“ Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality. ”
Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems to be exceedingly thin – one that can be easily stripped away, especially by the stresses of war.
~ Iris Chang
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
