Posted on 08/05/2018 1:03:41 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
I was watching yet another WWII documentary about Japan during WWII this weekend and then it hit me... All and I mean, ALL, Japanese men (and most boys) during that era all had the same exact same buzzcut haircut that looked terrible. Yeah, military recruits in the U.S.A. get that same haircut in bootcamp but most let it grow out later at least on top. Yet Japanese men ALL had that same lousy buzzcut all the time.
Perhaps the only Japanese man not to have that buzzcut was the Emperor. So what was the reason? Was it conformity? Was there some law that declared that all men must have an ugly looking buzzcut? Just what was going on back then?
I did see an interesting biographical movie about Admiral Yamamoto recently and his hair was longer than a buzzcut. However, when I looked at pictures of Yamamoto from WWII, it turned out the REAL Yamamoto also had that terrible haircut everyone else from the lowliest army private up to Prime Minister Tojo had.
So does anybody have the reason for the terrible WWII era Japanese haircuts?
BTW, I notice that in occupation Japan, men quickly allowed their hair to grow longer. Also movies made in Japan about WWII show their soldiers with longer hair than they actually had back then. So even the Japanese are now embarrassed about how ridiculous those WWII era haircuts made them look.
Point made. Comparing a divers mask to a gas mask is nonsense.
There is (still) an exceptional level of social pressure to conform, in Japanese society.
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Married military members may have gotten a Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS but commonly called "separate rations") after boot camp. That amounts to about $370 a month.
Your nephew would not have gotten that allowance while in boot camp because everyone has to eat together in the chow hall. He probably will not get it after boot camp if he is not married. But he gets the equivalent in meals eaten in the chow hall.
Here is Billie. She has a Mullet. Is this a good example?
“Our crazy redneck neighbor rides atv drunk”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCQESR6DNMQ&list=PLaM5ZR-9nuspf81LuX0pPlW61AiTsDQaZ&index=10
A very good view of said Mullet is at :31
Intriguing question. I’m amazed at all the speculation that has been poured into this question — and why now at this time in American history? Why now do we to wonder about this question? And can we ask did the Japanese soldiers also have coke bottle lens eyeglasses? Were they all bucktooth? These questions fascinate many of us today. This question is up there in popularity with questions about UFOs. It never fails to drive the mind into all sorts of clever explanations — some quite remarkable for their creativity and insight! If we can only use this creativity and insight for question on curing cancer! That would be a remarkable achievement... but no, Japaneses soldier’s haircuts still captivate our attention and the genius of the American people is still directed on this elusive mystery.
When I was a kid, we all had flattops so we could look like Johnny Unitas.
I did as you suggested and searched videos of Tojo.
I found two showing a man with a bald head.
TOJO'S HEAD (BALD) SLAPPED IN COURT
I fail to see what you're talking about.
Do you put your mask onder threat of immediate death? Speed matters.
When you use the words horrible and terrible you use them in the context you personally consider buzz cuts to a bad style of haircut.
When I read horrible and terrible the meaning I took from them was you considered them done poorly.
Am I correct in my assumptions?
But again, photos and videos would have been helpful to clarify your point.
I am surprised this thread has gone on this far and yet no one has used the term “zipperneck”.
Sigh. FR has fallen from greatness.
Wow! I haven’t heard of “zipperneck” either!
Hitler would have disagreed. The reason he had a button mustache was because, as a soldier in WWI, he shaved off only the ends of his mustache to provide a seal for his gas mask rather than shave off the whole thing.
My anthro-linguistics professor spent time in Japan. She said it was unnerving to be standing in the aisle of a bullet train looking back at the faces of the other passengers. Not a one of them had any sort of expression on their face. The custom of maintaining personal isolation led to the impression of a sea of robots.
“Not a one of them had any sort of expression on their face. The custom of maintaining personal isolation led to the impression of a sea of robots.”
The Japanese culture really is an exceptional one - some good, some bad. They tend to have a very high psychic stress level, about how others view them - how they are seen as measuring up to the cultural standards.
On the good side, they are very considerate of others, and are arguably the cleanest people on Earth - you can’t get into bed before bathing, and you can’t get into the bath before taking a soapy shower with a scrub.
It’s a second-tier slur.
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