<grunt100@msn.com> wrote in message
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> "USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > > > > Japan as America's lap dog, as usual.
> > > >
> > > > So what? actually Koizumi is a descendant of the Satsuma Hayato who
> > > > had raised the pseudo British civilization of the Meiji era.
> > >
> > > Is this really a retort, so what?  Japan's highest war criminals,
starting
> > > with Hirohito, got pardon from Americans, so there is Japan willing to
> > > oblige America's request, only because it suits Japan.  In other
words,
> > > it's usual Japan trying to weasel out its way without having to
accounted
> > > for its past.
> >
> > And what the hell is your rant suppose to mean?
> > Hirohito wasn't a war criminal because we never charged him or tried him
as
> > one.
> > He never got a "pardon" because he didn't have to.
> > And all that has nothing to do with what;s going on in Japan now or it's
> > decision to send
> > JSDF troops to Iraq.
> > If you feel you must have ONE reason for all that is happening it
is...Kim
> > Jong iL.
> > North Korea with their continued belligerence has managed to accomplish
what
> > the US
> > has been trying to do unsuccesfully since 1950.
>
>
> You are right, Hirohito didn't have to get pardon because he wasn't
> charged with war crime - because Americans didn't want to face whole
> Japan, because Americans found that Japan was more useful as a staging
> point against Soviets rather than anything else.

Yes I'm glad that we agree on this.

> And it suited Japan
> fine.  It didn't have to account for its past, and now that it suits
> to start seemingly expansionist military, it's fine to as long as it
> suits to Japan.

This is where you are speculating and throwing your anti-japanese racism
into the mix.
At the end of WWII Japan was completely devastated and absolutely at the
mercy of
the United States. Frankly, I don't believe Japan would have cared one way
or the other
whether it had to account for anything or not. The fact is that the Tokyo
War Crimes trials
were held and number of people were found guilty and sentenced to death.
There were many
Japanese who blamed these people as well as theformer Japanes military for
the devastation
brought on because of the war. Officially, Japan did account for everything.
It is merely an
unfortunate circumstance that not "everyone" was included. For example China
was represented
by the Nationalists under Chiang Kai Shek. This is one of the reasons that
PROC today which represents
China feels that it never had any say or recourse against Japan.
But all this really doesn't have much to do with the current upgrading of
the military in Japan.
From 1945 until now Japan has resisted all efforts, even those of the United
States, to upgrade
their military. It took the provactive launching of a missle over Japan in
1998 by North Korea
to start turning public sentiment around and ther current nuclear stand-off
and continous NKorean
threats to get the government moving.