Japanese war criminal Hitoshi Imamura, believing that his sentence of 10 years imprisonment was too light, built a replica prison in his garden where he stayed until his death in 1968
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Well that’s super odd
I never heard of this, thank you! Please look up Ralph Ignatowski and how he died.
That I can see as having honor, even if after doing horrible things
Respect
“one of the good ones”
At least he was consistent of what he believed.
Today we call a backyard shed a man cave. Perhaps he was escaping from the wife.
Guilt do be like that.
That is so much remorse I’m wondering if he ever truely felt peace at the end or not ?
Peak Japanese
Now that’s some moral dedication!
If you did this today, people would just say, “He just didn’t want to work anymore “
Wait , so You guys don’t have makeshift prisons in your back yard ??
Meanwhile, here in the US….
It’s amazing what a little nuclear fire can do for a country’s attitude
But they gave us Super Mario. It’s a wash
So he only realized that what he was doing was inhumane after the war was over?
r/madlads
If he knew was wrong then why did he do it in the first place?
beats working i guess
That is so much remorse, I wonder if he ever truly felt peace at the end?
Why is everyone overlooking the Japanese concept of failure being total humiluation? This isn’t guilt for having committed atrocities, it’s self-abnegation for having failed to win the war. They still do it today; Japanese business executives will occasionally be seen in their nice suits with their expensive briefcases kneeling with their foreheads pressed to the floor of some luxe office tower lobby if things went badly at their jobs. Don’t try to put your own (Western) values on it; this comes from a very different set of values about the meaning of honor and shame.
My in-laws are Filipino. They saw Japanese soldiers toss infants into the air and spear them with their bayonets. My father in-law’s dad was shot in front of him and killed because he was a police officer. He had done nothing wrong. They were brutal and heartless when there was no need. Killing civilians, infants, etc.
Hopefully, Trump will do the same. The sooner, the better.
This is the 10th time I’ve seen this posted the past 2 weeks
From the outside this seems like one of the last societies that took actual personal responsibility. Not everyone, of course, but I’ve read a few similar stories.
Hm. I’m glad he didn’t let that light sentence stop him from following thru with more punishment just like he didn’t stop himself from doing what he was doing when he knew it was bad! To receive such punishment. Stupid.
Sounds self-absorbed to me
Maybe he should have decided to have a conscience when they were committing all the atrocities.