[ought-six]

The PI just got screwed. The PI needs to align with S. Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia, and India. I didn’t mention Japan because Filipinos have not forgotten WWII. The Filipinos were utterly brutalized by the Japanese.

[The Antiyuppie]

“The Filipinos were utterly brutalized by the Japanese.”

And when the Japanese were losing, the Filipinos paid them back with interest. There were darned few “prisoners of war”.

[tcrlaf]

“I didn’t mention Japan because Filipinos have not forgotten WWII.”

Ironically, Japan is the only nation in the region with the navy, air forces, and strategic interest to help them out.

[Mark17]

The PI just got screwed. The PI needs to align with S. Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Australia, and India. I didn’t mention Japan because Filipinos have not forgotten WWII. The Filipinos were utterly brutalized by the Japanese.

They brutalized a lot of people, but there are a lot of Japanese living in the Philippines, and many Filipinos want to work in Japan too, so yes, it happened, but the relationship between Japan and the Philippines is pretty good, and yes, my other half is a Filipina, so I have a pretty good idea what is going on.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"I didn’t mention Japan because Filipinos have not forgotten WWII."

In the not so distant past, you would have been correct. However, that is now 70 years ago and a large majority of those Filipinos who hate the Japanese are now gone. That and the current mutual enemy of China has drawn the Phillipines and Japan into closer ties. They just announced that they are conducting a joint naval excercise in the South China Sea, but stressed it has nothing to do with the current situation with China. Yeah right! There has also been a number of diplomatic visits and joint statements put out between the countries in the last few years.

Joint Naval Exercise

[bert]

-——Filipinos have not forgotten WWII. ——

Back in 1966, I worked on the 12th floor in the Sarmiento building on Ayala Ave in Makati.

Several floors below were the offices of the Mitsubishi corporation. When the boss got on the elevator the Phillippinos would crush themselves back against the elevator walls to avoid him. He and Mitsubishi were involved in war reparations.