Nov. 25, 2016 - Steve Pieczenik
05:55
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| What is the role of Japan in World War II and why did I write a book, a novel to be more specific, about the involvement of Emperor Hirohito in World War II and the subsequent biological warfare that he initiated? | |
| Music Many people have asked me, | |
| what is the role of Japan in World War II and why did I write a book, what is the role of Japan in World War II and why did I write a book, a novel to be more specific, about the involvement of Emperor Hirohito in World War II and For the most part, Japan portrays itself as a militaristic country that went to war and committed no civil crimes or war crimes. | |
| The fact of the matter is that in 1927, under the direction of Emperor Hirohito, who was a biologist, the Japanese developed very sophisticated biological weapons, including botulism, anthrax, and many other bacteria that were lethal to the civilians, and they literally killed over two and a half million Chinese innocent people in Manchuria. | |
| In 1927 to 1929, under the direction of Emperor Hirohito, Iran 7-11, that was the biological unit, went out and basically initiated an ethnic cleansing of the Chinese in northern China. | |
| And then eventually in 1938 and 39, they came before the war and during the war into Nanjing where they had a contest. | |
| And the contest involved who could kill the most number of Chinese women and children in the town of Nanjing. | |
| And Nanjing was the center of the Pumintang government during World War II. In fact, what happened was that over a period of a week and a half, over 23 to 24,000 women and children were slaughtered by the use of a sword, which was basically forbidden in terms of war crimes. | |
| And the Japanese soldiers and officers who were involved were never incriminated for war crimes. | |
| The reason I wrote Blood Heat, which involved biological weapons, is the fact that I had a feeling that the Japanese were never held accountable for their World War II atrocities. | |
| Unlike the Nazis, we didn't have a Nuremberg trial. | |
| And I asked myself, why was that the case? | |
| And what I had found out was that the American occupying army under MacArthur really didn't want to get rid of Emperor Hirohito or take him out. | |
| Under the advice of, at that time, the OSS and anthropologists like Margaret Mead, And Ruth Benedict who described the chrysanthemum and the sword and in that description they basically stated very clearly that Emperor Hirohito had to remain in power despite the war crimes he committed in order to sustain a viable post-World War II Japan. | |
| However, when I went to China a few years ago, what I saw was a reaffirmation of the Japanese slaughters both in Manchuria, or as the Japanese called it Manchukuo, and in Nanjing. | |
| And there are pictures of Emperor Hirohito standing by the Biological Warfare Unit 7-Eleven. | |
| The Chinese have never asked for an indictment of the Emperor but they have repeatedly asked presently and they will continue to ask for an apology from the present Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Prime Minister Abe to explain to the Japanese as well as the South Koreans why they committed the civilian war crimes and were they in any way regretful or penitent. | |
| The answer on the behalf of Abe and other Japanese leaders was that they didn't commit any war crimes. | |
| They are not penitent. | |
| They do not feel remorse. | |
| And in fact, what I'm concerned about is as China arises in the Far East, Japan will also accompany that arise with the help of the United States government. | |
| And similarly, we may repeat again a conflict between Japan and China over the Spratly Islands. | |
| And there lies the problem of the future, which I am concerned about, but has an antecedent in the history. | |
| If you read Blood Heat, you'll understand exactly what the Japanese did to the US Army, to the British officers and to the Dutch officers. | |
| In turn, you'll understand the influence of the senior officials in Ram 7-11 who subsequently became the head of Japanese zaibatsu's in pharmaceutical companies and biological companies that eventually became transnational. | |
| So this is a note to the future but with relation to the past and why I am particularly interested in the past because as George Santayana has said, the past repeats itself and if we don't learn the lessons of the past, |
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