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Originally Posted by MRM
As for the issue of unrestricted warfare on the Japanese merchant ships. There was a difference between those attacks and the German equivilent that makes all the difference in the rules of war. The Japanese were fighting a war of aggression and the merchant fleet was working in direct support of that war. As such, all Japanese merchant vessels were legitimate targets of war. The Allied merchant fleet was not in the same position. Not only was the Allied involvement in WWII not in support of a war of aggression and not all merchant shipping was done in support of the war effort. Therefore, not all Allied shipping were legitimate targets of war. In other words, the campaign against Japan's merchant fleet saved Japanese, as well as American lives.
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This is a textbook example of history as written by the victors.