kaz@ivebeenframed.com (Kaz) wrote in message news:<365fcc52.0306081841.e431e3b@posting.google.com>...
> > discriminated against?  Why so?  Why a prominent Japanese politician
> > lie about it in 2003?  Why Japanese are so racists?
> 
> I don't deny the fact that Japanese WERE ethnocentric self-Conscious
> racists, and some politician like Aso IS BEING an ethnocentric
> self-conscious racist. The offensive politician Aso has already lost
> his credit, due to his such silly ethnocentric self-conscious comment
> he had spoken the other day. I think Aso's political career will be
> over soon. Or maybe his is already over now. He is not prominent
> anymore.
> 
> I want to remind you folks that not every Japanese is such offensive
> brutal asshole like him. He is rather an unusual person in the
> ordinary Japanese society. I think Aso was seeking a publicity of his
> name, and it was "self-advertisement" of himself in his brutal
> rightwing world of imperial Tokyo.

Not every Japanese may not harbor the similar apologistic view of 
Japan's past.  However, Japan as society has been electing officials
who come forward with such revisinistic comments on very opportunitistical 
moments, like a state visit by South Korean president.  When looked at
as a whole, it's Japan who has been doing similar apologistic (about
Japan's past) comment since 1945 continuously.