I'm not feeling any better...
There's this nagging feeling that our enemies are conspiring against us.
Chapter 3: "Rape of Nanking: They had it coming".
That's what nations do. End of story
Glossing over negative aspects of Japanese past actions gives reason to suspect that they still haven't learned. As I recall, Shinto holds that the Japanese people are the Divinely Chosen People of the Pacific -- demi-gods among ordinary men. I wondered how much of it is still believed by the Japanese.
I have long advocated that they Japanese pay for, and man thier own self-defense, including building a small navy [so that we can be spared the cost]. From what I understand, there is still a great deal of suspicion of the Japanese by her neighbors. Any potential Japanese offensive military capability -- especially a navy -- is still greatly opposed in the Pacific Rim.
A few years back, my mother worked for a Japanese telecommunication company here in Metro DC. She remarked to me how very few Occidentals held senior positions within the company. There was a palpable condecension toward non-Japanese as well, she added.
BTW, anyone know how German textbooks compare when covering WWII?
Why worry? Anything that gets China more concerned about defending itself and less concerned about acquiring new territories (like Taiwan) is a good thing. If the Japs want to believe that China and Korea "deserved it", so be it, that's their right.
This may be OK. They're programing their youth to kick butt in the upcoming rematch with Red Korea and China.
Dear Poohbah,
I realize that you construe such things as worse than tinfoil . . . however . . . on a hypothetical logical level . . .
Couldn't this be construed as Japan moving toward the possibility of joining China in attacking against the USA as some have seen in dreams and visions?
I realize many Chinese have fierce hostilities toward Japan. But ever practical, I could easily imagine the Chinese using the Japanese against the USA if given the chance.
Hope you and family are all well and growing in The Lord.
Did they mention that they butchered more people leaving Manila than died in those two cities that were had an Atomic bomb dropped on them??
I could have sworn Hiroshima and Nagasaki taught them a permanent lesson. Perhaps not.
Japan has a long history of imperialism. They often have invaded Korea through out its history. Korean developed the turtle boat as a result of Japan's invasion in the 15th century, where Japan's fleet lost more ships then the Spanish Armada.
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Controversial history primer adopted again
Yomiuri Shimbun
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education on Thursday adopted a controversial history textbook for use at a middle school to open in April in Taito Ward, Tokyo.
The middle school is affiliated with Hakuo High School, and the schools will be the first metropolitan government-run six-year integrated middle and high school. The textbook's adoption marks the second time for it to be chosen for a public middle school after a case in which the Ehime Prefectural Board of Education approved it for use in three middle schools affiliated with existing prefectural high schools in 2002.
The textbook was written by historians from the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform and published by Fuso Publishing Inc. Some critics say it whitewashes Japan's wartime past.
The textbook will be used by 160 first-year students of the middle school in Tokyo in the new academic year starting in April.
The society wrote a history and a civics textbook for middle school students. The textbook was adopted for use at schools for the disabled run by the Tokyo metropolitan and Ehime prefectural governments in 2001 and approved for use in the three middle schools in Ehime Prefecture in 2002.
The overwhelming majority of middle schools run by ward, city, town and village governments nationwide have not adopted the textbook. According to the society, eight privately run middle schools have adopted the textbook.
The regular meeting of the Tokyo education board opened at 10 a.m. Thursday, and members of civic groups opposing the adoption of the society's textbook for use at Tokyo public schools observed the meeting. Five out of six members of the meeting selected the history textbook written by the society out of a total of eight textbooks.
Meanwhile, a Tokyo network of 76 groups to prevent the Tokyo education board from approving the society's textbook has so far submitted to the education board about 28,000 signatures opposing its adoption.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040827wo35.htm
They had reason to go to war. For that matter they had reason to attack Pearl Harbor. They need to lose the shame of the war and forever bow their heads for their behavior in it.