Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-28
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cruel nilitarsm of the japanese, he would only have
to travel to Nara Japan to of the most bar
barrie bulta monument that hides what's
left Of 10000 human
This monument-caled the Mmidzuka by the Japa-
who pray and grovel in the dust before it -
grounds the Daibutsu Temple about $50
years ago to mark of Nippon's with Korea.
The story of how this fendish shrine of war-mon-
gerng gang into being goes back to 1892 when
Japan launched unprovoked Korean the first
step in long planned attack upon China.
At that time the mlitarists first coming into
in the Land of the Rising Sun under the leadership
of Hdeyoshi the of farmer whose military cunning
enabled him put Japan his iron heel.
Hdeyoshi had to find excitement for his vast
and restless armies So to keep them from getting out
of hand he started the Inflated Korean campaign.
For six years the brave Koreans successfully held off
the superior Jap armies Exhausted and licked at every
turn, the Japs, who had started the lark, had
to give it Their leader dying before his troops could
withdraw from Korea mpored his get his
of there they would ghosts haunt
ing foreign land" that according their religion.
spirits without home.
Although they they licked. the Jap army
leaders schemed to make the Korean campaign look like
victory the home folksand the hideous monument
of ears put up "face-saver" Army officers in
sructed their troops to bring back home the heads of
10000 Koreans evidence of the bravery of the Jap
fighters These heads hacked off with long swords
picked salt brine the families of the returned
soldiers goated with them their grisly
After the fighting dsembarked, parade
ordered held in the temple grounds at Nara Each Jap
soldier marched holding Korean head by its hair AS
the troops passed certain point every warrior threw
the head he carried pile while the cheering ctizeny
danced around the growing mountain of the heads OF
whose only crime defending their homes from in
vaders When the parade 10000 leless heads
filled the temple grounds.
Then the militarss hit the idea of keeping this
pile of heads permanent monument that would call
everlasting attention the prowess of Jap fighters But
10000 heads made pile much large a monument
and besides each soldier wanted trophy place
before his family shrine.
So orders were given to cut off the and
from the sailed heads Then these heads
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for the monument History obscure about hap
pened although rmoI has it that they were
picked morses of fish to provide victory salad The
10000 then carefully stacked beside the
butsu Temple and covered with rocks above which the
stone monument of Mimidzuka suitable
inscription.
visited by millions of Japs and it regarded one OF
the things which has kept alive the present day
streak of barbarsm that part nature The
aim Of the mitarsts TO create everlasting monument
fulfilled, beyond doubt to shocked world it
has been symbol Of their cruelty, not bravery.
For three centuries and more. tho proud Japs have
revered the Mmdzuka which is Just as nspra-
tional 10 them their assaults today as it was
when it erected 10 "save-face" of the
Korean campaign Few living white persons have seen
this grsy monument In recent decades the government
has tried keep foreign learning about its
existence for even though the laps worship symbol
their cruelty. they recognize that civilized people
would not understand their base prmitivcncss
The Buddhist Temple Of Dabus,, itself holds one of
the worlds largest images Buddha More than go feet
high this bronze image made 40 A. D. Years
ago during wndstom this image literally lost it's head
and twice II has been dsfg CURED by fire but
IT always has been patched up
At the main gateway 10 the Dabutsu Temple large
statues OF ancient gods Upon entering the deyou pill
grms through ritual which American looks
like school boys prank These p grirs make spit
balls and then hur them at the Of the ancient
gods II spit-baU hits god and sticks the faithful
believes that he has been blessed with good luck
one of the enormous pillars which supports the roof
Of the temple has hole through The pilgrim
who can crawl through this hole believes invoked
special celestial favor bu the szo the opening makes
certain that only the thin shall enjoy this blessing