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* Some of the CMoA also counts as some of the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] are the Japanese Holdouts such as Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda. Albeit it may be easily to ridicule them for not believing that the war was over, they showcase such devotion and bravery of the Japanese Army to their homeland. The fact that a few, like Onoda managed to survive into the 1970s and mostly by themselves, just using their wits and knowledge to live on and in good condition is a testament to the country they served. |
* Some of the CMoA also counts as some of the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] are the Japanese Holdouts such as Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda. Albeit it may be easily to ridicule them for not believing that the war was over, they showcase such devotion and bravery of the Japanese Army to their homeland. The fact that a few, like Onoda managed to survive into the 1970s and mostly by themselves, just using their wits and knowledge to live on and in good condition is a testament to the country they served. |
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* A humanitarian Japanese CMoA, just look no further than Chiune Sugihara. As a Vice Consul to Lithuania, he issued thousands of travel visas to Jews escaping from the Nazis. He's basically the Japanese Oskar Schindler, with the added bonus awesomeness that he had very little official power. Israel recognizes him as Righteous Among the Nations for his heroics. |
* A humanitarian Japanese CMoA, just look no further than Chiune Sugihara. As a Vice Consul to Lithuania, he issued thousands of travel visas to Jews escaping from the Nazis. He's basically the Japanese Oskar Schindler, with the added bonus awesomeness that he had very little official power. Israel recognizes him as Righteous Among the Nations for his heroics. |
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** Just when Japan eventually found out what he was doing - It took them a very long time, because no one believed that Chiune would commit career suicide like that. - They ordered him back to Tokyo. On the train taking him out of Lithuania, Sugihara just kept writing visas and tossing 'em out the window. |
** Just when Japan eventually found out what he was doing - It took them a very long time, because no one believed that Chiune would commit career suicide like that. - They ordered him back to Tokyo. On the train taking him out of Lithuania, Sugihara just kept writing visas and tossing 'em out the window. |
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* After getting hit with an atomic bomb, most people will take some days off from work, but not Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Mr. Y was in Hiroshima on business when the Little Boy decimated the city. Despite suffering sever burns to his face and back, he walked twenty-two miles just to the nearest train station and back to his home. - To Nagasaki, after spending the night at a hospital he reported back to work the very next day. He was in a midst of an argument with his boss (who insisted that Yamaguchi was lying about the atomic bomb and its' capabilities), just when Fat Man was dropped. Depending on how you look at it, he's either one of the luckiest or unluckiest people on Earth. Yamaguchi shares a title with 125 other people, it's ''nijuuhibaku''. |
* After getting hit with an atomic bomb, most people will take some days off from work, but not Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Mr. Y was in Hiroshima on business when the Little Boy decimated the city. Despite suffering sever burns to his face and back, he walked twenty-two miles just to the nearest train station and back to his home. - To Nagasaki, after spending the night at a hospital he reported back to work the very next day. He was in a midst of an argument with his boss (who insisted that Yamaguchi was lying about the atomic bomb and its' capabilities), just when Fat Man was dropped. Depending on how you look at it, he's either one of the luckiest or unluckiest people on Earth. Yamaguchi shares a title with 125 other people, it's ''nijuuhibaku''. |
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* Why you not mentioned General Kurubayashi of the Battle of Iwo Jima fame yet? This guy was basically sent to Iwo Jima to DIE, because he was suspected of having American sympathies. He was working with the Air Force - Which was decimated. Barely enough soldiers, and the officers don't trust him and were plotting a coup against him, because his ideas for defense were completely different from the usual island warfare that they were used to. Yet Kuribayashi rallied his soldiers, inspiring them, and managed to hold out on Iwo Jima for an entire month. He killed so many American soldiers that General Howling Smith calls him a "[[Worthy Opponent|a most redoubtable foe]]." So [[Badass|badass]] that Clint Eastwood made a movie about him and even getting Ken Watanabe to portray him. |
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* The Rape of Nanking was one of greatest atrocities that the Japanese perpetrated during WW2. Approximately 260,000 Chinese civilians and POWs were brutally murdered during the capture of the Chinese capital and its ensuing chaos. John Rabe, a businessman and Nazi official, continuously appealed to the Japanese commanders to cease the senseless violence to no avail. In response, Rabe opened up a German embassy in Nanking to all of the refugees, taking in anyone that can make it to the embassy's steps. Afterwards, he was instrumental in making the Nanjing Safety Zone, a small camp about the size of Central Park, around the U.S. embassy to take in more people escaping the carnage. Overall, Rabe saved some 250,000 innocents from the Nanking Massacre. |
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=== Italy - "Chi ha cara la gloria, il corpo ha vile." === |
=== Italy - "Chi ha cara la gloria, il corpo ha vile." === |
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