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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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Pearl Harbor survivor marks 75 years since attack

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won't apologize for Japan's attack when he visits the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor later this month, the government spokesman said Tuesday.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that "the purpose of the upcoming visit is to pay respects for the war dead and not to offer an apology."

Abe announced late Monday that he would have a summit meeting with President Barack Obama in Hawaii and visit Pearl Harbor. He will be the first Japanese leader to go to the site of the Japanese attack that propelled the United States into World War II.

The unexpected announcement came two days before the 75th anniversary of the attack and six months after Obama became the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima for victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of that city at the end of the same war.|

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: japs; shinzoabe; sneakattack; ww2
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

I see you too have a problem separating religious practice from politics.

But that’s OK, I expected as much.

There are many war criminals buried all over the world.

But one can still pray for their souls without voting for them, or sanctioning their horridly inhumane activity.

George Armstrong Custer is one of ours. So is Bowe Bergdahl who is being tried right now.

You might want to google:

Moro Crater massacre

USS Wahoo

Battle of the Bismarck Sea PT Boats

Canicattì massacre

Frank Sheeran

No Gun Ri Massacre

My Lai Massacre

We pray for all of those US soldiers souls who were involved committing genocide, rape, torture and massacre. Shinzo Abe is no different.

Thank you Shinzo samma!


81 posted on 12/07/2016 5:13:46 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Fred Nerks

I understand your kannagara.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

How wonderful. I believe you do. I was trained on that path by a Master, Shibata Kanjuro XX Sensei

http://www.tenyearsonestep.com/

Love you Fred!

***********************************

Makoto & Kannagara-no-michi

Shinto beliefs, then, are not centered around official creeds or codified systems of theology or ethics, but instead are a distinct sensibility that underlies an entire approach to life and the world. This can be captured not only with the phrase mono no aware, but also with the concepts of makoto and kannagara-no-michi.


82 posted on 12/07/2016 5:20:36 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

And we have morons in this country arguing for reparations for slavery. Why is it I’m not surprised you want to join in that kookery?


83 posted on 12/07/2016 6:44:10 AM PST by zeugma (I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
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To: zeugma
And we have morons in this country arguing for reparations for slavery. Why is it I’m not surprised you want to join in that kookery?

Yeah, kind of like the "kookery" of Armenians who want the Turks to acknowledge that they genocided 1.5 million Armenians. Although the Turks were responsible for that, it's the Armenians who are the bad guys.

84 posted on 12/07/2016 7:23:55 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: Candor7
I see you too have a problem separating religious practice from politics.

I think it's the Japs who have that problem, since their Shinto religion is ultimately the reason why they caused so much utter misery in Asia to so many peoples.

85 posted on 12/07/2016 7:26:47 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: ColdOne

At this point, why are we expecting him to apologize? Was he even alive? I just dont think it would be constructive at this time; especially with some of their threatening neighbors and our long time freindship.


86 posted on 12/07/2016 7:29:36 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: NFHale

well said


87 posted on 12/07/2016 7:39:33 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: MNJohnnie

well said again


88 posted on 12/07/2016 7:39:54 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

You’re the one who brought up reparations. Of course, you’re trying to slide off to something else now. I really don’t have time for your crap. go bother someone else.


89 posted on 12/07/2016 7:51:53 AM PST by zeugma (I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
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To: zeugma
And we have morons in this country arguing for reparations for slavery.

Yep. Those Koreans who don't approve of the gracious hospitality dished out to them by the Japanese, are morons.

90 posted on 12/07/2016 8:05:17 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: DanielRedfoot

I will never forgive Abe for what he did to my beloved South during the Civil War.


91 posted on 12/07/2016 9:49:01 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (Normal people do not play dominoes on pizza.)
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To: Eleutheria5
"...Japanese popular culture is worth defending!..."

Give me vending machines with sniffable used women's panties, or give me death!

92 posted on 12/07/2016 10:00:14 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (Normal people do not play dominoes on pizza.)
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To: Churchillspirit; KC_Conspirator

Thanks.

Apologies for acts committed by others do nothing. Working diligently to prevent those types of from happening again are what matter.

But we should never forget the Americans who are still there.

The difference between Pearl Harbor and 9-11 is that we are STILL at war with the psychopaths who killed our people on 9-11. And probably will be for a long time.

Hell, realistically, as a Country, we’ve been at war with them since Thomas Jefferson’s days.


93 posted on 12/07/2016 11:41:18 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: T-Bone Texan
"I will never forgive Abe for what he did to my beloved South during the Civil War."

Aha, a Southerner! My greatttttttttt-Grandfather was with the 5th Wisconsin Infantry and took 3 bullets at Spotsylvania Courthouse (and surprisingly, survived). I feel like you owe me some cash. You know, in reparation for his medical bills.

If people are going to be expected to take responsibility for the actions of people that died decades ago, well, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't get to make a buck off it. In this case you need to pay for your ancestors' uncharacteristically crappy aim, only winging old Lemuel who was by all accounts, an a-hole who said Bon Voyage to his family after the war and went west with the railroads. I imagine his nickname was "gimpy" or "stumpy" or something along those lines.

94 posted on 12/07/2016 12:20:59 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

“Lemual” is a pretty cool name!

I have a weakness, and that is making the same lame comment on every thread about the Japanese Prime Minister, who has the unfortunate name of “Abe”.

Where’s a Japanese John Wilkes Booth when you need him?


95 posted on 12/07/2016 1:27:22 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (Normal people do not play dominoes on pizza.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Lemuel O’Rossitor — he started the war as a private and finished as a captain. He also died a 33rd degree mason per his obituary, which would have been unusual to say the least for an Irish Catholic immigrant. Somewhat ironically considering the tension (especially back then) between Catholics and Freemasons, another member of the family (I can’t remember what his relation to Lemuel was) was a priest and personal chamberlain to St. Pope Pius X.


96 posted on 12/07/2016 2:20:40 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: Candor7
I'm currently reading Laurens Van Der Post Yet Being Someone Other and what he writes about his time in pre-WW2 Japan makes me wonder what drove that nation to join with the Germans...but then, I have read, the Germans and the Japanese recognised an affinity in each other's national character.

iirc, it had something to do with duty, pride and honour.

Well, Germany had Hitler usurp the government under the guise of fighting communism and communists were Jews; China had the communist Mao under whom a hundred million starved or were liquidated, Russia had Lenin/Stalin...and we know how bolshevism turned out for Russia. I've not yet spent the time to try to understand what led the Japanese into the quagmire. Duty, pride and honour were subverted in Germany and Japan, while the majority of Russia didn't even know what was happening.

There's a devil in there somewhere...

97 posted on 12/07/2016 3:29:45 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Correction: Some Japanese popular culture is worth defending!


98 posted on 12/07/2016 3:35:08 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: Repeat Offender

What has any of that to do with an apology?


99 posted on 12/07/2016 3:54:56 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Fred Nerks

To understand the axis powers an d their mutual attraction we need to see the commonality between Japanese, German, and Italian fascism.

1) They all seek historic justice for historic wrongs allegedly perpetrated by a former generation with blame on those living in the present.

2) There is an emotional appeal to the masses based on an assumed cultural, religious or racial superiority

3) Unity is sought by defining an external enemy.

4) The media is censored or co-opted to manipulate the masses using propaganda.

5) The elite wealthy conservative or right wing classes are co-opted and destroyed, their industry and business is put under fascist control for the sole benefit of the state, and the party.

All of these things existed as a matter of commonality among fascist movements in Japan, Germany and Italy, so they united.

It is the same with Obama’s fascist doctrine, all the elements above are present in the Obama administration but the free People of America caused him to fail. Yet we could see how attracted Obama was as his liberal Utopian fascism drew him closer to Islamofascism and Islamic terrorism. Obama would not even define them as enemy, he was so fascistically ensconced in his own ideology, which required a slowly evolving totalitarian control, easily seen in the Affordable Health Care act, which was not about health care at all, it was about the subjugation of a free people.

Obama was a tin pot dictator who failed, not much different in his ideology than Tojo, Hitler or Mussolini, who did not fail and attained national totalitarian power.

Good riddance to Obama, the utopian liberal fascist, and if you happen to be curious about Obama as a fascist, its set out here :

Barrack Obama, The Qintessential Fascist by Kyle Anne Shiver:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

We are so very fortunate to be ridding ourselves of Obama.Italy, Germany and Japan had not been as lucky as we in America now are.

It has been a long battle Fred, but I do believe that Donald Trump will put the run to liberal fascists at home and Islamofascists abroad.


100 posted on 12/07/2016 4:51:27 PM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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