[ConradofMontferrat]

I know the history of Japan in depth. Long story on how I ended up with a degree in Japanese history and politics from a Japanese college.

I can’t find much fault, if any at all, with Lee Hyon-soo’s article.

When I lived in Yokohama, I knew generations of Koreans that were still Korean, by Japanese law, and were threatened with deportation for the slightest offense. Never mind that the person may have been second or third generation, spoke NO Korean and had no relatives in Korea.

I don’t know if that has changed, but when I was on a 3 year torokusho, I had to stand behind loooonnng lines of Koreans to get it renewed.

Japan really does have a reckoning to do with how it treated its neighbors in the past.

To date, they have done a pretty bad job of it.

[Norm Lenhart]

Considering the people who committed the atrocities are dead or nearly so, and none in power, would you say that people who had nothing to do with it should be forever held responsible?

How about White people in America?

[yarddog]

I worked many Summers at a mountain retreat which had around 30 Japanese Students spend around half the Summer working. About half and half boys and girls.

After working with them Summer after Summer I came to some opinions of them. First every single Summer there would be one or two really cute ones. The beauties tended to be the smaller ones. There would also be a few who were pretty good sized people.

They could be pretty sneaky but I could be even more sneaky. I was head of students and I caught them several times violating campus rules. They always did so in large groups with only their leader left out of the loop. One night around 1 P.M. I caught them all meeting at a given place then they all hiked up to the rec area and all sat around talking, smoking, etc.

They never did cause a bit of trouble tho, absolutely never.

I did tell their leader once and he was really surprised. He was about the same age as the students and they didn’t give him much respect. The leader then called Mr. T as they called him. I think his name was Taksshita. He was older and when he spoke they listened. He really got onto them.

The funny thing is I had told the young leader that it was no big deal but I just wanted to let him know what they were doing.

[Psycho_Bunny]

For several weeks after the Tōhoku tsunami, I watched nothing but the Japanese news coverage of it. It became amusing to me to note how often the reporters qualified the disaster by saying it was the greatest loss of life in a natural disaster since World War Two.