![]() Not liking the idea of something certainly does not mean it didn't happen. My other Grandfather fought on Bougainville in 1944/45 and told similar stories. He also records the fact that as the Japanese killed American and Australian troops on patrol, they would eat the corpses because subsequent patrols kept finding the evidence. He records the fact that because the Japanese guys they were fighting against were starving they kept trying to break into the mess tent at night to steal food and were repeatedly getting shot in the process. ![]() He was posted to places like Rabaul, Cape Gloucester, Numfoor and other islands around New Guinea. Whilst WW2 amnesia or outright denial is endemic in Japan, thankfully it is well remembered and/or documented by those who were actually there.Īs it happens I was reading my Grandfather's WW2 diary about a fortnight ago. But there was absolutely no cannibalism, said Mutsuhiro Takeuchi, a nationalist-leaning educator and a priest in the traditional Shinto religion.
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