All actions are subject to command.
\nDo not steal from the people.
\nBe neither selfish nor unjust.
\nReplace the door when you leave the house.
\nRoll up the bedding on which you have slept.
\nBe courteous.
\nBe honest in your transactions.
\nReturn what you borrow.
\nReplace what you break.
\nDo not bathe in the presence of women.
\nDo not without authority search those you arrest.<\/p>\n
The Japanese Spirit Warriors soon became frustrated with the \u201cunfair\u201d tactics of the guerrillas in their midst. \u201cMassacres of civilians were routine,\u201d one soldier later recalled. \u201cThey cooperated with the enemy, sheltered them in their houses, gave them information. We viewed them as the enemy. During combat all villagers went into hiding. We pilfered anything useful from their houses or, in winter, burned them for firewood. If anyone was found wandering about, we captured and killed them. Spies! This was war.\u201d<\/p>\n
Countries avoid a declaration of war so they may claim \u201cthe laws and customs of war did not apply and need not be observed.\u201d Japan never declared war on China. Instead, the fighting was euphemized as an \u201cincident\u201d. Chinese troops were not \u201csoldiers\u201d but \u201cbandits\u201d\u00a0 One of the customs of war Japan was able to flout in this \u201cincident\u201d against \u201cbandits\u201d was acknowledgement that captured Chinese soldiers were prisoners of war. A 1933 army infantry textbook assured IJA officers that when they took prisoners, \u201cIf you kill them there will be no repercussions.\u201d\u00a0 In a 1937 directive, the army vice chief stated: \u201cIn the present situation in order to wage total war in China, the empire will neither apply, nor act in accordance with, all the concrete articles of the Treaty Concerning the Laws and Customs of Land Warfare and Other Treaties Concerning the Laws and Regulations of Belligerency.\u201d\u00a0 The same directive ordered \u201cstaff officers in China to stop using the term \u2018prisoner of war.\u2019\u201d As Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Herb Bix pointed out, Hirohito himself \u201csupported the policy of withholding a declaration of war against China and ratified and personally endorsed the decision to remove the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners of war.\u201d Thus Chinese soldiers taken in battle were \u201cdenied the status of prisoners of war upon the same pretext and many of them were massacred, tortured, or drafted into Japanese labor camps.\u201d<\/p>\n
Culled from: Flyboys<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Okay, so it’s not a REAL conjoined fetus skull… but it’s the next best thing and I think it would look fabulous on my bookshelf. \u00a0(One day maybe I’ll have a real house with more than just bookshelves for furniture, and then I can say something like, “It would look splendid on my escritoire” or something.) \u00a0Anyway, it would make a fine last-minute gift for that hard-to-shop-for aunt, don’t you think?<\/p>\n Available from the ever-marvelous Gorey Details<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So last week a friend who had never been to Chicago visited and I made it my duty to show her the town. Of course, that meant going to some of the “touristy” places like the\u00a0Museum of Science and Industry<\/a>. Since Body Worlds wasn’t in town (the only reason I’d ever gone there before), I wasn’t expecting to see anything particularly morbid, so I was delighted to find a huge collection of fetuses on display. \u00a0The ranged in development from blastocyst to full-term and they were collected in the 1930s (supposedly from “natural causes”). \u00a0I only had my iPhone with me, but I still tried to capture some of the glory of these little suspended animations. \u00a0Check out this eyeless little guy!<\/p>\nMorbid Trinket Du Jour!<\/h2>\n
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