Japanese politician: rape was necessary during WW2

[ideologue08]

Well they were atom bombed as you said, so that was punishment enough in my opinion. If you include all the earthquakes and tsunamis as well, they took a beating.

They were punished much more lightly than the Germans.

They kept all their traditional territory plus some they took from others in the late 19th century, they were never occupied by a pillaging power like Germany was by the Soviet Union, they actually lost far fewer civilians to allie bombing than Germany did, despite the 2 atom bombs and a large population overall. Unlike the Germans, the Japanese never did publically own up to their reponsibilities for genocide the way Germany did for the holocaust, even though the total number kills by the Japanese didn't far far short of the tally of the Nazis. Nor did they ever apologize for large scale biological experiments on POWs and civilians of occupied territory, far larger than anything undertaken by the Germans in concentration camps, only offering vague "regrets" for "unfortunate" things that was done.

Consequently, their public officials still tries to score political points each year by publically venerating the souls of class A war criminals like prime minister Tojo.

Imaging if what would happen if German public offical venerated the souls of Hitler or Goering.

The Japanese are right to be concerned that a rising china will eventually seek retribution for WWII, especially if Japanese public officials chooses to remind the Chinese every year that the Japanese war criminals responsible for the war with china are still venerated in Japan.

I understand and I agree with you. It's despicable the veneration of war criminals. But look at what happened to them in 2011 when the tsunami hit, they were destroyed without China needing to lift a finger.