The U.S. Navy Presents: The Enemy Japan II - The People (1942)

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The most profound cause of anti-Japanese sentiment outside of Asia had its beginning in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese attack propelled the United States into World War II. The Americans were unified by the attack to fight against the Empire of Japan and its allies, Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.

The unannounced attack at Pearl Harbor prior to a declaration of war was presented to the American populace as an act of treachery and cowardice, despite an established historical precedent of such military operations. Following the attack, many "Jap hunting" licenses were circulated around the country. LIFE magazine published an article on how to tell a Japanese from a Chinese person by the shape of the nose and the stature of the body. Japanese conduct during the war did little to quell anti-Japanese sentiment. Fanning the flames of outrage were the treatment of American and other prisoners of war. Military-related outrages included the murder of POWs, the use of POWs as slave labor for Japanese industries, the Bataan Death March, the Kamikaze attacks on Allied ships, and atrocities committed on Wake Island and elsewhere.

U. S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. POW compounds to two key factors: a Japanese reluctance to surrender and a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to POWs." The latter reasoning is supported by Fergusson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians [sic] — as Untermenschen." According to Weingartner, many U.S. troops regarded fighting the Japanese as more like hunting inhuman animals than a war.

The U.S. conviction that the Japanese were subhuman or animals, together with Japanese reluctance to attempt to surrender to allied forces, contributed to the fact that a mere 604 Japanese captives were alive in Allied POW camps by October 1944.

See also American mutilation of Japanese war dead for a discussion on the widespread practice of mutilating dead Japanese, for example a letter opener carved out of a Japanese soldier's bones was presented to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Weingartner also sees a connection between the mutilation of Japanese war dead and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to Weingartner both were partially the result of a dehumanization of the enemy. "[t]he widespread image of the Japanese as sub-human constituted an emotional context which provided another justification for decisions which resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands." On the second day after the Nagasaki bomb, Truman stated: "The only language they seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them. When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him like a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true."

An estimated 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese migrants and Japanese Americans from the West Coast were interned regardless of their attitude to the US or Japan. They were held for the duration of the war in the inner US. The large Japanese population of Hawaii was not massively relocated in spite of their proximity to vital military areas.

A 1944 opinion poll found that 13% of the U.S. public were in favor of the extermination of all Japanese.

In World War II propaganda, one of the main goals of American propagandists was to portray the Germans and Japanese as anything but human. By attributing animalistic, demonic, and otherwise undesirable characteristics to their appearance, propagandists attempted to dehumanize wartime enemies and galvanize the public against them. The U.S. used posters more than any other method of broadcasting propaganda - in fact, the U.S. produced more propaganda posters than any other country fighting in World War II.

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[WavesOfTrolls]

old propaganda is old

[throwntomato]

5:05; never an inventive or creative people? they couldn't say that now... with all their innovations....

[dadoody]

Americans helped feed and rebuild Japan after their huge earthquake only for them to bomb the US less than 2 decades later. How's that for gratitude?

[MICKLE1111]

japanese r great nation like usa and britain

[MICKLE1111]

american propaganda lol

[tjrxk7]

Well then it's agreed......it's a good thing that happened at Fukushima.

[TectonicPower]

Widespread looting in occupied territories (valuable goods from banks, depositories, temples, churches, mosques, museums, businesses, private homes, etc.) was organized on a massive scale by official secret organization called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) headed by Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother.

Mass raped by Japanese soldiers in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, where some victims were pre-menstruating girls.

[TectonicPower]

Between November 1944 and April 1945, Japan launched over 9,300 balloon bombs (or Fu-Go) to attack US and Canada. One bomb killed a woman and 5 children in south Oregon.

A tacit order from Hirohito to execute all Chinese POWs before the surrender of Japan, out of thousands of Chinese POWs, only 56 survived; and to eliminate evidences, all surviving human test subjects in Japanese Army’s chemical and biological research units were executed before the surrender of Japan.

[TectonicPower]

Thousands of POWs and captured civilians were transported to Japan, Taiwan, Indochina, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor perished in Hell ships such as Oryoku Maru, Junyo Maru, Dainichi Maru, Arisan Maru, and many more.

Only 52,000 of the 270,000 Javanese forced laborers being sent to other Japanese held areas survived after WWII, a death rate of 80%.

[TectonicPower]

Most victims of the human experimentations were Chinese, also American, British, Australian and Russian POWs.

At least six different chemical and biological attacks were conducted in China, such as Changde chemical and biological weapon attack in Hunan, and twice Kaimingjie germ weapon attacks in Zhejiang, chemical weapons attack in Battle of Wuhan and Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang.

Cyanide gas was tested on Australian and Dutch POWs on Kai Islands of Indonesia.

[TectonicPower]

Various Japanese Army Units (100, 200, 516, 543, 731, 773, 1644, 1855, 2646, 8604, 9420) researched and developed chemical (potassium cyanide, phosgene, chlorine, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic trichloride, sulfer mustard, lewisite etc.) and biological (anthrax, glanders, rusts, bubonic plague, typhoid, typhus, cholera, smallpox, botulism, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.) weapons, and conducted lethal human experimentations on the general population in Japanese occupied territories.

[TectonicPower]

The Three Alls Policy (Kill all, Burn all, Loot all) sanctioned by Hirohito was to massacre an entire village if they suspected an enemy hiding in the village, such as the Panjiayu Massacre in Hebei, China.

More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Death Railway (or Thailand-Burma Railway), especially at Hellfire Pass.

After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all POWs taken at sea.

[TectonicPower]

• Manila Massacre in Manila, Philippines • Nanking Massacre in Nanking, China • Palawan Massacre in Palawan, Philippinnes • Parit Sulong Massacre in Johor, Malaysia • Sandakan Death Marches in Borneo, Indonesia • Sook Ching Massacre in Singapore • SS Tjisalak Massacre by Japanese submarine I-8 • Terror Bombing of Chongqing, China • Tol Plantation Massacre in Australian Territory of New Guinea • Wake Island Massacre in North Pacific Ocean • Hsuchow (Xuzhou) Massacre in Jiangsu, China

[TectonicPower]

The followings are all well documented massacres and war crimes committed by the Japanese Army during WWII:

• Alexandra hospital Massacre in Singapore

• Bangka Island Massacre in Duch East Indies (now Indonesia)

• Bataan Death March in Philippines

• Benxihu Colliery in Liaoning, China

• Bombing of Darwin and Broome, Australia

• Changjiao Massacre in Hunan, China

• Double Tenth Incident in Singapore

• Kalagong Massacre in Burma

[BakuhatsuShojo]

@throwntomato not only that, but the statement was just completely asinine to begin with. Japan had just recently been opened to the world. If anything they should have been respectful at how quickly it became a force to be reckoned with. Not to mention, in comparison to most of the western world before that era, during medieval times.. Japan held its own, if not led the race. The rest of the world fed off eachother for progression, the same as Japan did. Only Japan had to do it later in history

[Rico8458]

Sony, toyota, honda, lexus?

[LordKaisen]

And FDR's fatal mistake

[LordKaisen]

How different life was back then..

[STILLNAKEDBULLWINKLE]

I wonder if this man knew two caterpillars resided on his forehead?

[STILLNAKEDBULLWINKLE]

@alexandramuses well, they did need modernization of their industry for consumer goods and not war. So, that part was correct. But, I see you points.

[STILLNAKEDBULLWINKLE]

@throwntomato they invented sushi and that was a brilliant idea!!!!

[alexandramuses]

The odd thing is that it's actually giving solid historical facts (like the fact that the peasantry have been suppressed for thousands of years, and the censorship of media) but manages to twist it so that Japanese seem primitive and in need of modernization in some kind of proper way.

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

This is a goldmine for music sampling. :D

[theH0UNDSofD00M]

thanks for this video..truly amazing pictures.