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[cyclonefence]

1. I have a friend, a Korean, who was a university student

in Japan at the start of WWII and was pressed into the Japanese army. He said that toward the end of the war, soldiers' rice rations--which would be the best in the country, one would imagine--were literally counted out grain by grain.

He also told me that when propaganda flyers from the US were dropped over Japan, the consensus was that Japan had lost--who could hope to defeat a country so rich it could afford to throw away such high-quality paper?

[betsuni]

2. TV shows this week have been devastaing, survivors of the war still speaking out.

Japanese soldiers in SE Asia dying like flies from malaria, malnutrition, tossed aside like garbage. After the war, widows and orphans treated like garbage. Horrible.