Originally Posted by Livia (Post 8859560)

Yes, I know. But every race has a capacity for evil... and the Japanese have a history of cruelty which they saw, for hundreds of years, as honourable. It's a terrible thing to have happened but it didn't shock me more because it was in Japan. When they do have crime it tends to be shocking stuff... a woman killed and kept in a bathtub on the man's balcony... deliberately running a truck into a crowd of shoppers... criminals forcing victims to kill each other... When they do go, they go off BANG.

Originally Posted by kirklancaster (Post 8859549)

So true Liv - my father fought them in WW2, and lost several of his best friend's from boyhood, but it was another friend - who later lied in our street - who had a fate worse than death because he was captured by the Japanese.

He weighed about 6 stone and had half his stomach missing and the stories which he told of how he was tortured and mistreated as a POW make what is alleged to have occurred at Guantanamo seem like a fortnight in Benidorm.