• emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      not as a scientist, but yes as a military squad leader involved in chemical warfare

      Some of Ozu’s published diaries cover his wartime experiences between December 20, 1938 to June 5, 1939. Another diary from his wartime years (陣中日記) he expressly forbade from publication. In the published diaries, reference to his group’s participation in chemical warfare […] can be found, for example, in various entries from March 1939. In other entries, he describes Chinese soldiers in disparaging terms, likening them in one passage to insects. Although operating as a military squad leader, Ozu retains his directorial perspective, once commenting that the initial shock and subsequent agony of a man as he is hacked to death is very much like its depiction in period films.

      (CW: SA) he also writes about the use of “comfort women”

      and that’s just the published ones, I don’t know if anyone has gotten a look at that unpublished one. must be gruesome

      • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        [CW: CSA]

        “Comfort women”

        So a while back I found out about the typical age range of comfort women. And I decided that I disliked this term even more once I realised that the euphemism ran deeper than I assumed.

        It sucks that in phrasing like this, the term “comfort girls” doesn’t really convey the message much differently and I’m not thrilled at the idea of erasing the gender-basis of what happened but I have made a commitment to myself to refer to them as “comfort children” instead. I feel like it’s a way of getting one step closer to acknowledging the gravity of what really happened.