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Repeating The Past

31/05/2025 08:24 am MYT

“According to military historian Bryan Mark Rigg in his book “Japan’s Holocaust”, a minimum 20 mln Chinese, 4 mln Indonesians, 2 mln Vietnamese, 1 mln Filipinos, 0.5 mln Koreans, and 200,000 Malayans/Singaporeans were brutally killed by the Japanese troops during the Japanese occupation.”

Three weeks ago, i Capital said that Japan underwent a major transformation after Emperor Meiji assumed the throne in 1867 and started the “Meiji Restoration”. The adoption of Western technology and practices led Japan to become an aggressive, militant Westernised Asian country. Apart from industrialising her economy, Japan also emulated Western powers’ empire building game. After defeating its much larger neighbours - China in 1895 and Russia in 1905, and annexing Korea in 1910, Imperial Japan was recognised as one of the Great Powers in the early 20^th century. The successive mi

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