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Big News Brewing in Japan?
The American Thinker ^
| April 21, 2004
| Thomas Lifson
Posted on 04/21/2004 1:11:26 PM PDT by quidnunc
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To: Future Snake Eater
People on this thread keep acting like that's a good thing. God help us all. Hopefully just in time to confront Red China.
To: Semper Paratus
Nippon is still mightly pissed at NK for the kidnapping of its citizens. The Japanese have always seen somewhat contemptuous of Koreans, North and South, sort of the way a *sophisticated* New Yawker* might view an Ozark hillbilly, or a staid and formal Prussian look down his nose at his Bavarian cousins.
Except for one guy. A couple of years back there was an incident on a Japanese subway platform, and a Korean threw himself to certain death in front of a train to try and save a stranger, who as averages would have it, was Japanese. The result on Japanese society was far-reaching and profound, of the sort of national galvanization we felt here following JFK's assassination, or after the 09/11 plane hijackings and crashes.
That's not at all to say that Nippon is not indeed mightily pissed at NK for the kidnapping of its citizens. But expect the resoponse to be one that the Japanese have carefully considered and measured, rather than an instinctive and reflexive one.
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posted on
04/21/2004 4:20:31 PM PDT
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: Future Snake Eater
Why do you say that?
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Yukio Mishima would be proud. Issa would be proud.
aki no kaze tsurugi no yama wo kuru kaze ka
[does this autumn wind
come from the Mountain
of Swords?]
Kobayashi Issa, 1804
64
posted on
04/21/2004 4:28:19 PM PDT
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Almost unnoticed by the American press, the aftermath of Japans hostage crisis in Iraq...I just wanted to add my "Bravo!" to you, AmericanInTokyo.
65
posted on
04/21/2004 4:34:52 PM PDT
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: glock rocks
"go Spanish"
Yep, that's a keeper. It needs to be used and reused. "Go French" or "go UN" could mean "refusing to support an ally and the forces for democracy so as to make possible the taking of humanitarian aid money and resources as payola."
To: quidnunc
Arigato, quidnunc-san!
67
posted on
04/21/2004 4:41:44 PM PDT
by
FierceDraka
(Service and Glory!)
To: ModelBreaker
If they can launch a satellite (which they have done), they sure as hell can deliver a missile to damn near any target in Asia.
68
posted on
04/21/2004 4:46:07 PM PDT
by
FierceDraka
(Service and Glory!)
To: monkeywrench
Due to the inherent superiority over all others that is inherent in Japanese culture, they can be difficult to deal with in serious circumstances. How long will it be before this social attribute worms its way back into their military? A nuclear-armed military at that?
Some reading on WWII in the Pacific Theatre is all you need to see that a Japan that keeps to themselves and only donates money is by far the ONLY Japan that we want to deal with.
I have great respect for them, but I feel that we must keep them militarily hobbled for as long as humanly possible.
69
posted on
04/21/2004 4:54:33 PM PDT
by
Future Snake Eater
("Oh boy, I can't wait to eat that monkey!"--Abe Simpson)
To: Future Snake Eater
Okay, thanks.
To: MeekOneGOP
bump
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posted on
04/21/2004 5:06:19 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
To: MeekOneGOP
"Now, a steady stream of news, much of it leaked from governmental sources, is hinting that the first three hostages may have faked their kidnapping. If and when these suspicions becomes provable, the public backlash in Japan against the anti-war left could be fearsome, and drive Japans foreign policy even further toward muscular collaboration with American defense efforts." I didn't read the whole thread, but this bullet of faked kidnapping really got my attention.
Who was to benefit from the fake?
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posted on
04/21/2004 5:18:28 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: quidnunc
Prime Minister Koizumi simply refused to go Spanish in the face of terror threats against his citizens. It must be remembered, however, that Spanish Prime Minister Aznar never let us down. The Spanish voters were the ones who let us down and the Japanase voters have not voted in their next election yet.
Here at home, John Kerry, the other Democrats and the liberal news media are doinmg everything they can to make America "go Spanish" this November.
73
posted on
04/21/2004 5:27:27 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Happy2BMe
I didn't read the whole thread, but this bullet of faked kidnapping really got my attention.
Who was to benefit from the fake?
I don't know for sure. Maybe someone, some good Freeper with that info, will reply to us here ....
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posted on
04/21/2004 5:34:58 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Become a monthly donor on FR. No amount is too small and monthly giving is the way to go !)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Domo arigato gozaimashita. The antiwar lefties in Japan have a cloying sanctimony similar to, but an order of magnitude greater, than the ones on campus in the States. It has led them to ally, respectively, with the Communists in Red China and North Korea and Vietnam, all of whom hate the Japanese as much as they hate the U.S., and a plethora of extremely violent radicals such as the Red Army Faction and even such weird ducks as the Aum Shinrikyo, the folks that let off sarin in the Tokyo subway. In short, everything anti-Western and anti-U.S., neither of which represents a majority opinion in Japan. In this they resemble nothing so much the French or the wilder-eyed campus radicals at Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Madison, and Ithaca.
There is, in addition, an anti-U.S. right in that country who is still fighting WWII, who loathe these people with all the fervor of a Nazi street-fighter toward the Communists in Germany in 1935. If there is trouble to be had in terms of nascent Japanese militarism, it is here that it is to be found, IMHO. And fortunately the average Japanese thinks that both sides are full of kuso.
To: King Prout
People forget we took out the Japanese and the Germans, two highly motivated assailers, in WWII.
I always figured Japan would make this turn, they've already started building new destroyers.
Some day they'll be the 51st state (them or the UK). It'll be just like Texas, but smaller. And, uh, further away.
76
posted on
04/21/2004 5:43:33 PM PDT
by
dyed_in_the_wool
("It boots you not to avoid his snares")
To: dyed_in_the_wool
do you recall, wayyy back when, mr. old-uhmmm's disastrous attempt to use a dughter of Hiroshima to shame us into his line of thinking?
LOL at the memory
77
posted on
04/21/2004 5:53:39 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(poets and philosophers should NEVER pretend to Engineering... especially SOCIAL Engineering!)
To: Happy2BMe
Who was to benefit from the fake? the rachael corrie supporters of the world... the OMG, it's a quagmire! proponents... the No blood for oil gang...
78
posted on
04/21/2004 6:00:13 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Please pray for our patriot armed forces in harm's way - and the families awaiting their safe return)
To: Modernman
Mark my words- Japan will become a nuclear power by the end of this decade.I would imagine they probably already are wink wink nod nod!
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:24:57 PM PDT
by
Nov3
To: Future Snake Eater
Give me a break. The Japan of 2004 is not the Japan of 1941. A Japan standing up and actually defending itself is not the same as a Japan raging rampant through East Asia. It's about time they found a balance between pacifism and conquest. Neither extreme was good for them.
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