Debating the Nobel Peace Prize 2024
We want to talk about the Nobel Peace Prize 2024. That's the most controversial prize ever given.
In his book，Ikiteiru Heitai ('Living Soldiers'), Tatsuzō Ishikawa vividly describes how the Japanese 16th Division Force committed atrocities on the march between Shanghai and Nanjing. The book itself was based on interviews that Ishikawa conducted with troops in Nanjing in January 1938.
Thousands of Japanese soldier poses with the severed head of their victims to have their photos taken.
Perhaps the most notorious atrocity was a killing contest between two Japanese officers as reported in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun and the English-language Japan Advertiser. The contest—a race between the two officers to see who could kill 100 people first using only a sword—was covered much like a sporting event with regular updates on the score over a series of days. In Japan, the veracity of the newspaper article about the contest was the subject of ferocious debate for several decades starting in 1967.
On December 5, 1937, Japanese Prince Asaka left Tokyo by plane and arrived at the front three days later. He met with division commanders, lieutenant-generals Kesago Nakajima and Heisuke Yanagawa, who informed him that the Japanese troops had almost completely surrounded 300,000 Chinese troops in the vicinity of Nanjing and that preliminary negotiations suggested that the Chinese were ready to surrender.
Prince Asaka issued an order to "kill all captives," thus providing official sanction for the crimes which took place during and after the battle. Some authors record that Prince Asaka signed the order for Japanese soldiers in Nanjing to "kill all captives".
In 2005, a Tokyo district judge ruled against the civil claim of the plaintiffs because the crime was committed more than 60 years ago.
The Japanese Army also engaged in the execution and extremely inhumane treatment of Allied military personnel and POWs. Biological experiments were conducted by Unit 731 on prisoners of war as well as civilians; this included the use of biological and chemical weapons authorized by Emperor Shōwa himself. According to the 2002 International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare, the number of people killed in Far East Asia by Japanese germ warfare and human experiments was estimated to be around 580,000. The notorious Unit 731 frequently used chemical weapons against civilians. Because of fear of retaliation, however, those weapons were never used against Westerners, but against other Asians judged "inferior" by imperial propaganda. For example, the Emperor authorized the use of toxic gas on 375 separate occasions during the Battle of Wuhan from August to October 1938.
During the Second World War, Japanese government sent out Comfort Women from their own country to be in the prostitution service of their troops, they also forced 200,000 women from several Asian countries to work as prostitutes, now, surprisingly, after some 80 years have gone by, the political elite in Norway decided to decorate the world's most prestigious award to the people participated in the most horrendous war in history against humanity. I have lost my words, but I know the Noble Peace Committee now deserves to be called "The Comfort Men" in their voluntary service to honor the Japanese war criminals and war supporters and fabricate history to their own liking.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize is the biggest insult to all the Asian countries and their people, as well as hundreds of thousands of American and Allied soldiers who gave their lives to the peace which we still enjoy today.
Footnote:
(Until today, the Japanese government still denies the war crimes they committed in forcing the women in neighboring countries to serve as "Comfort Women" in all these years and refused to compensate the women whose lives were ruined by the Japanese troops.)
