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On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:54:52 GMT, "DALing"
daling43[delete]-at-hotmail.com wrote: what's worse is the current tendency by the Japanese to either lay down WWII or discount those actions entirely. It's like they are either so embarassed by their actions they want to forget them or just brush them under the rug. It's a walking contradiction. What you say is true, but on the other hand they are thoroughly pacificistic and, while ethnocentric, are not "nationalist" in the sense of saluting flags, pledges of allegiance, frequent national anthems, etc. There was an uproar from the teachers about 10 years ago when the gov't wanted to put national flags back into school classrooms, where they hadn't been for decades. I'm not sure how that came out. |
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Question: Hiroshima justified?
Ask the Chinese ............ like my mom and dad... They saw Japanese soldiers toss Chinese babies in the air and try to spear them with their swords (on the rifle), women were raped on the streets of Hong Kong, Women were jumping out of the building when they heard the Japanese soldiers are coming in because they "know" they will be raped.......... Not to mention Nanking and the experiment in the northeast of China. 193 ?? My dad still claps his hands whenever he sees the USA dropped the A-Bomb on the TV screen. I have no problem with the modern day Japanese, but the "Japanese Empire" in WWII were wrong !!!! Some of them still try to change the text book and saying sh*t like A-Bomb was horrible..... But as an Chinese American... I say "We didn't start the fire" Kenny |
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![]() This sort of fingerpointing gets us nowhere. I don't doubt US has the moral upperhand in WWII and that Japan was a sinister force in Asia, that Japanese military needed to be defeated. That doesn't mean ANYTHING GOES. You cannot look at WWII with today's vision. Read what they *knew* AT THE TIME. What they *perceived* AT THE TIME. There was a World War going on with nations fighting for their very way of life. You did what it takes to win. LT |
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