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Old loves highlight Japan and Vietnam's new bonds

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he stayed among some 600 former soldiers recruited by liberation leader Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh to bring military expertise to fight the French.

Now there's an interesting bit of history I wasn't aware of. The post war era is filled with seeming contradictions like this.

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While many Vietnamese resented Japan’s occupation in 1940, less bloody than many of its other conquests, some also saw it as a step to ending French colonial rule in Indochina.

Finally I am not alone to think about the benefit of Japanese imperial army during 90s and the end of 80s.

I am glad to hear it.

From what I retain from the try of Japan to play the game of colonization a century ago it's not the horror thing* that did this army, but it's the benefit of the kicking shitty white race out of Asia (French, Russia and British).

Cause we don't do the same thing about the other try of colonization's game made by white (except for Hitler but it's just a question of time), black and arab race.

...........................Japan's history...........................

Requirement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonies_in_antiquity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Japan_relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Manchuria (1894-1895) ; Colonization made by Russian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina (1887–1954) ; Colonization made by French.

History:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War (1894-1895) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War (1904-1905) ; Kick ass of Russian colonization (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Russia-China-Mandchuria-map-1858-1904-fr.png) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria (1931-1932) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan#/media/File:Japanese_Empire2.png) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-German_cooperation_until_1941 (1920-1945) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War (1937-1945 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_French_Indochina(1940) ; Kick ass French https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_War (1941–1945) ; And others shitty soldier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan (1945)

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Xuan’s husband was in the first group of 71 soldiers to go home in 1954.....He died seven years after returning to Japan.

and then :

After Xuan’s husband left, she never had another relationship, she said. In 2005, the two were briefly reunited when he and his Japanese family came to visit.

He came while he was dead ?

The post war era is filled with seeming contradictions like this.

Pre-war for them. But that was (and still is) a very complicated story that placed people in contradictory situations and separated families.

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@cosguri

I think the dead man is Nguyen Thi Van's father.

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I think the dead man is Nguyen Thi Van's father.

Yes, and Thi Van seems to be a daughter of that couple on the photo "Nguyen Thi Xuan, who married Japanese soldier Nguyen Van Duc". The story is not complete.

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No, I think Nguyen Thi Van is a from different family. It never says Thi Xuan had any children.

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