I can eat with chopsticks - very effectively. I’ve been doing it since I was fifteen.
They’re an honor-bound society, so their moral rules are a bit different from ours. It’s taken a bit of a backseat in modernity, but it made them very effective warriors in the past. The Yakuza still carry some of these traditions, and those families permeate through parts of the Japanese business and political circles - they’re not just gangsters anymore.
At least someone is trying to preserve their own culture and traditions, blemishes and all. I give them credit for accepting it. That’s more than can be said of most of our own.
I've been fed this PR about Japan since I was a kid, and, sure, they are now civilized and well behaved in the sense of not being murderous barbarians, but until September 2, 1945, and a forced unconditional surrender, they would have been happy to enslave and slaughter us as far as they could go. Carving out fetuses from pregnant women's abdomens, mass rape, burning people alive. You know they would have been happy to do it.
Don't deny that. There was no reasoning with them. Their barbarity and arrogance was every bit as bad as that of the Third Reich.
And don't think they were nice to the Vietnamese and Koreans either. Think comfort women and Unit 731.
People like MacArthur were enamored with their so-called culture and let them keep their pagan man-god emperor instead of us hanging him, which is what should have happened. They wouldn't have spared Truman or Roosevelt from torture and hanging if the tables were turned.
So I've pretty much educated myself about Japan and I know full well that they have not yet atoned for what they did. Like the Saudis and Germans, they are in limbo as far as I am concerned. They are pagan, unrepented, reprobates. Haven't done anything for us lately BTW.