Like your conversation... I happened to stumble across accidentally last week youtube.com/watch?v=qYn… it's not visually interesting but very informative. Not everybody knows how this stuff went down
Like your conversation... I happened to stumble across accidentally last week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYn30biJLqY&rco=1 it's not visually interesting but very informative. Not everybody knows how this stuff went down
I also am firmly of the belief that when the Japanese unexpectedly defeated the Russian Navy and US President Teddy Roosevelt made a peace deal between those combatants with a secret side agreement between the USA and Japan to carve up who would conquer and rule which Asian land masses.... a sick dance of new wars and conquest was set in motion. Too any secret deals make for messes.
Only laid eyes for the first time this week on photos one of the big government/corp conglomerate-zaibatsu/samuri old family heads who was literally a slaver and butcher in Manchuria during WW2, was "put in prison" for war crimes for a couple of years after WW2 but then popped up in the 1950's as a Japanese Prime Minister, and one of his grandson served as PM, too. [Coorectipn] Another heir to a different zaibatsu Aso Taro served as Prime Minister who lied about his family's businesses ever using WW2 POW slave labor, a lie exposed when a "misfield" letter signed by his father (por grandfather?) asking for "white POWs" emerged in the mid-1990's from newly declassified US National Archives. Found and publicized by independent scholars from the USA, Japan and China. Those files were a scrambled mess when declassified. Who scambled them? US, Japanese or other researchers?
I only learned last month that the US had by the mid-1930's set in motion a process for the Philippines to have independence. Guess who would oppose that! That did not fit in the Japan Empire's plans. Nor those who wanted it to stay an economically dependent USA colony. Lots of string pullers in the shadows then and now playing their "long games." And a few overt games today like China's and other's "dotted lines" on maps.
Also very interesting! learning things online is way easier than it was when I was young... we don't have to believe everything we're being sold now since people can share information so easily these days! Thank you ; )
Indeed, so much is online but so much is also scrubbed there. Reading the latest wiki for former PM Aso Taro is a whoot [see my correction above]. No mention of his family's use of POWs as slaves from the Fukuoka camps near where he was born. Also, no mention his performance as a skeet shooter in the Olympics. ;) Finished 41 of 68. Last I looked, his family's Aso zaibatsu is big now in medical businesses.
Like your conversation... I happened to stumble across accidentally last week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYn30biJLqY&rco=1 it's not visually interesting but very informative. Not everybody knows how this stuff went down
Very interesting video.
I also am firmly of the belief that when the Japanese unexpectedly defeated the Russian Navy and US President Teddy Roosevelt made a peace deal between those combatants with a secret side agreement between the USA and Japan to carve up who would conquer and rule which Asian land masses.... a sick dance of new wars and conquest was set in motion. Too any secret deals make for messes.
Only laid eyes for the first time this week on photos one of the big government/corp conglomerate-zaibatsu/samuri old family heads who was literally a slaver and butcher in Manchuria during WW2, was "put in prison" for war crimes for a couple of years after WW2 but then popped up in the 1950's as a Japanese Prime Minister, and one of his grandson served as PM, too. [Coorectipn] Another heir to a different zaibatsu Aso Taro served as Prime Minister who lied about his family's businesses ever using WW2 POW slave labor, a lie exposed when a "misfield" letter signed by his father (por grandfather?) asking for "white POWs" emerged in the mid-1990's from newly declassified US National Archives. Found and publicized by independent scholars from the USA, Japan and China. Those files were a scrambled mess when declassified. Who scambled them? US, Japanese or other researchers?
I only learned last month that the US had by the mid-1930's set in motion a process for the Philippines to have independence. Guess who would oppose that! That did not fit in the Japan Empire's plans. Nor those who wanted it to stay an economically dependent USA colony. Lots of string pullers in the shadows then and now playing their "long games." And a few overt games today like China's and other's "dotted lines" on maps.
Also very interesting! learning things online is way easier than it was when I was young... we don't have to believe everything we're being sold now since people can share information so easily these days! Thank you ; )
Indeed, so much is online but so much is also scrubbed there. Reading the latest wiki for former PM Aso Taro is a whoot [see my correction above]. No mention of his family's use of POWs as slaves from the Fukuoka camps near where he was born. Also, no mention his performance as a skeet shooter in the Olympics. ;) Finished 41 of 68. Last I looked, his family's Aso zaibatsu is big now in medical businesses.