"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3F3107BC.1A0862D6@yahoo.co.jp...
> masayuki yoshida wrote:
>
> > This site (in Japanese) suggests that several books on Unit 731 were published in
the
> > 50s and 60s.
> >
> > http://www.ne.jp/asahi/net/jpn/sizimi/evils/bibliography.html
> >
> > You will be surprised at finding a mountain of references there.
>
> Whatever you say. People are still ignorant, and people still aren't telling.

How many people are still ignorant?

> > If, despite of there
> > being such rich references in Japan, many people are not familiar with the project,
> > they would be very busy in doing other things for their own living.
>
> Like bitching about North Korea when they ignored the issue for over two decades. As a
> matter of fact, there are thousands more Japanese and their descendants trapped in
North
> Korea, but despite some sparse news coverage such as of family members missing
relatives
> for FIVE decades, the public still doesn't care about them.

What books did you read for the understanding of that?

> > That is one of their choices.
>
> Like crying over 140,000 disposable pieces of paper instead.

Common phenomena in Japan or other countries.

> > I can understand that as a matter of sensitivity people don't want to
> > know about such an evil history.
>
> You mean about their OWN wrongdoing. When it comes to Japan as victim, they must never
> forget. Of course Hiroshima overshadows other mass deaths of Japanese during the war.

Whether what you are talking about is their OWN wrongdoing is dependant on political
positions.  It is not a right way to view historical events only from moral points of
view.

> > To forget or to be unaware is *sometimes* the best way
> > for getting through the stress burden society.
>
> What day was today? Why are the Japanese so sensitive about today?

At war times, everyday people died.

>How much less stress it
> would be to forget or to understand such an outcome as inevitable when starting a war
> against the US.

What are you implying?  I have no idea.

Masayuki