Uh oh. The last time this happened, Hiroshima suffered. So did Nagasaki.
I lived in Japan in the late 1980’s-early 1990’s. This is nothing new. Maybe just getting better international coverage.
Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.
Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:
"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."
The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.
(RIP Loring.)
Around 20 years ago I saw a program on one of the history channels.
It was about the battle of Okinawa. One of the people who was interviewed was a woman who was forced by the Japanese to work in one of the caves during the battle.
She was only 16 and technically Japanese herself but said they were treated really bad. The Americans basically saved her.
There was an article here a couple of weeks ago about the Japanese and some captured Australian nurses.
The Japanese Soldiers raped the Australian nurses, then had them walk into the ocean and they machine-gunned them.
Sweethearts.
Uhhh....ya’ll know you got your azz kicked in that war, right? And Not a little bit. A lotta bit.
My wife and I were walking on a paved path around the harbor at Victoria, British Columbia.
It was a wide path and we were the only ones on it.
A Japanese guy comes walking the other way.
At the last second he veers towards me.
I think he’s probably not paying attention and move out of the way.
Another Japanese guy comes along and does the same thing.
By this time, I figure it’s intentional.
I’m a pretty big guy.
A third Japanese guy comes our way.
He veers towards me and I scream “Tora! Tora! Tora!” and crash into him.
He scurried off.
I spent many Summers in the Western Carolina Mountains. It was a Summer retreat which employed a large number of college students.
Each Summer we would have around 40 Japanese students work for a month or so. I got along with them really well. I got to noticing a few things. One there were some of them who were really large. Next, there would always be at least one really pretty girl, the pretty ones were always tiny. Maybe just coincidence but it seemed to hold true every every Summer.
My frat brother from Stanford teaches at the high school or “gakuen” there and moonlights for the US state and embassies from time to time.
I was there 5 times in 10 years to visit him. He told me that “Americans are racist? I’ll show you something..”
We went to eat 3x in Yokohama and MOST the signs read (in Japanese) : ‘NO FOREIGNERS, CHINESE AND KOREANS” at the door..
Unreal.
It was already pretty high. I don’t envy the poor Koreans living in Japan.
As much as I can’t stand China, I understand wholeheartedly their hatred of the Japanese.
Setting aside the Ainu, didn’t the Japanese originally come from Korea?