From: "The Enlightenment"

"Karl Hungus" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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And when did captured females not receive very harsh treatment?
You
were perhaps thinking of the nurses on Corregidor?

The nurses on Corregidor were treated quite well, which is
surprising, given
the way the Japanese normally treated POWs.

I hardly call rape, physical abuse, starvation and denial of medical care being
treated "quite well" except in comparison to the way male POWs were treated.


Someone who allowed themselves to be captured alive was a disgrace
according to their Warrior code.

The Japanese in WW1 treated the POWs so well that some Germans decided to
remain in Japan after WW1. The "warrior code" to which you refer was an
invention of the lates 1920s and 1930s by idiots who had no idea what Bushido
was really all about.

The attitude towards women would
have been different.

Not under the later Bushido. Even civilians who surrendered were considered
dishonourable and the Japanese treatment of them was barbaric at best.


Their code had developed differently to the chivalric code of the
comutatus of the Germanic peoples. (chivalry was a form of religious
syncretism)

The misuse of some colonial western women as prostitutes was a
different matter. They seem to have pressed them by offering an
easier life to them in return for this.

That would come as a great surprise the the women and girls, some were
prepubescent, who were kidnapped and raped then forced into prostitution as
"comfort girls." Do you really expect a system that would release biotoxins in
China on the population, butchered 200,000 people in Nanking etc would bother
with niceties like offering people they despised a better life?

The Japanese behaviour between the "Manchurian Incident" and the end of the war
was barbaric in the extreme. The one sad thing is too many war criminals got
away.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired