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Index][Thread Index] Japan and the Korean War In reading about
the war I keep running into snippets of info about the role of
Japan in the war. Obviously we used it as a base of operations
and much of our equiptment was serviced there. I recall in July
of 51 some troops in our were given R@R leaves to Tokyo where
they were treated well- I'm not sure about black soldiers When I
was wounded in April of 51 I spent about a month in Osaka in an
Army hospital there and was sent to Sasebo on a civilian train
and then to Pusan on a Japanese ship that carried US troops and
was manned by Japenese. They were not uniformed but I somehow
felt they were serving in an offical capacity- all men.
Somewhere I have read that Japan was a secret participant in the
War. In a novel about the War "One Thousand Chestnut Tress," one
of the characters claims that Japan was a player in the end in
keeping Korea divided as it feared a strong Korea- the Korean-
Japanese relationships wer