Japan
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Japan is used to be known as the land of cherry blossoms and mulberry trees but today it is quite different. Anyone who visit Japan will tell you that it is a highly urbanized society.
Compared with a small place like Singapore, it is so different. It is just like visiting England when you have never been there before and for the first time. The feeling, the scene and the weather are similar except for the one thing - people. In Japan you find polite Japanese and in England very cultured British! and in S'pore..wow? (beat me loh), maybe "Singlish speaking Singaporeans" with any cultural traits or bias..hehehe or {{SSS]]
[edit] tHE Manchuria SLAUGHTER
On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. Having extracted their terrible revenge on Germany, they were now fired by a desire to punish Japan, the second instigator of World War II. Aided by the Mongolian Peoples Republic Army, they attacked the Japanese Kwantung Army in northern Manchuria. The fighting was ferocious and vengeful, the Nippon soldiers attacking in hordes, arms linked, into a withering fire of machine gun bullets. Many, armed with explosives, threw themselves under the tanks of the advancing Red Army at the same time shouting their Emperors name. The few soldiers who were captured showed no hesitation in committing hara-kiri by exploding hidden grenades and at the same time killing many of their captors. The Soviet and Mongolian soldiers unfortunate enough to be captured by the Japanese, faced a swift and terrible death. Their bodies were mutilated, eyes gouged out and genitals removed before decapitation. The Red Army suffered 8,219 killed and over 22,000 wounded. The Kwantung Army lost 7,483 killed and around 70,000 wounded. When the northern Kwantung Army laid down its arms and surrendered, Stalin took his revenge. The 640,000 prisoners, including 148 generals, were transported to Siberia and there put to work on forced labour projects. Some 62,000 of these prisoners died while in Soviet captivity. During the war (1937-1945) Japanese military losses were 1,140,429 killed in action in all theatres)
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[edit] A very honest and hardworking good people
- yet with many able people who built highrise, bridges, and great works of engineering ingenuity, they built the Benjamin Sheer bridge in Singapore(great sheer impossibilty then)..and many factories on the Island..and given us jobs..we like them too!
