Posted on 10/01/2007 8:11:33 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
TOKYO -- More than 100,000 people protested Saturday in southern Japan against the central government's order to modify school textbooks which say the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of World War II. Publishers of history textbooks were ordered in December to modify sections that said the Japanese army _ faced with an impending U.S. invasion in 1945 _ handed out grenades to residents in Okinawa and ordered them to kill themselves rather than surrender to the Americans.
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Yep. They act like they even want to control what is on internet...
Denial is not just a river in Egypt - it runs deep in Japan too.
Yes, they do!! And she looks like she could use a good douche.
I think the public doesn’t like this information publicized and the government is publishing the truth.
forget that- let her keep her pollutants to herself! What did fish ever do to you to deserve that?
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It illustrates what fanatics the Japanese government was run by and justifies the US dropping the A-Bomb. I guess some in Japan don't want to hear that.
Fuchida, the man who led the Pearl Harbor attack, and who later converted to Christianity, told Paul Tibbets "You saved more than you killed." The Japanese, he said, were going to engage in suicidal human wave attacks including women and children.
It’s confusing from the snippet, but it’s the other way around. The Okinawans are protesting against the airbrushing of history by the Govt.
You’ve got it bass-ackwards — better read that first sentence again.
I think textbooks are published by the Japanese government, no ?
Here is the hard yet simple truth:
1) Japan attacks PHarbor Dec 7, 1941
2) Japanese expansion toward Australia halted at the Coral Sea, Feb 1942
3) Japanese navy loses 4 aircraft carriers at Midway, May 1942
4) US takes Japanese soil at Iwo Jima, Feb 1945
5) US takes Okinawa, May 1945
6) A-bomb #1 dropped on Hiroshima Aug 6, 1945
7) A-bomb #2 dropped on Nagasaki Aug 8, 1945
8) Japan signs surrender accords aboard USS Mizzou
9) Occupation of Japan begins w/ D McArthur presiding
10) MV lives at Yokota AB as a child
11) MV lives at Tachikawa AB as a child
12) Nuf said
Hear is the above in a nutshell: JAPAN LOST!
MV
Army brat, Sagamihara and Yokohama, 1951-1961.
They eventually lost but they certainly did extract one helluva high price according to the men who fought for the Pacific islands. One thing they did not do was tuck their tails and run.
Give it another generation and the story will be that poor little old Japan was set upon and destroyed by big bad old America.
Heck, give it another generation, and the story will be that we attacked the Germans to kill all the Jews that Hitler was trying to save.
Maybe. However, the price the Japanese paid is as follows:
1) Destruction by the same Uncle what opened them in 1853
2) Being the target of the first and the second nuke
3) Occupation by Uncle and having Uncle dictate the terms of the Constitution
These have taken a huge toll on the Japanese. They rate right up there
w/ the French and Italians for dicklessness. I understand from persons
who have spent time in Germany that the Germans are much the same way.
Attempts at nationalism from time to time are usually shot down in flames.
I guess constant reminding by the Chinese re Manchurian attrocities
and the rape of Nanking don’t help either. Does not seem to have chnaged much in the current generation either.
I understand absolutely how this situation arose in the Germans and the Japoanese: absolute and unconditional castration at the hand of Uncle.
MV
Maybe? How can you say “Maybe”?
We are very damn lucky to have been born after the fighting stopped. I lost half a dozen relatives during WWII combat action who died fighting the Japs.
My father hated them for the cruelties they exhibited but he never lost respect for their fighting abilities. He told me that if they had had our generals, they probably would have won the war.
I’m sorry for your losses.
Actually, I consider myself to be lucky that Vietnam ended prior to
my 12th b’day.
American generals had little to do w/ one aspect of the US war machine.
One thing we had that NOBODY could match and will never be
able to match; Unattritable manufacturing capacity.
It was simply a matter of time before the Japanese and Germans were
going to collapse as they could not sustain sufficient manufacturing
capacity to fight a war. I believe it it called the tipping point in modern
DoD parlance.
One trait that Americans seem to lack that other nations have portrayed
on the battlefield throughout history is ABSOLUTE RUTHLESSNESS.
They might have won had they our unattritable manufacturing capacity.
Think American Civil War: North vs south. The south DID have our generals
but they lacked......manufacturing cap.
The point of my original post was: JAPAN LOST. In truth, it matters
not how they lost. It matters that THEY LOST.
MV
>The point of my original post was: JAPAN LOST. In truth, it matters not how they lost. It matters that THEY LOST.<
Sorry, but I have to disagree. In truth, it signifigantly matters how they lost and why they lost. Let’s never forget history.
On FR, the freetraders have no concerns about foreigners buying up American companies while to me American manufacturing capacity is a critical part of our national security. Without it, as you said, we would have lost WWII.
IMO, we are setting ourselves up to succumb to the demands of China in a few decades under this free trade agreement nonsense. We won’t be able to maintain the manufacturing capacity necessary to fight a large, long lasting war.
Oh well, hopefully I won’t live long enough to see the day when America holds up the white flag. I served a couple of tours in Nam and that was enough to comvince me that our leaders don’t get involved in wars to win them.
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