Comments on: Jap Pilots Ride to DEATH on Flying Bombs (Apr, 1933)

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:40:39 +0000

Purba Negoro: I didn’t say it was a POW camp, stupid. It was exactly a Japanese bio warfare facility. That was a counterpoint to your ludicrous assertion that the poor brave put upon Japanese didn’t do war crimes as a matter of policy. And yeah, to our shame we pardoned to obtain his records.

Good thing your brown (I think you mean yellow as well) majority practically invented racism so they can’t even stand each other.

And yeah, our brave military is succeeding in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As for the rest of it Melissa, yeah keep telling yourself that. I can’t help but notice your brave warriors in the Santa Cruz massacre didn’t restrict themselves to beating people up but rather used guns. Tell you what. Face someone who shoots at you and we’ll talk later. In the meantime keep working that heavy bag. Jerk.

By: Purba Negoro

Purba Negoro — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:43:19 +0000

Not all the world succumbs to US sub-rudimentary public education and self-inflating propaganda via its noxious mass media.
It may surprise you the globe’s brown majority have a mind capable enough of sifting through the US’ bullock droppings.
Unit 731 was not a POW camp- but a biological warfare and tropical disease facility. You have mixed up your FDR-Eisenhower propaganda.
You also conveniently forget the US did not stop (nor the communist Chinese) looting Unit 731′s intellectual property and Japanese scientists for their own weapons program- exactly as per the US Operation Paperclip- with the useful Nazis.

Nor did it stop “benevolent” USA manufacturing more Sarin gas than BUNA AG.
Most photographs of a honourable Bushido execution show a Chinese-method of wielding a sword- singlehandedly. Japanese use a katana two-handed no exception. In the same manner many US, British and Australian cowards strafing villagers in bamboo huts in Java- were executed. But of course the US never bothered censuring France’s use of the guillotine (last guillotined was a “terrorist” in 1977).

The famous baby at Shanghai South Railway Station (besieged by the nasty Yellow Japanese harassing USA’s beloved Chinese Chiang Kai Tek [aka General "Vinegar Joe's" "General Peanut"] was staged by HS Wong, a Chinese-American journalist, an appeard in William Randolph “you provide the photographs, I’ll prove the war” Hearst’s December 21, 1937 “Look” magazine.

As per hand-to hand fighting- my nations ferocious guerrilla actions expelled the Americans, Australians, British and Dutch who attempted to re-instate Whites-Only rule in my nation in 1945-1949, then more colonial puppet scum in Sumatera and Maluku.

Our ferocious military extols the virtues of the close quarter combatant- it makes a warrior. Hand-to-hand fighting is the best tool in rooting out white mercenaries, and native separatists and terrorists.
It is in use constantly as my nation, Indonesia, is constantly at war with US-UK-Australian or Dutch funded puppets seeking to (as per Aceh and its GAM- who we crushed with US-UK-Dutch outcry) gain our vast separate our mineral wealth for their greed.
You are more than welcome to familiarize yourself with Human Rights Watch international and ongoing campaigns against US-UK-Australian Separatist puppets in Irian Jaya and Maluku.
And you wonder why your brave military fails again in Iraq and Afghanistan.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:33:19 +0000

Purba Negoro: Unit 731 was no myth, clown. As far as bravely fighting hand to hand you’ve obviously never done it for real otherwise you wouldn’t be so enthusiastic about it. How anyone can be so naive and cynical at the same time is beyond me.

By: Purba Negoro

Purba Negoro — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:58:32 +0000

Rudolph is full of US self-serving myth and Spielberg crap. Someone has forgotten exactly how many innocent civilians the “bravely” bombed (read amputations. maiming, disfigurement), agent Orange, Agent White, Agent Purple (congenital birth defects) (environmental destruction) USA blew to bits and burned alive during the Vietnam debacle.
But of course, they’re not white so they don’t matter or they dared choose Communism as a means of alleviating their own internal rife poverty stemming from US backed colonialism.
The guards on most Japanese POW camps throughout Asia were Koreans with some natives. Japanese infantry were in high demand on the front or immediate support roles.
Yes there were rare major war crimes committed- but as the victor writes history- the many foul deeds of the US (first nation to use using napalm against bunkers/humans as they lacked the courage to fight Japanese like real soldiers- hand-to-hand) and UK are whitewashed (such as bombing and shelling the 100% civilian city of Surabaya for the Dutch to retake their stolen empire).
The only verifiable cases of cannibalism ever reported were of New Guinea natives (of modern day Bismarck Archipelago, Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea) eating Japanese soldiers.
The rest is US-UK-Australian lies, myth and hyperbole to justify their reparations claims against Japan- which is not supported by any of their nations respective war museums.
How will these war museums propagandize the “bravery” of these neocolonial cowards in their unprovoked petro-war aggressions against a defanged Afghanistan & Iraq (conveniently turning a blind eye to Saudi Arabia)?

By: Rudolph

Rudolph — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:03:02 +0000

I can’t believe the contempt for America’s attitude about this horror
after what our boys went thru during that war as POWs of those
‘creative’ wonderful people over there. The japanese were known
for inhuman behavior during that war, including ritualistic canabalism
when it wasn’t practiced of necessity. Yes, it says a lot about America’s
attitude, and I’ll bless those who held it and stopped those monkeys.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:42:03 +0000

It’s always amused/confused me that war has “rules” at all. The point is to win the objective. If that objective is more easily achieved, and with less loss of life, by a few suicide bombs than by marching hundreds of men to their grisly death by gunfire, grenade, land mine, or bayonet, why is it considered “wrong”? By the same token, why is the assassination of leaders outlawed, other than because the leaders themselves like it that way? Again, it seems as though many lives would be spared if the issue were decided based on the fate of one man, or a man and his political allies. Instead, they sit safely away from the action and direct thousands of young people to their death, until one side or the other runs out of bodies to throw into the meat grinder and surrenders. It seems insane to me. Granted, I can’t picture myself taking something from another by force, because I’m just not wired that way. I’m not frightened of violence – it just seems pointless and counterproductive.

By: Will Davis

Will Davis — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:13:21 +0000

If riding a bomb seems fantastic, take a look at the following puppet show article! The puppets were stated as being “life-like”… we may not yet be a perfect society, but I’m happy we have for the most part abolished that kind of entertainment, and I’ll find the fullest happiness when it’s completely abolished. How we could of found such racism entertaining is truly baffling to me! And the fact that discriminatory aspects still invade entertainment in this day and age equally baffles me! Handicap jokes, fat jokes, mental illness jokes, Asian jokes, and other jokes and depictions at the expense of others, still seem to creep into our entertainment. I suppose the puppet show article after the flying bomb article compelled me to hop up on my soap box and voice my frustration. I would like to thank the host of the above article for including the full uncensored page. It reveals a glimpse into a prominent mindset in America during the 1930′s, and certainly the majority of the 1900′s in some degree or another.

By: MrG

MrG — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:59:32 +0000

That Japanese are not innovators is something of an accepted wisdom. However, they are hardly unimaginative — try the movies of Hayou Miyazaki or Satoshi Kon (recreational drugs may be recommended for the latter), the subtly bizarre comedy series THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA, or the elegant “alternate universe Japanese folk tales” of MUSHI-SHI. Cheers — MrG / http://www.vectorsite.net/gblog.html

By: JMyint

JMyint — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:38:32 +0000

There is still really little innovation from the Japanese mostly it’s it’s buying or “borrowing” other peoples patents and ideas. Go to any industrial conference in the US or Europe and you’ll find the Japanese there recording everything.

The economics of the Second World War were such the the Japanese had indeed lost against the US when they attacked Pearl Harbour. It was their arrogence that prevented them from seeing it.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:01:55 +0000

Riding a bomb? I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned “Dr. Strangelove” yet.

By: John M. Hanna

John M. Hanna — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:26:56 +0000

1933? I didn’t think the Japanese were using suicide bombers until late in the war.

By: MrG

MrG — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:40:29 +0000

On the other hand — for younger folks who weren’t around up to the mid-1960s, do realize that “MADE IN JAPAN” meant “junk” and with good reason. Remember Doc’s shocked comment to Marty McFly in the first BACK TO THE FUTURE movie? By the mid-1970s that was a faint memory. Ironically, in the old days Japanese live-action movies tended towards classics — Kurosawa above all — and these days they tends toward junk, though I’ve seen some reasonable Japanese horror flics like DARK WATER. Cheers — MrG / http://www.vectorsite.net/gblog.html

By: NdotM

NdotM — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:55:23 +0000

I was hoping to see this article after previously seeing it on the cover. I agree, it speaks more the American attitudes towards race in 1933 than to the actual technological ability of the Japanese.

Case in Point: The most unfortunate puppet show taking place on the last page of the article. Yikes.

By: MrG

MrG — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:33:04 +0000

It is fascinating but clearly because it says more about American attitudes towards the Japanese than about the Japanese. The Japanese have their own distinct culture but they are not from another planet. One of my favorite lines, from Masamune Shirou’s action-comedy manga DOMINION TANK POLICE: “Let’s RAM them! We’ll take them with us!” “WHAT?! You Japanese are KAMIKAZE-crazy!” Cheers — MrG / http://www.vectorsite.net/gblog.html

By: slim

slim — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:51:48 +0000

A fascinating article. Thank you for posting it Charlie.

By: MrG

MrG — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:16:26 +0000

I think this was a fantasy at the time but it wasn’t 10 years later, when the Japanese Navy developed the Oka (Cherry Blossom) manned rocket bomb, nicknamed the “Baka (Fool)” by Allied propaganda. It should be noted that not all Japanese officer approved of suicide tactics, finding it disgraceful to order men they were responsible for to die, and that the Navy built the Oka themselves because they felt if they asked civilian aircraft manufacturers to do it, the manufacturers could have thought the Navy had lost their minds. Cheers — MrG / http://www.vectorsite.net/gblog.html

By: Eliyahu

Eliyahu — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:58:55 +0000

The “Japanese mind” lacks the ability to do any innovative mechanical design? Okay, that explains why none of their cars sell here and why our automobile industry needn’t worry about Japanese competition. Right? And it explains why we had such an easy time of it in the Pacific during WW2.

The fact is, had the Japanese launched a third wave of bombers to take out the oil tanks on Ford Island and then not been caught rearming their planes during the Battle of Midway, they probably would have either won the war or, at a minimum, it would have lasted for several years longer. And it wasn’t until the second year of the war that we finally came up with torpedoes for our submarines that were as good as the ones the Japanese had invented on their own.

One of the characteristics of hubris is a tendency to assume that one’s foes, or one’s competitors, can’t possibly do anything as well as we do and that whatever they make will be inferior to our own products. It got us in trouble then, it put our manufacturing industries in the mess we have now, and it’ll get us in trouble in the future if we don’t learn from the past.