'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, set for July 30

Re:'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, se... by gre on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:08PM (#36925215)

According to British historian Mark Felton:

"The Japanese murdered 30 million civilians while "liberating" what it called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere from colonial rule. About 23 million of these were ethnic Chinese. It is a crime that in sheer numbers is far greater than the Nazi Holocaust. In Germany, Holocaust denial is a crime. In Japan, it is government policy. But the evidence against the navy – precious little of which you will find in Japan itself – is damning."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#:~:text=....

Crimes all around. War is bad, actually?

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Re:'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, se... by pengaru on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:24PM (#36925351)

> Crimes all around. War is bad, actually?

I'm not sure why this is in response to my comment, which speaks nothing of war crimes nor has anything resembling an accusatory tone, nor does it excuse Japan as innocent.

The excerpt in my comment was transcribed and posted because it speaks to the Soviet Union's entering the war in-context, relative to the atomic bombings, from a Japanese perspective.

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Re:'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, se... by gre on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:27PM (#36925394)

Good point. I thought you were emphasizing the labor camp aspect of it.

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