Ken <dvdfan9@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Richard Thieme wrote:
> > Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Here's one for now, from page 277, second full paragraph:
> >>日本の戦争目的は・髟阡殺踉捌存&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;劼肇
&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;ジウ髟阡擦魏な討了拉曚&#65533;蕾鯤?掘
&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;そして,
> >>『大東亜共瘢雹栄圏』を建設することでう髟阡擦襪叛觚世靴拭&#65533;(B
> >>This, quite simply, is bullshit.
> >
> > Hmmm. Are you sure that you are not simply misreading the と宣言した?
That
> > applies to the whole sentence you know. Indeed liberation of Asia from
the
> > Western powers was a stated goal of the Japanese government. They did
> > declare this and it is all through their propaganda of the period. To
what
> > extent the senior officers believed it (and even if they did whether
they
> > could have carried it out in the face of more imperialistic junior
> > officers), is an entirely different question.
>
> Well, Kevin Gowen is

Not anymore than I was at his age, and maybe less.

Actually I didn't jump into this thread just for the pleasure of jousting
with Kevin. Having read much of the book in question, I have not had the
same reaction as many of its (foreign) critics, and when I have attempted to
discuss this with them, I have simply been told that I have gone bamboo (the
emotional reaction we saw by someone else on a recent thread. And I thought
attorneys were supposed to be capable of being rational). Kevin struck me as
one person who could actually read the book and point out the errors he
thought he had found.

I dunno if he expects to continue this thread or has decided that he has
something better to do. The latter is quite fine of course. After all this
is (or is not) Usenet.

Regards,

Richard Thieme