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.  I don't feel interested
in discussing any historical fact by a simple moral standard.  Sorry
about that.

Masayuki