Japanese war crimes.

Six of these men were later to die as a result of Japanese vivisection experiments.

As we again face an inhuman enemy, it's worthwhile to remember how another conflict actually played out when we encountered another vastly different culture. It made a big difference that we were the winners then. And nothing short of firebombing and nuclear attack was enough to get the psychopaths and monsters in Japan to quit. Even after the Emperor gave the order to surrender, Japanese troops were still executing Allied prisoners.

Idiots who proclaim the wonders of multiculturalism should note what people of one particular foreign culture were willing to do to our own.

Japan has changed vastly since then but there's no getting around the fact that the blueprints for Japan had to be redrawn at gunpoint before the lowlife could be forced from the public arena.

Memo to Loony and Moderate Leftists: The mere fact that someone's from a different culture means precisely nothing. It's whether they have adapted to, or are willing to adapt to what we call "civilized norms." Just because someone likes curry, soy sauce, or hot sauce with their meals doesn't mean they're even remotely housebroken.

A small sampling of the record is listed below.

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"Bibliography: War Crimes." Memory and Conciliation in the Pacific.

From May 17, [1945,] eight airmen out of a total of twelve interned airmen at the time, were trucked to the Kyushu Imperial University Medical Department where they were used in a total of four vivisection experiments on May 17 (Thursday; 2 men), May 22 (Tuesday; 2 men), May 25 (Friday; 1 man) and June 2 (Saturday; 3 men). . . . The various organs manipulated or removed were the lungs, brain, liver, stomach, and heart. All eight airmen died during the operations.

"A. Vivisections at Kyushu Imperial University" in "Prisoner of War Camp #1 Fukuoka, Japan."

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"I could never again wear a white smock," says Dr. Toshio Tono, dressed in a white running jacket at his hospital and recalling events of 50 years ago. "It's because the prisoners thought that we were doctors, since they could see the white smocks, that they didn't struggle. They never dreamed they would be dissected."

The prisoners were eight American airmen, knocked out of the sky over southern Japan during the waning months of World War II, and then torn apart organ by organ while they were still alive.

What occurred here 50 years ago this month, at the anatomy department of Kyushu University, has been largely forgotten in Japan and is virtually unknown in the United States. American prisoners of war were subjected to horrific medical experiments. All of the prisoners died. . . .

Fukuoka is midway between Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which are planning elaborate ceremonies to mark the devastation caused by the United States dropping the first atomic bombs. But neither Fukuoka nor the university plans to mark its own moment of infamy.

The gruesome experiments performed at the university were variations on research programs Japan conducted in territories it occupied during the war. In the most notorious of these efforts, the Japanese Imperial Army's Unit 731 killed thousands of Chinese and Russians held prisoner in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, in experiments to develop chemical and biological weapons.

Ken Yuasa, now a frail, 70-year-old physician in Tokyo, belonged to a military company stationed just south of Unit 731's base at Harbin, Manchuria. He recalls joining other doctors to watch as a prisoner was shot in the stomach, to give Japanese surgeons practice at extracting bullets.

While the victim was still alive, the doctors also practiced amputations.

"It wasn't just my experience," Dr. Yuasa says. "It was done everywhere." Kyushu University stands out as the only site where Americans were incontrovertibly used in dissections and the only known site where experiments were done in Japan.

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Thirty people -- some military, the others from Kyushu University -- were brought to trial by an Allied war crimes tribunal in Yokohama, Japan, on March 11, 1948. Charges included vivisection, wrongful removal of body parts and cannibalism -- based on reports that the experimenters had eaten the livers of the Americans.

"A quiet honesty records a World War II atrocity." By Thomas Easton, Tokyo Bureau of The Baltimore Sun, 5/28/95 (emphasis added), republished in " 1. Articles on the crash, the vivisection experiments, and the memorial" in "Prisoner of War Camp #1 Fukuoka, Japan."

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There was an allegation of cannibalism regarding ingestion of human liver by some of the accused, but this charge was not sustained. Nevertheless, there is testimony in affidavits about a social event at which cooked human liver supposedly was served to the guests.

Human Vivisection: The Intoxication of Limitless Power in Wartime by Charles G. Roland, in Moore, Bob and Kent Fedorowich, Prisoners of War and their Captors in Word War II, Oxford, Berg, 1996, pp. 149-179 (emphasis added), republished in "V. Atrocities and Abuses" in "Prisoner of War Camp #1 Fukuoka, Japan."

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"They were so cruel. They broke ... the rules of decency."

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Veerman endured other beatings. He also had to have foot surgery and a broken molar removed - both times by a prisoner doctor without anesthesia.

Finally, the prison camp got a new commander, and the beatings stopped.

One day, a never-smiling Japanese shipyard worker sent Veerman and another prisoner on an errand to his home in Nagasaki.

The worker's wife greeted them, and fed them rice, fish, soybeans and seaweed soup. The two discovered the errand was a ruse by the unsmiling man to get them a good meal.

"VIII. The POW Affidavits," republished in "V. Atrocities and Abuses" in "Prisoner of War Camp #1 Fukuoka, Japan."