There are Saints and sinners class A war criminals and Christians at Yasukuni Shrine. I read some of the letters home from those youngsters who believed they were on a crusade they had 0% chance of surviving (this kamikaze letter I read) and it was all about " dying for God , Emperor, and country. You can find me at Yasukuni Shrine forever praying for you ".
The boys in this picture are all of them about to die. They are all noble and full of smiles.
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It is their tradition to hug each other , write one last letter home, pray to Amaterasu their girl worth dying for, and say "we shall see each other again at Yasukuni Shrine" "we go to meet our lady who shines in the celestial plane."
The Japanese people I meet online and off are the most noble, honorable, educated, civilized, clean, organized, wise, thoughtful, disciplined people.
When they shake hands, they bow. When they suffer or die, they do it gracefully with honor.
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Emperor Hirohito didn't want war and Hideki Tojo took control of Shinto and their shrines and forced boys to be starved, beaten, run till they were dropping dead of exhaustion, and abused them so they would be mean like abused puppies.
He taught them that you never surrender for it is dishonorable and all Japan he wanted to commit suicide and begged Hirohito to not surrender but keep getting nuclear attacked.
He said Americans would rape and mutilate everyone and children were begging their parents in caves to kill them.
American flame throwers were cooking to death civilians hidden in caves. Civilians were throwing themselves off of cliffs.
Americans were decapitating, dismembering, and mutilating Japanese soldiers and leaving their skulls and limbs on trees.
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American servicemen, attest to the taking of "trophies" from the corpses of Imperial Japanese troops in the
Pacific Theater during
World War II. Historians have attributed the phenomenon to a campaign of dehumanization of the Japanese in the U.S. media, to various racist tropes latent in American society, to the depravity of warfare under desperate circumstances, lust for revenge, or any combination of those factors.
The taking of so-called "trophies" was widespread....
Trophy skulls are the most notorious of the souvenirs. Teeth, ears and other such body parts were occasionally modified, for example by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.
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Eugene Sledge relates a few instances of fellow Marines extracting gold teeth from the Japanese, including one from an enemy soldier who was still alive.
But the Japanese wasn't dead. He had been wounded severely in the back and couldn't move his arms; otherwise he would have resisted to his last breath. The Japanese's mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his
kabar on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim's mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer's lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier's mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, "Put the man out of his misery." All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier's brain, and ended his agony. The scavenger grumbled and continued extracting his prizes undisturbed.
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U.S. Marine veteran Donald Fall attributed the mutilation of enemy corpses to hatred
American mutilation of Japanese war dead - Wikipedia
The worst acts of terrorism in history were committed against the two most Christian cities in Japan, Nagasaki being the first.
The cities were not military targets but mainly women, children, and noncombatant men.
I'd rather get raped and gutted in Nanking than get all my skin and hair burned off and have purple sores all over my body , blood coming out of my ears, toxic radiation poisoning, some were blind and deaf for life, others died slowly of cancer, women were giving birth to deformed babies with no eyeballs or extra fingers and toes or some birth defects.
Where has America or the Soviet Union paid the Japanese reparations for our war crimes? The Soviets kept Japanese slaves until 1991 when communism fell.
Japanese Americans were placed in concentration camps.
The winners of the war write the history books and we were savages who needed to paint our enemies up as worse savages to justify war crimes.
We proceeded to try and hang the Emperor but found him innocent. We further polluted them with the errors of secularism, uprooting Shintoism, abortion, divorce, selfishness, hedonism, pornography, secularism, and a low fertility rate so bad , Japan will be extinct in approximately 1750 years at this rate, and old people need as many diapers as the youngsters and there aren't enough young people to care for them.
Despite this insanity, being bombed to smithereens, Emperor Hirohito
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Took his war torn , shell shocked, humiliated, demoralized country and brought an economic miracle, so that his little island outperformed the big Soviet Union, China, Germany, UK, and was catching up to become the greatest economy on earth in 1989 when he died.
Japan , the little island Archipelago in 1989 was the second greatest economy on earth.
They are a brilliant incredible people, most loyal soldiers, the Religion I'm most fond of because it's the only major Religion I know of where the most venerated figure is female, most patriotic Religion, only place with an "Emperor", oldest Dynasty on earth.
I wear a jacket with a Japanese flag I found on ground right after receiving communion for Japan, and I believe Amaterasu gave me a circular mirror outside Saint Paul Cathedral.
A circular mirror was her gift to her descendant, the first Japanese Emperor Jimmu. So, for many reasons, I have no Japanese in my blood but am a hardcore Japanese nationalist and Yasukuni Shrine is my favorite structure on earth, my Mecca. I am their POW.
So yeah, I have connections to Shinto and Japanese culture.
