US Internment Camps “Human Rights Crime of Century”

@01:24 Definitely true, and Korean and Chinese politicians have brought up the Japanese atrocities purely to rally citizens behind them, as a rather tasteless hatemongering political move to make themselves more relevant.

But while prime ministers have been decent about addressing the atrocities, it's still rather problematic that the Japanese government and people continue to deny this stuff ever happened e.g. textbook revisionism, censoring of works that detail Nanking, insisting that Korean comfort women were willing prostitutes, etc. It'd sort of be like if much of the American public, despite the government's apologies for internment, generally agreed that internment didn't really happen or wasn't a big deal, and schools never taught children that yes, America too screwed up big time in terms of human rights.

How should they compensate? They paid South Korea money, and suggested they pay money to all individual victims. South Korean goverment wanted to use the money to build up the country and that's where they went. Think it was only some years ago this was revealed to the South Korean public.

Furthermore, China and Taiwan refused monitary compensation.

As far as the Yasukuni shrine goes, people seem to forget that there are normal soldiers and other people there too. Just as in my cemetary back home, there's a rapist buried, now that shouldn't stop me from visiting.

I'm not saying Japan is in the clear, we all know what they did and it was freakishly horrible.

Nanking was an atrocity from Japan and I wont deny that, but Japan weren't the only dicks. The communists and republicans agreed to fight together but the communist party wanted the republican party to be destroyed so they didn't show up to help defend the biggest city in China.
The republicans, when they heard of this, burned every single scrap of useful land and demolished as much buildings as possible before fleeing, leaving the civilians to fend for themselves.
Then when the Japanese arrived and seen that the city was worthless, let their soldiers completely loose on it. All dicks. Japan did the worse damage, but all dicks.
The Chinese government and Taiwanese government still owe the people of Nanking an apology. Japan gave one, even if some right-wingers deny it, the sane ones did apologise.

@imyou:

except the japanese then go and commemorate the generals/soldiers who died to cause these things.

since you like to use wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine#Enshrinement_of_war_criminals

People need to educate themselves before repeating myths as fact. The revisionist textbooks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Society_for_History_Textbook_Reform] do exist... and they're soundly rejected by almost every school in Japan. Saying that Japan still denies their war crimes in schools is like saying that American schools all teach creationism instead of evolution.

Time heals those wounds; the people who remember will eventually die.

This is well understood by every government in the world. It's what Japan is using here, it's what the US is using for its Asian interference, it's what both Koreas are using with respects to its unified history, and it's what China is using with respect to Tibet.

But perhaps it is best for humanity. We're terrible at making effort happen and these issues take years worth of research to arrive at any passably neutral, informed conclusion. Maybe it's just best that we bury everything under secrets...

Sancom haters see only black they need thir fucked up hatered.

Of course it was a traumatic and horrible thing that was done, and not easy to forget, holding a grudge against people who had no control of those other peoples action, or were not even born yet is not beneficial to anyone, though it may be self destructive.

Most of the people who ordered or participated in that massacre are probably dead already.

Not surprised he'd hold a grudge. That's pretty damn traumatizing. Forgiveness has to go both ways and the Japanese still haven't even admitted, let alone apologize and compensate for it.

They say time heals all wounds, but there are some wounds that are just too severe to heal by time alone. Especially within a lifetime.

These vague Japanese apologies are actually non-apologies. They're apologizing for the war-dead in general, at the same time denying specific atrocities like Rape of Nanking ever happened.

It's as if the US apologies for Japanese killed, yet deny dropping the atomic bombs.

These aren't apologies, they're rubbing it into victim's wounds.

Why should your friend's grandfather accept their non-apology when his family died at Nanking, and they deny it ever happened?

I honestly wouldn't blame the countries and their people who were wronged by Japan for not accepting the apology. The atrocities of war run deep and through many generations. It's hard to forget.
Regardless, I don't think these photos highlight what the Japanese would like them to highlight. These photos don't make the camps out to be the worst places in the world that text books and other historians would like people to believe. Maybe that's because you wouldn't expect prisoners to be smiling?
Personally I like the family in the American fashion. They're really cute.