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Also Ho Feng-Shan, a Chinese (not Japanese) diplomat that allowed many Jews to immigrate to Shanghai by issuing tens of thousand of visas for Jews living in Austria before Japan occupation.
Note these are good people that defied the authorities to save lives. Don't thank the WWII era Empire of Japan. They did NOTHING good for the world. But there were individuals in Japan (and Germany) that stood up to the horror that both the Japan and Germany leaders inflicted on the world.
Also Ho Feng-Shan, a Chinese (not Japanese) diplomat that allowed many Jews to immigrate to Shanghai by issuing tens of thousand of visas for Jews living in Austria before Japan occupation.
Note these are good people that defied the authorities to save lives. Don't thank the WWII era Empire of Japan. They did NOTHING good for the world. But there were individuals in Japan (and Germany) that stood up to the horror that both the Japan and Germany leaders inflicted on the world.
and these things give me hope that mankind just might not blow itself up slim hope, but hope
The Japanese Empire did nothing good before and during WWII. Nothing.
They did one good thing. They launched a sneak attack against Pearl Harbor. In so doing, they guaranteed for themselves their complete and utter destruction, and the consequent transition of Japan from a stain on humanity to a valued, contributing member of the world community.
https://www.harvard-yenching.org/res...to-earthquake/
The above incident didn’t improve my view of the Japanese of that era. I’m 53 and never learned about this in school. Came across this through a fantasy Japanese anime set in the period of the earthquake. Of course they never made mention of their slaughter the Koreans and anyone they believed were Koreans. I was curious if this earthquake happened because of the disclaimer of it being a work of fiction and they telltale repeated showing of the date and time. I found out this earthquake happened and also found out what they did following the earthquake.
You didn't learn about it most likely because, like me, you were in school when everything was Eurocentric. My father was in Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped, but to hear anything about the Pacific theatre was virtually impossible in high school at the time. Everything was about Hitler. The slaughter of Koreans, horrible as I'm sure it was, paled in comparison to the Nanjing Massacre in China in 1937. More people died there in one day than in any other place, anywhere in history. In any event, the Japanese were really "misdirected" in that era.
Well, the Japanese challenged the conventional wisdom that Asia belonged to non-Asian colonists, the British, French, Dutch and Americans. That might be thought of as an idea whose time had come.
Well, the Japanese challenged the conventional wisdom that Asia belonged to non-Asian colonists, the British, French, Dutch and Americans. That might be thought of as an idea whose time had come.
They branded their empire under the benign name of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." If they had actually lived up to that name, and kicked out the white colonizers and peacefully led East Asia as a group of equals, they'd probably be the dominant power in that region to this day. But instead, after they kicked out the white colonizers, they oppressed the other countries so horribly that when their former colonizers returned, they were greeted as liberators. I'd put this under "Something that was good in theory but horrible in practice."
Well, the Japanese challenged the conventional wisdom that Asia belonged to non-Asian colonists, the British, French, Dutch and Americans. That might be thought of as an idea whose time had come.
They didn't challenge it, they simply replaced it. Asia instead of belonging to non-Asian colonist, belonged to the Empire of Japan. They simply replaced one imperialistic center with another much more brutal one.
The "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" mentioned above was a slight of hand trick, a slogan used to justify war. It wasn't liberation in Asia, it was occupation and subjection in Asia. I am not even sure if the original concept was sincere. I find it hard to beleive, as the precursor "New Order in East Asia" conceived in 1938, was created while Japan was already on it's murderous march in China and Manchuria.
The British, Dutch and the French basically exploited natural resources, segregated and practiced neglect of the their subjects. The Japanese were engaged in mass murder, torture and and an Asia wide system of forced prostitution of women under their control.
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