schizoidman@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoJapan asked countries to skip China's WWII commemorative events in Sept.english.kyodonews.netexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.zip
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minus-squareonslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·8 months agoIt’s kinda surprising how few people know about the atrocities that Japan committed in WWII. Germany gets most of the focus.
minus-squarerarsamx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 months agoYep, we don’t get to study the Nanjing masacre, for example unless we go out of our way to learn about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoAnother interesting bit of knowledge is that we consider 1939 and the attack on Poland as the start of the Second World War. However at this point Japan had been fighting in China for a couple of years already.
It’s kinda surprising how few people know about the atrocities that Japan committed in WWII. Germany gets most of the focus.
Yep, we don’t get to study the Nanjing masacre, for example unless we go out of our way to learn about it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
Another interesting bit of knowledge is that we consider 1939 and the attack on Poland as the start of the Second World War. However at this point Japan had been fighting in China for a couple of years already.