The irony is that while petty nazi camp guards are hunted down all over the world, the major war criminals of Unit 731 and its enablers continue to enjoy the immunity granted to them by the Truman administration.
There is no justice in the world.

I’d agree the Japanese were brutal towards Allied soldiers. While I’d agree that in general Japanese acceptance of WWII guilt is limited, especially under Abe, I think it’s a little harsh to say that all Japanese deny Unit 731 existed – here’s a piece from the Japan Times on the subject http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2001/06/05/commentary/world-commentary/the-trial-of-unit-731/#.U_vg4Ly1Za4.

Hi Larry,

1) A version of this post did NOT appear on judaismandscience.com – Roger Price’s was a nuanced, informed and educated piece, which is here, and does not cite the ob-gyn you quote: http://www.judaismandscience.com/the-curious-consensus-of-jews-on-abortion/.

2) D&C abortions are performed during the FIRST trimester of pregnancy, when the foetus as a whole is at most 3.5 inches long, about the size of a lemon, so wherever you’re getting that description from, it’s fabricated. Anthony Levatino, even per Fox News, supports abortion up to the age of 20 weeks. http://nation.foxnews.com/abortion/2013/05/24/doctor-who-did-1200-abortions-tells-congress-ban-them

Cheers,

Theodora

The Japanese were especially brutal in their treatment of captured Allied airmen and members of special forces, such as commandos. A Japanese soldier, Yasuno Chikao, beheaded Australian Sergeant Leonard G. Siffleet at Aitape in New Guinea in 1943. The Australian commando from “M” Special Unit was captured while his small patrol was operating deep behind enemy lines. This atrocity cannot be justified on the ground that Sergeant Siffleet and his team were spies. All were in uniform when captured. In the case of other Allied prisoners of war, the Japanese killed many of them by starvation, bashings, and forced labour. Yasuno Chikao escaped the hangman by failing to survive the war.

ONE REASON WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BUY CARS MADE IN JAPAN. THEY DENY UNIT 731 EVER EXISTED!

WHAT IS A D&C ABORTION?

The D&E method, used on unborn children 14 weeks or older, involves using a long steel tool to grasp and tear off, by brute force, the arms and legs of the developing human—after which the skull is crushed.
Dr. Anthony Levatino, an obstetrician-gynecologist who has performed many D&E abortions, describes the procedure: “Picture yourself reaching in with the Sopher clamp and grasping anything you can…Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard – really hard. You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about six inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm about the same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the spine, intestines, heart and lungs.”

WHO NEEDS MENGELE OR ISHII

Key point: while leading Nazis were tried at Nurnberg – and some hanged – those leaders had hundreds of thousands of equally guilty helpers. Each one should have been tried and – if found guilty – hanged.

Alternatively, the Allies could have designated the SS and Gestapo as criminal orgnaizations – which they surely were – and further ordained that anyone proved to be a member, in any capacity, would be summarily shot. To have done that would have sent a good global message: joining an organization that carries out a genocide means each and every member of that organization may be shot, so soon as membership has been verified by a competent authority.

This is harsh. But unless this is done, genocides will continue because the perpetrators usually escape.

Genocide denial is so ingrained, that most refer to the Nazi genocide against Jews and Roma (gypsies) as “the Holocaust”. The word “holocaust” means “to sacrifice by fire”. This term desecrates the memory of murdered Jews, because most Jews accept some form of the Law that Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai. Under the Law of Moses, even the appearance of humans sacrifice is strictly prohibited: human sacrifice was practiced by the resident of Canaan (the Promised Land_, and Jews were forbidden to follow Canaanite practices.

Referring to the Nazi genocide as “The Holocaust” is a desecration. The few remaining Nazis must chuckle when they hear the word “Holocaust”. It confirms to them that they won: that Jews – whom the Nazis tricked into going along with Nazi plans – still “don’t get it”!!

Further, almost all of the words used to discuss the Nazi genocide, are those used by the Nazis to hide their crimes. Thus, Jews were “arrested”, “deported”, and “executed”, terms that have a place only in countries, wherein Rule of Law prevails.

In fact, Jews seized by the Nazis got no legal process of any sort. “Deportation” is a legal process by which a person unlawfully in a country is sent to his/her country of citizenship. “Execution” is a penalty imposed by a lawful Court, wherein a person has right of defense. None of these terms has any place in the discussion of genocide, which is the negation of Law.

In short, the escape of the Unit 731’s many murderers – every person who served there in any capacity – is no different from any other
genocidal event. The perpetrators escape, because no one is willing to mete out justice, i.e., to shoot or to hang every murderer. So long as that is not done, genocides will occur.

I’d agree that it’s one of the single nastiest of a series of nasty post-WWII deals — way worse than Werner Von Braun. As to why I didn’t specify MacArthur and Truman’s personal involvement? I guess because I’m a Briton, writing (at the time) from China, so my primary focus was on the Chinese and Japanese rather than the nitty gritty of US involvement….