https://legionmagazine.com/japanese-teacher-keeps-alive-memories-of-atrocities/ Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://legionmagazine.com/japanese-teacher-keeps-alive-memories-of-atrocities/#comment-36728 Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:19:00 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=46425#comment-36728 After living in Japan from 1960 to 1963, I returned to Lethbridge, AB. There, I spoke with met a Chinese man who owned a convenience store, and who I had known prior to going to Japan. He asked me where I had been for the past three years. When I told him I had been in Japan, he openly showed and stated his disgust with the Japanese nation. When I questioned him, he told me that as a young boy, he watched the Japanese army force civilians to lie on the street at gunpoint and have tanks run over them to kill them. He had family members killed hat way. He said that the only Japanese people he felt any good feelings toward were those who were relocated to Southern Alberta from the Vancouver area after their properties were taken from them by the federal and provincial governments.

]]> https://legionmagazine.com/japanese-teacher-keeps-alive-memories-of-atrocities/#comment-35397 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 21:06:00 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=46425#comment-35397 I noted the same in touring both Nagasaki and Hiroshima memorials. Nothing exists in Nagasaki about this topic but the chronological storyboard at the Hiroshima site did have a panel on Nanking which simply contextualized it as a part of the war and Japanese victory over the Chines. Not one word about the atrocities that Japanese soldiers carried out on the civilian population!

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