You guys know about the Rape of Nanking? Or how the Japanese Imperial Army committed numerous atrocities (with photos that I won’t post because they are too gory)? And you guys know how the Japanese war criminals mostly got off free without having to pay any consequences? You guys know whose fault that was? Yup, that’s right, the one and only Chiang Kai-Shek.
Chiang Kai-Shek, the leader of the Republic of China during WWII, decided to pardon the Japanese war criminals who desecrated his capital of Nanjing.
This bastard is Okamura Yasuji (岡村 寧次), one of the chief perpetrators of the Rape of Nanjing. Here is his testimony:
"I surmised the following based on what I heard from Staff Officer Miyazaki, CCAA Special Service Department Chief Harada and Hangzhou Special Service Department Chief Hagiwara a day or two after I arrived in Shanghai. First, it is true that tens of thousands of acts of violence, such as looting and rape, took place against civilians during the assault on Nanking. Second, front-line troops indulged in the evil practice of executing POWs on the pretext of (lacking) rations."
He was pardoned and not sentenced to a single day of hard labor or prison times for his crime. And we have Chiang Kai-Shek to thank for that. Why did Chiang fight so hard to pardon him? I don’t know. It’s a mystery, because Chiang Kai-Shek unconditionally pardoned Okamura. He literally asked for nothing in return. He could have made the pardoning conditional, such as:
- Japan must explicitly return Taiwan and Penghu to the Republic of China.
- Japan must return Diaoyutai to the Republic of China.
- Japan must make it illegal and a hate crime to deny the Rape of Nanjing, just like it’s illegal for Germans to deny the Holocaust
- Japan must support the Republic of China, both financially and militarily, at all costs, against the rise of the Chinese Communist Party.
But he didn’t do ANY of that. Chiang Kai-Shek was kind of hoping that the Japanese will come to their own consciousness and do what’s right. Of course, that didn’t happen.
- Japan continues to occupy the Diaoyutai Island, despite the fact that this is a blatant violation violation of the Treaty of San Francisco.
- Japan has a very sizeable population that continues to deny the Rape of Nanjing (or any war crimes) ever happened. The most popular mayors of Tokyo (Ishihara Shintaro), Osaka (Hashimoto Tohru), and Nagoya (Kawamura Takashi), are all Nanjing Massacre denialists. In addition, the most popular political Youtube Channel in Japan is Channel Sakura, made by one of the most famous Nanjing Massacre denialist, Mizushima Satoru. Now, I know that not every Japanese denies Japan’s war crime, but don’t tell me that it’s only a tiny minority that does.
- But the most insulting part is… despite everything that Chiang Kai-Shek did to defend Imperial Japan, the Japanese betrayed the Republic of China in 1972 by establishing ties with the People’s Republic anyway. Today, no other country in the world supports Taiwanese independence more than Japan does.
*sighs* I don’t know what to say :/
At least he got a shrine dedicated to him in Japan! I mean sure, the shrine is located in the middle of nowhere, far away from any major cities, you have drive way out of the way to get there, and that it’s tiny…. but at least it counts for something, right, guys? Right?!
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