----- Original Message -----
From: "matthew lewis" <mal@bulldog.georgetown.edu>
To: <zyyong@visto.com>
Cc: <ffml@fanfic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 2:13 PM
Subject: [FFML] Re: [C&C][Fanfic][short][SM] Left Unsaid
A VERY touchy subject in Japan. Most ppl who survived the era just wanted
to forget abt it and go on with their lives.
Yup. I'm figuring Usagi's uncle was one of the few who served in
a support role, so he didn't participate in any of it, and found himself
sickened by it.
There were a series of war-crimes trials held by the Allies to try
Japanese military officers for the atrocities the Japanese army committed
in their conquest of part of China and South East Asia. Except it wasn't
as well-recorded as the German one.
Or as expansive. The unit of doctors who tested bio warfare on
the Chinese and vivisected people never was charged.
Wrong on both counts. The Japanese Bio warfare division kept very good
records and targeted not only prisoners but villages in it's study of
spreading diseases. Indeed, if the US hadn't maintained a news blackout
about bombs Japan was sending across the pacific with balloons, they would
have send the next wave with ceramic bombs packed with fleas infected with
Bubonic Plague. But Japan didn't believe that the US would keep a threat
like the balloons a secret, so they falsely beleived that all of them were
destroyed over the pacific.
The reason none of the doctors were charged was because their commander
made a deal with the US army, and got them immunity from prosecution in
exchange for putting the US ahead of Russia in the field of germ warfare.