"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
news:BD988E2E.2968B%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> in article 2tf1v0F1v1mj6U1@uni-berlin.de, m.yoshida at masa@yahoo.co.jp
> wrote on 10/17/04 8:05 PM:
>
>> What is the matter with his work place? Chinese are more
>> emotional and political that Japanese.  In addition don't you
>> know how Chinese people prefer exaggerations?
>
> Your comment above says a lot about you. Chinese are more emotional than
> Japanese?

Yap.

> More political than Japanese?

Yap.

> Prefer exaggerations?

Yap.

> It sure sounds
> like you are into racist, bigoted, stereotypical statements.

Why?

> Next you will be telling me the Japanese were "gentle" with the Chinese?

I don't know.

> There is nothing the matter with his workplace per se, but it does show a
> particular bias in his statements, a certain lack of freedom on his part to
> be completely honest. If he had written an article pointing out that the
> Japanese are not blameless in the matter, he could lose his job, or his
> life. In the same way that Chinese historians are under outside pressures to
> fit their work to particular ideologies, so are Japanese historians under
> similar pressure.

How many Japanese books on "Nanjing Incident" did you read?
You must have taken a look at the references in David Askew's
article.  I don't care about where Askew is working.  I care about his
article.

> Unfortunately, right wing assignations are not unheard of. Wasn't it within
> a year or two that some right-wing fanatics tried to assassinate a liberal
> politician?

What I am interested in seems to be remote from what you are interested
in. Your comments are for the birds.  But it is true.

Masayuki