A photograph of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smiling and giving a thumbs up from inside a training jet emblazoned with the number 731 is going to infuriate Chinese, Russians, Koreans and other victims of Japanese brutality before and during World War II.
The number 731 evokes the name of Imperial Japan’s notorious medical research unit in Harbin, China, that performed lethal experiments on live humans. Some of its scientists were tried for war crimes.
The Nelson Report, an Asia-focused newsletter aimed at Washington politicians, compared Abe’s action to a German prime minster wearing a Nazi uniform “for fun.”
“It is an unimaginable act,” said former ruling Saenuri Party leader Chung Mong-joon, comparing it to “German Chancellor [Angela] Merkel riding an aircraft with the Nazi swastika.”
The Korean media yesterday published the photograph of Abe sitting in the pilot’s seat of a T-4 training jet of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force’s Blue Impulse flight team at a base in Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture on Sunday.
The aircraft is labeled with the number 731. In smaller Roman characters, it bears the words “Leader S. Abe” above a yellow arrow.
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2013/05/14/politics/Abes-pose-resurrects-horrors-of-Unit-731/2971580.html
CW war crimes.
A photograph of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smiling and giving a thumbs up from inside a training jet emblazoned with the number 731 is going to infuriate Chinese, Russians, Koreans and other victims of Japanese brutality before and during World War II.
The number 731 evokes the name of Imperial Japan’s notorious medical research unit in Harbin, China, that performed lethal experiments on live humans. Some of its scientists were tried for war crimes.
The Nelson Report, an Asia-focused newsletter aimed at Washington politicians, compared Abe’s action to a German prime minster wearing a Nazi uniform “for fun.”
“It is an unimaginable act,” said former ruling Saenuri Party leader Chung Mong-joon, comparing it to “German Chancellor [Angela] Merkel riding an aircraft with the Nazi swastika.”
The Korean media yesterday published the photograph of Abe sitting in the pilot’s seat of a T-4 training jet of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force’s Blue Impulse flight team at a base in Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture on Sunday.
The aircraft is labeled with the number 731. In smaller Roman characters, it bears the words “Leader S. Abe” above a yellow arrow.
Who does Abe think he is!? Prince Harry?
He not doing much thinking anymore
:the-doohickey: