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A Korean's hatred of Japan
Korea Times ^ | 05-18-2010 | Shin Chul-ho

Posted on 05/18/2010 6:03:36 AM PDT by Willie Green

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To: Willie Green

Anyone here read The Rape of Nanking?


21 posted on 05/18/2010 6:50:15 AM PDT by Carley (WE CAN SEE NOVEMBER FROM OUR HOUSE)
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To: Carley

Iris Chang’s book is gripping and worth the read. My dad’s cousin survived Nanking as a child but seldom talked about it. As a person of Chinese descent, I think the book overly generalizes Japanese culture vs. the Japanese military because there was a popular democratic movement within Japan during the 1920s.

All in all, though, the book was a good reminder of what happened during the Japanese occupation of China, which many conveniently forgot. My mom was fortunate to live in a part of Shanghai that was controlled by a Japanese officer who was educated in the West; it made all the difference in how her family and neighbors were treated. For the liberals who kneel at the altar of multiculturalism, that wartime experience of my mom’s is an important reminder of the importance of Western culture and why it should not be suppressed in the name of ‘multi-culti’.


22 posted on 05/18/2010 7:28:12 AM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: Willie Green

It is time for Korea to put it behind them, not to forget it. The US made allies of Japan after WW2 and Korea should be able to do the same in the face of Chinese militarism.

Can’t we just get along? :)


23 posted on 05/18/2010 7:30:45 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: PGR88
I may be wrong about this, but I always understood that Chinese and Koreans are more similar to each other than to the Japanese in terms of culture, etc. The Japanese engaged in a hostile occupation of both countries in the 1930s, too.

Having said that, I'm still kind of surprised to see that this kind of "diplomatic tension" still exists. Didn't Japan and South Korea co-host the World Cup a few years back?

24 posted on 05/18/2010 7:31:45 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
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To: OKSooner

They were working on it, they just didn’t get’r’done before the war was over.


25 posted on 05/18/2010 7:32:16 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: Carley
No, but I have read the Knights of Bushido.

The Rape of Nanking is merely one chapter in that book.

26 posted on 05/18/2010 7:32:27 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: OKSooner

The Nakajima Kikka, equipped with RATO rockets for lift-off. circa 1945

27 posted on 05/18/2010 7:34:11 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: married21
I remember reading awhile back that the Japanese are most closely related biologically to the Koreans.

Oh crap. So all the raping and forcing women to be "comfort women" was incest!! Oh the humanity!!

28 posted on 05/18/2010 7:35:09 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: GeronL

...and the Israelis have had pretty good relationships with the Germans for quite a while now. If they could do that, anyone can get over...


29 posted on 05/18/2010 7:36:41 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: 12Gauge687

Blessings on your family who survived the occupation.


30 posted on 05/18/2010 7:38:01 AM PDT by Carley (WE CAN SEE NOVEMBER FROM OUR HOUSE)
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To: Alberta's Child
I may be wrong about this, but I always understood that Chinese and Koreans are more similar to each other than to the Japanese in terms of culture

Sometimes its good to be an island.

31 posted on 05/18/2010 7:38:29 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: Pharmboy

You would think!


32 posted on 05/18/2010 7:39:18 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: Willie Green

Yeah but the Koreans also absolutely love Japanese Anime and they seem quite keen on pointing out that the Japanese royal family is vaguely related to Korean nobility.

But yeah calling them “dogs” irregardless of how they act isn’t terribly original.


33 posted on 05/18/2010 7:40:45 AM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: struggle

Ranma 1/3... So what is the other third? An angel?


34 posted on 05/18/2010 7:48:13 AM PDT by Toki
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To: IYAS9YAS; struggle
That is a hysterical story.

I love Korean flicks. I don't care if it's a romantic comedy or a serious drama-you just know someone is going to get a double kick to the chest.

35 posted on 05/18/2010 7:50:16 AM PDT by MattinNJ (Iron Man 2-a great conservative movie.)
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To: OKSooner; All

Many Korean women were ‘drafted’ to work and it wasn’t in any kind of plant. They were sex slaves who were forced to service hundreds of men. If the women caught a disease or became pregnant they were killed.

Koreans still harbor ill will against the Japanese because the Japanese have never accepted responsibility and apologized for what happened.

I’ve personally spoken with old timers who lived through the occupation. It rivals anything that occurred at places like Bataan.


36 posted on 05/18/2010 7:57:22 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: OKSooner

>Interesting read, but I’d bet against the guy on at least one trivia item; I doubt if Japan had any “jet fighter” plants in 1944.

I think I’d read somewhere that Germany had given them “jet fighter” plans and they were in the process of retrofitting when we dropped the bombs. Sorry, but it was a long time ago and I don’t have a source.


37 posted on 05/18/2010 8:01:36 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Toki

>>Ranma 1/3... So what is the other third? An angel?

Kimchi, actually...


38 posted on 05/18/2010 8:59:27 AM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: GeronL

Nope.


39 posted on 05/18/2010 9:17:16 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (This nation, of the people, by the people, and for the people has perished from the land.)
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To: Pharmboy

The germans knew they screwed up, and they apologized.

To my knowledge, Japan has not.


40 posted on 05/18/2010 9:18:11 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (This nation, of the people, by the people, and for the people has perished from the land.)
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