Everyone who has ever been a fan of True Crime podcasts has probably heard of the Junko Furuta case, and that was done by rotten civilian children, who were so full of themselves and their debatable connection to the yakuza….and you want to convince me that the army, with far more power and stress from the war, didn’t brutally take it out on those weaker than them that couldn’t fight back? I really don’t get it. It doesn’t take a genius to put two and two together, and I heard that there’s a lot of physical, undeniable proof, so why?
So far the most plausible reasoning I’ve heard of was that the imperial family tried to apologize, but both the Chinese and Korean governments refused to accept the apology because they wanted to use their citizens suffering as political leverage (from articles on New York Times and NPR.org iirc), and while it does seem plausible if you look at it with tinted glasses, wouldn’t such a stance cause riots?
If you have any reliable sources, such as websites and books, that I can easily get my hands on to learn more about the history, that’d be great.
I do hope that Japan starts implementing this topic in their curriculum. While I don’t want any of the younger generation to feel like they should be punished for something they never had a part in, I do hope that they’ll grow from learning the history, and take steps to make sure that something like that never happens again.
(Also, fortunately, I can confirm that my distant Japanese relatives have never been involved in the military in the last 100+ years, as they came from a family of fishermen from the rural prefectures. )
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