[GOPJ]

...and this is the reason that I think Japan’s whitewashing of their past is better than what Germany did. What good is understanding your past, if it creates a psychosis that leads to national suicide?

WHOA - totally insightful...

[BobL]

Thanks...I’ve gotten ‘other types’ of feedback (LOL), for stating this view.

I’m also thinking that’s what McCarther thought too, when he kept the Emperor in place. We needed Japan to be a strong country...and so he did what was needed.