Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) — It is fortunate that the “Society for Asking about the State Responsibility for the Massacres of Koreans after the Great Quake in Kanto” was formed in Japan recently.

Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a signed commentary in this regard:

This clearly indicates that the hideous crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists against humanity can never be concealed and the Japanese government can never evade the responsibility for liquidating its past crimes no matter how much water may flow under the bridge.

Germany honestly reflected on its past wrongs and has worked hard to fully redeem them. Quite contrary to this attitude of Germany, Japan has persistently evaded its responsibility and obligation to liquidate its past crimes, thus becoming the target of the world rebuff and condemnation.

The world is demanding Japan redeem its past crimes not merely out of the sympathy with the aging victims but is prompted by its desire to keep Japan from following the footsteps of the Japanese imperialists and the wish to build a world where such historic tragedy does not repeat itself.

Japan is persistently dodging the settlement of its past crimes in a bid to repeat its crime-woven past. This is evidenced by the fact that Japan is putting spurs to the moves to revive militarism and turn itself into a military power, obsessed by the ambition to realize the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”.

The persistent efforts on the part of Japan to go without redressing its past crimes would only touch off bitterer worldwide criticism of it and precipitate its thorough international isolation.

Japan’s settlement of its past crimes is not something for others but for itself. It would be well advised to properly understand this and redress its past crimes as early as possible.

Momentarily accepting for the sake of argument that the attacks on the U.S. mainland on 11 September 2001 were not a false flag operation but were indeed carried out by Muslim Arabs retaliating for direct and indirect U.S. violence against their peoples, those attacks were far more justified than any of the U.S. attacks on Japanese cities during World War II. Indeed, especially given that the U.S. population has a lot more ability to oppose U.S. imperialism than the Japanese population had in 1945 to oppose Japanese imperialism, it’s hard to argue that — presuming some force were able to carry it out — a policy of massive attacks on U.S. population centers continuing until the U.S. stops its direct and indirect attacks on other countries would not be justified.

http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html

Oh, well, based on this thread, probably not.

http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml

None of them mention war crimes. As the text of the fourth letter makes clear, Einstein was not privy to the secrets of the Manhattan Project.

I endorse the previous recommendations of the Richard Frank book, DOWNFALL. By reading the Tokyo-Moscow Japanese diplomatic messages in the summer of 1945, the Truman administration learned that the Japanese were seeking Soviet mediation of the Pacific War, but were unable to agree on terms for negotiation. This is far removed from a willingness to surrender.