Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

chronoboy1985 t1_ivde5p1 wrote

I’m morbidly curious why the Japanese military were always so keen to rape and violate their enemy’s women even up to WW2, after nearly a century of modernization. For a country that always prided itself on the honor of its warrior class, they certainly didn’t extend that honor to women. I guess it takes more than a few generations to enlighten a stubbornly medieval society.

6

War_Hymn t1_ivocem4 wrote

It's all nationalistic propaganda and myth made after the fact. The truth is the samurai class exploited and brutalized the lower classes in their society at least as much as their contemporaries in other parts of the world. A samurai could literally execute a commoner at will and without trial. There's are reasons why the Meiji reformers sought to strip them of their powers.

4

royiroyi t1_ivewiyg wrote

Small man complex. See Russia in Ukraine right now.

0