieval Japanese battlefield ‘kite’! It resides in the Torquay Museum in South Devon and even when we visited – there was not the usual plaque giving the provenance of this piece – other than a description of what it is. I have written to the Museum to see if I can clear-up the mystery as to the origins of this artefact. As maters stand, this is a bamboo and material device that acts as a ‘kite’ able to lift a grown man of the era into the air whilst carrying a bow and supply of arrows! He is barefoot and stands on a single bamboo pole whilst his body is held in place by two crossed baboo poles in the centre of the device!
Li Jun revealed to Hao that he was a member of the CIA’s Tokyo station. He hoped Hao to join him and asked Hao to work in a core department of China after returning to China. Hao agreed and signed an espionage agreement with the U.S. side and accepted the assessment and training from the U.S.
After returning to China, Hao managed to work in a nation-level department and continued to meet secretly with CIA personnel many times in China, providing a large amount of China’s confidential information to the U.S. and collecting espionage funds from the CIA.
The idea of the British Bourgeois Establishment fervently opposing Russia and offering limitless accommodation and resources to fascist degenerates is nothing new! Even after the UK had declared war on Nazi German during late 1939 – the UK media soon forgot about Hitler and turned its maniacal guns upon the USSR! Today, I wrote about the ‘revisionism’ expressed in the bourgeois literature issued by the ‘International Brigades Memorial Trust’ (IBMT) whose propagandists are always agitating against the ‘Socialist’ nature of these military units through their work which continuously plays-down the importance of the USSR in the fight against fascism in Spain. Richard Baxell, for example, without offering ANY historical background or context – seems to think that the British Veterans of the International Brigades should have supported the various post-1945 Neo-Nazi Uprisings across Eastern Europe whilst opposing the USSR – as perverse as that sounds! This is what Alexander Werth recalls from those times:
The reward for this ‘Socialist’ sacrifice has been the Bourgeoisie systematically demonising the Socialist presence, the Socialist past and the Socialist future. The Bourgeoisie has showered the very ‘far-right’ the Socialists defeated with all the awards and accolades that were once destined for the Socialist world. The enemy of humanity which was defeated by the Socialists has now been lifted up out of its own ashes and respectfully placed on a pedestal by the Bourgeoisie. The youth of today are trained to ignore the sacrifice of their great grandparents – and instead eulogise the fascist ideology of those they once bravely fought against and gave their lives to stop! The Bourgeoisie does not care just as long as its power remains unchallenged and unchanged. The fascist ‘tickling stick’ lies, lies and lies again to temporarily empower itself whilst always keeping the Bourgeoisie firmly in power. Fascism keeps rising and falling in and upon itself over and over again – as this is the part the Bourgeoisie has assigned to it in this drama. Only the structures of Scientific Socialism reveal the dynamics of this ongoing illusion and explains how such a delusion is to be overcome!
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 