Posted on 12/06/2016 2:07:11 PM PST by ColdOne
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Pearl Harbor survivor marks 75 years since attack
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won't apologize for Japan's attack when he visits the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor later this month, the government spokesman said Tuesday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that "the purpose of the upcoming visit is to pay respects for the war dead and not to offer an apology."
Abe announced late Monday that he would have a summit meeting with President Barack Obama in Hawaii and visit Pearl Harbor. He will be the first Japanese leader to go to the site of the Japanese attack that propelled the United States into World War II.
The unexpected announcement came two days before the 75th anniversary of the attack and six months after Obama became the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima for victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of that city at the end of the same war.|
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Personally, I think arguing about apologies for WWII is the height of stupidity. If you would like to continue doing so, be my guest.
Koreans have been demanding compensation from Japan for forcing 700,000 Koreans into slave labour. They want at some wages back, which Japan at the very least does owe them. The issue goes a bit deeper than just verbal apologies.
“the purpose of the upcoming visit is to pay respects for the war dead and not to offer an apology.” >>>>>>>>>>
Abe did the same at Yasakuni shrine in Tokyo, drove the Chinese batty.
Abe is doing something spiritual in the Shinto tradition. Its not political.
In paying such respect, he will in fact be apologizing and asking forgiveness. Its about kannagara, and the way of the gods.The way of spiritual manners.Prayer is not public, nor should it be.All of Japan knows this, but people in the West do not, for the most part.
Born in Bavaria, I was a toddler during WW2, father never returned from the Western Front. A migrant to Oz in 1949, from the moment I was chosen at age 10 by my school to lay a wreath on Memorial Day and discovered my country had been instigators of two World Wars, I carried that German Guilt like a millstone, though I never once discussed it with anyone.
It’s there, it always will be, and surely, the Japanese people feel the same.
I understand your kannagara.
Thank you.
Hey. I like Akira Kurosawa’s movies, especially with Toshiro San in them. I like Gamura the flying turtle, and Mothra and Godzilla, esp. King Kong vs. Godzilla. Then in Manga, Sanpei Shirato’s Kamui series, Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal, Kozuo Koike’s Lone Wolf and Cub, and then there’s the Anime (except f@#$#ing Pokimon). Moreover, sushi is a great fast food. Japanese popular culture is worth defending!
Their history schoolbooks deny any wrong-doing and in fact half the population doesn't even know about WWII... thinking Japan has always been a land of bunnies, Pamyu-pamyu, anime and weird porn. So it is doubtful that they feel anything at all about it.
Indeed, considering that 14 class-A war criminals were enshrined there in 1978. Including Iwane Matsui, the general responsible for the Nanking massacre.
I’ll settle for this in lieu of apology.
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Zen for you. “If you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha,” if you are on the path of Meifumado (hell bound, just quoting from Lone Wolf and Cub;-).
Make that the Eastern front, my father was killed in action near Vitebsk.
We did , but even by the standards of military history the attack on Pearl Harbour stands out.
It was the most cowardly, the most despicable , the most infamous act of murderpus treachery in the annals of history .
But...
...have we heard the lamentation of their women yet??
And just WHTA have the flakes actually learned about the War in the schools of America these days?
Would be a LOT cheaper than all the money we've spent trying to placate those who were not alive to be under it.
Today is Tota, Tora, Tora day.
I envy those flying off the coast in the yellow biplane that morning......
The US pay for the defence of Japan by mutual agreement, in exchange for the use of military bases on the Japanese mainland. Either side can walk away from that agreement with a years notice.
I believe we have...
Really?
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