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Philip > RisingSun  • 3 days ago 

RS, it seem like you did a bit of history lessons. This actually worries me more, since you are only learning the one-sided story that the right-wingers teach you. If you and PoliticallyIncorrect are the typical products of Japanese education system, then your country is doomed to repeat your country's past mistakes. And I can most certainly assure you that China, Russia, or N. Korea will not be a forgiving conquerer like the U. S. was during WW2 if Japan decides to tackle them in the future. 

Regardless, the typical Japanese must think that Japan was just a benevolent power that simply managed its neighboring countries like Korea and Japan, and through its security blanket that it provided these nations by "annexation" and legal claims, that it actually provided a means for these nations to economically develop and flourish. I guess you see Japan as kind of like what the U. S. doing for modern day Japan today; simply providing regional security so that local populace can go about develping its nation economically. Since you are living in this dreamland, let's expore this fantasy land of yours a bit more. There are many Japanese who want the U. S. troops to leave Japan. What if the Emporor's family was one of them. And since this is contrary to the U. S. government's interest, what is the U. S. Navy SEAL team snuck into Edo castle, raped and killed Empress Michiko, and burned her body on the castle grounds? Would that be OK? (look up Eulmi incident) While they were at it, what if they turned the Edo castle into a public zoo filled with monkeys, since that is what is what the royal family home deserves to be. (look up Changgyeonggung)What if the U. S. State Department and the DOD decided to systematically round up Japanese school girls from smaller regional prefecture and shipped them to places like Iraq and Afghanistan, to ensure our troops had local "comfort" and entertainment. Some of these girls come from poor farming or fishing towns anyways, what better opportunities we would be giving them. What if the U. S. Marines marched into National Diet, proclaimed that only English and U. S. history will be taught in all Japanese schools, all students must register using American names only, Hinomaru will be outlawed, singing of Kimigayo will be an offense punishable by death? All that is acceptable by you, since in exchange for all this, the U. S. will provide national security to Japan, while average Japanese can keep making Toyota cars and Sony electronics. Right?
  


RisingSun > Philip  • 3 days ago  



> since you are only learning the one-sided story that the right-wingers teach you.

I don’t mind people call me whatever they like, but knowing the truth isn’t really “right-wing” or “nationalist”. Those are typical rhetoric used by the communist China or Anti-Japanese Koreans, and I bet you are a Korean immigrant who cannot even appreciate or understand freedom of learning, expression, and belief yet in the US.

Just like the US, or unlike China, Japan has numerous history textbooks (I think 16 approved for high schools) that education committees in each district can choose from. But I must say 99% of students won’t learn anything after the Meiji Restoration (19th century) due to the end of the semester, as well as purposefully avoiding touchy subjects like WW2. Most Japanese including myself have to learn in universities or by oneself, and historians are usually politically neutral. You have to write “what is one-sided story” or “right-wing” about my comments, in order to convince me that I’m those. Otherwise, you are a typical liberal ignorant.

> then your country is doomed to repeat your country's past mistakes.

Japanese know far more about China,South Korea, the US or any parts of the world. “Know your enemy” as Sin Tzu said, right? Do you know anything about South Korea or Japan, or wherever you are from? I doubt, since you are just busy discrediting me or Japan.

> its security blanket that it provided these nations by "annexation" and legal claims

The European/American imperialists during the 19th and the first half of 20th century thought it was duty for enlightened to enlighten those who were not. That’s the Manifest Destiny. Did Japan take the part of it? Most certainly. But that doesn’t mean that Japan conducted savagely acts during the Japanese administration era in Korea. Simply put, Japan didn’t take anything from Korea, but planted modernization and modern spirits.

> Since you are living in this dreamland,

Here you go again, with “dreamland”. No, Japan wasn’t like the US for Japan. Japan for Korea was the US for Texas. Let me know what your fact is, not with your imaginations from the dreamland.

> There are many Japanese who want the U. S. troops to leave Japan. What if the Emporor's family was one of them

Exactly who and how many does you think? I hope these in Okinawa included.

Japanese political system is called Constitutional Monarchy, and the imperial family cannot intervene, or make any comments, on political affairs. Your example is just stupid but I’ll go with your flow.

> Eulmi incident

I know it very well. But you are making the crucial mistake. The Empress Min was a very bad person, using her extended families to control the nation. She and Kojong was a lazy king and queen, having parties all night, spending the national budget (=the asset for the dynasty) , and the works of the ministers had to be done in the evening. Min was into the cult, and priestesses were always at the court, dancing and doing rituals and whatnot. She gave away tons of money to those priestesses if they made Min happy, and soon, Joseon was riddled with unpaid wedges and harsh taxation to peasants. George Trumbull Ladd describes in his book about her that she was smart but very cruel to put the throne to the shame, and the personal grudges against Taewongun spilled the bloodshed like greetings every year”.

> While they were at it, what if they turned the Edo castle into a public zoo filled with monkeys, since that is what is what the royal family home deserves to be

The Joseon king didn’t need the palace anymore. It was in fact a good idea to make a public park filled with animals (not just monkeys but many exotic ones), as well as botanic garden, museum, and skate-link that every citizens could have accessed. It’s incredibly biased to say “that is what is what the royal family home deserves to be”. Another one-sided stupid thinking I must say. 

> Japanese school girls from smaller regional prefecture and shipped them to places like Iraq and Afghanistan, to ensure our troops had local "comfort" and entertainment.

I don’t know what you are really dreaming, but the first of all, you are confusing Teishintai (Teenage Volunteer Works) with Ianhu (Comfort Women). Teishintai was a work duty that every school boys and girls, from Japan, Korea and Taiwan, to work in the factories and farms after schools, under the Labor Draft Ordinance passed in July 1939 in Japan, and March 1944 elsewhere including Korea. The many local Koreans were rumoring that these girls would be taken away and protested, so the Japanese administration announced in August 1944 that none of Korean-born Korean citizens would be applied to this, but only Japanese citizens living in Korea. So from March to August of 1944, only about 4,000 Korean girls had worked at the local factories. Lazy citizens.

Comfort women is the another issue. They are simply prostitutes who chose to work abroad. In 1944, the US troop captured the Japanese citizens in Burma and War Information Office had interviewed 20 Korean comfort women. They are simply described “war camp followers”. You can read it here.
http://www.exordio.com/1939-19...

> What if the U. S. Marines marched into National Diet, proclaimed that only English and U. S. history will be taught

Japan is the one taught Hangul to every Korean citizens very first time in its history. Japanese actually printed very first Hangul “dictionary”, and published newspaper written in Hangul for the very first time.