為什麼日本皇軍的日軍如此野蠻，而今天的日本人卻如此彬彬有禮、安靜呢？他們只是假裝還是事實是什麼？
為什麼德國人要犯下大屠殺，或為什麼其他國家或文明會犯下這樣或那樣的暴行？
當有一大群人和一個等級制度時，就會發生有趣的事情。第一個是「只聽從命令」（或紐倫堡辯護）。
希特勒並沒有親自殺害 600 萬猶太人中的任何一個人。他沒有打開瓦斯閥，也沒有扣下板機。許多層級以下的人都這麼做了。但那些扣下板機的人認為，「我這麼做是因為我的老闆告訴我這樣做的，他是主謀」。雖然他們的老闆會說：「我說了類似的話，但這仍然是合理的。我的命令被誤解了/他們做得太過分了」。
還有一種「隨波逐流」效應，你只是想避免脫穎而出。在正常的和平時期社會中，這種「同儕壓力」已經夠糟糕的了（就像你試圖看所有朋友都在看的同一部電視節目，所以你就「參與」了談話）。在極權主義/軍國主義政權中，這可能是生存與被送進監獄或槍決之間的區別。
這些政權不容許自由思想家或「異常者」。
也很容易說：「哦，但我不會那樣！我要發起一場抵抗運動！” 政權有辦法讓你遵守規矩，例如確保你家人的福利取決於你的忠誠（就像在北韓一樣）。如果你反對他們或背叛他們，承受後果的將是他們。我的意思是，你有多少次聽到一些老闆因為員工「說錯話」而對其進行報復？我認識一些人因為這樣做而被「解僱」（合約未續約或類似的情況）。
最後，還有「責任分散」。“好人”保持沉默，因為“這不關我的事”，“我不想干涉”，“其他人比我更有能力處理這件事”，或者“我有更重要的事情需要做對”現在。 」
種族或國籍在這裡一點也不重要。這是全球性的。
你真正需要的只是某種“觸發因素”，例如適當的環境，讓極端分子崛起並領導國家。畢竟希特勒是民主選舉產生的。日本正在效仿歐洲帝國主義列強，因為他們看到了中國所發生的事情，並渴望避免自己成為外國列強的殖民地。將其與民族主義結合起來，你就會得到日本帝國。
也許他們的士兵中沒有多少人天生是虐待狂或殘暴的，但許多指揮者卻是。他們的教育體系宣揚激進的愛國主義，這無濟於事。公平地說，他們遠不是當時唯一的一個，但他們的版本是極端的。
許多人推測這與此有很大關係：
20 世紀 40 年代，甲基安非他命被廣泛認為是一種神奇藥物，可以提高警覺性和精力。日本人尤其把它當作糖果一樣分發給他們的軍隊。濫用冰毒的已知影響包括對他人的同理心減弱、錯誤地認為自己不會犯錯，以及躁狂症，在嚴重的情況下會變成精神病發作；與報導的日本暴行的重疊是驚人的。
戰爭期間冰毒的使用非常普遍，以至於戰後日本政府不得不扭轉局面，並進行大規模運動來打擊冰毒成癮。
Why did the Germans commit Holocaust or why did any other country or civilization commit this or that atrocity?
When there’s a large group of people and a hierarchy, interesting things can happen. The first one is “just following orders” (or the Nuremberg defense).
Hitler didn’t personally kill any of the 6 million Jews. He didn’t turn on the gas valve or pulled the trigger. People, many layers down, did. But those who pulled the trigger reasoned that “I did that because my boss told me to, he’s the Mastermind”. While their bosses are going to say, “I said something along those lines but it’s still within reason. My orders were misinterpreted/They went too far”.
There’s also the “following the crowd” effect where you just want to avoid standing out. In normal, peacetime societies this “peer pressure” is bad enough (like trying to watch the same TV shows that all your friends are watching, so you’re “in” the conversations). In a totalitarian/militaristic regime, this could be the difference between surviving and being sent to prison or shot.
Those regimes are not tolerant to free thinkers or “deviants”.
It’s also very easy to say that “Oh, but I won’t be like that! I’m going to set up a resistance movement!” The regime has ways to keep you in line, like making sure your family’s welfare is dependent on your loyalty (like in North Korea). If you go against them or you defect, they’ll be the ones who suffer the consequences. I mean, how many times have you heard some boss retaliating their workers for “saying the wrong things”? I know a few people who were “fired” (contract not renewed or something like that) for doing so.
Lastly, there’s the “diffusion of responsibility”. The “good guys” were silent because “it’s not my business”, “I don’t want to interfere”, “someone else is more capable of handling this than me”, or “I got more important things I need to do right now.”
Ethnicity or nationality doesn’t matter one bit here. This is global.
All you really need is some kind of “trigger”, like the right circumstances, for an extremist to rise and lead the country. Hitler was democratically elected, after all. Japan was modelling itself after the European imperial powers because they saw what happened to China and were keen to avoid being a colony of a foreign power themselves. Mix this with nationalism and you get Imperial Japan.
Probably not many of their soldiers were inherently sadistic or brutal, but many of those in command were. It doesn’t help that their education system promoted aggressive patriotism. To be fair, they were far from the only one at the time but their version is extreme.
99% of people in any country would just do the same
No single raindrop thinks it’s to blame for the flood.
The Japanese troops were trained in the samurai traditions, which emphasized a war like merciless code, applied both to themselves and to their opponents. Anything less than a fight to the death was regarded as weakness. Weakness had no rights and no respect.
Historically Japan had the samurai class and a much more passive Population. This samurai tradition died in World War II and the cost to Japan of this war like state was nearly unthinkable and it is discredited.
The traditional Japanese culture characterized by ritual, politeness, and respect, has supplanted the other traditional, aggressiv
The following is the list of why the Imperial Japanese Army fail to defend the Pacific in WW2;
Major Factors
- Their planes didn't have radar.
- Their radio was hacked revealing where and when they will attack.
- Their aircraft carrier was easily sunk and difficult to repair.
- The battle of midway was the turning point, they were far off from supporting each other.
- They were the only country fighting at sea in the pacific against - Australia USA and New Zealand and the Dutch.
- They lost the oil fields at Indonesia which was a turning point thus Hindering their ships from operation.
- Lack of underground forts t
So cruel that they shocked the Nazis, no joke.
After Peral Harbor the US President FDR wanted to throw a punch at Japan. The US Navy needed a morale boost and he wanted Japan to feel the burn.
So a daring plan was concocted to launch US bombers from an Aircraft Carrier and bomb Tokyo.
It worked somehow and 16 B-35 bombers managed to bomb a few military and government targets in Tokyo- including some
I once talked with a World War II vet from the Pacific Theater many years ago. I'll never forget when he told me that, “It was better to kill yourself than to let the Japanese get their hands on you.” The Imperial Japanese Army was perhaps the most violent and bloodthirsty military in modern history. Their cruelty far overshadowed anything the Nazis did. Every country in Asia, and every inhabited territory across the Pacific that was occupied by the soldiers of the rising sun, suffered horribly.
Above is propaganda. The reality was horrifyingly different.
Part of the reason for such brutality we
They didn’t. In fact, Nazi racial theory hailed the Japanese and Chinese as accomplished races, because they had civilization long before the Germans did. Both peoples were considered “Honorary Aryans,” which was simply a way for the Nazis to say “these people don’t look like us, but treat them like human beings.”
Since the Japanese were seeking their “living space” in parts of the world that were of no interest to Hitler or his supporters, and since the Japanese were considered a worthy and warrior race by the Nazis, there was no reason for them not to be allies.
In fact, many leading Nazis cel
I’m a (young) Japanese.
Although I am not very positive about my memories, I think I was told that both of my grandfathers were fighter pilots of the Imperial Japanese Navy (not Army). Both of them were about to be sent off as kamikaze pilots, but just before they took off, the war ended.
I don’t talk very often about grandparents being in the Imperial Japanese Navy. I rarely hear other people talking about that neither. This isn’t very surprising since WWII veterans would be over 90s today, which means most of them aren’t even present in this world.
The anti-war movement after WWII in Japan was
They were politely and quietly obeying their officers, who were obeying theirs, all the way to the top; who then broadcast to the people, to politely and quietly obey the American occupation.
According to a Japanese UN Peacekeeper I spent time with, IIRC the division between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army started during the establishment of the shogunate around 1600 and from the Meiji period on developed along ideological lines and consequent world views.
The Navy, in the tradition of the admirals Togo and Yamamoto, is considered to be philosophical and intellectual but at the same time not averse to high risk taking. To wit: Yamamoto, the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, had a reputation as a gifted poker player during his time as a student at Harvard.
On the other side
Very very strong rivalry.
Almost a rivalry so strong that the partisans of either side could only see any plans from the post of view of how it would affect their service.
Not the country as a whole, mind. Just how it would affect or even glorify the army or navy.
The rivalry got them into the war, got them bogged down in China(1 million soldiers there who would not be recalled no matter how pressing the threats elsewhere), and got them defeated.
Probably polite and quiet manner towards fellow citizens but not towards enemies.
They could be very cruel towards once they thought they were enemies to protect their citizens.
Now Japanese don’t have much enemies so they are polite and kind to other nations.
And that’s an actual Japanese way to say hi to other nation citizens.
1. Visions of empire: The army was more expansionist. The navy not as much.
2. Politics: Each wanted to control the government and hence the Emperor.
3. Funding: Each was determined to have the lion’s share of military funding.
4. Policies: The Navy was more pragmatic than the army.
5. Loyalty: Factions in the army were not above engineering a coup d’etat. the navy didn’t have that problem.
6. M..
Why were the Japanese troops of the Imperial Japanese Army so barbaric, but the Japanese today are so polite and quiet? Are they just pretending or what is the truth?
Why did the Germans commit Holocaust or why did any other country or civilization commit this or that atrocity?
When there’s a large group of people and a hierarchy, interesting things can happen. The first one is “just following orders” (or the Nuremberg defense).
Hitler didn’t personally kill any of the 6 million Jews. He didn’t turn on the gas valve or pulled the trigger. People, many layers down, did. But those who pulled the trigger reasoned that “I did that because my boss told me to, he’s the Mastermind”. While their bosses are going to say, “I said something along those lines but it’s still within reason. My orders were misinterpreted/They went too far”.
There’s also the “following the crowd” effect where you just want to avoid standing out. In normal, peacetime societies this “peer pressure” is bad enough (like trying to watch the same TV shows that all your friends are watching, so you’re “in” the conversations). In a totalitarian/militaristic regime, this could be the difference between surviving and being sent to prison or shot.
Those regimes are not tolerant to free thinkers or “deviants”.
It’s also very easy to say that “Oh, but I won’t be like that! I’m going to set up a resistance movement!” The regime has ways to keep you in line, like making sure your family’s welfare is dependent on your loyalty (like in North Korea). If you go against them or you defect, they’ll be the ones who suffer the consequences. I mean, how many times have you heard some boss retaliating their workers for “saying the wrong things”? I know a few people who were “fired” (contract not renewed or something like that) for doing so.
Lastly, there’s the “diffusion of responsibility”. The “good guys” were silent because “it’s not my business”, “I don’t want to interfere”, “someone else is more capable of handling this than me”, or “I got more important things I need to do right now.”
Ethnicity or nationality doesn’t matter one bit here. This is global.
All you really need is some kind of “trigger”, like the right circumstances, for an extremist to rise and lead the country. Hitler was democratically elected, after all. Japan was modelling itself after the European imperial powers because they saw what happened to China and were keen to avoid being a colony of a foreign power themselves. Mix this with nationalism and you get Imperial Japan.
Probably not many of their soldiers were inherently sadistic or brutal, but many of those in command were. It doesn’t help that their education system promoted aggressive patriotism. To be fair, they were far from the only one at the time but their version is extreme.
99% of people in any country would just do the same
It depends on the heritage and beliefs of that country, but unfortunately a large % would.
Mate, any country, if you think north Europeans are so enlightened don't forget Congo or Indonesia. It really doesn't matter the “heritage”, its the system that runs the country at the point in time
No single raindrop thinks it’s to blame for the flood.
The Japanese troops were trained in the samurai traditions, which emphasized a war like merciless code, applied both to themselves and to their opponents. Anything less than a fight to the death was regarded as weakness. Weakness had no rights and no respect.
Historically Japan had the samurai class and a much more passive Population. This samurai tradition died in World War II and the cost to Japan of this war like state was nearly unthinkable and it is discredited.
The traditional Japanese culture characterized by ritual, politeness, and respect, has supplanted the other traditional, aggressiv
Why did the Imperial Japanese Army fail to defend the Pacific in WW2?
The following is the list of why the Imperial Japanese Army fail to defend the Pacific in WW2;
Major Factors
Their planes didn't have radar.
Their radio was hacked revealing where and when they will attack.
Their aircraft carrier was easily sunk and difficult to repair.
The battle of midway was the turning point, they were far off from supporting each other.
They were the only country fighting at sea in the pacific against - Australia USA and New Zealand and the Dutch.
They lost the oil fields at Indonesia which was a turning point thus Hindering their ships from operation.
Lack of underground forts t
The atrocities that were committed by the Germans in World War II are talked about even to this day. But why are the Japanese atrocities not discussed at all? We sure didn’t learn about any of that in history class.
Why were Japanese so brutal to other Asians during World War Two?
Why do the Japanese think they are the victims of WW2 when they were the ones who started the war?
How cruel were the Japanese in WW2?
So cruel that they shocked the Nazis, no joke.
After Peral Harbor the US President FDR wanted to throw a punch at Japan. The US Navy needed a morale boost and he wanted Japan to feel the burn.
So a daring plan was concocted to launch US bombers from an Aircraft Carrier and bomb Tokyo.
It worked somehow and 16 B-35 bombers managed to bomb a few military and government targets in Tokyo- including some
I once talked with a World War II vet from the Pacific Theater many years ago. I'll never forget when he told me that, “It was better to kill yourself than to let the Japanese get their hands on you.” The Imperial Japanese Army was perhaps the most violent and bloodthirsty military in modern history. Their cruelty far overshadowed anything the Nazis did. Every country in Asia, and every inhabited territory across the Pacific that was occupied by the soldiers of the rising sun, suffered horribly.
Above is propaganda. The reality was horrifyingly different.
Part of the reason for such brutality we
Why did Japan join the Axis when Nazis thought they were sub-human?
They didn’t. In fact, Nazi racial theory hailed the Japanese and Chinese as accomplished races, because they had civilization long before the Germans did. Both peoples were considered “Honorary Aryans,” which was simply a way for the Nazis to say “these people don’t look like us, but treat them like human beings.”
Since the Japanese were seeking their “living space” in parts of the world that were of no interest to Hitler or his supporters, and since the Japanese were considered a worthy and warrior race by the Nazis, there was no reason for them not to be allies.
In fact, many leading Nazis cel
Do most modern day Japanese people talk about their older relatives being in the Imperial Japanese Army?
I’m a (young) Japanese.
Although I am not very positive about my memories, I think I was told that both of my grandfathers were fighter pilots of the Imperial Japanese Navy (not Army). Both of them were about to be sent off as kamikaze pilots, but just before they took off, the war ended.
I don’t talk very often about grandparents being in the Imperial Japanese Navy. I rarely hear other people talking about that neither. This isn’t very surprising since WWII veterans would be over 90s today, which means most of them aren’t even present in this world.
The anti-war movement after WWII in Japan was
Why were the Japanese troops of the Imperial Japanese Army so barbaric, but the Japanese today are so polite and quiet? Are they just pretending or what is the truth?
They were politely and quietly obeying their officers, who were obeying theirs, all the way to the top; who then broadcast to the people, to politely and quietly obey the American occupation.
What was the relationship like between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy? How did this relationship affect the Japanese war effort?
According to a Japanese UN Peacekeeper I spent time with, IIRC the division between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army started during the establishment of the shogunate around 1600 and from the Meiji period on developed along ideological lines and consequent world views.
The Navy, in the tradition of the admirals Togo and Yamamoto, is considered to be philosophical and intellectual but at the same time not averse to high risk taking. To wit: Yamamoto, the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, had a reputation as a gifted poker player during his time as a student at Harvard.
On the other side
Very very strong rivalry.
Almost a rivalry so strong that the partisans of either side could only see any plans from the post of view of how it would affect their service.
Not the country as a whole, mind. Just how it would affect or even glorify the army or navy.
The rivalry got them into the war, got them bogged down in China(1 million soldiers there who would not be recalled no matter how pressing the threats elsewhere), and got them defeated.
Why were the Japanese troops of the Imperial Japanese Army so barbaric, but the Japanese today are so polite and quiet? Are they just pretending or what is the truth?
Probably polite and quiet manner towards fellow citizens but not towards enemies.
They could be very cruel towards once they thought they were enemies to protect their citizens.
Now Japanese don’t have much enemies so they are polite and kind to other nations.
And that’s an actual Japanese way to say hi to other nation citizens.
Why exactly did the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy despise each other so much?
1. Visions of empire: The army was more expansionist. The navy not as much.
2. Politics: Each wanted to control the government and hence the Emperor.
3. Funding: Each was determined to have the lion’s share of military funding.
4. Policies: The Navy was more pragmatic than the army.
5. Loyalty: Factions in the army were not above engineering a coup d’etat. the navy didn’t have that problem.
6. M..
The atrocities that were committed by the Germans in World War II are talked about even to this day. But why are the Japanese atrocities not discussed at all? We sure didn’t learn about any of that in history class.
Why were Japanese so brutal to other Asians during World War Two?
Why do the Japanese think they are the victims of WW2 when they were the ones who started the war?
Was Japan’s army as evil as history portrays them if so, what made them commit such atrocities?
Why were the Japanese fighters so ruthless in World War II?
Why was Japan so cruel during World War 2?
Why was Japan so brutal during WW2? So much so that even the Nazis may have been concerned about human rights violations.
Why was Imperial Japan so brutal on China and Korea, but much less on Indonesia?
Why did the Imperial Japanese Army fail to defend the Pacific in WW2?
Why does no one talk about the fact that Imperial Japan was just as bad or even worse than Nazi Germany?
So cruel that they shocked the Nazis, no joke.
After Peral Harbor the US President FDR wanted to throw a punch at Japan. The US Navy needed a morale boost and he wanted Japan to feel the burn.
So a daring plan was concocted to launch US bombers from an Aircraft Carrier and bomb Tokyo.
It worked somehow and 16 B-35 bombers managed to bomb a few military and government targets in Tokyo- including some
I can give you one example:
In the late '70s, I worked at a communications facility in Tokyo. We were inside a sealed building inside two sets of fences topped with concertina wire. Our Japanese daytime guard was an older guy, whose job was to keep the locals (and a few nut cases) away. We'd leave the site on occasion and have lunch in some of the local traditional Japanese Restaurants in the area.
One day as we prepared to go, we got into a short conversation with him. He asked us where we had served & we told him. Then he responded that he was in the Japanese Army during WW2. We asked him wher
The Japanese troops were trained in the samurai traditions, which emphasized a war like merciless code, applied both to themselves and to their opponents. Anything less than a fight to the death was regarded as weakness. Weakness had no rights and no respect.
Historically Japan had the samurai class and a much more passive Population. This samurai tradition died in World War II and the cost to Japan of this war like state was nearly unthinkable and it is discredited.
The traditional Japanese culture characterized by ritual, politeness, and respect, has supplanted the other traditional, aggressiv
Probably polite and quiet manner towards fellow citizens but not towards enemies.
They could be very cruel towards once they thought they were enemies to protect their citizens.
Now Japanese don’t have much enemies so they are polite and kind to other nations.
And that’s an actual Japanese way to say hi to other nation citizens.
When I was on active duty, I was stationed, for a year (May 1971-April 1972, in Iwakuni, Japan which is about 25 miles from Hiroshima.
One time I was taking in the sights in Hiroshima when a British lady started talking to me at a traffic light. She asked me if I would be willing to accompany her to a hospital and meet some people who were still in the hospital as a result of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
Having no reason to refuse, I accompanied the lady to the hospital. At that time, I wore a jacket that had the US flag on the left shoulder and a Japanese flag on the right shoulder. She
I believe you mean ‘Why did Japan lose the Pacific War’?
After Pearl Harbor, Japan utterly stunned the world with the incredible speed and range of her military’s reach. Hitler’s and Mussolini’s combined gains paled in comparison.
Within 5 months Japan dismantled colonial empires across Asia which had taken the great European powers centuries to build. Suddenly Japan controlled over 20 million square miles of the earth’s surface (though much of this was ocean). From Manchuria in the north to the Owen Stanley Range of Papua New Guinea in the south, and from India’s Assam in the west to the Aleuti
Their enemies? For them, anyone who wasn’t Japanese was an enemy, and considered an inferior, low-life sub-human creature who life is 100% useless and worthless, and did not deserve to live. They viewed all non-japanese are inferior sub-humans. They were so brutal and savage, they would murder, rape children and young women, bury people alive, have a contest on who can kill the most civilians in the most brutal way, even the Nazi-Germany’s generals who visited China at a time were shocked at the severe and sheer animal savagery and brutality of the Japanese. To die in the name on the emperor w
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