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Japanese leader Abe won't apologize at Pearl Harbor
foxnews.com ^ | 12/6/16 | ap

Posted on 12/06/2016 2:07:11 PM PST by ColdOne

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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Personally, I think arguing about apologies for WWII is the height of stupidity. If you would like to continue doing so, be my guest.


61 posted on 12/06/2016 9:09:00 PM PST by zeugma (I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
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To: zeugma
Personally, I think arguing about apologies for WWII is the height of stupidity.

Koreans have been demanding compensation from Japan for forcing 700,000 Koreans into slave labour. They want at some wages back, which Japan at the very least does owe them. The issue goes a bit deeper than just verbal apologies.

62 posted on 12/06/2016 9:21:52 PM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: ColdOne; Fred Nerks

“the purpose of the upcoming visit is to pay respects for the war dead and not to offer an apology.” >>>>>>>>>>

Abe did the same at Yasakuni shrine in Tokyo, drove the Chinese batty.

Abe is doing something spiritual in the Shinto tradition. Its not political.

In paying such respect, he will in fact be apologizing and asking forgiveness. Its about kannagara, and the way of the gods.The way of spiritual manners.Prayer is not public, nor should it be.All of Japan knows this, but people in the West do not, for the most part.


63 posted on 12/06/2016 9:30:32 PM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Born in Bavaria, I was a toddler during WW2, father never returned from the Western Front. A migrant to Oz in 1949, from the moment I was chosen at age 10 by my school to lay a wreath on Memorial Day and discovered my country had been instigators of two World Wars, I carried that German Guilt like a millstone, though I never once discussed it with anyone.
It’s there, it always will be, and surely, the Japanese people feel the same.

I understand your kannagara.


64 posted on 12/06/2016 10:19:28 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: NFHale
Beautiful and factual post.

Thank you.

65 posted on 12/06/2016 10:35:43 PM PST by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: WashingtonFire

Hey. I like Akira Kurosawa’s movies, especially with Toshiro San in them. I like Gamura the flying turtle, and Mothra and Godzilla, esp. King Kong vs. Godzilla. Then in Manga, Sanpei Shirato’s Kamui series, Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal, Kozuo Koike’s Lone Wolf and Cub, and then there’s the Anime (except f@#$#ing Pokimon). Moreover, sushi is a great fast food. Japanese popular culture is worth defending!


66 posted on 12/06/2016 11:22:12 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Fred Nerks
surely, the Japanese people feel the same.

Their history schoolbooks deny any wrong-doing and in fact half the population doesn't even know about WWII... thinking Japan has always been a land of bunnies, Pamyu-pamyu, anime and weird porn. So it is doubtful that they feel anything at all about it.

67 posted on 12/07/2016 12:01:20 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: Candor7
Abe did the same at Yasakuni shrine in Tokyo, drove the Chinese batty.

Indeed, considering that 14 class-A war criminals were enshrined there in 1978. Including Iwane Matsui, the general responsible for the Nanking massacre.

68 posted on 12/07/2016 12:18:37 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: dware

I’ll settle for this in lieu of apology.

Trump Lands Huge Deal with Japanese Company, $50 Billion Investment and 50,000

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502102/posts


69 posted on 12/07/2016 1:00:59 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Zen for you. “If you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha,” if you are on the path of Meifumado (hell bound, just quoting from Lone Wolf and Cub;-).


70 posted on 12/07/2016 1:19:33 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Candor7

Make that the Eastern front, my father was killed in action near Vitebsk.


71 posted on 12/07/2016 2:52:30 AM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: FreedomStar3028

We did , but even by the standards of military history the attack on Pearl Harbour stands out.

It was the most cowardly, the most despicable , the most infamous act of murderpus treachery in the annals of history .


72 posted on 12/07/2016 3:40:06 AM PST by WashingtonFire
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To: Hugh the Scot
An apology is owed.

But...

...have we heard the lamentation of their women yet??

73 posted on 12/07/2016 4:30:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Flavious_Maximus
War apologies are for snowflakes.

And just WHTA have the flakes actually learned about the War in the schools of America these days?

74 posted on 12/07/2016 4:33:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: bigdaddy45
Should we (the US) apologize for slavery?

Would be a LOT cheaper than all the money we've spent trying to placate those who were not alive to be under it.

75 posted on 12/07/2016 4:34:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ColdOne

Today is Tota, Tora, Tora day.

I envy those flying off the coast in the yellow biplane that morning......


76 posted on 12/07/2016 4:34:45 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: WashingtonFire

The US pay for the defence of Japan by mutual agreement, in exchange for the use of military bases on the Japanese mainland. Either side can walk away from that agreement with a years notice.


77 posted on 12/07/2016 4:36:49 AM PST by agere_contra (I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for You saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.)
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To: Mears
Shudder at THIS!
 
 
The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II,[2] greater than Dresden,[25] Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events.[26][27]
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

78 posted on 12/07/2016 4:51:07 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I believe we have...


79 posted on 12/07/2016 4:53:22 AM PST by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: WashingtonFire
It was the most cowardly, the most despicable , the most infamous act of murderpus treachery in the annals of history .

Really?

80 posted on 12/07/2016 4:56:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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