Posted on 04/08/2005 6:49:46 PM PDT by blam
Ping.
I'd like to think that Hiroshima speaks for itself. Some tensions still run high here in the US also.
A recent episode of "King of the Hill" centered around a "healing" trip to Tokyo by US WWII veterans. Hanks father, Cotton Hill, lost his shins to the Japanese during the war. His purpose for going to Tokyo was to spit in the eye of the Japanese Prime Minister. It was hilarious, and must have also been so to the Korean animators who likely penned the episode.
Dormant Japanese ultra-right has got the chance of revival thanks to N. Korean missile and nuclear crisis. Having full-fledged military had been their long-time wish. The unfolding issue of Japanese abductee gave them added ammunition. With this momentum on their side, they want to revive old imperial tradition and legitimize white-washing of their history. Such efforts used to be covert and piece-meal until now. Recently, they became overt and bold.
That pretty much sums it up!
Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
We need militaristic allies. I would take Japan over any other country except England.
The Japanese were the most brutal and least humane of any of the axis armies, including the Nazis.
The Japanese have proven themselves to be the only reliable Asian ally the United States has in the Pacific. If the United States could reconcile with Japan (and the Japanese with the US) given what we've done to each other, then I'm with Japan all the way on this matter. These other spoil sports, like China, Korea, and every other whining failure in Asia, can go suck eggs.
Banzai Nippon!
I expect that with a name like Henderson Field, you may have some special insight.
"The Japanese were the most brutal and least humane of any of the axis armies, including the Nazis."
Say what??? Tell that to the Poles, the Russians, and the people from any other country the Nazis invaded.
Particularly not to the JEWS!
Nobody has such a clean history in Asia. Or anywhere else for that matter. But State rewrites of history ought to be exposed to the dialectic.
Just got hold of a book on the Rape of Nanking....for anyone who doesn't believe the Japanese were brutal in WWII.
They raped, beheaded, tortured and killed about 300,000 Chinese there.
The regular German army did behave more humanely than the regular Japanese army, I think.
I don't think the regular German army had any atrocities to compare with the regular Japanese army in Nanking, for example.
" The Japanese were the most brutal and least humane of any of the axis armies, including the Nazis."
I live in the boondocks of Kumamoto Prefecture in southern Japan , and heard a story first-hand from a local , Japanese veteran of WW2 ...An American plane crash landed locally , about 5 miles from where I am now living . The survivors were sent to either Fukuoka or Tokyo where medical experiments were conducted on them . I can't tell you how horribly these men suffered . They were considered equal to animals , and not human beings . Living in Japan ahs always been a love/hate kind of thing with me . When I read stories about their whitewashing of history it really pisses me off . The government , not the sheeple , are to blame , though .
"I don't think the regular German army had any atrocities to compare with the regular Japanese army in Nanking, for example."
Read about the battles of Stalingrad or Leningrad, then tell me about Wehrmacht "honor".
Who runs the government there?
The Communists in China and North Korea are giving Imperial Japan a good run for its money. Nobody in Asia has a record that we in the West would consider humane, just look at the neighborhood. The Japanese were simply the best at it.
Personally I can't wait to see a militarily active Japan again. It's long past time they stepped back into their historical role of limiting the expansion of China in the Pacific.
By the way, when is communist China planning to apologize for murdering 65 million innocent people?
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