Ambos
No que diz respeito à exclusão de atrocidades sexuais em japonês em particular - basicamente, ninguém gosta de pensar (muito menos escrever) sobre estupro, e isso adiciona uma camada extra de horribilidade à história que é Difícil de lidar, emocionalmente e como um problema de escrita - quanto PTSD deve exibir vítimas? Algum deles engravidou?
@ Ross também aponta em um comentário que "a rápida ocidentalização do Japão no pós-guerra e nossas próprias atrocidades na forma de duas bombas atômicas suavizaram nosso julgamento, em comparação com a Alemanha", o que é um bom ponto que eu não fiz. t originalmente considerar.
O programa de TV
Eles espécie de abordam isso na 2ª Temporada (eu postei a pergunta depois de assistir a 1ª Temporada). Juliana está pegando carona com um homem que foi médico em um MASH durante a guerra, e ele diz:
I like to use this road if I can. It's good to be reminded. A few miles that way, there's a redwood grove where they all went near the end, waiting to surrender. We set up a hospital, put boys back on their feet that had no business breathing. Then the Japs came through. Lined them all up. Women and kids, too. One bullet each to the back of the head. Never more than one. Took about an hour.
Isso não é muito, mas é o mesmo tempo de tela que eles dão aos crimes de guerra nazistas. (Eu não estou contando a terrível existência do governo nazista, que, até onde eu sei, não tem realmente uma contraparte japonesa).
Você pode participar da Temporada 1 do Episódio 6 quando o gerente de contratação do Nippon Building exigir "serviços pessoais" da Juliana como um aceno sutil e fraco para as mulheres do conforto, se você quiser.
O livro
Veja uma entrevista com PKD em que ele diz:
And that’s why I’ve never written a sequel to it. Because it’s too horrible. It’s too awful. I started several times to write a sequel to it and I would had to go back and read about Nazis again. And I’d just like to off every one of them, it’s what I’d like to do. And so I could never do a sequel to it.
Eu encontrei isso através da citação na resposta de Rand al'Thor para Haverá mais de" O homem no alto castelo "? e pensei que poderia se aplicar aos japoneses também, mas se você olhar para uma citação mais longa (ênfase minha), isso não acontece:
Phil: ... When I sit down to the typewriter I’m going to know what I’m talking about. Man In The High Castle, I did 7 years of research for Man In The High Castle. Seven years of research. I did other stuff too during that 7 years. But it took me 7 years to amass the material on the Nazis and the Japanese, especially on the Nazis, before I could sit down and write. That’s part of the reason why it’s a better novel than most of my novels, that I knew what I was talking about. There wasn’t anything I didn’t know. I had prime source material at the Berkeley Cal Library from the Gestapo that they had seized after WW II. It was marked, for the eyes of the higher police only. The higher police is their term for – I was forced to read Gestapo diaries, the Gestapo men in Warsaw, Gestapo agents. I had to read that stuff. I had to sit there because you couldn’t take it out of the library. You had to read it in the stacks. I had to read what those guys wrote in their private journals to write Man In The High Castle. And that’s why I’ve never written a sequel to it. Because it’s too horrible. It’s too awful. I started several times to write a sequel to it and I would had to go back and read about Nazis again. And I’d just like to off every one of them, it’s what I’d like to do. And so I could never do a sequel to it. Somebody would have to come in and help me do a sequel to it. Someone who had the stomach for the stamina to think along those lines, to get into the head; if you’re going to start writing about Reinhard Heydrich, for instance, you have to get into his face. Can you imagine getting into Reinhard Heydrich’s face? Now, Condon, Richard Condon, is that his name, he wrote a thing called An Infinity Of Mirrors about Reichfuhrer Himmler. Condon has the guts to do that. I could not do that again. That’s why the book, my book The Man In The High Castle is set in the Japanese part, you see, because then I could deal with people. But I have little glimpses of the Nazi part like when Mr. Tagomi hears this printout on personality traits of the Nazi contenders for Reichsfuhrer, Reichs Chancelor, I’m sorry. And he runs out and gets sick and falls down.
Mike: That was you.
Phil: That was me. That was me. Horrible, he said, horrible.
A partir da citação mais longa, fica claro que o PKD não vê o japonês como muito horrível para escrever, e de fato se identifica com um dos caracteres japoneses. Não está claro para mim por que isso é - talvez seja apenas devido a quais materiais a Biblioteca Cal de Berkeley passou a ter.
Eu olhei para a história de descobrir e divulgar crimes de guerra japoneses. Muitos dos perpetradores foram julgados publicamente logo após a guerra. Por Wikipédia :
Soon after the war, the Allied powers indicted 25 persons as Class-A war criminals, and 5,700 persons were indicted as Class-B or Class-C war criminals by Allied criminal trials.
"Class A" crimes were reserved for those who participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war, and were brought against those in the highest decision-making bodies; "Class B" crimes were reserved for those who committed "conventional" atrocities or war crimes; "Class C" crimes were reserved for those who committed Crimes against Humanity. This includes murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population or persecutions on political or racial grounds.
Então temos 5700 pessoas julgadas por crimes de guerra e crimes contra a humanidade logo após a guerra; Acredito que este número não inclui os réus do Tribunal de Crimes de Guerra de Nanjing em que o General Yasuji Okamura testificou:
First, it is true that tens of thousands of acts of violence, such as looting and rape, took place against civilians during the assault on Nanking. Second, front-line troops indulged in the evil practice of executing POWs on the pretext of (lacking) rations.
Eu realmente não vejo como PKD poderia ter deixado de notar nada disso em sete anos de pesquisa, e se ele fez, eu não entendo por que ele escolheu retratar o imperialismo japonês tão positivamente.
