Japanese Soldier Spent 30 yrs in Jungles Refusing to believe WW2 was over

Oh wow.

I dont doubt what you said about loyalty and falling on the sword for the Emperor - the kamikaze pilots are an example of that.

But 30 years in the jungle thinking the war was still on?
I mean ... the elephant in the room is , after a decade or so ... surely He'd check? somehow.

Bet he was pissed when he found out his loyalty and lifetime commitment to the cause was rewarded with "oh yeah the Emporer surrounded 30 years ago , didnt you know?"

Really bad. One of the worst accounts I’ve read was that during the occupation of Nanking soldiers made a game out of throwing infants into the air and bayoneting them. Really sick stuff.

Another bad one is about the soldiers captured at Corregidor / Bataan. Imagine being captured then marched north for miles and if you stopped you were killed. Then when ya got where you were going your loaded in rail cars so tightly packed men died standing up. Then loaded into the hulls of ships to go to Japan, if they weren’t sunk by US subs. If you made it that far you finished out the war in a prison, some of which were hit by B29 bombing raids.

It makes ya wonder how such cruelty became so common place at that time.

Oh yea, they were every bit as bad as the Nazis.

The death toll in Nanking, virtually all civilian, was 200-300K. That's one city. Chinese war dead : 20,000,000 total, 3,750,000 military, 8,191,000 civilian by military, 10,000,000 disease/famine.

There is film of mothers leaping leaping off of cliffs with their children during the invasion of Okinawa. I guess they thought they'd be treated the way their soldiers were treating everyone else.

The speed with which Japan & Germany, both with rich cultural histories, and now Russia, not to mention Hungary, transformed from passably democratic societies to autocracy is sobering.

Don’t go anywhere near his stapler!

Thanks, I'll check that out.

Political "humor" is rarely actual humor. It's mostly just plain hate. That hate-masquerading-as-comedy is part of what ruined stand-up comedy. It only cheapens discourse and is about as "funny" as saying Luke, I am your Father. It is comedy substitute.