Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: ysd_m@yahoo.co.jp (masayuki yoshida) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Gifu bombing anniversary? Date: 8 Jul 2003 14:58:05 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 37 Message-ID: <545bd492.0307081358.7b2e80ca@posting.google.com> References: <3F05CA44.9F142BE8@yahoo.co.jp> <545bd492.0307041729.584a4fdd@posting.google.com> <545bd492.0307051812.607d5677@posting.google.com> <545bd492.0307070003.684ecfce@posting.google.com> <3F097A8F.EE5AE0BA@yahoo.co.jp> <545bd492.0307072026.1cf89b33@posting.google.com> <3F0AC743.F139699E@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.186.4.17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1057701486 23500 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2003 21:58:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jul 2003 21:58:06 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:2417 Eric Takabayashi wrote in message news:<3F0AC743.F139699E@yahoo.co.jp>... > masayuki yoshida wrote: > > > Eric Takabayashi 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. Masayuki > > Sorry about that. > > > > Masayuki