It's kinda hard to blame Japan when they were granted immunity by the United States, though. The U.S. also recruited lots of Nazi rocket scientists.
Japanese nuclear bomb survivors want Obama to apologize
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How'd that immunity work out for Tojo and friends?
They can apologize all they want, but they're talking out of both sides of their mouth to then turn around and visit Yasukuni annually. This is what pisses the other Asian countries off.
On the other side of the coin, regimes like China and N. Korea need a bad guy. There's way too much political currency in scapegoating Japan for them to abandon that regardless of any apologies. "spontaneous demonstrations" against Japanese interests in China are always a fun distraction from how fucked up things are.
They can apologize all they want, but they're talking out of both sides of their mouth to then turn around and visit Yasukuni annually. This is what pisses the other Asian countries off.
On the other side of the coin, regimes like China and N. Korea need a bad guy. There's way too much political currency in scapegoating Japan for them to abandon that regardless of any apologies. "spontaneous demonstrations" against Japanese interests in China are always a fun distraction from how fucked up things are.
Sure, like I said, the allies are not without some blame here as well. And they would have recruited someone like Mengele without doubts, if they saw him and his research as pivotal for the technology/arms race after WW2. However, do you think that either Japan or Germany would have done anything after WW2 without pressure? I mean which nation would? I can't really think of any at the top of my head.
My point is, it's simply a very complex situation. The immunity was not granted to all people equally for example. And I can understand the victims that really suffered from those crimes, don't give a lot in those apologies, when they see how some of the people which commited those crimes, never faces trials. And I am not sure how serious both the Japanese and the German government have been in the last 70 years with persecuting the criminals.
Most of my family is from Serbia, and I still think it is a shame and an atrocity how the Serbian government dealt with the aftermath of the Yugoslavian war. Some Serbians commited a lot of crimes, and there was never a real trial nor any serious attempt to arrest those that have been responsible for war crimes and.