Tojo's grave

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Tojo's grave

Gary — 12/7/2004 6:05:17 AM (archived)

Jacob said:

"That a large number of Japanese, who hold Shinto as their religion,
revere and honor the ashes of those seven Japanese war-criminals [kept in a Shinto shrine] hanged by the Americans after the war?"

Jacob's comment piqued my curiosity. The following URL shows the momument to Hideki Tojo's which contains some of his ashes.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20880

I'm a little bit surprised that the United States permitted Tojo to have an honorable burial. After the major Nazi war criminals were condemned, hung and cremated, their ashes were scattered in secret at a nearby river (I would have flushed them down a toilet). I believe they were cremated at KZ-Dachau but I could be mistaken about this. There was a deliberate effort not to enable memorials to be made for those monsters. It's arguable whether or not Tojo was as wicked as the high level Nazis. Certainly Hitler and Heinrich Himmler were more evil. Tojo's ashes should have been scattered over the ocean.

Gary

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Hiroshima group to hold 'tribunal' over U.S. A-bombings - Eric - 12/6/2004 8:35:38 PM
- The 'group' and their 'tribunal' are phony as $3 bills. (n/t) - ebnelson - 12/7/2004 2:52:27 AM
- Right. How about trying the Japanese who murdered over 10 million Chinese civilians. Phooey. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 12/7/2004 12:01:15 AM
  - And how is that different from the American firebombing of Japanese civilians? (n/t) - Bowser - 12/7/2004 2:05:17 PM
    - Vastly.................... - Publius - 12/7/2004 2:53:47 PM
      - My brother's father-in-law was probably saved by the atomic bomb - Gary - 12/7/2004 6:13:13 PM
        
        Correction (Honshu is the main island of Japan) - Gary - 12/7/2004 6:18:24 PM
      - I'd respectfully disagree. - Bowser - 12/7/2004 3:24:27 PM
        
        re: I'd respectfully disagree. - gbaikie - 12/7/2004 5:58:24 PM
- Will they also consider ... - Larry J - 12/6/2004 9:03:30 PM
- Maybe the Chinese would like to chit-chat over Nanking? - ebnelson - 12/6/2004 8:51:53 PM
  - Don't you know? - Jacob Samorodin - 12/6/2004 10:13:34 PM
    - Tojo's grave - Gary - 12/7/2004 6:05:17 AM
      - re: We need to remember this lesson when we dispose of the bodies of Osama, Sadam, and their merry men. - Scott Evil - 12/7/2004 3:02:35 PM
        
        Pig chow - Gary - 12/7/2004 6:24:15 PM

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