Araw ng Kagitingan | Are the Japanese troops a better alternative than the US soldiers?

Posted by Pahayag ng Migrante

09.04.2014

Fall of Bataan (wikiphoto)

A person posted a comment to my blog today asking if the Japanese troops a better alternative that the Americans.

My answer is a resounding NO.

Like the Americans who committed inhuman atrocities to the Filipino civilians when they came victorious and massacred more than a million men, women and children during their ‘pacification’ campaigns, the Japanese may have even surpassed them in hideousness, some, even before my eyes as a child. Wherever the Japanese boots marched, from Manchuria to Indonesia, from Burma to the Phjilippines, their footsteps lined the land with corpses of innocent civilians.

Japanese atrocities in the Philippines (wikiphoto)

WWII is not about human consideration. It is about rich corporate nations fighting for supremacy in the cheap raw materials and labor market. The Germans and their ally Italy with their national socialism started a war that killed more than 50 million civilians to grab terretories and supply of wqheat in eastern Europe and oil in the near-east. The Japanese joined their European counterparts to expand their sphere of commercial supremacy in Asia and Pacific seaboards. We cannot choose an alternative between them. They are all of the same color, the color of money. The same smell: the smell of death. And the same objectives: imperialism.