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Holy fuck it's so fucking hard to find any truth about WWII on the Japanese side.
There are full blown books and documentaries (Mein Kampf, Europa The Last Battle, and Hellstorm) about what actually happened in and to Germany, but in the case of Japan all I can find is the Jewish propaganda everybody already knows.
I don't care about what the victors have to say, I just want to find out what truly happened, especially seeing how things start getting very similar today, but with events taking place in different countries.
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@ryo I would probably check on thailand related stuff there is something odd about that. I would also check where most of the japanese civs were isolated at or where they deemed safe.
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@godcock I know, and this is exactly why I want to research this.
Just relying on the narrative of just the side of the victors just isn't right, both sides (or all sides in case there are more than 2 sides) need to be heard out, and then common sense can start figuring out the real truth, which most of the time is somewhere in the middle.
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@ryo There is no one truth, especially when it comes to history, it's speculation and interpretation, when scholars, or just reasonable, logical people, agree that documents and evidence support one claim over another, then it could tentatively be called a truth.
Are there no neutral (not imperialistic/nationalist/Marxist) writings from that age..? The US had a quite a lot of writers from ww2, who'd seen some action, likewise with other countries, though to a lesser degree, since they actually fought.
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@ryo If you do find any prose, I'd love it if you could remember to tell me. I looked through my booklog, and found I have almost no Jap WW2-related ones other than John Okada's (The?) No-No Boy, which isn't focused on the war, but has observations of the sentiments of normal Americans toward Japanese or Asians in Seattle (or some west coast town), along with how those felt about the war; Kenzaburo Oe's Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids follows a few kids in the aftermath of WW2;
Looking through my >2e5 audiobookbay rss feed, these kind of stand out, some Japanese, some Japanese American, some American (I tried to not include ones hinting at victory bias or war glorifying), so these are possibly of interest:
Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan. Mitsuo Fuchida, Masatake Okumiya.
(Funnily there's also Saipan: <same>, but by an English-named author)
Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II. Bruce Henderson, Gerald Yamada.
The Pacific War Uncensored: A War Correspondents Unvarnished Account of the Fight Against Japan. Harold Guard, John Tring.
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. Eri Hotta.
Perhaps the severe lack of Japanese literature is due to Japan losing the war and the several generation-long anti-war, anti-violence, anti-firearm attitude, that people would rather not read about it? Kenzaburo and 1 or 2 others received the Nobel for lit in the 20. century, so you could check their bibliographies out. Also, try asking a librarian, they're somewhat knowledgeable.
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@ryo It would also be interesting to check the areas of the bridges and railroads they used to transport supplies from thailand to china also checking how heavy the ammo crates and how much weight the railroads can handle. I would also compare the images from back then to now and see the differences of the area around the bridges and railroads(make sure to consider natural disasters in the area).
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@ryo
> I don't care about what the victors have to say, I just want to find out what truly happened, especially seeing how things start getting very similar today, but with events taking place in different countries.
That's impossible. History is for the winners.
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