[Chainmail]

I think that we have to be honest about the things that we did right and the things we did wrong if we are to avoid the sins of the past.

The Japanese people are a wonderful, talented bunch but for a period not long ago, capable of horrific acts. Those horrific acts caused Japan and the US and allies to lose a very large portion of their most capable, courageous, useful men and their genes for future generations.

It was all needless - Japan's Bushido code caused the brutality and viciousness and waste that characterized that war. Unless this generation and those that follow reject that culture, that will ruin any future for Japan.

That article showed to me that some of that sentimentality and skewed perspective for that time is creeping back.

[sushiman]

“That article showed to me that some of that sentimentality and skewed perspective for that time is creeping back. “

Only amongst a few far right Emperor loving wingers ...They are dying out ...Soon to be extinct .

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Some years back, wife and I visited Pearl Harbor to tour the Missouri. A Navy boat took us out to the Arizona after the Big MO.

The boat was filled with Japanese girls. I asked why they wanted to see the wreck and was surprised at the answer, “We wanted to see what our fathers and grandfathers had done. It’s not taught in Japanese schools...”