offensive language - Is 'Jap' still considered an ethnic slur ...
2012年11月6日 · "Jap" became a derogatory term during the war, more so than "Nip." Veteran and author Paul Fussell explains the usefulness of the word during the war for creating effective propaganda by saying that "Japs" "was a brisk monosyllable handy for slogans like 'Rap the Jap' or 'Let's Blast the Jap Clean Off the Map.'"
Context of sign telling Japanese people to "keep moving"
2016年2月20日 · In this picture, someone has put up a sign saying "JAPS KEEP MOVING - THIS IS A WHITE MAN'S NEIGHBORHOOD". In case this was not enough, the window has a sign saying "JAPS KEEP OUT" and some other illegible sign. The photo is from around 1920, though lots of people assume it's from World War 2. What's the context of this sign?
offensive language - Was the word that is now considered a slur …
2020年7月12日 · Derogatory use of 'Japs' in early U.S. and Australian newspaper articles Whether very early instances of the use of "Jap" reflected the writer's intention for readers to understand it as a derogatory term is difficult to say—but when the term appears in conjunction with a pejorative modifier, it seems reasonable to conclude that the combined ...
When did Western newspapers stop using the term “Japs” in their ...
2023年12月15日 · The words "Jap" and "Japs" continued to be used colloquially through the end of the 20th century by "parochial" speakers of American English who had lived through the second world war, but for many of those speakers it was not meant as derogatory.
Why, in the US, is Japanese brutality ignored compared with the …
Perhaps this is a generational thing? As a Gen-X'er, I grew up hearing about things like the Bataan Death March, The Rape of Nanking, and how in general the Japanese didn't feel like adhering to the Geneva Conventions, (as dramatized in Bridge over the River Kwai, among other movies and books).
united states - Why was the Japanese Army's fatalities inflicted ...
2016年4月25日 · Nice, but I miss some something in the line of "after Midway and other of the fleet disasters, the garrisons became isolated so the battles were almost always hopelessly one-sided (with the Allies having air supremacy, artillery advantage and support from naval gunnery), which, coupled with bad logistics and refusal to surrender led to the high casualty ratio" to fully answer the OP question.
Where did the so-called "Japanese Skulls" end up?
@Semaphore I do not have a specific source I can point to, but I remember my grandparents saying something like "During the war, we just thought of them as 'Japs' that we had to kill. We didn't think of them as people." I suppose that people get more introspective as time passes and wartime fervor dies down. –
Did Truman really believe that Hiroshima was a military base?
2017年10月14日 · Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop this terrible bomb on the old Capitol or the new. He & I are in accord. The target will be a purely military one and we will issue a warning statement asking the Japs to surrender and save lives.
military - How did British aircraft fare against Japanese aircraft ...
2020年2月26日 · The Spitfire also served in the Pacific Theatre, meeting its match in the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero. Lt. Gen. Claire Chennault noted: "The RAF pilots were trained in methods that were excellent against German and Italian …
Why were the 8th Route Army better at fighting the Japanese than …
2015年1月13日 · These sources seem dubious. (1) source is known to be a heavily "edited (censored)" translation; and its figures for Japanese casualties would suggest the Communists were utterly worthless (2) doesn't seem to be any evidence this journalist/article exist - my google results return the exact passage only (3) the purported source rekishi gunso is a bimonthly magazine and has no "issue 10, 2002 ...