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Pearl of Death, The (1944) IMDB rating: 7.50 Plot: When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes’ show-boating, he is naturally obliged to find it. Soon, he learns of a series of brutal murders that seemed to have been commited by a malevolent man mountain known only as the Creeper. Now, Holmes must deal with the seemingly overwhelming menace of this man and his boss in order to retrieve the pearl.

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Actors: Rathbone Basil,Bruce Nigel,Hoey Dennis,Mander Miles,Wolfe Ian,Francis Charles,Herbert Holmes,Nugent Richard,Hatton Rondo,Austin J.W.,Benge Wilson,Bevan Billy,Cording Harry,Horror,Mystery,Crime,

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Why do some Japanese expect an apology?
What do some Japanese want an apology for the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? However, the Japanese has never apologised for the bombing of Pearl Harbour. or the torture camps built for the Burmese Death railway.

So why do some Japanese expect an apology?

Has this ever been brought up to these Japanese?

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I think they gotta apologize first before they accept any apologies from us.
Dude | Nov 19, 2009

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Dropping a Nuke on a city is a bit different to dropping a few bombs on a Navy base and torturing POWs.

Having said that, historical apologies are nothing but empty words that make people feel better anyway, so maybe every country should go ahead and apologise to everyone else for every wrong they may have done to each other in the past. Then we can all be one big happy family together! Not.
shortbread | Nov 19, 2009

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Apologising for long past events is all the rage at the moment, it gives politicians something to do I suppose. There’s nothing quite so motivating as the feelings of self righteous indignation
reggie | Nov 19, 2009

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the japanese do not teach there kids about what they did in WW2 they blanked that bit out ,so that why some think we should say sorry for the bombs ,
Ray C | Nov 19, 2009

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I never heard of any Japanese looking for an apology. But I guess there must be a few who want to become a victim of something just like everyone else. However, NO! I hope there will never be an apology for WW 2. You throw sticks at the big dog, you’re gonna get bit.
Derail | Nov 19, 2009

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…Pearl Harbor was horrible, but it was an ant bite compared to hiroshima and nagasaki.
Not only should we apologies for that, but think of the japanese americans we put into camps during that time. I don’t know about you, but I think that should prompt an apology.

And an apology for Pearl Harbor from them would be nice, don’t get me wrong. But I think we’ve done them a greater injustice.
Valkyrie | Nov 19, 2009

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I doubt there will ever be an apology from either side about any atrocity conducted during the war, after all history always favours the victors & the japs did attack first!

as bad as it sounds the nukes saved more lives on both sides than they killed as they stopped the war dead, when both sides were prepared to fight to the last if necessary.
Michael G | Nov 19, 2009

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Example: If a big bully pushes a little boy around for years and then the little boy hits the bully really hard where it hurts, Hiroshima was the same as the bully then beating the little boy comatose.

You have not understood the cause of Pearl Harbour and what it means to drop an atomic bomb.
Go back to your classroom before you look down on other people.!
D S | Nov 19, 2009

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an apology would be Nice from the Emperor for allowing his Imperial army to Butcher and remove and cook and Eat organs removed from Australian Soldiers

Or for allowing the Japanese Imperial army to Rape Australian Uniformed Nurses and shooting them to Hide the crime

and i think the Babies of 9 years old would like the Emperor to apologise for Being forced to service up to 50 Unwashed Japanese soldiers in Imperial Comfort Houses ( Brothels)

and the Japanese Imperial army filmed Bayoneting of Chinese Pregnant women and removing the Fetus and passing it from bayonet to Bayonet and if it fell to the Ground playing football with it The y filmed it i have seen this film

and that does Not cover what they did to pows they talk about Honor they were On our side In WW1 they they understood the Geneva convention and chose to ignore it Most Japanese Officers were educated in Oxford Cambridge London University Yale Princeton Harvard ETC

it is a Pity they surrendered when they did as we had Bombs 3/4/5/6 and 7 planned 3 and 4 were going to be ready in August

My neighbour had a Japanese Student in his House as Part of the Twin sister Cities exchange

and My local council told me not to talk about WW2 or ask questions because it would Bring dishonor on the Japanese !!!!!!!
armouror2000 | Nov 19, 2009

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My guess is, USA will apologize for nuking Japan right after Al-Qaeda apologizes for 9-11
martinthurn | Nov 19, 2009

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The Japanese expect an apology because in 1945 it was not necessary to launch 2 atomic bombs on two cities so popular… would be enough to demonstrate U.S. power in some Pacific island…
But the U.S. wanted shown superior to the Soviets as the thing that would prove the best U.S. power was a devastating attack in a large country…
But the thing that differentiates Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima & Nagaski is that the first few thousand armed soldiers were killed while more than 200,000 civilians died in the second defenseless, not to mention the damage to the environment and future generations… and that the attack on Pearl was provided, so that Roosevelt did move the aircraft carrier, that of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, no! Then what was it dropped a second bomb? Although the Japanese have killed 200,000 Chinese in Nanjing, apologized… U.S. to Nippon no! Just ask for the unconditional surrender that was not expected to affect the imperial power…

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Vetra | Nov 19, 2009

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The Japanese are wrong…but one bombed a military base, and one bombed a civilian area. Once u join the military or associate with it…expect to die. Even though the Japanese started the war, it would be noble to apologize for the atomic bomb because it killed civillians.

I mean, some mother came up to you and hit u, and then u beat the child…u should apologize to the child…and that shouldn’t have anything to do with the mother.

It’s like 9-11. No matter the past between Muslims and the US, nobody should attace civilians.
Barricade | Nov 19, 2009

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Look — let’s be fair — everyone can expect and appreciate an apology for past horrific deeds…

It’s incredibly puerile to suggest "they have to apologize first before we apologize"…

Come on — it has always been the case that during a period of war that both (or all — as there are often more than just two parties) do things that are atrocious and inhumane.

Everyone ought just to apologize to everyone else for G*d’s sake!! Let’s ALL grow up.

I genuinely feel for those who lost relatives who they know may have been caught up in direct warfare, Atom bomb or POW atrocities… it is hard to ever accept such terrible deeds no doubt…

But as the great Men have all said — "treat your neighbor as you would wish to be treated"

Someone has got to be big enough, mature enouigh and humane enough to hold their hands up and say — hey look we ARE sorry on behalf of those who perpetrated inhumane acts at any time to anyone…

WE can ALL expect, and even demand, apologies but NOT before we ourselves have cleaned our own house and made our own peace with, and given our own apologies to, those who we (or rather, oue forefathers) have damaged, hurt or treated badly.

Until we apologize AND forgive AND forget — we cannot call ourselves a civilized and advanced species. And we continue to make our own lives more miserable!
Monkey0 | Nov 19, 2009

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It is actually complicated. The Japanese did not apolpgise, because the USA would not allow the other allies to force them to, because the US was more worried by 1945 of the Communists, and were worried that psetting or damaging Japan too much would mean Communists might take over. Which would hinder US interests in South East Asia e.g. they did not want to leave places such as Pearl Harbour suscpetiable to attack again form a Communist (USSR satelite) Japan. Ao unlike the Germans who were made to apologise, the Japanese never did, and as a consequence those tortured by the Japanes were not given the same treatment as those tortured by the Germans.

The Japanes might argue, those who were bombed by the US were not soldiers, they themselves were people opressed by an effective milatery dictatorship. They also often point to the fact that Japan was on the verge of surrender (contary to popular belief they would have surrendered). So the bombing was unnessacery. But that last point is an area of debate
Juzt | Nov 19, 2009