"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
news:BD9CEC08.29C35%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> in article 2tn5s8F22gm4nU1@uni-berlin.de, m.yoshida at masa@yahoo.co.jp
> wrote on 10/20/04 10:00 PM:
>
>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>> news:BD9C829C.29B3C%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>>> in article 2tn062F20ot9oU1@uni-berlin.de, m.yoshida at masa@yahoo.co.jp
>>> wrote on 10/20/04 8:23 PM:
>>>
>>>> Mr. Schaal,
>>>>
>>>> Why are you asking me such questions? Why are you using
>>>> such terms as "afraid of", "ashamed of" and "bigotry". I hardly
>>>> provided my view here in this thread, but just said that my
>>>> position is closed to Professor Hata's one and that Chinese
>>>> are more emotional and political than Japanese.
>>>
>>> You also said that they tend to exaggerate. Overall, your comments that they
>>> are more emotional and political than Japanese, and that they tend to
>>> exaggerate would lead to the reasonable inference that you are bigoted
>>> against Chinese in general. Such bigotry is something that a moral person
>>> would be ashamed of.
>>
>> The following news should witness to my assumption that
>> Chinese are more emotional than Japanese:
>> http://tinyurl.com/4g3fc
>
> So there was a riot in Hong Kong, so you stereotype an entire nation. The
> more you write the more bigoted you appear.

Wrong.  The newspaper is put out in Hong Kong, but the riot took
place in Chongqing ( 重慶), the land of the Qins.

Apparently you lack the ability of reading Japanese, Mr. Schaal.

> Osaka and Nagoya (and other cities have special trains for women because
> sexual abuse on subways is such a problem. Does this mean we should
> stereotype all Japanese as perverts?

One does not always say so, but I think that the contemporary
Japanese males (as well as females  ;-) ) are more perverted 
than before.

>>
>>>> As far as I read the relevant references, I agree with Prof.
>>>> Hata's conclusions.  Saying "one thinks" is not meaningful so
>>>> much in this kind of historical discussion (although casual),
>>>> if one did not witness the atrocities at all which took place
>>>> over 60 years ago.
>>>
>>> Professor Hata's conclusions sound like a blanket denial of the atrocities
>>> and I wanted to know if you thought so too. The denial of the atrocities has
>>> been a sore point with the Chinese, Koreans, Taiwanese, etc. for over fifty
>>> years.
>>
>> I was under the impression that you had already read Prof. Hata's
>> this book: http://tinyurl.com/62a3t
>>
>> In the book he admits the atrocities and explains how they were (see
>> Chapters 7 and 8).
>>
>> If you want to go on discussing the serious topic, then at least
>> please read through the most important reference.
>
> He explains how they were what? Justified? Gentle? Stupid? Evil?

If you want to go on discussing the serious topic, what you have to
do is to get and read through the book.

Masayuki