"Cruelty is a virtue, not a vice." So wrote Sade in “Philosophy in the Boudoir “, his manifesto of the philosophy of pure evil. In works such as 120 Days of Sodom he wrote of grotesque tortures, perversions and murders committed on innocent women and children. Yet even the horrors of his novel which include burning eye lids off, having intestines ripped out, and having flesh stripped off the limbs do not compare with the pure satanic acts committed by the “noble and honorable samurai” of Japan on the innocent, the weak and the helpless. Sade asked to be buried in an unmarked grave, so that "my memory will disappear from the minds of men." The government of Japan is attempting to do the same thing as Sade: erase memories of their wickedness from the memories of men. In April of 2005, the Ja