• tryagain
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    3 million eh. I guess I’ll just check the first fucking Google result.

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/asia-pacific-war-1945

    “A conservative accounting shows 25 million people died in the Asia Pacific War. About six million were combatants, mostly Chinese and Japanese. That leaves 19 million noncombatant deaths. Japanese noncombatant deaths may have reached at the upper limit of one to 1.2 million. This math tells us that for every Japanese noncombatant who perished, some 17 or 18 other noncombatants died—about 12 of them were Chinese. By the summer of 1945, most of these 17 or 18 million noncombatants were already dead. Excluding Japanese, every single day the war continued between 8,000 and perhaps 14,000 noncombatants were dying.”

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    What they were were doing in those “remote foreign countries”? Persihed “after the war”, is that about the execution of small part of war criminals? Ground battles of Okinawa, where soldiers recieved explicit orders to not surrender?

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    japanese nationalism will never stop being weird to me. Like you would think these guys would hate the US for bombing their empire to dust. No no that’s not the case at all, in fact they’re really sub-servient to their cracker lords. Just shows how pathetic these guys are.