by Guest » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:01 pm
Although it involved the largest scale of assault and highest casualties, it was only one of a long series of violent actions taken by Japan against citizens of western powers with colonial interests in Asia. British and Dutch citizens in Japan, including members of consulate staff, were publicly assaulted by the Japanese police. British, Dutch and French sailors were roughed up by Japanese sailors in Asian ports. At the time it was considered patriotic by the extreme right wing of the Japanese society to show exaggerated thuggish to western individuals they encounter, in a manner similar to how skinheads and neo-NAZIs would conduct themselves today.
The British response to this was rather laughable. They stopped naval port visits with Japan in the late 1930s, thus depriving themselves of the main source of intelligence about Japanese naval capability and equipment.
Although it involved the largest scale of assault and highest casualties, it was only one of a long series of violent actions taken by Japan against citizens of western powers with colonial interests in Asia. British and Dutch citizens in Japan, including members of consulate staff, were publicly assaulted by the Japanese police. British, Dutch and French sailors were roughed up by Japanese sailors in Asian ports. At the time it was considered patriotic by the extreme right wing of the Japanese society to show exaggerated thuggish to western individuals they encounter, in a manner similar to how skinheads and neo-NAZIs would conduct themselves today.
The British response to this was rather laughable. They stopped naval port visits with Japan in the late 1930s, thus depriving themselves of the main source of intelligence about Japanese naval capability and equipment.