"USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in message news:<5_iHa.6337$Uj1.384@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>...
> > And it suited Japan
> > fine.  It didn't have to account for its past, and now that it suits
> > to start seemingly expansionist military, it's fine to as long as it
> > suits to Japan.

> At the end of WWII Japan was completely devastated and absolutely at the
> mercy of
> the United States. Frankly, I don't believe Japan would have cared one way
> or the other
> whether it had to account for anything or not. The fact is that the Tokyo
> War Crimes trials
> were held and number of people were found guilty and sentenced to death.
> There were many
> Japanese who blamed these people as well as theformer Japanes military for
> the devastation
> brought on because of the war. Officially, Japan did account for everything.
> It is merely an
> unfortunate circumstance that not "everyone" was included. For example China
> was represented
> by the Nationalists under Chiang Kai Shek. This is one of the reasons that
> PROC today which represents
> China feels that it never had any say or recourse against Japan.
> But all this really doesn't have much to do with the current upgrading of
> the military in Japan.
> From 1945 until now Japan has resisted all efforts, even those of the United
> States, to upgrade

Yeah, right.  Officially Japan did account for everything.  No wonder 
you wrote Japan annexed Korea peacefully.  Probably, this is the crucial
difference how victims and victimizers see each other.  

For one, if Japan did account for everything, how come they only
acknoledged they -Japan government- did engage with so called comfort
women business for their war effort only during 1990s?

Your problem is you are eager to dress up for Japan without looking at
why Koreans really do get riled up.


> their military. It took the provactive launching of a missle over Japan in
> 1998 by North Korea
> to start turning public sentiment around and ther current nuclear stand-off
> and continous NKorean
> threats to get the government moving.

Precisely, a suiting time for Japan to drop the farce of self-defense
force.  That's the way goes.  A timely chance for Japan to drop self-
defense farce.   

If missile over Japan was provocative, how provocative was it upward
of 200,000 so called comfort women who suffered under Japan but
conveniently sweeped under rug?  On the same token, just let it pass
50 years, a missile over Japan won't be so provocative after all.