masayuki yoshida wrote:

> > You see how Japanese can't stop talking about North Korea, and are so (relatively)
> demanding
> > over the issue? You see the difference in progress made on resolution? That is what
> happens when
> > Japanese actually know and care about an issue.
>
> Tell me how what you say happens will happen.

If Japanese cared about Unit 731 and the suffering they caused, the way they cared about
much less suffering caused by North Korea, the Unit 731 issue could move toward
resolution, or at least be discussed, like the abduction issue.

> > > It's not like Ienaga's book
> > > didn't sell well in Japan in the 60s, after all.
> >
> > So why are Japanese still surprised en masse 30 years later?
>
> Isn't the surprise a typical Japanese reaction?

Why are they surprised about something you claim they already have known about since the
1950s?

> > They hadn't. Millions of Japanese probably have picked up Oe's books since he got
> > the Nobel, but still haven't actually read him.
>
> Have you read his dull discourse?

Not in Japanese. And Japanese haven't read about Unit 731, either.

> > So why the widespread surprise? Why is it now and not three decades ago that people
> > are actually afraid to travel to the Sea of Japan lest they somehow be abducted,
> decades
> > after the last known cases?
>
> Whenever I read your articles, they surprise me.  Why Eric's way of debate is very
> similar to that of fierceful members of teacher's union?

Irrelevant. Japanese are ignorant, despite whatever you claim about how much or how early
they knew, and thus need to be told.

> > Do these people also know about the thousands of Japanese who accompanied returnees
> > to North Korea and their descendants, suffering five decades later, but simply don't
> care,
> > thus no public outcry or government response even a hundredth that of the abduction
> issue?
>
> When did you start being interested in North Korea problems?

Ever since I found out that there was a poor harvest and widespread starvation, in the
years it was first occurring. The need for the millions of North Koreans to receive aid
to keep them alive is irrelevant to the idiocy of their own government or criminal acts
they committed, and Japan should realize that before cutting off food and other aid.

> Can you make comments on this lawsuit?
>
> http://plaza.across.or.jp/~fujimori/kin7.html

No. We're talking about Unit 731.

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