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Japanese war graves

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I have recently heard a programme on radio four called Question, Questions where one listener asked are their any German war graves in the UK and who looks after them. My question is are their similar graves in China and Korea. Surely all the years the Japanese occupied Korea and China there must have been graveyards for the Japanese soldiers and civilians. If so are they looked after, or just left to ruin by the Koreans and Chinese?
 
I dont think thare are...
Their countries are countries that drags a dead person out of a grave and hits the whip to the dead Culturally.
 
I dont think thare are...
Their countries are countries that drags a dead person out of a grave and hits the whip to the dead Culturally.

Wow, now that is racist. You must be Japanese for such an uneducated and biased reponse like that.
 
Wow, now that is racist. You must be Japanese for such an uneducated and biased reponse like that.
racist?
you dont konw their culture?( ナス竄ャナステ停?堙俄?「テ堋)
 
Wow, now that is racist. You must be Japanese for such an uneducated and biased reponse like that.
I do think caster51's comment is dreadful but please don't make it sound as if any Japanese would make such racist remarks...
 
I do think caster51's comment is dreadful but please don't make it sound as if any Japanese would make such racist remarks...

Not saying any Japanese would make such a racist comment, I'm saying that caster51 must be Japanese (from his posting patterns).

racist?
you dont konw their culture?( ナス竄ャナステ停?堙俄?「テ堋)

Got any proof for such an outrageous comment?
 
in chinese WAR history from ancient, that acts always are seen in the history books...
Enemy's soul and dead body are stricken with the whip further....
As a result and warning , the soul are completely stopped.

he was a famous one

Wang Jingwei - Wikipedia

 
You give one example, but that doesn't make it part of the culture or widespread. Its not Chinese in origin, and happens in many different countries. I could think up plenty of things worse that have been perpetrated by Japanese in times of war...
 
You give one example, but that doesn't make it part of the culture or widespread. Its not Chinese in origin, and happens in many different countries. I could think up plenty of things worse that have been perpetrated by Japanese in times of war...
at least, Even if it is an enemy or a criminal , the dead are not blasphemed in japan.
Its not Chinese in origin
this Proverb was from china...
Wu Zixu - Wikipedia
where is origin...?
you should read this
Records of the Three Kingdoms - Wikipedia
 
What proverb? I meant the idea of desecrating graves and the dead is not uniquely chinese - there are records of Japanese solidiers doing similar in WWII, and details going back to roman and egytian times predating Chinese records.
 
there are records of Japanese solidiers doing similar in WWII
a grave of Unnamedツ chinese soldiers Killed in action

other grave of Unnamedツ chinese soldiers Killed in action



 

Checking on the net, I found many webpages mentioning about the Japanaese graves in Russia (Siberia) and Indonesia but somehow cannot find much about those in China or Korea.
At least there is one graveyard in ツ坂?「窶板エツ江ツ湘 (sorry don't know how it is written in English) which is taken care of by the local government.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/overland/japan/heilongjianghigashieurasia2.htm
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But it is not a graveyard existing from/during the war, but was made in 1963 to commemorate about4,500 Japanese who died there.

I have no idea if there were many Japanese graveyards in China and Korea during Japanese invation/occupation, but if there are not many left, it could be because many bones (or cremated remains?) were collected and sent back to Japan after the war.
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I have no idea if there were many Japanese graveyards in China and Korea during Japanese invation/occupation, but if there are not many left, it could be because many bones (or cremated remains?) were collected and sent back to Japan after the war.
there are many japanese soldier's graveyaed in Philippines and south east asia
http://www.ch-sakura.jp/streamfiles/asx/caliraya.asx
http://www.ch-sakura.jp/streamfiles/asx/muntinlupa.asx
Japan should thank them though it is pain for them
 


The English translation is Heilongjia province in China's NE region ( far northern part of old Manchuria borders Siberia ).US former Deputy of Defense James Lilley's book China Hands described one trip to Japan from seaport city of Tsingtao in Shandong Peninsula ( China ) during those war years,he witnessed some Japanese parents lined up at the naval port to receive jarred cremated remains of their son(s) persoanlly handed to them by Japanese Army official.
 
Every people is only human!

There are gravediggers, war criminals, but also idealists in each nations armed forces.

It would be wrong to claim or accuse any nation's soldiers or even people generally as evil, uncivilized etc.
Neither Chinese, Koreans nor Japanese did pulling out the corpses out of someone graves as a national behaviour. It might happen in some private cases but it is not acceptable to do this, even if it is a grave of your enemy.
War is never a good thing and the result is usually causing only more suffrage and hatred.
Every nation needs a competent and capable military to protect the country and its people but must not be abused by political power struggles and imperialistic plannings.

As for the bones. There were at least 3.2 million Chinese soliders who lost their lives from 1937 to 1945 and around 1.1 million Japanese soldiers on Chinese soil. Some (I guess the high ranking officers) might be transported back to Japan early, while many were just left behind on the battlefield. After the war was over most corpses were just burnt, so no matter they were Chinese or Japanese soldiers, they turned into ashes.
 
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