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happyfish18

2 hours 52 mins ago


Abe is a grandson of Class 1 international War criminal or alternatively, a War Hero in Japan. The Japs government has protested that theirs is a normal country now and, they can grieve for the loss of the innocent civilian lives nuked in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But these civilian victims should not be lumped together in their hero worship of the right-wing Heroes that were enshrined in Yasukuni. This is because their so-called War-heroes were responsible for the genocides and loss for 10's of million of innocent lives in the Asia-Pacific Wars.



Clint.Southward

in reply to happyfish18

2 hours 50 mins ago


"This is because their so-called War-heroes were responsible for the genocides and loss for 10's of million of innocent lives in the Asia-Pacific Wars."

Not as many as the Communist Party and its military wing the PLA has killed in its time. There should be no shrines to the PLA.



Clint.Southward

Mar 9th, 23:10


To leave your painful past behind you, you have to confront it, then you have to grieve for it and take on the burden of guilt, and then you have to move on, by placing your past in perspective with the demands of the present and the world which confronts you today. Japan is validly criticized for making its way through this process non-convincingly because there was not enough confrontation at Step 1, and Abe is playing the issue with strategic ambivalence rather than with courageous and unfettered directness. This makes the past linger in the present.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, China is absolutely stuck at Step 1, and in a state of collective or mass clinical denial of its past. Russia is also in such a state but with qualitatively different clinical parameters. Both of these countries are a major threat to the world for this reason, beyond anything Japan is. Russia is the greater threat than China because it is actually in decline, while China is not (its environment is seriously in decline but its economy is doing well for now, that will be until the demographic challenges - like Japan's - hit it) and countries in decline are often more dangerous than those on the rise, because their view of the world is that of an old alpha-male cornered by younger, healthier and more virile males - not to mention the chip on the shoulder.


guest-oiaaoen

Mar 9th, 13:01


If there are no acknowledgment of WW2 crimes and no genuine apology from Japan, there can be no forgiveness, no reconciliation. How can Asian countries that suffered 20~30 million dead and complete devastation of their economies as a result of Japanese invasion be expected to forget such heinous crimes against humanity? Continual denial of wrong doings merely aggravates the situation. Japan must realize that the account has not been settled.



Clint.Southward

in reply to guest-oiaaoen

Mar 9th, 23:17


And China must confront its colonization of Tibet and apologize for it and compensate for its past actions. Continual denial of wrong doings merely aggravates the situation. It must realize that the account has not been settled. China must confront the mass murder perpetrated upon its own people in the Great Leap forward. It must confront its refusal for Hong Kong to have a democratically elected government. It must atone for its constant threat to Taiwan which is a beacon of Chinese democracy and moral development. China must atone for its rape of the economies and resources of Africa and its role in the slaughter of the last great mammals roaming the African plains - Africa's precious inheritance. China has much to confront.