history tour of the dark side of wartime Tokyo!

[tokyodamage]

Hi - this is Steven from Tokyo Damage Report.

I went on a guided tour of Japanese war crimes that took place in Ookubo (near Shinjuku) during WWII: Apparently over 100 Chinese POWs' bones were dug up in 1989. They took us through a totally normal-looking neighborhood, except that under parks and under apartment buildings are hidden caches of human remains that were buried to hide them from MacArthur's people.

Anyway, I translated the Japanese article about the whole thing into English, and posted it. With pictures. If you want to learn about it, or to go on a tour yourself, please visit this link.

[omae mona]

Bravo, Steven. Thanks for making the photos and translations available to us. Fascinating stuff.

[Catoneinutica]

Seconded!

But Steven: I can't post a comment! When I try to submit one, I keep getting the message that I entered the wrong value for the "sum of two digits"; the spam-screening software seems to be buggy. I get the same frustrating result on Firefox as well as Safari.

[Taro Toporific]

[Marked Trail]

Hi - this is Steven from Tokyo Damage Report...

Cruizing for the lnterwebs, stumbled across this blast-from-the-past, the Tokyo Damage Report has been resurrected from its fetid crypt in Internet Limbo after it has been gone for years.

reddit.com/r/Tokyo/...
...happy_news_we_got_the_tokyo_damage_report_website/

According to the reddit.com/r/Tokyo thread, Steven of the "Tokyo Damage Report" graduated Japan some years ago and moved back to the Real World.

Anyway enjoy this bit a Japanesque history:hellodamage.net/top/