In Japan, libeling the dead is a crime

In Japan, libelling the dead is a very serious crime. Really, it is! Now what are the implications of that, and what does it mean, exactly? Why does Japan make it a very serious crime to libel the dead? I think it probably is related to WWII, and the really horrific war crimes committed by the Japanese during the war -- vivisecting allied prisoners of war, doing horrific medical experiments on untold numbers of live human subjects, as if they were rats in a cage, which is exactly the way they were treated. The Japanese viewed all non-Japanese as sub-human, quite literally. Basically, the Japanese made Himmler, Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann all look like choir boys. And, General MaCarthur and the Americans never touched them, once they surrendered. They even forgave them Pearl Harbor! Anything to get a loyal ally against the USSR. But, if you think about it, it's pretty darn hard to study history, if you can't libel the dead. How do you study history without saying mean things about the dead? Are there historians in Japan? What exactly are they allowed to say? Anything? And, what about the legal system? If it's a very serious crime to say mean things about dead people in Japan, wouldn't that rather tend to skew the the nature of Japanese Justics? I mean, how can "justice be blind", if it's a very serious crime to say mean things about the dead? Where is the objectivity, the reality, the justice there? I think what this really tells us, is that societies will do anything to protect themselves, and shield the powerful from any and all criticism. And, truth, justice, reality itself become irrelevant, when social power and structure are at issue. And, this is obviously the case, when looking at the past, in Japan. #Crime #law #wwii #philosophy #Japan #history