Talk:Himeyuri Students

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"[K]illed by the gas shell"? What gas was used on Okinawa?
—wwoods 15:33, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

The phrase "- propaganda spread by the military government of Imperial Japan." is quite POV in my opinion.
User:Andrea Virga

[edit] gender of students

I recall from a visit to the museum that all the students were female, yet the current text says "was a group of coed students". I suspect this is a garble.

Correct. The Himeyuri were all girls (just like the Shiraume and the other nurse corps). The boys were in other units. Additionally, there was no coed in those days in Japan, boys and girls were separated after elementary school. It should also be mentioned that the Himeyuri came from the most exclusive schools on Okinawa.

Also I'd like to add that gas wasn't really used on Okinawa, except maybe teargas. According to George Feiffer in "Tennozan", the Americans used phosphor grenades to ignite napalm, which would then burn and use up all oxygen in a cave. And looking at the reports from survivors among the Okinawan civilians there was a lot of propaganda by the IJA. A lot of people were forced or talked into committing suicide, that includes Himeyuri girls and others. The girls were even issued handgrenades (for suicide, not for combat, schoolgirls are no combat force, they would be of no use in the field). Pretty much every survivor will confirm the propaganda about being raped by the Americans (Americans were the devils in the military's propaganda). Just recently 110,000 Okinawans protested against the central government in Tokyo, because the ministry of education removed references to the murder of Okinawans and forcing people into suicide by the IJA from school textbooks.Takekaze (talk) 18:59, 29 November 2007 (UTC)