JAPANESE SOLDIER IN INDONESIA

At 60-years anniversary for independence day of INDONESIA, an old JAPANESE soldier accepted a medal for "hero". The history always show us both-faces. Oneside, call him an invader, and the other side, call him a hero. Mindless anti-JAPANs in KOREA & CHINA, must understand it.

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• indonesia

[nippon2906]

私は先人たちのしてきた真実を知ってる

学校で学んだことは全て嘘だって知ってる

日本を誇りに思います　先人たちを誇りに思います。全員です。

[googogoo1]

@FindAHistory

Japanese government apologized and compensated for Indonesian, however Dutch did not so.

South Korea never apologize and compensate Vietnamese.

[eri4449]

これ日本語の番組だけど英語字幕つけてくれないかなあ

こんなケースがあるなんて、日本人の私でも知らなかった

[arnoldbeecher]

It's all about interest, German colonized Dutch and Dutch colonized Indonesia (theory of ecology) the strong will eat the weak one hehehe...I never blame what Hitler did to Dutch and whole europe (to make europe as their colonies) BUT I blame what Nazy did to jews people.

[googogoo1]

@RogerNetherlands

Your point is interesiting. South Asia have many ethnic groups, so for some groups Dutch rule is better than indonesians'. OK. Good or not, Javanese the majority people of the area were dislike Dutch rule. They welcomed Japanese, and we smashed old rule and our volunteers got their independence movement. Both side had their justice. I want you to know the fact Japanese soldiers purely hoped independence. So they did their best. I'm OK you dont think so.

[RogerNetherlands]

@googogoo1

The Moluccans only have a Dutch passport, but they are not Dutch, because the are wating to go back to the Republic of South Muluccas, but the country is occupied by the Javanese colonizaters, The Dutch government will not, and can not apoligize to the Javanese occupiers of the former Dutch East Indies, if we should aplogize we just ignore the rights of these people. Like Hatta said: The Javanese learned from the Dutch to be cruel.

[RogerNetherlands]

@googogoo1

After the Dutch colonized the Indies, the Japenese colonized the Indies for their sources, after the Japanese colonization the Javanes people colonizated the Indies, The Dutch were preparing the whole archipel to be independent, that means al the different people in the Indies, the Moluccans fought against the Indonesians because they are not Indonesian, like the Papoa's, the Banjar, Timorese, Aceh people, and we got more than a million Indo people in the Netherlands.

[RogerNetherlands]

@googogoo1

I don't know what you are refering to, but i was answering a question of mrryhrnboss.

By the way, the KNIL isn't a real army, the KL which was sent in 1946 was an army.

[googogoo1]

@RogerNetherlands

No there was no prestige. The prestige was perfectly lost only the 3 months battle in 1942. Indonesian freed from their master's myth.

[RogerNetherlands]

@mrryhenboss

Prestige 

[mrryhenboss]

@RogerNetherlands if the profit is so low, why the dutch army was so persistent and gone into all the trouble to re-occupy the country (1945-1948 war)? (please don't tell me it was to restore law & order).

[mrryhenboss]

@RogerNetherlands indo accepted compensation from japan, beyond my imagination that indo govt refused any compensation from dutch with newly formed country in need of money. this refusal never been recorded, certainly not in indo history book. for indonesian don't matter who profitted, VOC, the netherlands, dutch govt or whoever, they only knew that the wealth was exploited and natural sources was made a huge profit.