On Tue, 2 May 2000, matthew lewis wrote:
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.
He'd have to be her grand-uncle if he was actually IN the war. Either
that or be the very oldest child of the family while whichever one of
Usagi's parents is the sibling to him was the youngest.
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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.
The Nuremberg Trials were very small scale--pretty much only the top Nazis
went to trial. The Germans themselves tried a lot of middle-ranking folk,
but the Nuremburg trials were only fifty or so people, roughly the same
size as the trials in Japan, if I remember correctly.
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