In article <365fcc52.0306090559.3a2a99ca@posting.google.com>, 
kaz@ivebeenframed.com (Kaz) wrote:
:Aso is just too
:careless and he doesn't deserve to be a Japanese politician.

Your assumption is entirely wrong as always.

He picked up the historic fact to get the superficial reaction from left-wingers 
and Koreans, which make him what he thinks more authentic conservative.  It does 
not mean that he is supporting the cause.  Aso is not insisting enough to be a
polulist like Ishihara Shintaro.  My guess is that he read the story in O sonfa's
book.  As to the Korean psyche who sought to be Japanese, the armed conflict
between Koreans and Chinese in Manchuria in 1931, or the retaliation massacre 
of Chinese residents in Korean Peninsula by Koreans Korea following the conlflict
is described in the book.  Aso deliberately picked up the point to get attention,
no more, no less.

:I think it's true that there were IJA generals who have Korean names.
:I wonder how the Koreans would explain about this.

20% retained their original Korean name.  The Korean name can be found
in conscription records, BC war crime defendant records, or even a congressman 
of Tokyo district (朴春琴).

However, the crucial point is, 創氏改名 was not a system of changing 
their name to a Japanese one.  The core of the policy was to create
"a family name" instead of "a Confucious paternal clan name".  This was 
enforced 100 %.  Korean agitators here and Japanese apologists are
so ignorant that they do not know what they are talking about.