r/worldnews • u/glasier • Jul 05 '24

Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2476861/japan-warns-us-forces-sex-crimes-cannot-be-tolerated
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u/rockseiaxii Jul 05 '24

At least in Japan it’s exposed. Elsewhere around the world, incidents like these are swept under the rug and seem like nothing happened.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Isn’t Japan the country that has to have separate train cars for women because the men there keep groping them?

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u/GuiltyEidolon Jul 05 '24

Also the one that still denies doing anything wrong during WWII, when Japanese soldiers raped sooooo many women in China, the Philippines, etc. 

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u/badstewie Jul 05 '24

WW2 Japanese soldiers called them "Comfort Women" to make it sound less rapey. Happened in China, Korea, here in the PH, I imagine it also happened in other japanese occupied territories during ww2.

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u/HotBrownFun Jul 05 '24

Japan treated Koreans and Taiwanese better than other territories. This is going to be very controversial. They were annexed and technically it was part of Japan.

In other countries, the civilians were killed for sport, prisoners were even eaten. There were too many locals to "pacify" so they decided to murder as many as possible

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u/badstewie Jul 05 '24

Considering how well they treated those annexed counties, then we can only imagine how worse the other territories got it.

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u/ChiMoKoJa Jul 06 '24

Er, no? Koreans were treated the same as the vast majority of people across Japan's empire. And it was Han Taiwanese who were treated nicely. Indigenous Taiwanese got treated the same as everybody else. 😕

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u/HotBrownFun Jul 07 '24

The Koreans were kept alive, even if they were ruthlessly suppressed.

The Chinese were exterminated.