[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Livia

It always makes me smile when people say this kind of thing is so unlike the Japanese. They have a huge capacity for cruelty. During WW2 they made the Nazis look like the boy scouts.

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.