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- SoundJudgment, on 02/23/2009, -2/+29So the men were issued the industrial grade gas-mask filters, and the women were allowed to wear... a hankie?
Okay, just checking. - wolfing, on 02/23/2009, -0/+21Dugg for being more interesting than 99.99% of Digg's submissions lately
- d2002, on 02/23/2009, -0/+17Dugg for bubble baby.
- CoD4, on 02/23/2009, -1/+16OUR RECON PLANE WILL FIND THEM!!!!!1
- Pinkertinkle, on 02/23/2009, -1/+13"Anti-Aircraft Defense Law which was enacted in anticipation of air strikes following the outbreak of the Japan-China War (1937- 45)"
I don't recall the Chinese ever bombing Japan. In fact I'm pretty sure its the Japanese that used gas attacks along with all sorts of nasty biological warfare and necessary brutality against other Asian countries. - c0ldmetalz, on 02/23/2009, -2/+12Did anyone notice that most of the time, only the men get to wear the gas mask while the women only has a napkin?
- JBrown99, on 02/23/2009, -0/+10Try asking the three people above you who said the same exact thing.
- dixieleopard, on 02/23/2009, -2/+121) I love the way the Japanese can illustrate terrible subjects beautifully.
2) Did anyone notice that in a few the male has a gas mask and the female has a tissue? ...Lol. - inactive, on 02/23/2009, -0/+8Its called propaganda. The Americans weren't murdering raping devils, but thats what many were told, and thousands committed suicide in Okinawa rather than face the Americans that were invading.
- sexybobo, on 02/23/2009, -0/+8This was WWII gas-masks. The hankie probably worked better.
Kinda like WW2/cold war style soviet night vision which would give the wearer cancer. - tehnico, on 02/23/2009, -0/+7Wat, no duct tape? No wonder they lost the war.
- theforrester, on 02/23/2009, -0/+6Is it me, or do only the men get gas masks?
- mclewell, on 02/23/2009, -1/+7It was because they wanted the men to survive to fight in the war.
- shirosamurai, on 02/23/2009, -1/+7Does someone always have to post this comment when something about Japan comes up on Digg?
- legoalert33, on 02/23/2009, -0/+6DOGS!
- chix0r, on 02/23/2009, -1/+7Nope. Actually many usually wear them in simple consideration of not sharing their germs with others. Other reasons include allergies, or even bad breath! Here's a pretty interesting article about the surgical mask culture in Japan, posted to Boing Boing a couple weeks ago:
http://boingboing.net/2009/02/13/japanese-surgical ... - JackpotCity, on 02/23/2009, -1/+7Interesting to see how different cultures handle the job of warning signage.
- vertigo32, on 02/23/2009, -2/+7I guess the joke was on them. They played around with gas, bio-weapons, etc in China...we just burned their cities down around them.
Fire always seems to be the most effective weapon. Especially the big fire at the end... - NJank, on 02/23/2009, -0/+5only the 5 people who posted the same comment above yours.
- funnylookinhat, on 02/23/2009, -0/+5I was going to say... rather than gassing them, we just vaporized hundreds of thousands at once. Great. :-(
- cJw314, on 02/23/2009, -0/+4It's an asian culture; is this a surprise... really? Particularly @ 50 years ago?
- dixieleopard, on 02/23/2009, -0/+4That's got to be it.
- CoD4, on 02/23/2009, -2/+6They're immuned to gases from years of servitude in the kitchen
- cadmiumpaint, on 02/23/2009, -0/+4Great collection of rare images.
- ksalminen, on 02/23/2009, -0/+4ARTILLERY STRIKE ON THE WAY!!!!
- TheAngryMob, on 02/23/2009, -1/+4I noticed that as well. Apparently chivalry was quite dead in Japan before WWII.
- Amathev, on 02/23/2009, -0/+3It's like a manual of a Japanese version of Fallout 3.
- MeccaYdna, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2lol @ slice of water-filled lungs
- rdubb, on 02/23/2009, -8/+10It's sad that war has to be a part of life.
- cJw314, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2I don't sense any tone of western superiority in my comment...
Forget the /s groo...? - BabyWookie, on 02/24/2009, -0/+2Not really. By WW2, as far as protection, gas masks were pretty much perfected. The modern ones are more ergonomic and comfortable, but they work about just as well.
- JayTee44, on 02/23/2009, -1/+3I noticed that too. WTF?
- compgeek, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2very interesting to see
- BabyWookie, on 02/24/2009, -0/+2Actually, the number of people who were "vaporized" was probably in the hundreds. These would be the people who were in the immediate vicinity, with nothing between them and the blast. The two bombs were not that powerful. Most of the victims probably suffered quite a bit before they died.
- SwiftKick34, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2That guy in the second picture has a sick hand
- inactive, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2THANKS interesting posters and very interesting site!
- inactive, on 02/23/2009, -1/+3If anyone wants to watch a sad movie about life in Japan during the firebombing, see Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka).
- secrity, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2I am an American and I have never heard of the US would ever using poison gas against civilians during WW2. Fires and exposions, yes; chemicals, no.
- cJw314, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2LOL. Meta-comments ftw!
- secrity, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2WW2 stuff is vintage.
- oninbonin, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2I like babby in handbag
- Pinkertinkle, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2Apparently firefox corrects unecessary to necessary
- sageerrant, on 02/23/2009, -0/+1Wait, we weren't?
...whoops. - BabyWookie, on 02/24/2009, -0/+1Uh... before we had a couple of nukes ready, we were stockpiling thousands of gallons of nerve gas on Okinawa, for the mainland invasion.
- secrity, on 02/23/2009, -0/+1Was "and necessary brutality" a typo or do you really consider the Japanese brutality to have been necessary?
- OUPablo, on 02/23/2009, -0/+1what? no duck and cover?
- speedrug, on 02/23/2009, -0/+1I'm Japanese, but I've never seen mothers who put babies into a bag.
- maestro1988, on 02/24/2009, -0/+1"wash with benzene" --lol, classic. wash off poisonous gas with a potent carcinogen!
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