Posted on 05/18/2010 6:03:36 AM PDT by Willie Green
Anyone here read The Rape of Nanking?
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’.
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? :)
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?
They were working on it, they just didn’t get’r’done before the war was over.
The Rape of Nanking is merely one chapter in that book.
The Nakajima Kikka, equipped with RATO rockets for lift-off. circa 1945
Oh crap. So all the raping and forcing women to be "comfort women" was incest!! Oh the humanity!!
...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...
Blessings on your family who survived the occupation.
Sometimes its good to be an island.
You would think!
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.
Ranma 1/3... So what is the other third? An angel?
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.
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.
>Interesting read, but Id 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.
>>Ranma 1/3... So what is the other third? An angel?
Kimchi, actually...
Nope.
The germans knew they screwed up, and they apologized.
To my knowledge, Japan has not.
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