masayuki yoshida wrote:

> Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message news:<3F0AC743.F139699E@yahoo.co.jp>...
> > masayuki yoshida wrote:
> >
> > > Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message news:<3F097A8F.EE5AE0BA@yahoo.co.jp>...
> > > > masayuki yoshida wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Let me ask you a question, John. Which do you think was a more
> > > > > villainous nation as a collonialist, Japan or Britain?
> > > >
> > > > Both were evil. But Britain seems to have had longer lasting, and more beneficial effects. I don't see Japan going back
> > > > to a closed agricultural society after the Occupation ended, either, as they seem to LIKE the lifestyle they saw and the
> > > > new freedoms they enjoyed, AFTER a few million of them died and they were NUKED twice.
> > > >
> > > > So what's your view? Which was worse, Britain or Japan, and why?
> > > >
> > > > Will you admit Japan did anything wrong, or give an opinion what should be done about it?
> > >
> > > Oh, I've found your favouvite term - should.
> >
> > It is also a Japanese term, and also favored.
> >
> > > I don't feel interested
> > > in discussing any historical fact by a simple moral standard.
> >
> > Then Japanese should learn the same when it applies to matters affecting them, such as the situation in North Korea. Yes,
> > North Korea took, and continues to hold, Japanese citizens. There are also thousands of Japanese citizens and their children
> > in North Korea, if still alive. They have a nuclear development program. They are unfriendly toward Japan.
> >
> > There is no should about it, it is simple fact. Japanese should shut their mouths.
>
> I wonder whether Mr Soapbox also shouts the same thing in his work place.

No, because the above is not what I believe. But the equivalent is what you promote when I bring up Japanese history.