To be honest, I already new about most of that. In fact, we actually had a treaty where we would just automatically forgive their war crimes as well as force them to forgive our war crimes.
My basic issue here is that the Japanese were never really forced to have an accounting of the shit they actually did. Now, the Americans like to gloss over it, but even with the smallest bit of digging, it's quickly apparent when the Americans were committing atrocities. In fact, atrocities were put front-and-center in both The Pacific and Band Of Brothers. Even Saving Private Ryan addressed US troops committing small war crimes. We shy away from it, but it's readily available. The Japanese never really wanted to have that kind of accountability, or even believe some of the shit they were responsible for.
To be honest, I already new about most of that. In fact, we actually had a treaty where we would just automatically forgive their war crimes as well as force them to forgive our war crimes.
My basic issue here is that the Japanese were never really forced to have an accounting of the shit they actually did. Now, the Americans like to gloss over it, but even with the smallest bit of digging, it's quickly apparent when the Americans were committing atrocities. In fact, atrocities were put front-and-center in both The Pacific and Band Of Brothers. Even Saving Private Ryan addressed US troops committing small war crimes. We shy away from it, but it's readily available. The Japanese never really wanted to have that kind of accountability, or even believe some of the shit they were responsible for.