F.JAPANS MILITARISM RESURFACES

Japan's Militarism Resurfaces

South Korea, North Korea and China Should Unite to Counter Japan

Lee Wha Rang, July 27, 1997

It seems that Japan's militarism has not changed an iota since WWII. Ironically, and once again, some US politicians are backing the Japanese militarists.

One may recall that in September 1905, Pres. Roosevelt signed the Treaty of Portsmouth which gave Japan 'interests' in Korea and southern Manchuria in return for Japan's 'recognition' of American interests in the Philippines. In July 1996, Pres. Clinton signed "Japan-U.S. Joint Declaration" - a de facto US-Japan military alliance. Clinton, eager to contain China, has given the Japanese militarists 'interests' in the Korean peninsula.

In direct contradiction to the so-called 'Judeo-Christian ideals' of the United States, some US politicians and military leaders have not shied away from embracing war criminals, corrupt dictators, drug dealers and other undesirables of humanity. Some of the worst dictators (Samoza, Syngman Rhee, Park Jung Hee, Mobutu, Peron, Nhu, etc.) of human history owe their luck to Uncle Sam.

Gen. George Patton employed Nazi war criminals in post-war Germany. Gen. MacArthur employed Japanese germ warfare specialists and other war criminals in Japan and Korea. Americans and Chiang Kaisek employed Japanese troops to fight Mao Zedong's forces i n China. Japanese agents were placed in China and Tibet by the US CIA. Japanese operatives planted a bomb in Chu Enlai's plane en route to Manila.

With the US military securely behind it, the Japanese militarists have become more vociferous and aggressive in recent months. Japan has been rearming during the past two decades. Japan's so-called "Self Defense Force" is equipped with some of the world's most advanced weapons. She has a fleet of F-15 jet fighters, one of the most expensive and advanced U.S. military aircraft. The Japanese navy is the only one outside the U.S. navy with Aegis air-defense cruisers. Japan has ordered four AWACS (Airborne Early Warning and Control) planes to be built by Boeing on a B-767 airframe.

Japan has started placing claims on a number of Korean and Chinese islands. In addition, she has laid claim to offshore sea territories of China and Korea. Japanese gunboats have seized Korean and Chinese fishermen from waters surrounding the islands. Japanese maritime police seized a N Korean freighter last month on a false charge of drug trafficking.

The seamen were tortured and treated as sub-humans by the Japanese - reminiscent of the days of the Japanese occupation of Korea and China. In light of Kim Young Sam's (hopefully the last of the pro-Japanese Korean politicians) ineffectual counter moves, the Korean National Assembly has felt obligated to pass a resolution condemning the Japanese aggression.

Japan has been waging vicious disinformation war in collaboration with Kim Young Sam, a pro-Japanese whose family got rich working for the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Korea, against North Korea. For examples:

N Korean agents kidnapped 12 young Japanese girls.
N Korean nukes are hidden in Tokyo ready to go off.
N Korea is behind the gas attack in Tokyo.
N Korea controls the Japanese Red Army.
Rev. Moon of the Reunification Church is a N Korean agent.
N Korean army and police hijacked food aids from America.
N Korea sold food aids for cash.
N Korea prints counterfeit US bills.
N Koreans practice cannibalism.
N Korean soldiers mutiny.
N Korean army generals plot a coup.
Kim Jong Il is an alcoholic, a lunatic, sex-maniac, temperamental, etc.
Kim Jong Ii's 'wife' lives in Los Angeles

Japan has some 500,000 tons of rotting rice unfit for Japanese (or animal) consumption. North Koreans would not mind getting the rice, but Japan would rather dump the rice into the ocean than help feed the starving people of Korea. Japan has benefited greatly from the Korean War. In fact, Japan has been making money from turmoil's in Korea since the turn of the century. The more troubles in Korea, the more money to be made for Japan.

Japan has been active in promoting military conflicts in Korea since WWII. Contrary to the Korean "history" written by many S Korean and Japanese "scholars", Japanese militarists did not depart from Korea at the end of WWII. The US Military Government in Korea (1945-48) kept Japanese police and government officials in place and recruited those Koreans, who shamelessly worked for Emperor Hirohito, including those very Korean traitors who committed war crimes against American POWs and civilian internees during World War II, into the governing bodies of South Korea.

Many Korean nationalists - Kim Ku, Yo Ung Yong, Kim Sung Su and "Communists", who fought for Korea's independence - were systematically hunted down and murdered by these traitors under the US military tutelage.

Japanese militarists openly agitated for and covertly participated in the Korean War. Japanese troops, sailors, engineers and linguists were in Korea fighting the Communists. The Japanese Navy and Merchant Marine were reconstituted to provide naval and marine transport to the US forces. Massive construction projects were initiated to install telecommunications, to expand control and command facilities including a huge CIA operations center near Tokyo and other parts of Japan.

Photo: Wonsan destroyed by UN warships including Okubo's ships.
In July of 1950, Japan dispatched 4,200 ground troops to Korea as part of the 'US Forces' to engage N. Korean troops closing on Pusan. On October 2, 1950 a Japanese Navy Flotilla commanded by Vice-admiral Takeo Okubo was sent to Korea. The Japanese warship s operated near Wonsan, Inchon, Kunsan, Haeju, and Nampo on the Korean coasts providing transport escorts, shelling and mine sweeping.
The Japanese Navy played a key role in the planning and execution of MacArthur's Inchon landing. In a recent article, "Korean War and position of Japan", Prof. EijiTakemae of Keijai University (Tokyo) states that Japan mobilized 120 ships and 1,300 crewmen of the Tojai Kisen Shipping Company to ferry the invading troops. Over 50 Japanese warships and 30,000 soldiers participated in the Inchon Landing.

Photo: North Korea's Chasan Dam being busted by the Japanese.
Japanese airmen and engineers planned and helped carry out destruction of North Korean dams during the war. Hundred of thousand of North Korean civilians - children, women and old people - died in horrible agony thanks to the Japanese. These crimes against humanity make Hiroshima A-bomb look like a child's play.
Japan's Germ Warfare specialists (Unit 731) were taken in by MacArthur at the close of WWII and they carried on their germ war experiments in N Korea. The Unit '731' performed experiments on American, Chinese and Korean war prisoners and dropped germ bombs on a number of Chinese cities.

Many of the 1,500 American soldiers captured in the Philippines were taken to Mukden, Manchuria. Captured Americans, along with several hundred British and Australian soldiers, were met in Mukden on Nov. 11, 1942, by a team of Japanese medical personnel wearing masks. They sprayed liquid into the prisoners' faces and gave them injections.

By the end of the winter, about 250 Americans had died, and their bodies were stacked like cordwood. When spring came, the surviving prisoners were ordered to work with a Japanese medical team, picking up the half-thawed bodies. >P> It is believed the Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army killed at least 200,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians with germs. The Japanese utilized dissemination methods such barbaric act as giving Chinese children chocolate laced with anthrax and dropping insects and rodents infected with various germs.

Gen. MacArthur's CIC agents, under Col. Philip Bethune, aggressively protected Lt. Gen. Shiro Ishii, Lt. Col. Ryoichi Naito and others. Naito founded Green Cross, one of Japan's top pharmaceutical companies. Why did MacArthur coddle these war criminals w ho murdered so many Americans who served under him in the Philippines? The great general is dead and cannot answer this question himself but perhaps Big Mac saw the Korean War coming as early as in 1945.

Korean nationalism is on the rise in Korea. Post-WWII generations in Korea have no "fond" memory of the Japanese colonialists. Pro-Japanese Koreans are fading away or being purged from positions of power in South Korea. Indeed, anti-Japanese sentiments are prevalent among the youth in both halves of Korea and may indeed become the catalyst for national reconciliation. Even the most ardent anti-North politician - Rhee Syngman - was willing to join hands with Kim Il Sung to fight the Japanese.

Photo: Korean Christian leaders being crucified by the Japanese - an ally of "Judeo Christian' Americans.
The Chinese and the Korean nationalists have neither forgotten nor forgiven Japan's barbaric war crimes. The Koreans - both North and South - and the Chinese should not expect the United States coming to their aid if and when Japan renews her invasion in earnest.
Some US politicians welcome a strong military in Japan as a counterweight against the rising star of China. Japanese rearmament would mean less competitive Japanese products in World markets and a weaker Japanese economy (the US military in Japan permits Japan to spend a minuscule fraction of it GNP on her defense).

A 'global' war in the Far East will destroy Japan, Korea and parts of China. Russia will most likely join in on the side of Korea-China and help destroy Japan. Will the United States join in the war against China and Russia? How many Americans will die for the Emperor of Japan?

The American people should pause and recall the memory of all those American soldiers and civilians who died in the Pacific, those POW's abandoned and betrayed by their own government, those American children and women raped by the Japanese. Some impure elements of the American society may see big bucks to be made in a war in the Far East and may salivate at the prospect of a "contingency" in the region. But the great majority of the Americans will not die for the Japanese Emperor. The American people will not be fooled by any more 'national security' scam concocted by the war-profiteering minority.