近藤一さん(元日本兵)の証言






(オリジナル証言)
http://home.f01.itscom.net/fusen/fusen151_kondo_ds.pdf


Mr. Hajime Kondo is a famours former Japanese soldier who told his experiences in Japanese Army in many occasions. I feel sorry for the victims referred in this video clip. But I have to clarify some points for the accuracy; 1) Baby The scene of the soldier throwing baby is not what Mr. Kondo witnessed, nor he is sure this is exactly happened.  He exceprted this scene from the novel written after the war by other unit's soldier, who later bacame novelists (Yasujiro Tamura). And Mr. Kondo only mentioned that we had similar cases to let women come with them away from their home (kidnap). 2) Rape As he explained like "After being raped, the victim is usually killed to leave no evidence", yes they had to, because rape was a war crime back then in Japanese Army,too. If it turned out, they would have been punished and might have been jailed by the Army Court, which were real shame for Japanese. I have to say those were the war crimes committed by individuals, or responsible of the commander of his squad, violating the military order.(Actually he testified that his squad commander captain is infamous in the troops.) 3)Stab exercise When his commander (sergent) ordered to stab two people for exercise, Mr. Kondo testified that he was told that these were Chinese soldiers.  But again, if they were civilians, they had to be punished. Some explained these might have happened because Mr. Kondo belonged to an independent squad, away from the main troops, where higher rank commander were there. Nonetheless, I know the points that I clarified above won't justify. The point that Mr. Kondo is making is that war could make ordinal ppl insane.So, Japanese grew up listening this and think that war is Absolute Wrong.Now recent polls by Gullap shows only 9% of Japanese want to fight for their nation. It is because we perceive there is no good war or bad wars. But I have to wonder how many Asian countries share this view now


It's vague in this video clip. So let me clarify for the record. Mr. Kondo testified fromm the beginning that the scene of thowing baby was excerpted from the novel written after the war. He mentioned that his squad had similar cases to force women come along with them (Kidnap.)  So he never witnessed nor made statements that Japanese soldier exactly threw baby down to the cliff. Kidnapping should be a war crime though, even based on the Military Code back then.  After he confessed his experience, he (and his squad) was blamed for its doings by many other survived former Japanese Soldiers, like 'What the hell you/your squad have done in your squad??".  I am not sayinf if he is saying truth or not, but this is the reaction he has gotten,. But this was the reaction he got. Nontherless,  what Mr. Kondo is saying is that any war makes ordinal people insane. Japanese have this sense in our mind.

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