never thought about this but suppose it was common - yuk

[AtW]

Jesus Christ Nick! If you want us to make decisions based on the story as opposed to the headline the entire moral fabric of CUK could collapse.

FTFY

[EternalOptimist]

Was this the same Japanese army that perpetrated the attrocities and war crimes reported worldwide?

revolution: wwii japan

Wasn't that why the US dropped 2 hydrogen bombs. 1 would have worked well enough. 2 gave the impression that the enemy could be totally obliterated for their sins.

Then oddly the US covered up the extent of Japanese war crimes. Not sure why. If you visit Hawaii you will find many Japanese in the 51st state. They have been there for 150 years. Maybe pressure was put on the US government. Or maybe, they wanted Japanese backing during the cold war.

They dropped 2 hydrogen bombs ?

wow. you are a font of knowledge. (font 6 , airhead)

[NotAllThere]

Was this the same Japanese army that perpetrated the attrocities and war crimes reported worldwide?

revolution: wwii japan

Wasn't that why the US dropped 2 hydrogen bombs. 1 would have worked well enough. 2 gave the impression that the enemy could be totally obliterated for their sins.

Then oddly the US covered up the extent of Japanese war crimes. Not sure why. If you visit Hawaii you will find many Japanese in the 51st state. They have been there for 150 years. Maybe pressure was put on the US government. Or maybe, they wanted Japanese backing during the cold war.

They dropped 2 hydrogen bombs ?

wow. you are a font of knowledge. (font 6 , airhead)

Don't be daft. Everyone knows they were quark/neutron/strange bombs.

[Sausage Surprise]

Was this the same Japanese army that perpetrated the attrocities and war crimes reported worldwide?

revolution: wwii japan

Wasn't that why the US dropped 2 hydrogen bombs. 1 would have worked well enough. 2 gave the impression that the enemy could be totally obliterated for their sins.

Then oddly the US covered up the extent of Japanese war crimes. Not sure why. If you visit Hawaii you will find many Japanese in the 51st state. They have been there for 150 years. Maybe pressure was put on the US government. Or maybe, they wanted Japanese backing during the cold war.

[vetran]

You only have to read the first quote from him in that story to see that what he said isn't what the headline says he said.

FFS, people, if you're going to base a thread on a Fail story, at least base it on the story, not the headline. Hint: 99% of the time, the story doesn't say what's in the headline

(The story's usually total horsetulip in its own right, but that's another matter.)

I didn't base the thread on his comments, I based it on the shock that they had 'comfort workers' as slave prostitutes, it was a new barbarity I wasn't expecting.

[TransitTrucker]

I didn't base the thread on his comments, I based it on the shock that they had 'comfort workers' as slave prostitutes, it was a new barbarity I wasn't expecting.

It was my concern that the level of barbarity of Japanese soldiers in WW2 had been forgotten and the audacity of Mayor Toru Hashimoto original comment. His comment would be like the German PM saying the British internment camps were similar to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Yes, they were both used for internment but there the similarity firmly ends.