On the testimony of sixteen Korean women the accusation of so vast a crime is considered proved?
Japan to examine sex slave apology
Historians as overzealous prosecutors?
How much of what passes for history is false?
Victor's history, especially?
Well, what do we think of newspaper accounts and personal memoirs?
What do we think of trial evidence or jury verdicts?
People are such liars.
And boobs into the bargain, who believe such fantastic absurdities, or anyway will swear they do, and even risk their lives for them, whether religious, moral, political - or historical.
Which, of course, does not mean it didn't happen.
But historians, journos, witnesses, and the machinery of law enforcement insist far too much that we others can know what happened - or at least believe beyond a reasonable doubt - when what is actually reasonable is so often and so obviously just withholding judgment.
They are far too interested, taking things all in all, to be taken very seriously, are they not?
As to China's new V-J Day, why September 3rd and not 2nd?
And why did they take so long to establish an official commemoration day?
That is why I depend for my world view entirely on blogs, er, especially my own!
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Good evening, er, well, it is now but I am a bit late getting back here.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of judgment of 'facts'(!), I once played the role of a High Court Judge in a series of court case scenarios run by Nottingham University who were trying to establish exactly what went on inside a jury room - 'over here', such information is strictly confidential. Basically, it was a series of rape cases but with varyious detail changes and the university had arranged several panels of eight 'jurors' to listen to truncated versions of the court action with two young London barristers coming up to play prosecutor and defender. After being sent out to consider their verdict they were taped. Alas, as I was not party to the research I never did find out what the results were, although I was surprised at how often they came to the correct decision - of course, that is 'correct' in *my* opinion, others, particularly the fierce feminists conducting the exercise, might have felt differently. It became clear that 'facts' closely resemble that bloody slippery soap bar you can never quite get hold of in the bath!